In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America's senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension...

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...

Kingston interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what it means, how it works, how it is applied and understood, and where there are clear gaps in that application...

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.

Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...

Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...

What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?

In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...