New Books in World Affairs

Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
20 min
1177
S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fas...
Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,
79 min
1178
Thomas R. Metcalf, "Imperial Connections: India...
Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...
46 min
1179
Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro...
Riofrancos examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction...
125 min
1180
Kris Alexanderson, "Subversive Seas: Anticoloni...
Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic...
86 min
1181
S. J. Potter, "Wireless Internationalism and Di...
Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...
45 min
1182
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
16 min
1183
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultu...
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?
41 min
1184
Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: T...
Hanieh shows that the economies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are about more than just the “black gold.”
72 min
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story...
How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....
59 min
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Nicole Hassoun, "Global Health Impact: Expandin...
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child...
36 min
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S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Grea...
The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...
36 min
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Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of t...
Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....
54 min
1189
Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change...
Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?
51 min
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Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komag...
The Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea...
59 min
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David Eaton, "World History through Case Studie...
Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....
77 min
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Lisa Levenstein, "They Didn’t See Us Coming: Th...
Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....
58 min
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Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean Worl...
Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...
30 min
1194
G. S. Rosenthal, "Beyond Hawai‘i: Native Labor ...
"Beyond Hawai'i" is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World....
60 min
1195
Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the...
Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes....
64 min
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Post Script: A Deep Dive on China
How should we understand what's going on in China? Listen in....
99 min
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Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and...
"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...
43 min
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Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
76 min
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John C. McManus, "Fire and Fortitude: The US Ar...
The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...
69 min
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W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The...
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, American nuclear policy continues to be influenced by the legacies of the Cold War...
46 min