New Books in National Security

Interviews with Scholars of National Security about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
401
James E. Baker, "The Centaur's Dilemma: US Nati...
An interview with James E. Baker
78 min
402
H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze, "Understanding ...
An interview with H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze
58 min
403
K. Mistry and H. Gurman, "Whistleblowing Nation...
An interview with Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
63 min
404
D. Barno and N. Bensahel, "Adaptation Under Fir...
59 min
405
Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arab...
An interview with Jeremy Pressman
55 min
406
Andrew R. Hom, "International Relations and the...
An interview with Andrew R. Hom
46 min
407
Zeynep Kaya, "Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Sel...
An interview with Zeynep Kaya
47 min
408
Rajan Menon, "The Conceit of Humanitarian Inter...
An interview with Rajan Menon
68 min
409
Samuel Zipp, "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's W...
An interview with Samuel Zipp
51 min
410
Erez Manela, "The Wilsonian Moment: Self-determ...
An interview with Erez Manela
49 min
411
Mark Cornwall, "Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the Fir...
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo....
39 min
412
Heather L. Dichter, "Soccer Diplomacy: Internat...
In our conversation, we discussed the origins of soccer diplomacy, the diplomatic role of different actors, and whether winning matters for sports diplomats....
50 min
413
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in ...
Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...
53 min
414
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization...
Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...
55 min
415
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War I...
Mitter traces this transformation in the Chinese interpretations of the war from one marked by humiliation to one that celebrates victory...
59 min
416
Michael Brenes, "For Might and Right: Cold War ...
Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...
61 min
417
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Col...
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...
59 min
418
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: T...
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us,...
52 min
419
Charles A. Kupchan, "Isolationism: A History of...
In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force...
45 min
420
Paul Jankowski, "All Against All: The Long Wint...
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....
47 min
421
Jeremy Black, "Geopolitics and the Quest for Do...
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...
63 min
422
David Rundell, "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia ...
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...
71 min
423
Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: T...
Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...
49 min
424
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: So...
Strangio carefully dissects the People’s Republic of China’s complicated relationships with its southern neighbors....
108 min
425
Luke A. Nichter, "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot...
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...,
57 min