New Books in World Affairs

Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
1201
Rebecca E. Karl, "China’s Revolutions in the Mo...
Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...
78 min
1202
Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in...
Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..
34 min
1203
The Cold War as History
The Cold War was an event that has divided historians since the beginnings of serious historiography on the subject began in the mid-1960s...
36 min
1204
Thomas J. Donahue-Ochoa, "Unfreedom for All: Ho...
How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?
51 min
1205
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globaliza...
Grimmer-Solem examines the process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests...
78 min
1206
Recording Global Diplomacy: Contextualizing Per...
An interview with Sam De Schutter
28 min
1207
Jeremy Black, "War in Europe: 1450 to the Prese...
Black offers a masterful overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume...
41 min
1208
Jeremy Black, "History of Europe: From Prehisto...
Jeremy Black presents a learned and yet entertaining exploration of the history: political, cultural and social of Europe from its prehistory to the 21st century.
39 min
1209
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...
49 min
1210
Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vis...
Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...
56 min
1211
Michael Schuman, "Superpower Interrupted: The C...
The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?
50 min
1212
Alanna O’Malley, "The Diplomacy of Decolonisati...
In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...
59 min
1213
Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, an...
Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...
54 min
1214
E. Bruce Geelhoed, "Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-...
What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?
51 min
1215
Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB ...
The Russian state is back.
34 min
1216
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1217
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
67 min
1218
Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and ...
The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...
52 min
1219
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
1220
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
34 min
1221
Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Na...
Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...
39 min
1222
Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Constru...
Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....
73 min
1223
Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomac...
Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...
76 min
1224
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1225
Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migrati...
Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...
61 min