Alvarez looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity...

Tan investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests, and illustrative case studies...

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying...

Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...

Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...

Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles...

Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations....

The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures....

Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...

Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us,...

Freymann explores the nature, function, and purposes of OBOR...

Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...

In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force...

Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and its constraints and relationships, is partly a matter of perception, not merely map coordinates...

Jankowski provides a wide-angled account of a critical period of world history, the interwar years, in which the world transitioned from postwar to the prewar and saw the disintegration of collective security and international institutions created after the First World War....

Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital....

When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn?

Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about European integration...

Absent the overriding of moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities could not have happened,,,

Chichilnisky lays out the history of how we came to be in the emergency we are in now, what we have tried before, and how we can get out....

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world...

Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...

Deudney argues that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war...

We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains.,,.