New Books in World Affairs

1817 Episodes

1. Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/5/2024
2. Megan Bradley et al., "IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 10/5/2024
3. Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)

   Published: 10/4/2024
4. Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/1/2024
5. Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)

   Published: 9/30/2024
6. William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 9/29/2024
7. Inés Valdez, "Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/29/2024
8. Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 9/28/2024
9. Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)

   Published: 9/27/2024
10. Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 9/27/2024
11. Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)

    Published: 9/27/2024
12. Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/26/2024
13. Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/22/2024
14. Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

    Published: 9/19/2024
15. Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)

    Published: 9/15/2024
16. Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/13/2024
17. Greg Eghigian, "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/11/2024
18. Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/7/2024
19. James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 9/6/2024
20. David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)

    Published: 9/5/2024