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Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming...
Fraihat builds a framework that initially could help Saudi Arabia and Iran prevent their conflict from spinning out of control, create mechanisms for communication and travel down a road of confidence building that could create building blocks for a resolution...
68 min
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María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge i...
García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...
62 min
528
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
529
Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell, "Of Privacy a...
The authors offer a timely and wise analysis of globalization and how it has fundamentally transformed governance....
40 min
530
Jeremy Black, "Military Strategy: A Global Hist...
Black he sets out to demonstrate the ways in which strategic thinking has changed over time, paying attention to the changes in technology, ideology and ambition by which it has been shaped...
26 min
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Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Poli...
Davies explains how and why a duty to contain contagion at the source or within borders became central to the contemporary politics of disease control.,,
49 min
532
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Rea...
The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...
52 min
533
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: Ho...
Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...
82 min
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Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities ...
Kaplan’s case studies of Columbia – with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and the Philippines – demonstrates how, why, and when civilians effectively resist the influence of armed actors and limit violence...
41 min
535
Carole Fink, "West Germany and Israel: Foreign ...
By the late 1960s, West Germany and Israel were moving in almost opposite diplomatic directions in a political environment dominated by the Cold War...
59 min
536
Christine Fair, "In Their Own Words: Understand...
Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..
87 min
537
Sanjib Baruah, "In the Name of the Nation: Indi...
Baruah's book is a wide-ranging analysis of a mode of governance that has become associated with the region where armed resistance, electoral institutions, states of exception and the force of development co-exist...
64 min
538
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Pol...
The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....
96 min
539
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
540
Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrori...
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...
44 min
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "In Do Morals Matter?: Pres...
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...
42 min
542
Mathias Haeussler, "Helmut Schmidt and British-...
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..
35 min
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Michelle Murray, "The Struggle for Recognition ...
Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?
43 min
544
Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The T...
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...
48 min
545
Maria Ryan, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular...
Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...
38 min
546
Aliide Naylor, "The Shadow in the East: Vladimi...
The Baltics are about to be thrust onto the world stage.
50 min
547
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
548
Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa...
Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...
37 min
549
Yaakov Katz, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Se...
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...
55 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
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...
36 min