New Books in World Affairs

1817 Episodes

1. Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/17/2022
2. Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/14/2022
3. Alistair Shearer, "The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West" (Hurst, 2020)

   Published: 1/12/2022
4. Cheng Li, "Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement" (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/6/2022
5. Jonathan Schanzer, "Gaza Conflict 2021" (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 2021)

   Published: 1/5/2022
6. Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

   Published: 1/4/2022
7. Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)

   Published: 12/31/2021
8. Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)

   Published: 12/29/2021
9. Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)

   Published: 12/27/2021
10. Shelly Chan, "Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration" (Duke UP, 2018)

    Published: 12/24/2021
11. Clarissa Hyman, "Tomato: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)

    Published: 12/24/2021
12. Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Published: 12/24/2021
13. Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 12/23/2021
14. Luis Lobo-Guerrero et al., "Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

    Published: 12/22/2021
15. Alan Allport, "Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941" (Knopf, 2020)

    Published: 12/22/2021
16. Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/21/2021
17. Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/21/2021
18. Yeling Tan, "Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/21/2021
19. Ryan D. Griffiths, "Secession and the Sovereignty Game: Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/20/2021
20. Andrew Gilbert, "International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Cornell UP, 2020)

    Published: 12/17/2021