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World Affairs
Interviews with scholars of World Affairs about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Beyond Ukraine
War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford Univers…
July 26, 2024
The Concept of Citizenship in International Law
Several trends justify why it is worth analysing the concept of citizenship in international law. On the one hand, human mobility enhanced in the last…
July 24, 2024
Nothing But Nets
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria contr…
July 23, 2024
Autocracy, Inc.
"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that a…
July 21, 2024
To Turn the Whole World Over
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, th…
July 21, 2024
Capitalist Humanitarianism
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the …
July 17, 2024
The Revolutionary City
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Prin…
July 15, 2024
Sino-Pacific Relations
The 2024 Solomon Islands elections were surprisingly peaceful. The deepening economic inequalities, widespread corruption, rogue demagogues manipulati…
July 14, 2024
Second World, Second Sex
Last week, I had the privilege to talk with Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee about her most recent book Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and…
July 13, 2024
Frenemies
Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing …
July 11, 2024
The Story of Southeast Asia
Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political st…
July 9, 2024
Human Capital
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced…
July 8, 2024
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique
Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace proce…
July 6, 2024
World on the Brink
In his book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century (PublicAffairs, 2024), Dmitri Alperovitch (with Garrett M.…
July 3, 2024
Growth
Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History and…
July 3, 2024
Creatures of Fashion
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, …
June 29, 2024
Colonial Paradigms of Violence
In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" – the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soi…
June 25, 2024
Purpose and Power
In our interview, I spoke with Donald Stoker about the changes in American grand strategy over the past 250 years and the major themes from his new …
June 23, 2024
Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations
Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations: From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War (Routledge, 2024) presents a comprehensive narrat…
June 22, 2024
The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market
In The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market. Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 (Cambridge University Pr…