New Books in National Security

Interviews with Scholars of National Security about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia”...
"The Vory" traces the development of the Russian underworld
71 min
552
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
73 min
553
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Preventi...
The authors examine past countering-violent-extremism (CVE) efforts, evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and interagency efforts to respond to ideological radicalization to violence...
54 min
554
Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, "The Carpetbagg...
For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...
61 min
555
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History...
Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...
50 min
556
James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Ca...
Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...
62 min
557
Jeremy Black, "War and its Causes" (Rowman and ...
Black argues for an important new typology of conflict between and within civilisations, cultures and states, and, while addressing the limitations of commentary and analysis, observes patterns across history that make sense of recent conflicts – and those that may be about to begin...
36 min
558
Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord, "Kissinger on...
In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America's senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension...
69 min
559
Andreas Krieg, "Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a ...
Krieg's volume brings together a group of prominent Gulf scholars to discuss the Gulf crisis that pits a Saudi-United Arab Emirates-led alliance against Qatar...
62 min
560
Gregory V. Raymond, "Thai Military Power: A Cul...
Thailand is one of the world’s last remaining military dictatorships, and the last in Asia.
43 min
561
Michael J. Mazarr, "Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negl...
Michael J. Mazarr has written a history of the policy planning process leading up to the Iraq War in 2003...
82 min
562
Pang Yang Huei, "Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan,...
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...
54 min
563
Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, "Triadic Coerci...
In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors...
56 min
564
Ariel I. Ahram, "Break all the Borders: Separat...
47 min
565
Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Sau...
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...
65 min
566
Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspi...
Borenstein discusses popular conspiracy theories such as the Harvard Project and the Dulles Plan, why and how conspiratorial thinking has flourished in post-Soviet Russia
49 min
567
Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Afr...
Using a variety of different case studies, Schmidt illuminates some of the patterns that have informed western intervention in Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere, and the complicated role of international institutions in this process.
57 min
568
Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organ...
What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?
39 min
569
Hennie van Vuuren, "Apartheid Guns and Money: A...
This war machine, as van Vuuren describes it, remains a largely hidden aspect of South Africa’s past – until now...
41 min
570
Michael Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The Wan...
Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day...
47 min
571
Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The Unite...
Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...
61 min
572
Christian Goeschel, "Mussolini and Hitler: The ...
Goeschel examines the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini and how their relationship developed and affected both countries...
62 min
573
Kathleen Burk, "The Lion and the Eagle: The Int...
Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...
70 min
574
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
575
Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espio...
In the late 1980s, Gave was asked by the Detroit Red Wings to reach behind the Iron Curtain and initiate contact with the team's newest draft picks, two players on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey club...
73 min