Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

Who has the right to have rights?

A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...

"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.

How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office

LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...

Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...

McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...

From Moscow, the world looks different...

A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...

In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...

Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries...

Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...

Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?

This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...

This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...

Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of member states to ensure they are adopting effective economic policies...

Vukovich analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C...

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...

Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war in strategic terms...