New Books in World Affairs
Rodrigo Zeidan, “Economics of Global Business” (MIT Press, 2018)
Rodrigo Zeidan
Economics of Global Business

MIT Press, 2018

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Andrea Bernardi

I spoke with Professor Rodrigo Zeidan of New York University, Shanghai. He has just published Economics of Global Business (MIT Press, 2018), a great book with innovative real-world macroeconomic analyses of timely policy issues, with case studies and examples from more than fifty countries. The book is particularly suitable for use as an... Read More
Jonathan Fulton, “China’s Relations with the Gulf Monarchies” (Routledge, 2018)
Jonathan Fulton
China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies

Routledge, 2018

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 17, 2019 James M. Dorsey

Jonathan Fulton‘s China’s Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2018) sheds light on China’s increasing economic role at a moment that the traditionally dominant role in international oil markets of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf oil producers is changing as a result of the United States having become more or less... Read More
Van Jackson, “On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The Threat of Nuclear War” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Van Jackson
On the Brink
Trump, Kim, and The Threat of Nuclear War
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 16, 2019 Beth Windisch

In his new book, On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The Threat of Nuclear War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Van Jackson succinctly explains the major issues facing U.S.-North Korea relations since the Korean Armistice Agreement. Eminently readable, On The Brink argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual... Read More
Derek Hird and Geng Song, “The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age” (Hong Kong UP, 2018)
Derek Hird and Geng Song, eds.
The Cosmopolitan Dream
Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
Hong Kong University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 15, 2019 Ed Pulford

China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years. But pressing questions over how understandings of gender – and particularly masculinity – have been changing amidst increasing mutual contact between China and the wider world have been asked less often. Derek Hird and Geng Song are among... Read More
Kathryn Lomas, “The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Kathryn Lomas
The Rise of Rome
From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 15, 2019 Ryan Tripp

By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. What transformed a humble city into the preeminent power of the region? In The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars (Harvard... Read More

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