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Interviews with authors of Georgetown University Press books.
The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompas…
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women a…
Covert action is generally understood as unacknowledged interference by one state in the affairs of another state or non-state actor to affect change.…
Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War (Georgetown UP, 2025) reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenge…
The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral characte…
The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War…
In this episode, Jorge Goldstein, the author of Patenting Life, delves into the critical junction where biotechnology meets patent law. With a backgro…
A deeply considered examination of the “common good” reconciling Catholic Social Thought with secular politics and philosophy. The Second Vatican C…
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law. Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, n…
The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected ev…
Over the course of our 60th anniversary in 2024, we'll be revisiting some classic Georgetown books. First up is Loyal Dissent by Charles E. Curran. …
Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era…
Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle’s edited collection Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries (University of Georgia Press, 2023), d…
Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how …
Today’s book is Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s First Capital (Georgetown UP, 2023), by Dr. Elizabeth Rule, which is the first and full…
This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility. History demonstrates that when the v…
In Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century (U Georgia Press, 2023), Melissa Este…
Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington…
Jessica Hendry Nelson, Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief (University of Georgia Press, 2023) is a compelling memoir in essays. When Nelson's fathe…
In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been r…