New Books in National Security

Interviews with Scholars of National Security about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min
527
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Med...
Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...
33 min
528
Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How ...
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..
45 min
529
David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland...
The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,
74 min
530
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
531
Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
50 min
532
Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
533
Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
534
Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War...
The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...
48 min
535
Stuart Schrader, "​Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
71 min
536
Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, "I Made Mistakes: Rob...
Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam … I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'...
52 min
537
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
538
Bruce Rydel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars i...
In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....
33 min
539
Howard Kunreuther, "The Future of Risk Manageme...
This book highlights past research, recent discoveries, and open questions written by leading thinkers in risk management and behavioral sciences...
33 min
540
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
52 min
541
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
542
Joshua Tallis, "The War for Muddy Waters: Pirat...
Tallis uses the “broken windows” theory of policing to reexamine the littorals, developing a multidimensional view of the maritime threat environment...
50 min
543
Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran a...
Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...
57 min
544
Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min
545
Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New A...
A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...
54 min
546
Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domes...
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?
45 min
547
Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min
548
Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities ...
The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...
68 min
549
Daniel Vukovich, "Illiberal China: The Ideologi...
Vukovich analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C...
70 min
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James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
41 min