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World Affairs
Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.
August 2, 2026
A Post-Liberal Peace
In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising power…
July 31, 2026
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 20…
July 31, 2026
Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947
In this episode of New Books Network, I speak with Nabi Sahak about his book, Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked…
July 28, 2026
On Who Blew Up Nord Stream
The September, 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines transporting Russian gas to Germany was perhaps the greatest single act of sabotage in modern …
July 28, 2026
The Greater Second World War
Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025) This ambitious edited collection …
July 28, 2026
Beyond the Ocean
In Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 2026), Christopher Hodson and…
July 25, 2026
Agrarian Superpower
The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second Wor…
July 20, 2026
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
Matthew Mason (Professor of History at Brigham Young University) chatted with Richard Bell (Professor of History at the University of Maryland) about …
July 20, 2026
The Almighty Dollar
America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the worl…
July 18, 2026
Flirting with Evil
It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation (Ap…
July 18, 2026
Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and Beyond
Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and Beyond (U Edinburgh Press, 2025) outlines the need to embed Oce…
July 17, 2026
Fakers
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line (Oxford UP, 2026) reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks runn…
July 15, 2026
Armenia moves West, Georgia moves East
Armenia just re-elected populist PM Nikol Pashinyan, confirming voters are ready to move on from the lost Karabakh war and lean toward Europe over Rus…
July 15, 2026
Both Your Houses
In Both Your Houses: Iran, America, and the Wages of Unchecked Power (Wisdom Editions, 2026), Massoud Amin confronts the war between Iran, Israel, and…
July 12, 2026
Taking Territory
Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945 (Cornell University Press, 2026) is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest persis…
July 9, 2026
The Age of Alchemy
The first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers who crafted unimaginably strong steel millennia before it should have been possible. They were alchemists i…
July 7, 2026
Planet Digital
In the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed, reshaping cul…
July 4, 2026
Financial Inclusion
The number of people in the world with a bank account or money service provider increased by 2 billion over the past decade. This phenomenon ref…
July 4, 2026
Vanished
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of…
July 4, 2026
How “They” See “Us” with editor Madeleine Schwartz
The remarkable political ascent of Donald J. Trump and his sustained grip on a certain segment of American society have given fresh life to a question…