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September 7, 2024
Revolutionary Warfare
The Algerian War of Independence constituted a major turning point of 20th century history. The conflict exacerbated divisions in French society, culm…
September 4, 2024
The American Surveillance State
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a…
September 3, 2024
Join the Conspiracy
In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Bigges…
September 3, 2024
Imperial Policing
Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to po…
August 29, 2024
Partitions
The practice of Partition understood as the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states is often regarded a…
August 28, 2024
Understanding Maritime Security
Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the South China Sea, the oceans are of increasing importance in international securi…
August 26, 2024
Disarming Apartheid
South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the …
August 25, 2024
One Belt One Road
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. …
August 25, 2024
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare (Cambridge UP, 2023) introduces a much-needed theory of tactica…
August 17, 2024
Rethinking Geopolitics
Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has change…
August 13, 2024
The Brink
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc Ambinder, is a history of US-Soviet Relations under Ro…
August 4, 2024
The Politics of Peace
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives. Pacifists in the…
August 2, 2024
Murder by Mail
Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of weap…
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…