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August 17, 2022
Global Taiwanese
Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World
Fiona Moore
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Li-Ping Chen
In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along …
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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
August 16, 2022
The Future of Net Zero
A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
Eric Lonergan and Corrine Sawyers
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Owen Bennett-Jones
There is no shortage of words written about climate change and the goal of reaching net zero - but there is a shortage of practical suggestions about to get to …
General History
August 16, 2022
Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965
Eva-Maria Muschik
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Miranda Melcher
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the …
Japanese Studies
August 15, 2022
Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises
Anoma Van Der Veere, Florian Schneider, and Catherine Lo
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Jingyi Li
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the …
Political Science
August 15, 2022
The Revenge of Power
How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
Moisés Naím
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Caleb Zakarin
Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century (St. Martin's Press, 2022) is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It …
General History
August 12, 2022
Disgrace
Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Joanna Bourke
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Jana Byars
Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence--what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (Reaktion, 2022) is the first …
General History
August 12, 2022
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy Black
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Charles Coutinho
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In A Brief History of the Atlantic (Robinson, 2022), Jeremy …
Environmental Studies
August 10, 2022
The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke
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Brady McCartney
The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas …
Politics & Polemics
August 10, 2022
Paths of Dissent
Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen
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Caleb Zakarin
Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and retired army officer Danny A. Sjursen, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2022) collects provocative …
Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
August 9, 2022
The Future of Political Anger
A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth
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Owen Bennett-Jones
Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger at being left behind, anger …
Diplomatic History
August 8, 2022
China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China During the Cold War
Ariane Knüsel
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Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 5, 2022
Oil, the State, and War
The Foreign Policies of Petrostates
Emma Ashford
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Miranda Melcher
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022) by Dr. Emma Ashford presents a comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil …
General History
August 5, 2022
Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975
Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia
Nicholas Ferns
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Bernard Keo
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of development since the end of World War II, much of the focus lies on the …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 3, 2022
Second-Generation Liberation Wars
Yaniv Voller
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Dilan Okcuoglu
The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, In Second-Generation Liberation Wars Cambridge UP, 2022),Yaniv …
Latin American Studies
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin
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Steven Rodriguez
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together articles that reconsider many aspects of U.S.-Latin American history. Pan-Americanism …
East Asian Studies
August 2, 2022
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
North Korea and the Third World
Benjamin R. Young
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Miranda Melcher
Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era …
Nordic Asia Podcast
August 1, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
A Discussion with Sean King
Sean King
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Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Is a Chinese invasion on Taiwan a storm on the horizon when the West is busy with the Ukrainian war? Will Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan in August, the …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
August 1, 2022
Earthopolis
A Biography of Our Urban Planet
Carl H. Nightingale
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Mark Klobas
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for …
Philosophy
August 1, 2022
Spying Through a Glass Darkly
The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence
Cécile Fabre
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Robert Talisse
On its face, spying and counter-intelligence activities seem morally suspect. They tend to involve sneaking, deceiving, and manipulating, as well as various forms of betrayal, treachery, and disloyalty. Yet intelligence …
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