SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 43) political science uNIVERSAL pRESCHOOL Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts Brenda K. Bushouse Examines recent trends in statefunded preschool education. The spectacular recent success of state-funded preschool education is revealed and explained in this absorbing study. A quiet revolution has been underway in American education policy since 1995, with fortyone states and the District of Columbia creating some form of state-funded preschool learning. Brenda K. Bushouse tells why it became politically advantageous for state legislators to support universal access to preschool programs and how political and budgetary stability was achieved to spur this initiative. In 2001, the Pew Charitable Trusts announced an ambitious new giving program aimed at creating universal preschool for all threeand four-year-olds. Bushouse reveals Pew’s unorthodox giving program and complex strategy for advancing universal preschool policy change. Brenda K. Bushouse is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A volume in the SUNY series in Public Policy Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram, editors MARCH • 192 pp • 3 tables $65.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-9387-8 Eric A. Heinze Waging Humanitarian War The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention WAGING HuMANITARIAN WAR The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention Eric A. Heinze Examines the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of military intervention for humanitarian reasons. How severe must human suffering be before military intervention is considered? Can there be commensurate legal grounding for such an argument? Which actors are the most appropriate agents of intervention? In this reasonable and straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples, including the 1999 Kosovo intervention, the 2003 Iraq war, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The result is a more theoretically consistent—and therefore more practically workable— approach to humanitarian intervention. Eric A. Heinze is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. directtext e e directtext 43 www.sunypress.edu JANuARy • 224 pp $65.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7695-6 dt P dt P http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61766 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61743
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