New Books in World Affairs

Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
1201
Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global ...
An interview with Hilton L. Root
69 min
1202
H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze, "Understanding ...
An interview with H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze
58 min
1203
B. R. Roberts and K. Foulcher, "Indonesian Note...
An interview with Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher
94 min
1204
D. Barno and N. Bensahel, "Adaptation Under Fir...
59 min
1205
Devadas Krishnadas, "Confronting Covid-19: A St...
An interview with Devadas Krishnadas
39 min
1206
Andrew R. Hom, "International Relations and the...
An interview with Andrew R. Hom
46 min
1207
Rajan Menon, "The Conceit of Humanitarian Inter...
An interview with Rajan Menon
68 min
1208
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Second World Wa...
An interview with Jeremy Black
25 min
1209
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1210
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, "War for Eternity: Insi...
An interview with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
89 min
1211
Erez Manela, "The Wilsonian Moment: Self-determ...
An interview with Erez Manela
49 min
1212
Heather L. Dichter, "Soccer Diplomacy: Internat...
In our conversation, we discussed the origins of soccer diplomacy, the diplomatic role of different actors, and whether winning matters for sports diplomats....
50 min
1213
Alex Alvarez, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change,...
Alvarez looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity...
52 min
1214
Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the P...
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying...
70 min
1215
Bann Seng Tan, "International Aid and Democracy...
Tan investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests, and illustrative case studies...
47 min
1216
Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
1217
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, "Asian Place, Filipin...
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....
57 min
1218
Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: ...
Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles...
60 min
1219
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in ...
Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...
53 min
1220
L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal, "A World at Se...
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....
75 min
1221
Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Intern...
Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...
95 min
1222
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: T...
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us,...
52 min
1223
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Col...
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...
59 min
1224
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Powe...
Freymann explores the nature, function, and purposes of OBOR...
61 min
1225
Charles A. Kupchan, "Isolationism: A History of...
In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force...
45 min