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Anthony L. Gardner, “Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Anthony L. Gardner
Stars with Stripes
The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 23, 2020 Tim Gwynn Jones

If the US is – in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – the “indispensible nation” then the economic, democratic and institutional alliance between the US and the EU is the “essential partnership”. So argues Tony Gardner, Barack Obama’s ambassador to the EU and advisor to Joe... Read More
Nadia Nurhussein, “Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nadia Nurhussein
Black Land
Imperial Ethiopianism and African America
Princeton University Press, 2019

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books NetworkPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast October 21, 2020 Sharika Crawford

In Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America (Princeton University Press, 2019), Nadia Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia. Widely celebrated as one of two African nations to resist European colonization in the age of modern imperialism, Ethiopia... Read More
Philip Cunliffe, “The New Twenty Years’ Crisis: A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020)
Philip Cunliffe
The New Twenty Years' Crisis
A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019
McGill-Queens University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs October 21, 2020 Mark Klobas

At the end of the 20th century, the liberal international order appeared unassailable after its triumph over the authoritarian challenges of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Twenty years later, however, the assumptions underlying the system appear discredited as international relations devolve into confrontation and conflict. In The New Twenty Years’ Crisis:... Read More
M. Pettis and M. C. Klein, “Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace” (Yale UP, 2020)
Michael Pettis and Matthew C. Klein
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
Yale University Press, 2020

Asian Review of BooksNBN Special SeriesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 21, 2020 Nicholas Gordon

Trade imbalances have long been a sticking point in international economics, most recently between the United States and China. The conversation about persistent trade imbalances tends to take on a moral dimension, whether praising German thrift, criticising American profligacy, or accusing China of nefarious behaviour. In Trade Wars Are Class... Read More
Chinua Thelwell, “Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond” (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Chinua Thelwell
Exporting Jim Crow
Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 20, 2020 Amanda Joyce Hall

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning... Read More
Barbara Keys, “The Ideal of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Barbara Keys
The Ideal of Global Sport
From Peace to Human Rights
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SportsNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 16, 2020 Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Barbara Keys, Professor of US and International History at Durham University, and author and editor of The Ideal of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Olympism’s moral claims, the nexus between... Read More
Alan Chong, “Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Alan Chong and Quang Min Pham
Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in Chinese StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 16, 2020 James M. Dorsey

Political scientists Alan Chong and Quang Min Pham bring with their edited volume, Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), originality as well as dimensions and perspectives to the discussion about the Belt and Road that are highly relevant but often either unrecognized or underemphasized. The book... Read More
Joan Scott, “On the Judgment of History” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Joan Scott
On the Judgment of History

Columbia University Press, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs October 15, 2020 Joshua Tham

Joan Scott’s groundbreaking work in gender and French history is essential reading for any aspiring historian. Indeed, she last joined us on New Books in French Studies to talk about her 2017 book Sex and Secularism. But her latest work, On the Judgment of History (Columbia UP, 2020), is a... Read More
Mira L. Siegelberg, “Statelessness: A Modern History” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Mira L. Siegelberg
Statelessness
A Modern History
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 12, 2020 Steven P. Rodriguez

In her book, Statelessness: A Modern History (Harvard University Press, 2020), Mira L. Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars. At its core, this thoughtful monograph is an intellectual history of an idea that jurists in the United... Read More
Christopher Capozzola, “Bound By War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century” (Basic Books, 2020)
Christopher Capozzola
Bound By War
How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century
Basic Books, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 6, 2020 Holger Droessler

Ever since American troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the U.S. armed forces. In Bound By War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century (Basic Books, 2020), historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war... Read More

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