New Books in World Affairs
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Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min
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Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: ...
This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...
49 min
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Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: ...
This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...
49 min
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Daniel Vukovich, "Illiberal China: The Ideologi...
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...
70 min
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Martin Edwards, "The IMF, the WTO and the Polit...
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...
21 min
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Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
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Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Sov...
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...
61 min
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Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited...
Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war in strategic terms...
42 min
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Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Tr...
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov uncover the collective history of the concept of partition and locate its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization...
46 min
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Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global ...
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...
51 min
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Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Bl...
Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its significance to Black communities across the lines of class and gender...
34 min
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Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hu...
Vague sees the rise and fall of private sector debt as the key factor explaining the cycle of economic crises experienced by developed and major developing economies over the past two centuries...
33 min
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Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Glo...
In "Hockey," Hardy and Holman offer a comprehensive and engaging history of the fastest game from it’s origins in a series of stick based contests, including early hockey, bandy, and polo through to the development of our contemporary commercial hockey best exhibited by the NHL and KHL.
68 min
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Bhakti Shringarpure, "Cold War Assemblages: Dec...
Shringarpure integrates a variety of disciplinary perspectives while also weaving together the encounters and reverberations between the Cold War and decolonization and the post-colonial experience...
43 min
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Jeffrey Lantis, "Foreign Policy Advocacy and En...
With the US in the midst of on-going negotiations with Iran, North Korea, and China, how is Congress playing a part?
22 min
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Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty T...
Her book explains what went right in China and how other developing countries could follow a similar approach to reform and institutional transition...
38 min
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Darren Dochuk, "Anointed with Oil: How Christia...
Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...
48 min
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Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princ...
"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.
57 min
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Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
57 min
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Susanna P. Campbell, "Global Governance and Loc...
Why do international peacebuilding organizations sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, even within the same country?
50 min
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Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory...
Ward brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions...
49 min
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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
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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
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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
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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