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Interviews with scholars of national security 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 25, 2024
The Puppet Masters
In The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis (Mercier Press, 2024), David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of P…
July 24, 2024
Displaced Comrades
Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives o…
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
American Zealots
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori…
July 19, 2024
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an…
July 14, 2024
Tip of the Spear
In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues th…
July 11, 2024
The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings…
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.…
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 22, 2024
Germany and China
Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a groundbreaking book, of which the findings hav…
June 18, 2024
21st Century as the Pacific Century
With the ever-greater shift of the balance of global power towards the Pacific region, what does this have implications for the geopolitics of the reg…
June 17, 2024
China's Galaxy Empire
In China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century (Oxford University Press, 2024), authors Dr. John Keane and Dr. Ba…
June 12, 2024
Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union
In Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union (Brill Nijhoff, 2023) Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offers a…
June 11, 2024
Revealing Secrets
Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with…
June 9, 2024
Harmony and Normalization
Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba a…
June 2, 2024
The Allure of Battle
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could…
May 25, 2024
Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict
Russia's actions in and around Ukraine in 2014, as well as its activities in Syria and further afield, sparked renewed debate about the character …
May 22, 2024
Triumph Regained
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 (Encounter, 2023) is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam W…