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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, “How Democracies Die” (Crown, 2018)
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die

Crown, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 23, 2019 Democracy Works

Daniel Ziblatt has done a lot of interviews since the release of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018) the bestselling book he co-wrote with Steven Levitsky. But we asked him a question he’d never gotten before — about a line toward the end of the book when he refers to democracy as “grinding work.” The... Read More
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, “Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century: The Diverging Cases of China and Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Francesco Grillo and Raffaella Nanetti
Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century
The Diverging Cases of China and Italy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 22, 2019 Andrea Bernardi

Today I spoke with Francesco Grillo (co-authored with Raffaella Nanetti) about his latest book, Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century: The Diverging Cases of China and Italy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Despite the title, it is not strictly a book on China or Italy. It is a visionary contribution to... Read More
Jeremy Black, “The World at War, 1914-1945” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Jeremy Black
The World at War, 1914-1945

Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew 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 May 22, 2019 Charles Coutinho

In one of his latest books, The World at War, 1914-1945 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Professor of History at Exeter University, Jeremy Black, the most prolific historian in the Anglo-phone world, if not indeed on the entire planet, explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in... Read More
Sarah Miller-Davenport, “Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Sarah Miller-Davenport
Gateway State
Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Asian American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 21, 2019 Zeb Larson

One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political histories treat Hawaii’s statehood as a kind of historical inevitability, an event that was bound to pass the moment the kingdom was annexed. As I would... Read More
Kimberly Chong, “Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China” (Duke UP, 2018)
Kimberly Chong
Best Practice
Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 20, 2019 Dave O'Brien

What do management consultants do, and how do they do it? These two deceptively simple questions are at the centre of Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China (Duke University Press, 2018), the new book by Kimberly Chong, a lecturer in anthropology at University College London.... Read More
Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord, “Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership” (All Points Books, 2019)
Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord
Kissinger on Kissinger
Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership
All Points Books, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 14, 2019 Charles Coutinho

In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America’s senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension. With insights which are pertinent to the present and indeed the future. As National Security Advisor to President Richard... Read More