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National Security
Interviews with scholars of national security about their new books.
August 2, 2026
A Post-Liberal Peace
In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising power…
July 29, 2026
Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives
The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the i…
July 28, 2026
The Greater Second World War
Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025) This ambitious edited collection …
July 27, 2026
Her Secret Service
Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contribu…
July 17, 2026
Fakers
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line (Oxford UP, 2026) reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks runn…
June 26, 2026
Imperfect Equilibrium
Why has Russia's military struggled to adapt to the challenges of contemporary warfare? Despite years of attempts to improve its military capabilities…
June 12, 2026
War at Arm's Length
An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries. Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale a…
May 27, 2026
The DGSE
France is a leading intelligence power, but we know very little about its premier intelligence agency: the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieur…
May 25, 2026
The Birth of Psychological War
Jeffrey Whyte's book The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2023) explo…
May 13, 2026
Retrench, Defend, Compete
In Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China (Cornell UP, 2025), Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking stra…
May 12, 2026
Reconceptualizing War
The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate d…
May 6, 2026
The Coming Storm
From a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid…
April 27, 2026
Kennedy’s Coup
Based on a decade of research and writing, enriched by eyewitness interviews and revealing documents obtained through dozens of freedom of information…
April 19, 2026
The Long War of Ideas
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the “second front” in the war on terror.…
April 18, 2026
Enemies in Agreement
Why do adversaries sometimes cooperate to restrain their military competition? Why do they design arms control agreements with intrusive verification …
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 …