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World Affairs
Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.
June 1, 2026
The Predictable Shock of Brexit
Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wit…
May 29, 2026
India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?
This week on Democracy Dialogues, Maya Tudor speaks with two keen observers of Indian politics, Gilles Verniers and Yamini Aiyar, about what India’s 2…
May 28, 2026
What They Stole
In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical c…
May 28, 2026
After Barbary
After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts explores the connectio…
May 26, 2026
Lost Worlds
There’s a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains …
May 25, 2026
The Birth of Psychological War
Jeffrey Whyte's book The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2023) explo…
May 25, 2026
Catastrophic Diplomacy
Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assi…
May 21, 2026
Orchestrating Power
Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores how the expansion of the Am…
May 20, 2026
The Rest and the West
At the heart of the fiercest international conflicts is the struggle for the future of globalization. In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies…
May 18, 2026
Exit from International Organizations
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? Wha…
May 14, 2026
Beyond Minorities
Helen Haas speaks with political scientist Sean Lee about the changing relationship between majorities and minorities in the Middle East, the collapse…
May 14, 2026
The Unfinished Quest
From a Distinguished International Relations Scholar comes The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford UP, …
May 13, 2026
Retrench, Defend, Compete
In Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China (Cornell UP, 2025), Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking stra…
May 12, 2026
Dollar Dominance
In a world shaken by crises, why does the dollar continue to dominate? In Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It (P…
May 9, 2026
The Complicit Lens
Robin Andersen's latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza (OR Books, 2026), is a forensic and unflinching exami…
May 8, 2026
Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
This week on International Horizons, RBI interim director Eli Karetny interviewed Mallory Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategic…
May 6, 2026
The Taiwan Tinderbox
J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based security analyst and writer who has spent over two decades documenting Taiwan’s political and security landscape. A …
May 6, 2026
The Coming Storm
From a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid…
May 4, 2026
Cold War Brokers
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Szabolcs László to talk about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American C…
April 30, 2026
Epochal Crisis
Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (Cambridge UP, 2025) is the most recent book from Professor William Robinson, Distinguished Profes…