In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....

This book highlights past research, recent discoveries, and open questions written by leading thinkers in risk management and behavioral sciences...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

Tallis uses the “broken windows” theory of policing to reexamine the littorals, developing a multidimensional view of the maritime threat environment...

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...

From Moscow, the world looks different...

A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...

Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?

Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?

The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...

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...

Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...

Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...

Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war in strategic terms...

Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov uncover the collective history of the concept of partition and locate its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization...

With the US in the midst of on-going negotiations with Iran, North Korea, and China, how is Congress playing a part?

Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...

Why do international peacebuilding organizations sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, even within the same country?

Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...

Ward brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions...

Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...

In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and academic freedom...

An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...

Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...