An interview with Erez Manela

In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo....

In our conversation, we discussed the origins of soccer diplomacy, the diplomatic role of different actors, and whether winning matters for sports diplomats....

Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...

Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...

Mitter traces this transformation in the Chinese interpretations of the war from one marked by humiliation to one that celebrates victory...

Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...

Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us,...

Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...

In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force...

Jankowski provides a wide-angled account of a critical period of world history, the interwar years, in which the world transitioned from postwar to the prewar and saw the disintegration of collective security and international institutions created after the First World War....

Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and its constraints and relationships, is partly a matter of perception, not merely map coordinates...

Rundell offers a granular analysis and insider’s understanding of the inner workings of the kingdom garnered as a US foreign service officer who served a total of 15 years in the country...

Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...

Strangio carefully dissects the People’s Republic of China’s complicated relationships with its southern neighbors....

Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the grand-son of Woodrow Wilson’s senatorial antagonist, did...,

Slater takes stock of the conflict from its origins to the present day and argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong...

Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...

Deudney argues that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war...

DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated...

Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft....

Nasca offers a novel examination of the relationship between amphibious warfare, American strategic interests, and the United States’s rise to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century...

Lieber and Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons...

Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...

Lipman offers an in-depth study of the fate of the nearly 800,000 Vietnamese refugees who left their country by boat, and sought refugee in Southeast Asia and the Pacific..,