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...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking...

How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself?

Slavery, alas, is a universal institution, found in all times and nearly all places...

How should we understand humanitarian NGOs?

Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world...

Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?

The neoliberal consensus, once thought to be undefeatable, seems to have been broken both in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 2008, as well as a series of surprise movements and elections throughout the world in the last several years...

An interview with Stephen Gill

Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...

Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...

Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...

Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...

President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...

The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...