Stanford University Press

10/10/2025

New reading! Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley discussed their book Mismeasuring Impact on HistPhil

"In our new book, Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector, we report on what three key groups of nonprofit sector professionals—nonprofit managers, program evaluators, and foundation program officers—think about the growing use of RCTs to evaluate nonprofit social programs."

Editors’ Note: Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley discuss their new book, Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector (Stanford University Press,…

10/08/2025

The oldest ideas are the best. How to Survive a Hostile World is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter, a scholar of international relations, defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing head-on the most robust critiques of the tradition. https://www.sup.org/books/politics/how-survive-hostile-world

"Understanding the international anarchy in which we live matters. Patrick Porter brilliantly lays out the realist case for grasping what is happening around us and has been happening ever since Thucydides—the founder of international relations theory—laid out his dark paradigm in the fifth-century BC. An essential book."
—Arthur M. Eckstein, University of Maryland, College Park

10/07/2025

A World of Piety examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile. https://www.sup.org/books/religious-studies/world-piety

"Jeremy Brown identifies the key motivation behind the composition of the Zohar: stimulating a pietistic revival. Rather than mysticism, the Zohar's message is 'pietism.' The mystical elements—along with the ancient disguise and enchanting Aramaic—are deployed to inspire an ethical transformation. An eloquent and bold book."
—Daniel Matt, author of the annotated translation, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition

10/02/2025

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected the political contestations among the governors of Egypt, European consulates, Ottoman rulers, and a growing number of private entrepreneurs, both foreign and local. How Commerce Became Legal explores the legal and business practices that resulted from this fusion of Ottoman, French, and Islamic legal concepts and governed commerce in Egypt. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/how-commerce-became-legal

"A remarkable study of market governance where the government is dispersed, diffuse, and at odds with itself. Omar Cheta masterfully weaves together rich and detailed character studies with perceptive structural analysis of how Egyptian commerce was brought under the rule of many laws."
—Johan Mathew, Rutgers University

10/01/2025

The first war of America's existence as an independent state was fought against the Shawnee, the Miami, and other Ohio River Valley tribes in the Northwest Indian War of 1790–95. The war provides a window into how US conquest of the continent would proceed through the next century and comprise a central element of US foreign policy into the future. American Conquest examines why the United States first engaged in this war to secure its claim to the Old Northwest and how the reverberations of the war extend far beyond the process of settlement. https://www.sup.org/books/politics/american-conquest

"This exciting, vital book places the frontier at the center of US foreign policy and forces us to rethink nineteenth-century American foreign relations. Szarejko shows how frontier politics influenced the emergence of the US as a great power in a way that continues to matter in the twenty-first century."
—Eric Grynaviski, The George Washington University

09/30/2025

Stanford University Press and Public Knowledge Project (SUP+PKP) are pleased to announce the launch of three new journals in their open access program, bringing the total number of SUP+PKP titles to four.

Biogeography (BIOG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles ranging from biological work that is geographically situated to geographical work that is biologically relevant. The journal can be accessed online at https://biog.journals.sup.org, where submissions are now open.

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. PBMT will be online soon.

The Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab (JMSACL) joins SUP as an established publication launched in 2016 under the title Clinical Mass Spectrometry and renamed to its current title in 2021. JMSACL is a comprehensive journal focused on innovations in diagnostic technologies within clinical environments, championing research that translates into meaningful improvements in patient care. Published by Elsevier through the end of the year, JMSACL is the first existing journal to transition from a commercial publisher to SUP’s nonprofit program and will officially reside on SUP+PKP’s Open Journal Systems starting January 1, 2026.

For all the details please see the full press release: https://www.sup.org/journals/press-release-three-new-journals

Reviews of Economic Literature Submissions Open .

09/30/2025

In The New Lives of Images, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/new-lives-images

Drawing upon an immense range of materials, Ivakhiv reassesses the place of imagination in cultural life, analyzing how people have interacted with images in the past and the ways that digital media are profoundly altering these relationships today.

09/24/2025

"War is too important to be left to the generals," declared French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau over a century ago. But which civilians, exactly, play the most important roles in controlling the armed forces? Overseen or Overlooked? aims to understand the similarities and differences among the world's democracies regarding the role of legislatures in democratic civil-military relations. https://www.sup.org/books/politics/overseen-or-overlooked

"This important, data-driven book taught me so much! The authors make a powerful case that civilian control is too important to leave with the executive, explain why legislative oversight varies among democracies, and recommend ways to strengthen oversight. An invaluable work of scholarship for the field of civil-military relations."
—Kori Schake, American Enterprise Institute

09/23/2025

Established as a post-World War II response to conflict and fascism, the European Court of Human Rights is routinely characterized as the most successful human rights institution in the world. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over eight years with human rights advocates, lawyers, and judges at the European Court of Human Rights, Justice in the Balance asks: What kind of justice is possible through law? https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/justice-balance

"In this quietly brilliant book, Greenberg challenges both overly cynical and overly idealistic visions of the language and promise of law. Through her stunning, intimate analysis of the European Court of Human Rights, she sheds light on a burning issue of our time – how and whether human rights discourses can matter in the face of brute force and power."
—Elizabeth Mertz, University of Wisconsin Law School

09/22/2025

09/22/2025

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Armenia stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual challenges of ensuring security and driving innovation in a region fraught with conflict and uncertainty. This discussion will examine how Armenia manages pressing security challenges with long-term strategic thinking, including the role of tech...