New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Elizabeth Schmidt, “Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

   Published: 1/21/2015
2. Michael Kwass, “Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground” (Harvard University Press, 2014)

   Published: 1/19/2015
3. Carl H. Nightingale, “Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities” (U of Chicago Press, 2012)

   Published: 1/2/2015
4. Jules Boykoff, “Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London” (Rutgers University Press, 2014)

   Published: 12/22/2014
5. Lyman Johnson, “Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810” (Duke UP, 2011)

   Published: 12/13/2014
6. General Daniel Bolger, “Why We Lost” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

   Published: 12/12/2014
7. Henry Nau, “Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Reagan, Truman, and Polk” (Princeton UP, 2013)

   Published: 11/28/2014
8. Kathleen Lopez, “Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History” (UNC Press, 2013)

   Published: 11/21/2014
9. Chris Taylor, “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” (Basic Books, 2014)

   Published: 11/14/2014
10. Alexander Cooley, “Great Game, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2014)

    Published: 11/11/2014
11. Ethan Zuckerman, “Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection” (Norton, 2013)

    Published: 11/6/2014
12. Michael Cook, “Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective” (Princeton UP, 2014)

    Published: 11/5/2014
13. Angela Stent, “The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twentieth-First Century” (Princeton University Press, 2014)

    Published: 11/3/2014
14. Mark Corner, “The European Union: An Introduction” (I. B. Tauris, 2014)

    Published: 10/16/2014
15. Joel Migdal, “Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2014)

    Published: 10/10/2014
16. James Martin, “Drugs on the Dark Net: How Cryptomarkets are Transforming the Global Trade in Illicit Drugs” (Palgrave, 2014)

    Published: 10/9/2014
17. Guy Chet, “The Ocean is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856” (U of Massachusetts Press, 2014)

    Published: 9/22/2014
18. Hideaki Fujiki, “Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

    Published: 9/4/2014
19. Randall L. Schweller, “Maxwell’s Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)

    Published: 8/11/2014
20. Martin Shaw, “Genocide and International Relations” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

    Published: 8/8/2014