Using a variety of different case studies, Schmidt illuminates some of the patterns that have informed western intervention in Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere, and the complicated role of international institutions in this process.

In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west...

What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?

This war machine, as van Vuuren describes it, remains a largely hidden aspect of South Africa’s past – until now...

Robert McNamara is best remembered today for his momentous term as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. Often overlooked because of this is his even longer tenure as president of the World Bank...

Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city?

Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...

Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly...

Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...

In Critical geographies, Koch joins other scholars to address a wide range of sports issues, including the demolition of South Korea’s Dongdaemun baseball stadium, professional wrestling in the territorial era in the United States, and the identity politics of the Gaelic Athletic Association...

Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...

“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate...

This episode of the New Books in Military History podcast is something of a sea change, so to speak, as we turn our attention to naval policy and strategy...

The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object"...

Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...

One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West?

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...

The focus of the volume is contextualizing and “de-exceptionalizing” Russia and the USSR by placing Russian and Soviet environmental history in a global context...

Alexander’s religious practices were a vital part of his legitimacy as a ruler of his people, and were interwoven into his daily activities...

In Success and Failure, Reiche provides a playbook for National Committees that want to win more medals...

The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...