New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Why did the Allies win World War II?

   Published: 4/27/2020
2. Jeremy Black, "Military Strategy: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2020)

   Published: 4/24/2020
3. Valerie Hansen, "The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World -- and Globalization Began" (Scribner, 2020)

   Published: 4/24/2020
4. Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)

   Published: 4/21/2020
5. Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" (Verso, 2019)

   Published: 4/13/2020
6. Asa McKercher, "Canada and the World since 1867" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

   Published: 4/10/2020
7. Alexander Mikaberidze, "The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 4/3/2020
8. Samuel Gregg, "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization" (Gateway, 2019)

   Published: 3/31/2020
9. Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)

   Published: 3/30/2020
10. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "In Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/23/2020
11. Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)

    Published: 3/19/2020
12. Michelle Murray, "The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations: Status, Revisionism, and Rising Powers" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/18/2020
13. The Origins of World War One

    Published: 3/12/2020
14. Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order" (Hurst, 2014)

    Published: 3/6/2020
15. Jeffrey James Byrne, "Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order" (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 3/4/2020
16. Maria Ryan, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2019)

    Published: 3/2/2020
17. Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media" (Columbia UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/28/2020
18. Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 2/25/2020
19. Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)

    Published: 2/24/2020
20. Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

    Published: 2/20/2020