New Books in World Affairs

Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the ...
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power?
59 min
1302
Tim Bouverie, "Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler...
Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...
37 min
1303
Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing B...
Fregulia examines the geographic movements of coffee beans through global trade as well as the social and cultural movements of coffee drinking from a medicine to an aid in religious ritual to an elite domestic drink to a public event in the coffee house...
44 min
1304
Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthr...
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and academic freedom...
56 min
1305
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: ...
Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...
66 min
1306
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
51 min
1307
Jonathan Fennell, "Fighting the People's War: T...
Fennell challenges our understanding of the Second World War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change...
59 min
1308
Heidi Tworek, "News from Germany: The Competiti...
Tworek explores how elites in academia, business, and government fought over the regulation of news at home and sought to use communications to extend German power abroad.
55 min
1309
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The R...
Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...
136 min
1310
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
61 min
1311
Jane Hooper, "Feeding Globalization: Madagascar...
Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration...
29 min
1312
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
73 min
1313
Bonita Mersiades, "Whatever It Takes: The Insid...
In "Whatever It Takes," Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process...
55 min
1314
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Preventi...
The authors examine past countering-violent-extremism (CVE) efforts, evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and interagency efforts to respond to ideological radicalization to violence...
54 min
1315
John Pat Leary, "Keywords: The New Language of ...
John Pat Leary chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century...
42 min
1316
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History...
Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...
50 min
1317
James Miller, "Can Democracy Work?: A Short His...
James Miller encapsulates 2500 years of democracy history into about 250 pages — making the case that “people power” will always need to be at the heart of any successful democracy...
41 min
1318
John J. Curley, "Global Art and the Cold War" (...
A meticulously-researched and accessible monograph, Global Art and the Cold War demonstrates the crucial role of art in the greatest geopolitical conflict of the 20th century...
50 min
1319
James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Ca...
Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...
62 min
1320
Jeremy Black, "War and its Causes" (Rowman and ...
Black argues for an important new typology of conflict between and within civilisations, cultures and states, and, while addressing the limitations of commentary and analysis, observes patterns across history that make sense of recent conflicts – and those that may be about to begin...
36 min
1321
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democr...
As How Democracies Die illustrates, it’s much easier to succumb to the power of an autocratic leader than it is to stand up and protect the institutions that serve as the guardrails of democracy...
32 min
1322
Martin Collins, "A Telephone for the World: Mot...
Using Motorola as a case study, A Telephone for the World tracks how U.S. businesses navigated the end of the twentieth century, a moment marked by the rise of neoliberalism, the economic challenge of Japan, and the end of the Cold War.
50 min
1323
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, "Democracy and Growth...
Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?
38 min
1324
Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Ro...
Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....
48 min
1325
Kimberly Chong, "Best Practice: Management Cons...
What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?
43 min