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Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora ...
Darden, Henshaw, and Szekley investigate the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end...
51 min
627
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovere...
The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...
52 min
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Monica Kim, "The Interrogation Rooms of the Kor...
Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war...
58 min
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Andray Abrahamian, "North Korea and Myanmar: Di...
Abrahamian's work on each place is based on years of firsthand experience in these ‘outposts of tyranny’, as former-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice dubbed them in 2005...
61 min
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Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, "Suez Deconstruc...
Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step:  the Suez crisis of 1956— one of the major crises of the 1950s offers a potential master class in statecraft and the politics of strategy.
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Noah Coburn, "Under Contract: The Invisible Wor...
Noah Coburn's book is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort...
57 min
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Andrew Lambert, "Seapower States: Maritime Cult...
Professor Lambert examines how each of these polities identities as “seapowers” informed and determined their individual histories and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size...
60 min
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Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gu...
Fulton’s book is a timely contribution to discussion of the changing global balance of power as Gulf states
62 min
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Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The...
Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...
52 min
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Michele Gelfand, "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: H...
Dr. Gelfand examines how the threat environment shapes a nation’s culture, as well as how organizations, such as the military, are shaped by cultural forces...
42 min
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Michael Cotey Morgan, "The Final Act: The Helsi...
Just when you thought that you knew everything and anything pertaining to the Cold War and the ending of it...
92 min
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Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim, "External Powe...
The newly found assertiveness of the Gulf states, despite the fact that they remain largely dependent for their security on the United States, have forged closer ties with a host of external powers...
57 min
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Rory Cormac, "Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special ...
In the decades following the Second World War, the British government increasingly turned to covert operations as a means of achieving their foreign policy goals...
43 min
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John B. Judis, "The Nationalist Revival: Trade,...
Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance to the political front stage?
30 min
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Brian Crim, "Our Germans: Project Paperclip and...
In his new book, Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), Brian Crim, Associate Professor of History at the University of Lynchburg, looks at the controversial program to bring German scientist to the United States after World War II...
57 min
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Judd C. Kinzley, "Natural Resources and the New...
As public knowledge grows of the Chinese state’s subjugation of the central Asian region of Xinjiang, many may find themselves wondering what Beijing’s interest in this distant region is in the first place.
56 min
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Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong, "Securing the ...
Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong’s Securing the Belt and Road, Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances Along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments (Red Globe Press, 2018) significantly contributes to an understanding not only of China’s ambitious infrastructure and energy driven Belt and Road Initiative, but also the increasing challenges it poses for China itself...
56 min
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Seth Anziska, "Preventing Palestine: A Politica...
The question of Palestinian autonomy has been a key element of Middle Eastern and Arab politics for much of the last century...
49 min
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Peter Hitchens, "The Phoney Victory: The World ...
Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations, especially the United Kingdom....
43 min
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Eric Helleiner, "Forgotten Foundations: Interna...
The story of Bretton Woods has been told by countless historians...
52 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout Ameri...
One of the major aspects of the end of the Cold War has been the discovery and release of records related to many government activities from the period...
58 min
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Laszlo Borhi, "Dealing with Dictators: The Unit...
How does a political regime function? What contributes to a regime’s longevity and subversion?
34 min
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Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield, “Redef...
Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics (Naval Institute Press, 2018), edited by Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield, is a collection of essays examining military professionalism and ethics in light of major change...
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N. M. Sambaluk, “The Other Space Race: Eisenhow...
Many people place the beginning of the American space program at 7:28pm, October 4, 1957 – the moment the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit.  This event prompted the United States to open up its own crash program to put f...
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