IR/PS Alumna Publishes a Book on International Reconciliation
10/01/2008
Elaine Fleming,
IR/PS alumna Jennifer Lind '96, Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, has published the book Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell, 2008). The book examines the role of memory and atonement in international reconciliation, and focuses on the postwar cases of Germany and Japan.
Lind graduated from IR/PS and continued her studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science. At Dartmouth she teaches International Politics, East Asian International Relations, and a seminar on war memory and international politics. Read more about Jennifer in her Alumni Spotlight.
Reviews for Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics:
"Sorry States makes a critical contribution to our understanding of comparative foreign policy and the politics of remembrance and reconciliation; it is a fine blend of good history and good political science.”
—Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit, Germany, and Senior Fellow,
Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
“Sorry States is an extremely timely book, covering an issue of great importance for the international relations of East Asia (and beyond). Jennifer Lind has compiled all of the important statements on war responsibility and related issues by Japanese and German politicians and other elites, including not just the official statements and acts but also the backlash statements that have received media attention.”
—Leonard J. Schoppa, University of Virginia, author of Race for the Exits
