New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)

   Published: 4/23/2025
2. Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/22/2025
3. China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West

   Published: 4/18/2025
4. Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/9/2025
5. Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/8/2025
6. Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)

   Published: 4/7/2025
7. Matthew D'Auria et al., "The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/7/2025
8. Lavanya Vemsani, "Reframing India in World History" (Lexington Books, 2024)

   Published: 4/6/2025
9. Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)

   Published: 4/5/2025
10. Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 4/4/2025
11. Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck

    Published: 4/3/2025
12. Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine

    Published: 4/2/2025
13. Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 4/1/2025
14. Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics

    Published: 3/31/2025
15. Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/30/2025
16. Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/29/2025
17. Jim Storr, "War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2025)

    Published: 3/25/2025
18. Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 3/23/2025
19. Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/22/2025
20. Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 3/21/2025