Why Give a Damn About Strangers?

At the end of the 20th century, the liberal international order appeared unassailable after its triumph over the authoritarian challenges of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Twenty years later, however, the assumptions underlying the system appear discredited as international relations devolve into confrontation and conflict...

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”

The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative....

In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Olympism’s moral claims, the nexus between sport and human rights, and why it can be hard to understand the human costs of contemporary mega-events....

Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...

Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars...

Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos...

It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge?

Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....

Smith discusses connection between our understanding of peoplehood and community, and the contemporary growth of populism around the world...

Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...

What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?

An interview with Philip Drew

Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,

Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic...

Riofrancos examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction...

Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...

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...

An interview with Philip Drew

How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?

Hanieh shows that the economies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are about more than just the “black gold.”

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...