The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...

Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982..

Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?

Burns pulls together distinct threads in analyzing the theoretical framing of presidential power in the American constitutional system and then tracing that power through forty-five presidents...

Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...

The Baltics are about to be thrust onto the world stage.

How does the world of book reviews work?

On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Although Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad, this time there was no warning and no explanation...

Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,

With Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening the peace in Europe following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the North Atlantic and other maritime domains around Europe are once again vitally important...

Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this military waste when it has served its purpose and what does it tell us about militarism in American culture?

Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...

Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...

One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts...

Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...

Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...

President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...

The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...

Robinson provides a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian history...

Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...