Gordon weaves together the complexities of statelessness, emphasizing that those who are often stateless are so within the nation in which they live, and contemporary enslavement,...

Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...

Wasserstrom provides a nuanced yet accessible overview of the struggle between Hong Kong and China over self-governance and civil liberties...

Higuchi presents a history of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, by which the then-nuclear powers, US, USSR, and UK, agreed to cease, among other things, the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons...

Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...

Haass argues that there is no “Vegas rule” for events in the world: the effects of what happens far away do not remain far away...

Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Why did the Allies win World War II?

Black he sets out to demonstrate the ways in which strategic thinking has changed over time, paying attention to the changes in technology, ideology and ambition by which it has been shaped...

Globalization is a modern phenomenon with a longer past than most people realize...

Piketty expands his focus to include the political and ideological in his comparative analysis of capital accumulation and ‘inequality regimes’.

Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...

McKercher offers a strong rebuttal to the Canadian-history-is-boring thesis...

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the battles most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe?

So what is Western Civilization, anyway?

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...

This book is about movement, water, the interchange of ideas, peoples, and cultures. At its centre is the Anglo-Dutch relationship and, at its many peripheries, Scott reveals the transformative effects of this unique republican pulse...

Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?

Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...

Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..

Ryan offers the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror...

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...