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Social Sciences
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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
527
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
528
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
529
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
530
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
532
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
533
Maria Ryan, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular...
Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...
38 min
534
Aliide Naylor, "The Shadow in the East: Vladimi...
The Baltics are about to be thrust onto the world stage.
50 min
535
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
536
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
537
Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa...
Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...
37 min
538
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
539
Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diploma...
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,,,
57 min
540
Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Cons...
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?
74 min
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Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlan...
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...
42 min
542
Elizabeth Economy, "The Third Revolution: Xi Ji...
Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...
27 min
543
Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How...
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...
41 min
544
Jenna Jordan, "Leadership Decapitation: Strateg...
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...
48 min
545
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
57 min
546
Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Hi...
Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...
37 min
547
Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How T...
President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...
45 min
548
The Treaty of Versailles On Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
549
Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian history...
58 min
550
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Pre...
Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...
21 min