New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/20/2025
2. Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/19/2025
3. Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

   Published: 3/18/2025
4. Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/17/2025
5. Tycho van der Hoog, "Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa" (Hurst, 2025)

   Published: 3/16/2025
6. Fractured Alliances: Trump, Ukraine, and Europe's Security Dilemma

   Published: 3/15/2025
7. Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/12/2025
8. Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game

   Published: 3/10/2025
9. Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)

   Published: 3/8/2025
10. Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/8/2025
11. Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/6/2025
12. John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/4/2025
13. Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/1/2025
14. Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024)

    Published: 2/27/2025
15. Doina Anca Cretu, "Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/26/2025
16. Philip A. Martin, "Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/26/2025
17. Marion Laurence, "Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/24/2025
18. Elsa Stamatopoulou, "Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 2/23/2025
19. TrumpWorld: Canada, South Africa, Germany, and the Global Far-Right

    Published: 2/22/2025
20. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/19/2025