New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 4/8/2022
2. Zoltán Biedermann, "(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia" (Oxford UP, 2019)

   Published: 4/8/2022
3. Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)

   Published: 4/7/2022
4. M. K. Raghvendra, "The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 4/7/2022
5. Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger

   Published: 4/6/2022
6. Michele Acuto, "How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination" (Cornell UP, 2022)

   Published: 4/6/2022
7. Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)

   Published: 4/6/2022
8. Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 4/5/2022
9. Melissa M. Lee, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)

   Published: 4/4/2022
10. Michael Spitzer, "The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

    Published: 3/30/2022
11. Jørgen Jensehaugen, "Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

    Published: 3/29/2022
12. Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/29/2022
13. China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis

    Published: 3/25/2022
14. Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy Rules" (FSG, 2021)

    Published: 3/25/2022
15. Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/24/2022
16. Jonathan M. Katz, "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/23/2022
17. Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn

    Published: 3/23/2022
18. The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson

    Published: 3/22/2022
19. Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/22/2022
20. Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Dutton Books, 2022)

    Published: 3/22/2022