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Seth J. Frantzman, “After Isis: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East” (Gefen, 2019)
Seth J. Frantzman
After Isis
America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East
Gefen Publishing House, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in World Affairs September 20, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

The enterprise of journalism is in crisis. Today’s journalists face accusations of “fake news” on the one hand, and harassment, arrest, and even the murder of reporters on the other. At the same time, we who rely on journalists for information, are constantly bombarded by breaking news. Confronted by video... Read More
Charlie Laderman, “Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Charlie Laderman
Sharing the Burden
The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 18, 2019 Sarah Nelson

In Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2019), Charlie Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention. Beginning his story in the late 19th century Ottoman Empire, Dr. Laderman demonstrates how... Read More
Keir Giles, “Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West” (Chatham House, 2019)
Keir Giles
Moscow Rules
What Drives Russia to Confront the West
Chatham House, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in World Affairs September 3, 2019 Charles Coutinho

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian... Read More
Jay Sexton, “A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History” (Basic Books, 2018)
Jay Sexton
A Nation Forged by Crisis
A New American History
Basic Books, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 2, 2019 Dexter Fergie

A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress. Another is that the country’s history has been the self-realization of the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. Jay Sexton says these are wrong. In fact, in his... Read More
Michael Kodas, “Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Michael Kodas
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 23, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing. Scientists believe that we could see years with twenty million acres burned, an area larger than country of Ireland. Today I talked to Michael Kodas about the phenomenon... Read More
Belinda Stillion Southard, “How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World” (Penn State UP, 2018)
Belinda Stillion Southard
How to Belong
Women’s Agency in a Transnational World
Penn State University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 20, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo–interviews Dr. Belinda Stillion Southard (she/hers)–Assoc. Prof. of Communication at the University of Georgia–on the illuminating new book, How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World... Read More
Douglas Irwin, “Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Douglas A. Irwin
Clashing over Commerce
A History of US Trade Policy
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 20, 2019 Dexter Fergie

Scholars of US history have treated trade policy in less than enthusiastic ways. One economic historian described tariffs as “extraordinarily uninteresting things unless related to the political events which give them meaning.” While another historian said the tariff has caused “narcolepsy” among his colleagues. One piece of evidence of this... Read More