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Social Sciences
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
602
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
603
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
604
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
605
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
606
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
607
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
608
Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min
609
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
610
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
611
Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min
612
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
613
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
614
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
615
Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Sov...
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...
61 min
616
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited...
Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war in strategic terms...
42 min
617
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Tr...
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...
46 min
618
Darren Dochuk, "Anointed with Oil: How Christia...
Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...
48 min
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Jeffrey Lantis, "Foreign Policy Advocacy and En...
With the US in the midst of on-going negotiations with Iran, North Korea, and China, how is Congress playing a part?
22 min
620
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
57 min
621
Susanna P. Campbell, "Global Governance and Loc...
Why do international peacebuilding organizations sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, even within the same country?
50 min
622
Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory...
Ward brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions...
49 min
623
Tim Bouverie, "Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler...
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...
37 min
624
Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthr...
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...
56 min
625
David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min