Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...

This book explore ways that leaders and followers can bring forth pacifism, peace building, nonviolence, forgiveness, and social cooperation...

Shunned by Arab states for much of its existence, Israel has become in recent years a key factor in efforts by Gulf states to punch above their weigh...

Afinogenov offers a trove of insights into the centuries-long entanglements which have shaped Sino-Russian relationships up to the present...

The key question Fulda poses is to what extent political activists in these three domiciles have made progress in their quest to liberalize and democratize their respective polities...

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games, Evy Poumpouras, shares lessons learned from protecting presidents...

Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...

The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...

The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.

The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?

What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?

The Russian state is back.

What causes revolutions?

Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...

D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...

Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...

Braddock applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few....

Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging...

Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...

Wasserstrom provides a nuanced yet accessible overview of the struggle between Hong Kong and China over self-governance and civil liberties...

Higuchi presents a history of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, by which the then-nuclear powers, US, USSR, and UK, agreed to cease, among other things, the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons...

Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...