New Books in National Security

Interviews with Scholars of National Security about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
426
Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US...
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...
72 min
427
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global...
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...
63 min
428
Daniel Deudney, "Dark Skies: Space Expansionism...
Deudney argues that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war...
71 min
429
Laura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Fr...
DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated...
63 min
430
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcit...
Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft....
62 min
431
David S. Nasca, "The Emergence of American Amph...
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...
62 min
432
K. A. Lieber and D. G. Press, "The Myth of the ...
Lieber and Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons...
66 min
433
Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Pr...
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...
54 min
434
Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees,...
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..,
56 min
435
Robert Zoellick, "America in the World: A Histo...
Both a sweeping work of history and an insightful guide to U.S. diplomacy past and present, America in the World serves as an informative companion and practical adviser to readers seeking to understand the strategic and immediate challenges of U.S. foreign policy during an era of transformation and change...
58 min
436
Barry C. Lynn, "Liberty From All Masters: The N...
Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy...
55 min
437
Anthony L. Gardner, "Stars with Stripes: The Es...
The EU-US partnership has its frustrations and failings, writes Tony Gardner...
39 min
438
Scott Laderman, "The 'Silent Majority' Speech: ...
On November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation in what would come to be known as “The Silent Majority Speech”...
66 min
439
Philip Cunliffe, "The New Twenty Years' Crisis:...
At the end of the 20th century, the liberal international order appeared unassailable after its triumph over the authoritarian challenges of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Twenty years later, however, the assumptions underlying the system appear discredited as international relations devolve into confrontation and conflict...
42 min
440
Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tri...
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections....
41 min
441
Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it?
64 min
442
Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left"...
What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...
69 min
443
H. Shelest and M. Rabinovych, "Decentralization...
The volume draws particular attention to the issues that have been escalated and intensified since the inception of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict...
54 min
444
Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Be...
The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative....
53 min
445
C. Chan and F. de Londras, "China’s National Se...
Cora Chan and Fiona de Londras bring together a host of internationally renowned authors who question whether a national security law will challenge Hong Kong’s rule of law, and the liberal ideals safeguarded in its legal system...
69 min
446
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, "The Nazi Spy Ring in Am...
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the dramatic story of the Nazi spy ring in America. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality,..
54 min
447
David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Di...
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?
40 min
448
Jon Lindsay, "Information Technology and Milita...
Lindsay point out that the digitization of warfare can increase confusion and misunderstanding...
62 min
449
Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the T...
For seventeen years, Chris Fenton served as the president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a multi-billion-dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing...
47 min
450
Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle E...
What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?
85 min