The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Woodrow Wilson Center Press is the book publishing program of the Center. We publish the work of fellows, other scholars in residence, and staff of the Center, as well as books derived from the Center’s programming. Subjects range throughout the areas pursued at the Center, with particular strengths in Cold War history, urban studies, international relations, Latin American studies, Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet studies, and Asian studies. The press is an associate member of the Association of American University Presses.
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Featured Book
China and Coexistence
"Rather than dismissing the principle of (peaceful) coexistence as either propaganda or a necessary policy of a weak power, Liselotte Odgaard unravels the concept as the driving strategy behind China's foreign and national security policy and shows how it has been successful in both protecting and progressively maximizing China's interests."—David Shambaugh, George Washington University
"A superior analysis of a topic of tremendous importance to scholars and policy makers alike."—Qingmin Zhang, Peking University
Current Releases
In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America
In the Wake of War assesses the consequences of civil war for democratization in Latin America, focusing on questions of state capacity. Contributors focus on seven countries—Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru—where state weakness fostered conflict and the task of state reconstruction presents multiple challenges.
Outlier States: American Strategies to Change, Contain, or Engage Regimes
In the Bush era Iran and North Korea were branded "rogue" states for their flouting of international norms, and changing their regimes was the administration's goal. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call the countries nuclear "outliers" and has proposed means other than regime change to bring them back into "the community of nations." Outlier States, the successor to Litwak's influential Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11 (2007), explores this significant policy adjustment and raises questions about its feasibility and its possible consequences.
East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National Identities compares national identities in terms of six dimensions encompassing ideology; history; the salience of cultural, political, and economic factors; superiority as a model national community; displacement of the U.S. in Asia; and depth of national identity.
The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are
The Islamists Are Coming is the first book to survey the rise of Islamist groups in the wake of the Arab Spring. Often lumped together, the more than 50 Islamist parties with millions of followers now constitute a whole new spectrum—separate from either militants or secular parties. They will shape the new order in the world’s most volatile region more than any other political bloc. Yet they have diverse goals and different constituencies. Sometimes they are even rivals.
The New Geopolitics of Transatlantic Relations
The United States and Europe encounter many of the same foreign policy challenges, challenges that diversely impact the two regions and produce different—but often complementary—responses. In regard to Russia's renewed assertiveness, for example, the issue for the United States is one of global competition, whereas Europe's concern is local because Russia is a major supplier of oil and gas. Where the United States may pursue confrontation, Europe is more likely to operate with conciliation. This book develops a framework for future U.S.-Europe relations as the two world powers work toward meaningful and logical solutions to their shared foreign policy problems.
Woodrow Wilson Center Press Reviews
Policing Democracy, Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
"Very few scholars in the field have the grasp of recent changes in and problems of systems of citizen security in Latin America that this author has. His vision is comprehensive, extending from policing to the judiciary to the prison system."
—Anthony W. Pereira, Tulane University
