New Books in National Security
Brian VanDeMark, “The Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent Into Vietnam” (Harper Collins, 2018)
Brian VanDeMark
The Road to Disaster
A New History of America’s Descent Into Vietnam
Harper Collins, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 9, 2018 Matthew Johnson

Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That... Read More
Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds” (Pluto Press, 2018)
Thomas Schmidinger
Rojava
Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds
Pluto Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 5, 2018 Jeff Bristol

Thomas Schmidinger‘s Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Pluto Press, 2018) is an exploration of the history and present of Syrian Kurdistan. It is an excellent introduction to a fraught topic, one drawn from extensive, first-hand ethnographic research. It presents multiple perspectives from both major and minor political... Read More
P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
LikeWar
The Weaponization of Social Media
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network October 2, 2018 Beth Windisch

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, outlines the history of social media platforms and their use in popular culture and modern conflict.  The authors make comparisons to previous technological advancements (such as telegraph and radio) and connect the use... Read More
Megan Black, “The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Megan Black
The Global Interior
Mineral Frontiers and American Power
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 2, 2018 Zeb Larson

Of all of the departments of the U.S. government you might expect to be implicated in the exercise of imperialism, the Department of the Interior might not be the first one that you would think of. Of course, Interior played a vital role in American empire, as a vehicle of... Read More
Samuel Helfont, “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Samuel Helfont
Compulsion in Religion
Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq
Oxford University Press, 2018

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 ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 1, 2018 James M. Dorsey

Samuel Helfont‘s Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2018) makes an invaluable contribution to an understanding of Iraqi strongman’s Saddam Hussein harnessing of Islam in support of his Baathist regime and ideology and to ensure that Islam as a social institution... Read More

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