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...

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

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

Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...

Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..

The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?

There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...

The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...

Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...

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'...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

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...