Georgetown University Press: 313 books
The Responsible Contract Manager
Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers. As more government duties are contracted out, managers must learn to coordinate and measure the performance of private contractors, and to write contract requirements and elicit bids that obtain important services and products...
Career Diplomacy
Life and Work in the US Foreign Service, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Career Diplomacy is an insider's guide to the Foreign Service as an institution, a profession, and a career. In this thoroughly revised third edition, Kopp and Naland provide an up-to-date, authoritative, and candid account of the life and work of professional US diplomats, who advance and protect...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations—the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it. This unique book edited by Colton C. Campbell and David P. Auerswald will help...
Career Diplomacy
Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Career Diplomacy—now in its second edition—is an insider's guide that examines the foreign service as an institution, a profession, and a career. Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie, both of whom had long and distinguished careers in the foreign service, provide a full and well-rounded picture...
by Linda Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs. From the formal promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to the subsequent embrace of this declaration by the newly independent states of Africa, human rights have emerged as the primary discourse of global...
by Virginia Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive (but not universal) health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. The most common explanation for the failure of past reform efforts is that special interests were continually...
Discourse 2.0
Language and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Our everyday lives are increasingly being lived through electronic media, which are changing our interactions and our communications in ways that we are only beginning to understand. In Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, editors Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester team up with top scholars in the...
Replacement Parts
The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains...
The Rise and Fall of Intelligence
An International Security History
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas...
A Pocket Guide to the US Constitution
What Every American Needs to Know, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The Constitution is not so simple that it explains itself—nor so complex that only experts can understand it.
In this accessible, nonpartisan quick reference, historian Andrew Arnold provides concise explanations of the Constitution's meaning and history, offering little-known facts and anecdotes...
Making Policy, Making Law
An Interbranch Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing them, and the courts applying the laws as written—as long as those laws are constitutional. Making Policy,...
Understanding Affirmative Action
Politics, Discrimination, and the Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
For some time, the United States has been engaged in a national debate over affirmative action policy. A policy that began with the idea of creating a level playing field for minorities has sparked controversy in the workplace, in higher education, and elsewhere. After forty years, the debate still continues...
Competitive Interests
Competition and Compromise in American Interest Group Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Competitive Interests does more than simply challenge the long-held belief that a small set of interests control large domains of the public policy making landscape. It shows how the explosion in the sheer number of new groups, and the broad range of ideological demands they advocate, have created a...
NATO's Return to Europe
Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance’s mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much...