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November 11, 2025
War and Power
A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectru…
November 10, 2025
The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions
According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be …
October 17, 2025
How Progress Ends
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton UP, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that…
October 5, 2025
First Among Equals
A fresh, concise roadmap for U.S. grand strategy in a multipolar world For the past thirty years, post-Cold War triumphalism and a desire to reshape t…
September 28, 2025
Ordinary Rebels
In Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace (Oxford University Press, 2025), Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state tol…
September 17, 2025
New World New Rules
The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governa…
September 9, 2025
Pricing Lives
Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement (Oxford UP, 2023) discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing liv…
August 24, 2025
Securing Peace in Europe
This deeply researched book offers new perspective on the NATO-Russia relationship through the eyes of Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state for…
August 23, 2025
Embattled Europe
A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe Is the European Union in decline? Recent …
August 23, 2025
Ground Combat
Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War (Georgetown UP, 2025) reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenge…
August 21, 2025
Command of Commerce
Command of Commerce: America's Enduring Economic Power Advantage over China (Oxford UP, 2025) provides a systematic reevaluation of the balance of eco…
August 6, 2025
Tides of Fortune
An ambitious look at how the twentieth century's great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competit…
August 5, 2025
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at …
August 3, 2025
Untied Hands
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying their…
July 28, 2025
Human Costs of War
Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine (Taylor & Francis, 2024) documents and analyses the direct and indi…
July 16, 2025
Body Count
Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq (Bristol University Press, 2021), Lily Hamourtziadou’s investigation into civilian victims d…
July 3, 2025
Global Discord
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle? Can the international economic and legal system survive t…
July 1, 2025
The Sentinel State
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveil…
June 21, 2025
The Ethics of Remote Warfare
Can there be purely defensive or moral wars? In response to this question and others like it, this book offers unique insights into twenty-first-centu…
June 21, 2025
The Diplomacy of Détente
The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz (Routledge, 2020) investigates the underlying reasons for…
June 14, 2025
Between Voters and Eurocrats
How do governments in Europe justify their budgets towards the national parliament? Are their socioeconomic policies shaped more by electoral pressure…
June 7, 2025
NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing
Professor Brian Blankenship comes back to the New Books Network to talk about what his book, The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alli…