New Books in World Affairs
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Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Be...
The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative....
53 min
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Barbara Keys, "The Ideal of Global Sport: From ...
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....
50 min
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Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Colum...
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...
60 min
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Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern Hi...
Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars...
52 min
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Ravinder Kaur, "Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dr...
It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge?
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Christopher Capozzola, "Bound By War: How the U...
Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos...
66 min
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E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Tra...
81 min
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Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Globa...
Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....
70 min
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Rogers M. Smith, "That Is Not Who We Are!: Popu...
Smith discusses connection between our understanding of peoplehood and community, and the contemporary growth of populism around the world...
55 min
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Geoffrey Plank, "Atlantic Wars: From the Fiftee...
Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...
26 min
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Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle E...
What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?
85 min
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
20 min
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S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fas...
Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,
79 min
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Thomas R. Metcalf, "Imperial Connections: India...
Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...
46 min
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Kris Alexanderson, "Subversive Seas: Anticoloni...
Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic...
86 min
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Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro...
Riofrancos examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction...
125 min
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S. J. Potter, "Wireless Internationalism and Di...
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...
45 min
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
16 min
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C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultu...
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?
41 min
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Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: T...
Hanieh shows that the economies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are about more than just the “black gold.”
72 min
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Nicole Hassoun, "Global Health Impact: Expandin...
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...
36 min
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story...
How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....
59 min
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S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Grea...
The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...
36 min
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Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of t...
Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....
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Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change...
Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?
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