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National Security
Interviews with scholars of national security about their new books.
March 31, 2026
Sustaining Peace After Civil War
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: What …
March 29, 2026
The Church Committee Report
Fifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The C…
March 25, 2026
NATO Stability Policing
Since the end of the Cold War and the resurgence of great power competition on the world stage, NATO has been in a period of transition to adapting to…
March 22, 2026
The Political Economy of Security
In his new book, The Political Economy of Security (Princeton University Press, 2026), Stephen Brooks provides a systematic empirical and theoretical …
March 21, 2026
After Fission
Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After …
March 1, 2026
The Second Cold War
Towards the end of the Cold War, the last great struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union marked the end of détente, and escalated into …
February 14, 2026
Multidomain Operations
In Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century (Howgate Publishing Limited, 2026), Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady…
February 11, 2026
Alias Agnes
Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime c…
February 11, 2026
World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Off…
February 8, 2026
Prioritizing Faith
The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 formally established the promotion of religious freedom as a U.S. foreign policy and national security…
February 7, 2026
Age of Deception
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lindsay…
February 3, 2026
Redacted
When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles…
January 22, 2026
The Revolutionists
Jason Burke's The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Knopf, 2026) is an epic, authoritative, gripping account of the …
December 26, 2025
The Challenges of Democracy
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypas…
December 25, 2025
KGB Literati
KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious a…
December 24, 2025
The Iraq Wars
American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003,…
December 19, 2025
The Remote Revolution
In The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell UP, 2025), Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of internatio…
December 12, 2025
Marvel, DC and US Security
Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Edinburgh UP, 2025) by Dr. Julian Schmid considers how…
December 9, 2025
Covert Action
Covert action is generally understood as unacknowledged interference by one state in the affairs of another state or non-state actor to affect change.…
November 25, 2025
Securitizing the Sahel
The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) t…