Oxford University Press

Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam WarEven as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his electoral triumph in November, 1964, he and his advisers began the process that led to eight years of war and the destruction of his administration. This vivid, fast-paced narrative describes the critical nine months in which Johnson committed the nation to...

Husak's primary goal is to defend a set of constraints to limit the authority of states to enact and enforce criminal offenses. In addition, Husak situates this endeavor in criminal theory as traditionally construed. This book urges the importance of this topic in the real world, while most Anglo-American legal philosophers have neglected it....

Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies. Approaching this issue from a different angle than those dominating 1980s and 1990s debates about the role of states in East Asian growth, Glassman argues that the Thai...

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