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New Books in National Security
Elizabeth A. Stanley, “Widen the Window” (Avery Press, 2020)
Elizabeth A. Stanley
Widen the Window
Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma
Avery Press, 2020

New Books in National SecurityNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology May 27, 2020 Beth Windisch

Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. In Widen the... Read More
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink” (Columbia Global Reports, 2020)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Vigil
Hong Kong on the Brink
Columbia Global Reports, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 22, 2020 Susan Liebell

This podcast was recorded on May 21st, 2020 – the same day that the Chinese government proposed new national security laws that would give China greater control over Hong Kong. What motivates these laws and what is at stake for Hong Kong, China, and the rest of the world if... Read More
Toshihiro Higuchi, “Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Toshihiro Higuchi
Political Fallout
Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 20, 2020 Kenta Tsuda

In Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2020), Toshihiro Higuchi presents a history of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, by which the then-nuclear powers, US, USSR, and UK, agreed to cease, among other things, the atmospheric testing of nuclear... Read More
Courtney J. Fung, “China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Courtney J. Fung
China and Intervention at the UN Security Council
Reconciling Status
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 19, 2020 Susan P. Liebell

China is a veto-holding member of the UN Security Council yet Chinese officials have been skeptical of using the powers of the UN to pressure nations accused of human rights violations. The PRC has emphasized the norm of sovereignty and rejected external interference in its own internal affairs. Yet they... Read More
Richard Haass, “The World: A Brief Introduction” (Penguin, 2020)
Richard Haass
The World
A Brief Introduction
Penguin, 2020

New Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 18, 2020 Ian J. Drake

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and foreign policy advisor to four U.S. presidents, has written a primer on international relations in his new book The World: A Brief Introduction (Penguin, 2020). In this book Dr. Haass argues that there is no “Vegas rule” for events in... Read More
Andrew Monaghan, “Dealing with the Russians” (Polity, 2019)
Andrew Monaghan
Dealing with the Russians

Polity, 2019

New Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 13, 2020 Daniel Peris

Are the generals fighting the last war?  In Dealing with the Russians (Polity, 2019), Andrew Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century. One... Read More
Ibrahim Fraihat, “Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict” (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Ibrahim Fraihat
Iran and Saudi Arabia
Taming a Chaotic Conflict
Edinburgh University Press, 2020

New Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 5, 2020 James M. Dorsey

Ibrahim Fraihat’s latest book, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) is much more than an exploration of the history of animosity between Saudi Arabia and Iran and its debilitating impact on an already volatile Middle East. It is a detailed roadmap for management and... Read More
María Cristina García, “The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America” (Oxford UP, 2017)
María Cristina García
The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America

Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 30, 2020 David-James Gonzales

“Never again!” This was the rallying cry, seemingly universal and unanimous, among liberal nation-states as they formed the United Nations (UN) in 1945 and later signed the UN Declaration on Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. Emerging from the... Read More

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