New Books in National Security
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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John B. Judis, "The Nationalist Revival: Trade,...
Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance to the political front stage?
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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....
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Eric Helleiner, "Forgotten Foundations: Interna...
The story of Bretton Woods has been told by countless historians...
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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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Robert Kagan, “The Jungle Grows Back: America a...
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is also the author of The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Dangerous Nation, Of Paradise and Power, and A Twilight Struggle.
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Ching Kwan Lee, “The Specter of Global China: P...
Today we talked with Ching Kwan Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has just published The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2018),
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Roland Philipps, “A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigm...
Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous and productive – for Moscow spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the complete extent of this shy, intelligent,
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Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspir...
The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still resonates nearly one-hundred years after it was written. Almost certainly a forgery,
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Jeffrey D. Sachs, "A New Foreign Policy: Beyond...
An interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Brian VanDeMark, “The Road to Disaster: A New H...
Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent,
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Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War an...
Thomas Schmidinger‘s Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Pluto Press, 2018) is an exploration of the history and present of Syrian Kurdistan. It is an excellent introduction to a fraught topic, one drawn from extensive,
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