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Rachel M. Gillum, “Muslims in a Post-9/11 America” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Rachel M. Gillum
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America
A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy
University of Michigan Press, 2018

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Sociology September 23, 2020 Beth Windisch

Muslims in a Post-9/11 America (University of Michigan Press, 2018) examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues. While most research on Muslim Americans focuses on Arab Muslims, a quarter of the Muslim American... Read More
Victor McFarland, “Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Victor McFarland
Oil Powers
A History of the US-Saudi Alliance
Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & Society September 17, 2020 Dexter Fergie

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system. It binds the global hegemon to a region on the other side of the planet. And it has facilitated capitalist-led globalization. However, as both the US and and Saudi governments have tried... Read More
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nadine Strossen
Hate
Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in LawNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society September 16, 2020 Arya Hariharan

The updated paperback edition of Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press) dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about “hate speech vs. free speech,” showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. As “hate speech” has... Read More
Sean Roberts, “The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sean Roberts
The War on the Uyghurs
China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority
Princeton University Press, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast September 11, 2020 Shehnaz Haqqani

In today’s new episode, we speak with Sean Roberts about his brand new book The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press, 2020). Roberts is the Director of the International Development Studies program at George Washington University. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology... Read More
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, “America’s Other Muslims” (Lexington Books, 2020)
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim
America’s Other Muslims
Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam
Lexington Books, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith September 9, 2020 Beth Windisch

America’s Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim explores American Muslim Revivalist, Imam W.D. Mohammed (1933–2008) and his contribution to... Read More
Philip Nash, “Breaking Protocol: America’s First Female Ambassadors, 1933-1964” (UP of Kentucky, 2020)
Philip Nash
Breaking Protocol
America's First Female Ambassadors, 1933-1964
University of Kentucky Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 1, 2020 LaTreshia Hamilton and Beth Windisch

“It used to be,” soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright said in 1996, “that the only way a woman could truly make her foreign policy views felt was by marrying a diplomat and then pouring tea on an offending ambassador’s lap.” This world of US diplomacy excluded women for... Read More
Thomas A. Schwartz, “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography” (Hill and Wang, 2020)
Thomas A. Schwartz
Henry Kissinger and American Power
A Political Biography
Hill and Wang, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 26, 2020 Mark Klobas

Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America’s most consistently praised–and reviled–public figure. He was hailed as a “miracle worker” for his peacemaking in the Middle East, pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union, negotiation of an end to the Vietnam War, and secret plan to open the... Read More
Oumar Ba, “States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oumar Ba
States of Justice
The Politics of the International Criminal Court
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 26, 2020 Madina Thiam

States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020) theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests. Ultimately, the book contends that African states... Read More
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, “Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad” (Harvard UP, 2020)
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens
Incitement
Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith August 25, 2020 Beth Windisch

Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.” By the time he was killed by an American drone strike in 2011, he had become a spiritual leader for thousands of extremists, especially in the United States and Britain, where he aimed... Read More
Caron Gentry, “Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism” (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Caron Gentry
Disordered Violence
How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism
Edinburgh University Press, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 12, 2020 Beth Windisch

In Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Caron Gentry looks at how gender, race, and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. Gentry examines the profiles of 8 well-known terrorist actors. Gentry identifies the gendered,... Read More

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