The Russian state is back.

What causes revolutions?

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...

The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...

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...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...

Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....

Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...

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Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st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

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

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...

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...