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New Books in World Affairs

 New Books Network

Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books

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1951
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2008 - 2025
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Luuk van Middelaar, “The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union” (Yale UP, 2013)

Luuk van Middelaar, “The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union” (Yale UP, 2013)

At the end of the 20th century, it looked like history was being made. After a century that had seen Europe dissolve into an orgy of bloody conflict not once but twice, the continent seemed to have c…
00:46:43  |   Fri 28 Jun 2013
Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)

Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)

It’s getting warmer, there ain’t no doubt about it. What are we going to do? Most folks say we should cut back on bad things like carbon emissions. That would probably be a good idea. The trouble is …
00:34:05  |   Thu 20 Jun 2013
Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

It’s a classic historical question: Why the West and not the Rest? Answers abound. So is there anything new to say about it? According to Prasannan Parthasarathi, there certainly is. He doesn’t go …
00:58:29  |   Fri 07 Jun 2013
Martin A. Miller, “The Foundations of Modern Terrorism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

Martin A. Miller, “The Foundations of Modern Terrorism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

Terrorism seems like the kind of thing that has existed since the beginning of states some 5,000 years ago. Understood in one, narrow way–as what we call “insurgency”–it probably has. But modern terr…
01:06:46  |   Fri 31 May 2013
Christian Caryl, “Strange Rebels:1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” (Basic, 2013)

Christian Caryl, “Strange Rebels:1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” (Basic, 2013)

What do Margaret Thatcher, Ayatollah Khomeini, Deng Xiaoping, and Pope John Paul II have in common? At first thought, you wouldn’t think much. But according to Christian Caryl, they were all radical…
00:56:48  |   Mon 20 May 2013
James Q. Whitman, “The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War” (Harvard UP, 2012)

James Q. Whitman, “The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War” (Harvard UP, 2012)

James Whitman wants to revise our understanding of warfare during the eighteenth century, the period described by my late colleague and friend Russell Weigley as the “Age of Battles.” We commonly vie…
00:42:14  |   Mon 29 Apr 2013
Muzammil Hussain and Phillip Howard, “Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring” (Oxford UP 2013)

Muzammil Hussain and Phillip Howard, “Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring” (Oxford UP 2013)

Muzammil Hussain and Phillip Howard have authored Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring (Oxford University Press, 2013) which explores the role social media (Twitter, Facebook, a…
00:25:36  |   Fri 26 Apr 2013
Azar Gat, “Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

Azar Gat, “Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

When I went to college long ago, everyone had to read Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto (1848). I think I read it in half-a-dozen classes. Today Marx is out. Benedict Anderson, however, is in. You…
00:53:13  |   Tue 09 Apr 2013
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “American Umpire” (Harvard UP, 2013)

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “American Umpire” (Harvard UP, 2013)

Is there an “American Empire?” A lot of people on the Left say “yes.” Actually, a lot of people on the Right say “yes” too. But Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman says “no.” In her stimulating new treatment of…
00:55:56  |   Tue 12 Mar 2013
Arend Lijphart, “Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries” (Yale UP, 2012)

Arend Lijphart, “Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries” (Yale UP, 2012)

Arend Lijphart is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the American …
00:58:59  |   Fri 08 Mar 2013
Eliga Gould, “Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire” (Harvard UP, 2012)

Eliga Gould, “Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire” (Harvard UP, 2012)

Many Americans tend to think of 1776 as the year when the United States began making history on its own terms. That is simply untrue. Building on recent scholarship that challenges this assumption is…
00:47:00  |   Fri 21 Dec 2012
Keri E. Iyall Smith, “Sociology of Globalization: Cultures, Economies, and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)

Keri E. Iyall Smith, “Sociology of Globalization: Cultures, Economies, and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)

Globalization is one of those words we hear on an almost daily basis. The world today is interconnected in ways that would have been unimaginable even twenty years ago. It seems as if everyone knows …
00:32:20  |   Fri 30 Nov 2012
Rachel Kleinfeld and Drew Sloan, “Let There Be Light: Electrifying the Developing World With Markets and Distributed Energy” (Truman Institute, 2012)

Rachel Kleinfeld and Drew Sloan, “Let There Be Light: Electrifying the Developing World With Markets and Distributed Energy” (Truman Institute, 2012)

You wouldn’t know from the 2012 president race but the United States remains engaged in a fairly bloody conflict in Afghanistan. In addition to boots on the ground, we deploy scores of drones in Paki…
00:51:15  |   Mon 26 Nov 2012
Christian Gerlach, “Extremely Violent Societies in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2010)

Christian Gerlach, “Extremely Violent Societies in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2010)

What if genocide scholars have been approaching the field the wrong way? When I first opened Extremely Violent Societies in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2010), I was immediate…
01:11:16  |   Sat 13 Oct 2012
Nicole Hassoun, “Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

Nicole Hassoun, “Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

Citizens of well-developed liberal democracies enjoy an unprecedented standard of living, while a staggering number of people worldwide live in unbelievable poverty. It seems obvious that the well-of…
00:52:32  |   Tue 02 Oct 2012
Clifford Bob, “The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

Clifford Bob, “The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

Clifford Bob is the author of the new book The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (Cambridge University Press 2012). Bob is an associate professor of political science at Duquesne Univ…
00:39:18  |   Wed 15 Aug 2012
Minkah Makalani, “In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939” (UNC Press, 2011)

Minkah Makalani, “In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939” (UNC Press, 2011)

Minkah Makalani is the author of a new intellectual history on the efforts of early twentieth century black radicals to organize an international movement, one that would address both racial and clas…
01:07:02  |   Wed 15 Aug 2012
The NBS Summer Seminar: Understanding the Olympic Games

The NBS Summer Seminar: Understanding the Olympic Games

The 2012 London Olympics are here.  To mark the event, New Books in Sports offers another of its occasional seminar episodes.  And as with any great seminar, you’ll be eager to tell people what you’v…
02:26:15  |   Thu 26 Jul 2012
Timothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)

Timothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)

Two days before this year’s Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich, the top two women’s clubs in Europe played on the same pitch, at Munich’s Olympic Stadium, in the final match of …
00:54:25  |   Fri 22 Jun 2012
Jessica Teisch, “Engineering Nature: Water Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise” (UNC Press, 2011)

Jessica Teisch, “Engineering Nature: Water Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise” (UNC Press, 2011)

Jessica Teisch‘s new book Engineering Nature: Water Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) examines the ways that Californian…
00:34:26  |   Fri 15 Jun 2012
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