New Books in World Affairs

1817 Episodes

1. John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/4/2025
2. Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/1/2025
3. Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024)

   Published: 2/27/2025
4. Philip A. Martin, "Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War" (Cornell UP, 2025)

   Published: 2/26/2025
5. Doina Anca Cretu, "Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania" (Stanford UP, 2025)

   Published: 2/26/2025
6. Marion Laurence, "Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/24/2025
7. Elsa Stamatopoulou, "Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 2/23/2025
8. TrumpWorld: Canada, South Africa, Germany, and the Global Far-Right

   Published: 2/22/2025
9. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/19/2025
10. Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/17/2025
11. Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)

    Published: 2/15/2025
12. Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/13/2025
13. Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/12/2025
14. Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)

    Published: 2/11/2025
15. Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)

    Published: 2/11/2025
16. Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/6/2025
17. Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)

    Published: 2/5/2025
18. Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/5/2025
19. Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations

    Published: 2/3/2025
20. Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

    Published: 2/2/2025