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Marshall Poe
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Constant Willem Hijzen, "Roots of Counterterrorism: Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 10 • 1h 7m
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 9 • 1h 4m
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 9 • 49m
NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship
Jun 7 • 47m
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jun 5 • 1h 15m
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 30 • 56m
Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
May 28 • 42m
William F. Owen, "Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today" (Howgate Publishing, 2024)
May 22 • 1h 44m
Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
May 19 • 1h 16m
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 18 • 54m
Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 13 • 48m
Alex Storozynski, "Spies In My Blood: A Polish Family’s Secret Fight Against Nazis & Communists" (Polestar-Media, 2025)
May 11 • 51m
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
May 8 • 54m
Joanna Siekiera, "Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in 21st Century Conflicts and Beyond" (Marine Corps UP, 2025)
May 5 • 1h 16m
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
May 4 • 47m
Shaun Walker, "The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West" (Knopf, 2025)
Apr 29 • 1h 0m
Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 23 • 1h 11m
Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 20 • 1h 5m
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
Apr 7 • 1h 36m
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 4 • 1h 9m
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Mar 30 • 44m
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Mar 29 • 40m
Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
Mar 23 • 1h 51m
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 22 • 1h 6m
Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Mar 18 • 1h 34m
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 28 • 46m
Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Feb 17 • 1h 8m
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 8 • 1h 8m
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 11 • 46m
Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 9 • 57m
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
Jan 8 • 55m
Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jan 2 • 45m
Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024)
Dec 31, 2024 • 55m
Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
Dec 13, 2024 • 58m
Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 12m
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 17m
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024 • 1h 7m
Youcef Soufi, "Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World" (NYU Press, 2025)
Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 23m
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)
Nov 15, 2024 • 1h 11m
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
Nov 9, 2024 • 47m
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
Nov 9, 2024 • 47m
Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 20m
Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024 • 42m
Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 22, 2024 • 54m
Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
Oct 20, 2024 • 1h 1m
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 1h 2m
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
Oct 9, 2024 • 59m
Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 31m
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 9m
Andreas E. Feldmann, "Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024 • 42m
Felia Allum, "Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024 • 53m
Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Sep 19, 2024 • 52m
Seth J. Frantzman, "The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza" (Wicked Son, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024 • 39m
Greg Eghigian, "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 11, 2024 • 1h 1m
Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Sep 7, 2024 • 49m
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Sep 4, 2024 • 56m
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Sep 3, 2024 • 1h 18m
Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Sep 3, 2024 • 45m
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Aug 29, 2024 • 52m
Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds, "Understanding Maritime Security" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 28, 2024 • 40m
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Aug 26, 2024 • 1h 8m
Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Aug 26, 2024 • 45m
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2024 • 43m
Jeremy Black, "Rethinking Geopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Aug 17, 2024 • 41m
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 4, 2024 • 57m
Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Aug 2, 2024 • 42m
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 14m
David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)
Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 13m
Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 24, 2024 • 40m
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 45m
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jul 19, 2024 • 52m
Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 14, 2024 • 49m
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jul 11, 2024 • 49m
Miranda Melcher, "Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 17m
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Jul 6, 2024 • 48m
Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024 • 46m
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024 • 59m
Joanna Siekiera, "21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition" (Warsaw UP, 2023)
Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 20m
John Keane and Baogang He, "China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 17, 2024 • 1h 8m
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
Jun 12, 2024 • 37m
John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 6m
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jun 9, 2024 • 59m
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 2, 2024 • 1h 17m
Tracey German, "Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict" (Cambria Press, 2023)
May 25, 2024 • 1h 29m
Mark Moyar, "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968" (Encounter, 2023)
May 22, 2024 • 23m
Stuart A. Reid, "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" (Knopf, 2023)
May 19, 2024 • 50m
Marc McMenamin, "Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the Lost Tapes that Reveal The Hunt for Ireland's Nazi Spies" (Gill Books, 2022)
May 17, 2024 • 1h 18m
Lisa Langdon Koch, "Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 16, 2024 • 48m
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024 • 47m
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
May 13, 2024 • 30m
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 5, 2024 • 46m
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024 • 53m
David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)
Apr 12, 2024 • 34m
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
Apr 11, 2024 • 30m
Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)
Apr 7, 2024 • 1h 6m
Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 35m
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 26, 2024 • 34m
Michael Poulshock, "Power Structures in International Politics" (Low 8, 2023)
Mar 5, 2024 • 45m
Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024 • 34m
The Future of the Chinese Military: A Discussion with James A. Siebens
Feb 23, 2024 • 39m
How to Stage a Coup and Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
Feb 14, 2024 • 31m
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Feb 11, 2024 • 53m
Florence Mok, "Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c.1966-97" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 1h 3m
Wendy Cheng, "Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 54m
John Horgan, "Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right" ( Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 • 36m
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
J. Overton, "Seapower by Other Means: Naval Contributions to National Objectives Beyond Sea Control, Power Projection, and Traditional Service Missions" (Nomos, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024 • 46m
Curtis Fox, "Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict" (30 Press Publishing, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024 • 1h 31m
Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Jan 28, 2024 • 44m
Paddy Walker and Peter Roberts, "War's Changed Landscape?: A Primer on Conflict's Forms and Norms" (Howgate, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024 • 1h 30m
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024 • 40m
Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
Jan 14, 2024 • 36m
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024 • 58m
Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 12m
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 3, 2024 • 56m
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 23m
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 1m
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
Dec 26, 2023 • 45m
Ilkay Yilmaz, "Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 55m
Huw Bennett, "Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023 • 26m
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 15, 2023 • 1h 6m
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 14, 2023 • 1h 21m
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023 • 51m
Robert B. Rakove, "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 21m
Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 2m
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 16m
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 2m
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 8m
Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2023 • 1h 3m
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 21, 2023 • 42m
The Future of World Disorder: A Discussion with Peter R. Neumann
Nov 14, 2023 • 36m
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
Nov 9, 2023 • 49m
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Nov 8, 2023 • 58m
Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)
Nov 7, 2023 • 51m
Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
Nov 6, 2023 • 34m
Peter Layton, "Grand Strategy" (2018)
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 23m
Eleonora Mattiacci, "Volatile States in International Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 3, 2023 • 45m
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023 • 1h 5m
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023 • 55m
The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
Oct 16, 2023 • 19m
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023 • 37m
Erik R. Scott, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023 • 49m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 3, 2023 • 37m
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 2m
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Aug 25, 2023 • 54m
Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)
Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 5m
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
Aug 12, 2023 • 52m
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023 • 1h 8m
Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023 • 49m
Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023 • 41m
Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
Jul 23, 2023 • 35m
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 27m
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 4m
Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023 • 38m
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 19m
Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 3m
M. Todd Bennett, "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 25m
Daniel E Agbiboa, "Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Jun 17, 2023 • 51m
Susan McCall Perlman, "Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 14m
Michael Magcamit, "Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2023 • 38m
Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 14, 2023 • 43m
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
Jun 13, 2023 • 55m
R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023 • 34m
Lawrence Freedman, "Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 8, 2023 • 47m
Tobias Ide, "Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 7, 2023 • 54m
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Jun 6, 2023 • 1h 1m
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 19, 2023 • 1h 4m
Thom Shanker and Andrew Hoehn, "Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats" (Hachette Books, 2023)
May 17, 2023 • 1h 1m
China and the New Cold War: A Conversation with Matt Pottinger
May 16, 2023 • 37m
Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023 • 1h 1m
The Future of Guantanamo: A Discussion with James Connell
May 8, 2023 • 40m
Philip Clayton Shackelford, "Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
May 7, 2023 • 46m
Graveyard of Empires: A Conversation with Ambassador Nathan Sales
May 4, 2023 • 39m
Hostage Affairs and the Great Books: A Conversation with Roger Carstens
May 3, 2023 • 40m
Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 2, 2023 • 1h 1m
Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 1, 2023 • 1h 4m
Deborah Bauer, "Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
May 1, 2023 • 1h 40m
B. A. Friedman, "On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
Apr 28, 2023 • 40m
Zoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 18, 2023 • 52m
Andrew Long, "Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain" (Pen and Sword History, 2022)
Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 29m
Susan Allen and Amy Yuen, "Bargaining in the UN Security Council: Setting the Global Agenda" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023 • 38m
Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies
Mar 22, 2023 • 26m
Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)
Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 7m
Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 17, 2023 • 47m
Susan Colbourn, "Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2023 • 1h 13m
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 21m
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023 • 54m
Mark Juergensmeyer, "When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 5m
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023 • 1h 28m
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Feb 18, 2023 • 31m
The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
Jan 28, 2023 • 50m
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023 • 42m
Lior Lehrs, "Unofficial Peace Diplomacy: Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 8, 2023 • 49m
Sebastian Elischer, "Salafism and Political Order in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 4, 2023 • 1h 5m
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Dec 24, 2022 • 55m
The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman
Dec 17, 2022 • 44m
Rohan Mukherjee, "Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022 • 52m
John Delury, "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Dec 4, 2022 • 1h 9m
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 18m
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 7m
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 49m
What will be the Role of Europe in the Changing World Order?
Nov 29, 2022 • 35m
Dalibor Roháč, "Governing the EU in an Age of Division" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022 • 50m
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 54m
Michael A. Hunzeker, "Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022 • 34m
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2022 • 33m
Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 46m
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 4m
David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 31m
Shaken and Stirred
Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 28m
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
Oct 18, 2022 • 48m
Deniz Yonucu, "Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022 • 48m
The Future of the Taliban: A Discussion with Ahmed Rashid
Oct 11, 2022 • 35m
Ofer Fridman, "Russian 'Hybrid Warfare': Resurgence and Politicization" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 2m
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 53m
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files" (CUA Press, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022 • 57m
Sibel Oktay, "Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022 • 42m
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 8m
Michael R. Gordon, "Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 4m
The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan
Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 1m
John M. Curatola, "Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security" (US Naval Institute Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022 • 24m
The Future of American Decline: A Conversation with Jed Esty
Sep 13, 2022 • 55m
Chinese Outbound Tourism: Leisure or Political Tool?
Sep 9, 2022 • 24m
Michael O'Hanlon, "The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint" (Yale UP, 2021)
Sep 7, 2022 • 54m
Tommi Koivula and Heljä Ossa, "NATO’s Burden-Sharing Disputes: Past, Present and Future Prospects" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Sep 1, 2022 • 35m
Moisés Naím, "The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022 • 23m
Emma Ashford, "Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Aug 5, 2022 • 39m
Cécile Fabre, "Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 1, 2022 • 1h 5m
Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022 • 33m
The Future of Al Qaeda: A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud
Jul 26, 2022 • 50m
Kathryn E. Stoner, "Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 26, 2022 • 33m
The Bland Corporation: On the RAND Corporation and the Defence-Intellectual Industrial Complex
Jul 25, 2022 • 44m
The Future of War: A Discussion with Mark Galeotti
Jul 19, 2022 • 48m
Sergei Zhuk, "KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022 • 58m
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2022 • 1h 6m
Willem Bart de Lint, "Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics" (Springer, 2022)
Jul 15, 2022 • 57m
Lucia M. Rafanelli, "Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 7, 2022 • 41m
Sheila A. Smith, "Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 7, 2022 • 1h 14m
Anna Sergi et al., "Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World" (Bristol UP, 2021)
Jul 1, 2022 • 55m
Roberto J. González, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022)
Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 3m
Carla Power, "Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism" (One World, 2021)
Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 6m
Sophie Haspeslagh, "Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Jun 27, 2022 • 58m
Christopher Blattman, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace" (Viking, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022 • 49m
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 • 57m
Andrew Monaghan, "Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 11m
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
Jun 17, 2022 • 24m
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022 • 56m
Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 6m
David P. Oakley, "Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship" (UP of Kentucky Press, 2019)
Jun 14, 2022 • 54m
Gian Maria Campedelli, "Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022 • 44m
Ralph Hope, "The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present" (Oneworld, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022 • 55m
Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 9, 2022 • 51m
Andrew Bickford, "Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 2m
Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, "Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 17m
Mario Daniels and John Krige, "Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 1, 2022 • 1h 23m
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World" (Oneworld, 2021)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 10m
Peter Mandaville, "Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 25, 2022 • 1h 7m
Andrew D. Morris, "Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)
May 20, 2022 • 1h 17m
Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
May 12, 2022 • 50m
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 2, 2022 • 45m
Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil, "Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 9m
Ramadan Violence: A Conversation with Ambassador Dore Gold
Apr 27, 2022 • 32m
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 0m
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Apr 22, 2022 • 33m
David H. Ucko, "The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 20, 2022 • 1h 20m
Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)
Apr 7, 2022 • 40m
Schengen Borders and Multiple National States of Emergency: From Refugees to Terrorism to COVID-19
Apr 6, 2022 • 31m
The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula: Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea
Mar 28, 2022 • 26m
Jonathan M. Katz, "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 31m
Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Mar 22, 2022 • 39m
The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
Mar 22, 2022 • 48m
Molly M. Melin, "The Building and Breaking of Peace: Corporate Activities in Civil War Prevention and Resolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022 • 41m
Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
Mar 17, 2022 • 54m
Carter R. Johnson, "Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 15, 2022 • 50m
Togzhan Kassenova, "Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2022 • 35m
Erica de De Bruin, "How to Prevent Coups D'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Mar 7, 2022 • 56m
Robert K. Sutton, "Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II" (Casemate, 2022)
Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 4m
Nicholas Mulder, "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 8m
Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
Feb 11, 2022 • 1h 5m
Alexander Lanoszka, "Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Feb 10, 2022 • 44m
Daniel Finn, "One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA" (Verso, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022 • 2h 24m
Nathaniel L. Moir, "Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 8, 2022 • 45m
Omar Ashour, "How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 2m
Jeremy Black, "A Short History of War" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022 • 45m
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, "Quagmire in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 19, 2022 • 46m
Cheng Li, "Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement" (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)
Jan 6, 2022 • 59m
Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021 • 1h 6m
Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 4m
Andrew Gilbert, "International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 10m
Jason Lyall, "Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021 • 54m
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021 • 59m
James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)
Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 5m
Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico, "Risk: A User's Guide" (Portfolio, 2021)
Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 0m
Nicole Nguyen, "Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Dec 3, 2021 • 51m
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 9m
Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis, "2034: A Novel of the Next World War" (Penguin, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021 • 35m
Herbert Lin, "Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021 • 55m
Vlad Solomon, "State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914" (Boydell Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021 • 55m
Samuel Moyn, "Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War" (FSG, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021 • 1h 2m
Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021 • 41m
Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 19, 2021 • 58m
Cecelia Lynch, "Interpreting International Politics" (Routledge, 2014)
Oct 14, 2021 • 50m
Teun Voeten, "Mexican Drug Violence: Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty" (2020)
Oct 8, 2021 • 42m
Jo-Marie Burt, "Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru: Silencing Civil Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 7m
Jytte Klausen, "Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021 • 1h 4m
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, "The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen" (Columbia Global Reports, 2015)
Sep 10, 2021 • 53m
Karen Gram-Skjoldager et al., "Organizing the 20th-Century World: International Organizations and the Emergence of International Public Administration, 1920-1960s" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 30, 2021 • 1h 0m
Mark P. Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak, "Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021 • 52m
Stephen Biddle, "Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Aug 27, 2021 • 1h 20m
Aaron Y. Zelin, "Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Aug 27, 2021 • 1h 4m
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 25, 2021 • 57m
Rebecca Hamlin, "Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 8m
Amy J. Rutenberg, "Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Aug 18, 2021 • 55m
Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 9, 2021 • 2h 56m
Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 3, 2021 • 1h 8m
Ruth Streicher, "Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Aug 2, 2021 • 37m
Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko, "Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon" (Redwood Press, 2021)
Jul 26, 2021 • 53m
Phillip T. Lohaus, "Power and Complacency: American Survival in an Age of International Competition" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2021 • 43m
Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 5m
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 12m
William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021 • 1h 16m
Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021 • 49m
Susan Eisenhower, "How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
Jul 5, 2021 • 1h 23m
Chandran Kukathas, "Immigration and Freedom" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 1, 2021 • 1h 5m
Marco Checchi, "The Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021 • 41m
Philip Zelikow, "The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
Jun 24, 2021 • 36m
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021 • 1h 16m
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 1m
Andrei P. Tsygankov, "Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry" (Polity, 2019)
Jun 14, 2021 • 46m
Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, "Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 7, 2021 • 53m
Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)
Jun 7, 2021 • 42m
Jeremy Black, "To Lose an Empire: British Strategy and Foreign Policy, 1758-90" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 2, 2021 • 44m
Joel Alden Schlosser, "Herodotus in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
May 27, 2021 • 53m
Alex Wellerstein, "Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 24, 2021 • 1h 1m
Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 21, 2021 • 54m
Joseph McQuade, "A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 19, 2021 • 1h 17m
Philippe Bourbeau, "On Resilience: Genealogy, Logics, and World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 18, 2021 • 44m
Sten Rynniing et al., "War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power" (Chatham House, 2020)
May 17, 2021 • 1h 3m
How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey
May 17, 2021 • 34m
A. Dirk Moses, "The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 14, 2021 • 1h 13m
Jacqueline L. Hazelton, "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 13, 2021 • 49m
Ora Szekely, et al., "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
May 7, 2021 • 43m
Odd Arne Westad, "Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 7, 2021 • 41m
Erik Jones, "European Studies: Past, Present, and Future" (Agenda, 2020)
May 7, 2021 • 44m
Matthew K. Shannon, "Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2017)
May 6, 2021 • 46m
Séverine Autesserre, "The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 6, 2021 • 59m
Shivshankar Menon, "India and Asian Geopolitics" (Brookings, 2021)
May 3, 2021 • 1h 4m
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 28, 2021 • 1h 12m
Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021 • 56m
John Ferris, "Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Apr 28, 2021 • 1h 16m
Brent D. Ziarnick, "To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
Apr 27, 2021 • 1h 28m
Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021 • 50m
Terri E. Givens, "Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 22, 2021 • 42m
Graham Smith, "Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?" (Polity, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021 • 49m
Stefano Marcuzzi, "Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War: Defending and Forging Empires" (Cambridge UP, 2020).
Apr 14, 2021 • 1h 1m
Allison B. Wolf, "Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 15m
Anne Searcy, "Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 9, 2021 • 1h 6m
Christopher R. Dietrich, "A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present" (John Wiley & Sons, 2020)
Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 10m
Richard Pomfret, "The Road to Monetary Union" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 7, 2021 • 34m
Nicola Pratt, "Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 7, 2021 • 1h 7m
Thomas David Parker, "Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism" (World Scientific, 2019)
Apr 2, 2021 • 59m
Lindsay Thomas, "Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 2, 2021 • 58m
Elisabeth Piller, "Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933" (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021 • 59m
Michael Kluger and Richard Evans, "Roosevelt's and Churchill's Atlantic Charter: A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy" (Naval Institute Press, 2021)
Mar 24, 2021 • 41m
Elizabeth Thompson, "How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)
Mar 23, 2021 • 1h 1m
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, "Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 0m
K. Forkert et al, "How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Mar 17, 2021 • 55m
T. G. Otte, "Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey" (Penguin, 2020)
Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 15m
James R. Holmes, "A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy" (US Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Mar 3, 2021 • 1h 4m
W. P. Leeman and J. B. Hattendorf, "Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy" (Naval Institute Press, 2021)
Mar 3, 2021 • 50m
Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)
Feb 26, 2021 • 1h 5m
John D. Wilsey, "God's Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles" (Eardmans, 2021)
Feb 24, 2021 • 1h 2m
Dominic Johnson, "Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021 • 48m
Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Feb 18, 2021 • 1h 0m
Torsten Weber, "Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933" (Springer, 2018)
Feb 12, 2021 • 46m
Nina Jankowicz, "How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021 • 1h 0m
N. Darshan-Leitner and S. M. Katz, "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" (Hachette, 2017)
Feb 8, 2021 • 56m
Amit Bein, "Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 8, 2021 • 58m
Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
Feb 8, 2021 • 1h 17m
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
Feb 3, 2021 • 1h 3m
Thomas C. Field, "From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era" (Cornell UP, 2014)
Jan 29, 2021 • 1h 33m
James E. Baker, "The Centaur's Dilemma: US National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution" (Brookings, 2020)
Jan 28, 2021 • 1h 20m
H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze, "Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear 'Crisis'" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Jan 15, 2021 • 1h 1m
K. Mistry and H. Gurman, "Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 13, 2021 • 1h 5m
An interview with David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Jan 8, 2021 • 1h 2m
Zeynep Kaya, "Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jan 7, 2021 • 50m
Andrew R. Hom, "International Relations and the Problem of Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 7, 2021 • 49m
Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jan 7, 2021 • 57m
Rajan Menon, "The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 6, 2021 • 1h 11m
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 6, 2021 • 1h 1m
Samuel Zipp, "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020 • 54m
Erez Manela, "The Wilsonian Moment: Self-determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 24, 2020 • 49m
Mark Cornwall, "Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020 • 42m
Heather L. Dichter, "Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914" (UP of Kentucky, 2020)
Dec 15, 2020 • 53m
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 9, 2020 • 56m
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 8, 2020 • 1h 2m
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Dec 8, 2020 • 58m
Michael Brenes, "For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Dec 3, 2020 • 1h 4m
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Cold War" (Bite-Sized Books, 2020)
Dec 2, 2020 • 1h 2m
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 2, 2020 • 55m
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 2, 2020 • 1h 4m
Charles A. Kupchan, "Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 1, 2020 • 47m
Jeremy Black, "Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance" (Indiana UP, 2016)
Nov 30, 2020 • 1h 5m
Paul Jankowski, "All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War" (Harper, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020 • 50m
David Rundell, "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020 • 1h 14m
Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 24, 2020 • 52m
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020 • 1h 51m
Luke A. Nichter, "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020 • 1h 0m
Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2020 • 1h 15m
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State" (U California Press, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020 • 1h 6m
Daniel Deudney, "Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020 • 1h 14m
Laura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020 • 1h 6m
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Nov 10, 2020 • 1h 5m
David S. Nasca, "The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898 to 1945" (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
Nov 4, 2020 • 1h 5m
K. A. Lieber and D. G. Press, "The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Nov 3, 2020 • 1h 8m
Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Press, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020 • 56m
Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020 • 59m
Robert Zoellick, "America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy" (Twelve, 2020)
Oct 29, 2020 • 1h 0m
Barry C. Lynn, "Liberty From All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People” (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020 • 58m
Anthony L. Gardner, "Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 23, 2020 • 41m
Scott Laderman, "The 'Silent Majority' Speech: Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and the Origins of the New Right" (Routledge, 2019)
Oct 22, 2020 • 1h 9m
Philip Cunliffe, "The New Twenty Years' Crisis: A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020 • 44m
Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy" (Yale UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020 • 44m
Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left" (Yale UP, 2018)
Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 11m
Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 7m
H. Shelest and M. Rabinovych, "Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 19, 2020 • 55m
Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020 • 56m
C. Chan and F. de Londras, "China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law?" (Hart, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020 • 1h 12m
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, "The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI and the Case that Stirred the Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2020)
Oct 13, 2020 • 56m
Jon Lindsay, "Information Technology and Military Power" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Oct 7, 2020 • 1h 5m
David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 7, 2020 • 43m
Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
Oct 5, 2020 • 49m
Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 25, 2020 • 1h 28m
Rachel M. Gillum, "Muslims in a Post-9/11 America" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Sep 23, 2020 • 36m
Justin Q. Olmstead, "The United States' Entry into the First World War: The Role of British and German Diplomacy" (Boydell Press, 2019)
Sep 22, 2020 • 41m
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Sep 17, 2020 • 1h 3m
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 16, 2020 • 1h 13m
Sean Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020 • 1h 8m
Philip Nash, "Breaking Protocol: America's First Female Ambassadors, 1933-1964" (UP of Kentucky, 2020)
Sep 1, 2020 • 1h 7m
Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 26, 2020 • 57m
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
Aug 26, 2020 • 45m
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 25, 2020 • 1h 4m
Caron Gentry, "Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Aug 12, 2020 • 55m
Post Script: A Deep Dive on China
Aug 10, 2020 • 1h 42m
W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump" (BenBella Books, 2020)
Aug 6, 2020 • 49m
Daniel P. Aldrich, "Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 5, 2020 • 47m
H. Eric Schockman, "Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century" (Emerald, 2019)
Aug 4, 2020 • 54m
Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
Jul 21, 2020 • 1h 1m
Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 20, 2020 • 1h 5m
Andreas Fulda, "The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 17, 2020 • 1h 16m
P. W. Singer and A. Cole, "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution" (HMH, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020 • 27m
Evy Poumpouras, "Becoming Bulletproof" (Atria Press, 2020)
Jul 7, 2020 • 46m
S. Moskalenko and C. McCauley, "Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 6, 2020 • 58m
David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference" (Knopf, 2020)
Jul 6, 2020 • 55m
Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Affairs, 2020)
Jul 1, 2020 • 1h 25m
Michael Schuman, "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World" (PublicAffairs, 2020)
Jun 29, 2020 • 53m
E. Bruce Geelhoed, "Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's Aborted Mission to Moscow, 1959–1960" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020 • 54m
Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West" (FSG, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020 • 37m
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2020 • 1h 24m
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence and the Limits of Police" (Duke UP, 2018)
Jun 17, 2020 • 1h 9m
Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 17, 2020 • 49m
Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and the Global Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jun 16, 2020 • 54m
Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Nations" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jun 9, 2020 • 42m
Kurt Braddock, "Weaponized Words" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 9, 2020 • 58m
Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide" (Potomac Books, 2020)
Jun 5, 2020 • 1h 19m
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 2, 2020 • 2h 0m
Elizabeth A. Stanley, "Widen the Window" (Avery Press, 2020)
May 27, 2020 • 1h 3m
Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers" (Verso, 2020)
May 27, 2020 • 1h 11m
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink" (Columbia Global Reports, 2020)
May 22, 2020 • 53m
Toshihiro Higuchi, "Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis" (Stanford UP, 2020)
May 20, 2020 • 1h 7m
Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 19, 2020 • 52m
Andrew Monaghan, "Dealing with the Russians" (Polity, 2019)
May 13, 2020 • 38m
Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
May 5, 2020 • 1h 11m
María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Apr 30, 2020 • 1h 5m
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020 • 59m
Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell, "Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Apr 27, 2020 • 43m
Jeremy Black, "Military Strategy: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 24, 2020 • 29m
Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020 • 51m
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" (Verso, 2019)
Apr 13, 2020 • 1h 24m
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Reacting to the Past" in College Courses
Apr 13, 2020 • 55m
Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 7, 2020 • 44m
Carole Fink, "West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 7, 2020 • 1h 1m
Christine Fair, "In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Apr 6, 2020 • 1h 30m
Sanjib Baruah, "In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Apr 2, 2020 • 1h 7m
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Apr 1, 2020 • 1h 39m
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020 • 54m
Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2020 • 46m
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "In Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 23, 2020 • 45m
Mathias Haeussler, "Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations: A European Misunderstanding" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 19, 2020 • 37m
Michelle Murray, "The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations: Status, Revisionism, and Rising Powers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 18, 2020 • 46m
Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Mar 9, 2020 • 50m
Maria Ryan, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Mar 2, 2020 • 41m
Aliide Naylor, "The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
Feb 27, 2020 • 53m
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020 • 42m
Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa" (Routledge, 2018)
Feb 19, 2020 • 40m
Yaakov Katz, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
Feb 19, 2020 • 58m
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020 • 39m
Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 28, 2020 • 1h 0m
Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 2020 • 45m
Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness" (U California Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 2020 • 1h 17m
Elizabeth Economy, "The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 15, 2020 • 30m
Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 10, 2020 • 44m
Jenna Jordan, "Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jan 8, 2020 • 51m
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Jan 3, 2020 • 1h 0m
Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2019 • 40m
Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How Trump made America’s Foreign Policy Even Worse" (Cato Institute, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019 • 48m
The Treaty of Versailles On Hundred Years On
Dec 27, 2019 • 39m
Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, and Future" (Routledge, 2019)
Dec 24, 2019 • 24m
Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 24, 2019 • 1h 0m
Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethinking President Reagan's Cold War Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Dec 23, 2019 • 43m
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Media World of ISIS" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Dec 13, 2019 • 36m
Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 9, 2019 • 48m
David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland Security" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Dec 4, 2019 • 1h 17m
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 3, 2019 • 57m
Appeasement Eighty Years On
Nov 18, 2019 • 53m
Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019 • 1h 1m
Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth" (Scribner, 2019)
Nov 8, 2019 • 1h 11m
Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 7, 2019 • 51m
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing" (U California Press, 2019)
Nov 5, 2019 • 1h 14m
Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, "I Made Mistakes: Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960-1968 (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Nov 4, 2019 • 55m
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 3, 2019 • 40m
Bruce Rydel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began" (Brookings, 2019)
Nov 1, 2019 • 36m
Howard Kunreuther, "The Future of Risk Management" (U Penn Press, 2019)
Oct 29, 2019 • 35m
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019 • 55m
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019 • 32m
Joshua Tallis, "The War for Muddy Waters: Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Security" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Oct 15, 2019 • 53m
Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East" (Gefen, 2019)
Sep 20, 2019 • 1h 0m
Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West" (Chatham House, 2019)
Sep 3, 2019 • 34m
Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History" (Basic Books, 2018)
Sep 2, 2019 • 57m
Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
Aug 21, 2019 • 47m
Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Aug 7, 2019 • 48m
Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire" (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)
Jul 25, 2019 • 1h 10m
Daniel Vukovich, "Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China" (Palgrave, 2018)
Jul 22, 2019 • 1h 13m
James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans" (U Kentucky Press, 2017)
Jul 19, 2019 • 44m
Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World" (UNC Press, 2018)
Jul 12, 2019 • 1h 4m
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jul 8, 2019 • 49m
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 8, 2019 • 45m
Darren Dochuk, "Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America" (Basic Books, 2019)
Jul 2, 2019 • 51m
Jeffrey Lantis, "Foreign Policy Advocacy and Entrepreneurship: How a New Generation in Congress Is Shaping U.S. Engagement with the World" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jul 2, 2019 • 24m
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jul 1, 2019 • 59m
Susanna P. Campbell, "Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 1, 2019 • 53m
Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory" (Atlas Publishing, 2019)
Jun 28, 2019 • 52m
Tim Bouverie, "Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War" (Tim Duggan Books, 2019)
Jun 27, 2019 • 39m
Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Jun 24, 2019 • 59m
David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
Jun 18, 2019 • 1h 14m
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" (Harper, 2018)
Jun 13, 2019 • 1h 4m
Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia” (Yale UP, 2018)
Jun 10, 2019 • 1h 13m
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 6, 2019 • 1h 16m
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Prevention" (RAND Corporation, 2019)
May 30, 2019 • 57m
Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, "The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements" (U Georgia Press, 2017)
May 29, 2019 • 1h 4m
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
May 28, 2019 • 52m
James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
May 27, 2019 • 1h 5m
Jeremy Black, "War and its Causes" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
May 24, 2019 • 39m
Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord, "Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership" (All Points Books, 2019)
May 14, 2019 • 1h 12m
Andreas Krieg, "Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis" (Palgrave, 2019)
May 13, 2019 • 1h 4m
Gregory V. Raymond, "Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accommodation" (NIAS Press, 2018)
May 7, 2019 • 45m
Michael J. Mazarr, "Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy" (Public Affairs, 2019)
Apr 30, 2019 • 1h 25m
Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, "Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019 • 58m
Pang Yang Huei, "Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954-1958" (Hong Kong UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2019 • 57m
Ariel I. Ahram, "Break all the Borders: Separatism and the Resshaping of the Middle East" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 22, 2019 • 49m
Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Apr 16, 2019 • 52m
Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Apr 16, 2019 • 1h 8m
Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror" (Ohio UP, 2018)
Apr 15, 2019 • 1h 0m
Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories" (Princeton UP, 2011)
Apr 12, 2019 • 42m
Hennie van Vuuren, "Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit" (Hurst, 2019)
Apr 10, 2019 • 44m
Michael Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security (Princeton UP, 2019)
Apr 5, 2019 • 49m
Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The United States of American in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 4, 2019 • 1h 4m
Christian Goeschel, "Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance" (Yale UP, 2018)
Apr 2, 2019 • 1h 5m
Kathleen Burk, "The Lion and the Eagle: The Interaction of the British and American Empires, 1783-1972" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Apr 2, 2019 • 1h 13m
Keith Gave, "The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage" (Gold Star Publishing, 2018)
Mar 19, 2019 • 1h 16m
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019 • 32m
Richard Drake, "Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Mar 12, 2019 • 53m
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
Mar 7, 2019 • 1h 18m
Scott Mobley, "Progressives in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898" (Naval Institute Press, 2018)
Mar 6, 2019 • 1h 5m
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globalization. A Latin American View" (World Scientific Publishing. 2019)
Feb 21, 2019 • 1h 17m
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Feb 18, 2019 • 57m
Jeremy Black, "Britain and Europe: A Short History" (Hurst, 2019)
Feb 13, 2019 • 37m
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
Feb 11, 2019 • 54m
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 4, 2019 • 55m
Monica Kim, "The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jan 29, 2019 • 1h 1m
Andray Abrahamian, "North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths" (McFarland, 2018)
Jan 28, 2019 • 1h 3m
Philip Zelikow and Ernest May, "Suez Deconstructed: An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking" (Brookings Institution, 2018)
Jan 25, 2019 • 1h 10m
Noah Coburn, "Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America's Global War" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Jan 24, 2019 • 1h 0m
Andrew Lambert, "Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2018)
Jan 23, 2019 • 1h 2m
Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)
Jan 17, 2019 • 1h 5m
Van Jackson, "On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and The Threat of Nuclear War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 16, 2019 • 55m
Michele Gelfand, "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World" (Scribner Books, 2018)
Jan 10, 2019 • 44m
Michael Cotey Morgan, "The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jan 3, 2019 • 1h 34m
Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim, "External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies" (Routledge, 2018)
Dec 28, 2018 • 1h 0m
Rory Cormac, "Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 27, 2018 • 46m
Brian Crim, "Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
Dec 21, 2018 • 59m
John B. Judis, "The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt Against Globalization" (Columbia Global Reports, 2018)
Dec 21, 2018 • 33m
Judd C. Kinzley, "Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Dec 20, 2018 • 59m
Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong, "Securing the Belt and Road" (Red Globe Press, 2018)
Dec 20, 2018 • 59m
Seth Anziska, "Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Dec 17, 2018 • 52m
Peter Hitchens, "The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
Dec 12, 2018 • 46m
Eric Helleiner, "Forgotten Foundations: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Dec 11, 2018 • 55m
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 4m
Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout America!: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
Dec 5, 2018 • 1h 0m
Laszlo Borhi, "Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe 1942-1989" (Indiana UP, 2016)
Dec 4, 2018 • 37m
Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield, “Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics” (Naval Institute Press, 2018)
Oct 31, 2018 • 53m
N. M. Sambaluk, “The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security” (Naval Institute Press, 2015)
Oct 29, 2018 • 1h 26m
Robert Kagan, “The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World” (Knopf, 2018)
Oct 25, 2018 • 48m
Ching Kwan Lee, “The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Oct 25, 2018 • 48m
Roland Philipps, “A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean” (W.W. Norton, 2018)
Oct 23, 2018 • 1h 0m
Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 18, 2018 • 53m
Jeffrey D. Sachs, "A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Oct 10, 2018 • 58m
Brian VanDeMark, “The Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent Into Vietnam” (Harper Collins, 2018)
Oct 9, 2018 • 27m
Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds” (Pluto Press, 2018)
Oct 5, 2018 • 59m
P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Oct 2, 2018 • 50m
Megan Black, “The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Oct 2, 2018 • 1h 11m
Samuel Helfont, “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 1, 2018 • 59m
James M. Dorsey, “China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Sep 27, 2018 • 1h 1m
Nick Kapur, “Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 21, 2018 • 1h 5m
N.A.J. Taylor and R. Jacobs, eds., “Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War” (Routledge, 2017)
Sep 5, 2018 • 2h 2m
Madiha Afzal, “Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State” (Brookings, 2018)
Aug 31, 2018 • 1h 8m
Stephen Tankel, “With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on Terror” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 10, 2018 • 1h 1m
John M. Curatola, “Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow: The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950” (McFarland, 2016)
Aug 1, 2018 • 51m
Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Jul 11, 2018 • 57m
Craig Symonds, “World War II at Sea: A Global History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jul 6, 2018 • 55m
Sarah Snyder, “From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed Foreign Policy”
Jul 3, 2018 • 56m
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jun 29, 2018 • 1h 1m
Joy Rohde, “Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research During the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Jun 27, 2018 • 49m
Guy Burton, “Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Jun 18, 2018 • 32m
Odd Arne Westad, “The Cold War: A World History” (Basic Books, 2017)
Jun 13, 2018 • 1h 7m
Jacob N. Shapiro, “Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jun 7, 2018 • 55m
Nancy Mitchell, “Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War” (Stanford UP, 2016)
May 9, 2018 • 49m
Ji-Young Lee, “China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination” (Columbia UP, 2017)
May 3, 2018 • 35m
Harlan Ullman, “Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts” (Naval Institute Press, 2017)
May 2, 2018 • 1h 8m
George Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite, “Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies” (Georgetown UP, 2017)
Apr 18, 2018 • 54m
Daniel Bessner, “Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Apr 11, 2018 • 1h 4m
Katrin Paehler, “The Third Reich’s Intelligence Service: The Career of Walter Schellenberg” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Apr 6, 2018 • 1h 12m
William R. Polk, “Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North” (Yale UP, 2018)
Apr 6, 2018 • 56m
Antony G. Hopkins, “American Empire: A Global History” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Mar 19, 2018 • 1h 12m
Alison McQueen, “Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 16, 2018 • 1h 8m
Anthimos Tsirigotis, “Cybernetics, Warfare, and Discourse” Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Mar 6, 2018 • 52m
David Armitage, “Civil Wars: A History in Ideas” (Yale UP, 2017)
Mar 2, 2018 • 41m
Gregory A. Daddis, “Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing America’s Strategy in Vietnam” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Feb 9, 2018 • 1h 10m
Robert Meyer and Howard Kunreuther, “The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters” (Wharton Digital Press, 2017))
Feb 7, 2018 • 57m
Richard E. Schroeder, “The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang and the Origins of the Cold War” (U. Missouri Press, 2017)
Jan 25, 2018 • 2m
Vicki Bier, “Risk in Extreme Environments: Preparing, Avoiding, Mitigating, and Managing” (Routledge, 2018)
Jan 25, 2018 • 38m
Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij, “The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 2018 • 45m
Hendrik Meijer, “Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jan 18, 2018 • 1h 13m
Stephen G. Craft, “American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy” (Kentucky UP, 2017)
Jan 18, 2018 • 58m
Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan, “Insider Threats” (Cornell UP, 2017)
Jan 12, 2018 • 46m
Stewart Patrick, “The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World” (Brookings Institution Press, 2017)
Jan 8, 2018 • 1h 6m
Mark Fenster, “The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Dec 30, 2017 • 45m
David G. Morgan-Owen, “The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914” (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Dec 5, 2017 • 50m
Nikhil Pal Singh, “Race and America’s Long War” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
Nov 30, 2017 • 1h 11m
Should the U.S. Have Entered World War One?
Jun 24, 2017 • 1h 5m
Adam Lockyer, “Australia’s Defence Strategy: Evaluating Alternatives for a Contested Asia (Melbourne University Press, 2017)
May 14, 2017 • 16m
Phil Gurski, “Western Foreign Fighters: The Threat to Homeland and International Security” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Apr 17, 2017 • 54m
Julie Wilhelmsen “Russia’s Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable (Routledge, 2017)
Feb 14, 2017 • 50m
Paul Pedisich, “Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881-1921” (Naval Institute Press, 2016)
Jan 30, 2017 • 1h 12m
Karen J. Greenberg, “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State” (Crown Publishers, 2016)
Jan 27, 2017 • 1h 3m
Marc Sageman, “Misunderstanding Terrorism” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Dec 14, 2016 • 54m
William H. Shaw, “Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War” (Routledge, 2016)
Dec 1, 2016 • 1h 4m
Tevi Troy, “Shall We Wake the President?: Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office” (Lyons Press, 2016)
Nov 14, 2016 • 20m
George T. Diaz, “Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande” (U. of Texas Press, 2015)
Nov 8, 2016 • 49m
Matthew Dallek, “Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Oct 24, 2016 • 27m
Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016 • 58m
Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, “America Abroad: The United States’ Role in the 21st Century” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 16, 2016 • 1h 6m
Nicole Nguyen, “A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Sep 7, 2016 • 41m
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, “Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” (UC Press, 2010)
Aug 23, 2016 • 1h 7m
Susan Turner Haynes, “Chinese Nuclear Proliferation: How Global Politics is Transforming China’s Weapons Buildup and Modernization” (Potomac Books, 2016)
Jul 1, 2016 • 56m
Lance deHaven-Smith, “Conspiracy Theory in America” (U of Texas Press, 2014)
Jul 1, 2016 • 1h 36m
Michael Barnett, “The Star and the Stripes” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Jun 27, 2016 • 33m
Ho-fung Hung, “The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World” (Columbia UP, 2016)
May 18, 2016 • 1h 8m
Irene L. Gendzier, “Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2015)
May 18, 2016 • 39m
John Bew, “Realpolitik: A History” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Apr 30, 2016 • 1h 1m
Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Feb 7, 2016 • 56m
Samantha Newbery, “Interrogation, Intelligence and Security: Controversial British Techniques” (Manchester UP, 2015)
Dec 17, 2015 • 32m
David E. Hoffman’s “The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal” (Doubleday, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015 • 55m
Peter A. Shulman, “Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Nov 9, 2015 • 1h 12m
Clare Croft, “Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015 • 47m
Gordon H. Chang, “Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 30, 2015 • 1h 10m
James D. Boys, “Clinton’s Grand Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War World” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
May 25, 2015 • 36m
Ed Conway, “The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944” (Pegasus Books, 2014)
May 18, 2015 • 1h 13m
Benjamin Armstrong, “Twenty-First-Century Mahan” and “Twenty-First-Century Sims” (Naval Institute, 2013-2015)
Apr 25, 2015 • 1h 15m
Brian Vick, “The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Mar 14, 2015 • 1h 4m
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, “The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Mar 5, 2015 • 1h 3m
Cabeiri Robinson, “Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists” (University of California Press, 2013)
Feb 19, 2015 • 1h 32m
Bilyana Lily, “Russian Foreign Policy toward Missile Defense” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Feb 3, 2015 • 36m
General Daniel Bolger, “Why We Lost” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
Dec 12, 2014 • 1h 22m
James Giordano, “Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense” (CRC Press, 2014)
Dec 4, 2014 • 1h 14m
Henry Nau, “Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Reagan, Truman, and Polk” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Nov 28, 2014 • 1h 30m
Jacob N. Shapiro, “The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Nov 27, 2014 • 42m
Vahid Brown and Don Rassler, “Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Nov 14, 2014 • 1h 6m
Alexander Cooley, “Great Game, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Nov 11, 2014 • 46m
Angela Stent, “The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twentieth-First Century” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Nov 3, 2014 • 1h 16m
Donald Holbrook, “The Al-Qaeda Doctrine: The Framing and Evolution of the Leadership’s Public Discourse” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Oct 3, 2014 • 57m
Mark Mazzetti, “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth” (Penguin, 2013)
Aug 8, 2014 • 34m
Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda” (Time Books, 2011)
Oct 25, 2013 • 42m
Guido Steinberg, “German Jihad: On the Internationalisation of Islamist Terrorism” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Sep 10, 2013 • 45m
John Earl Haynes, et al., “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America” (Yale UP, 2009)
Jul 10, 2013 • 1h 1m
Patrick James and Abigail Ruane, “The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from the Lord of the Rings” (University of Michigan Press, 2012)
Jun 6, 2013 • 32m
Martin A. Miller, “The Foundations of Modern Terrorism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
May 31, 2013 • 1h 6m
Jeffrey D. Simon, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat” (Prometheus Books, 2013)
Apr 26, 2013 • 47m
Kathleen M. Vogel, “Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
Apr 17, 2013 • 1h 10m
Patrick Dunleavy, “The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection” (Potomac Books, 2011 )
Mar 28, 2013 • 38m
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “American Umpire” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 12, 2013 • 55m
Paul Kan, “Cartels at War: Mexico’s Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to US National Security” (Potomac Books, 2012)
Mar 7, 2013 • 51m
Jason Brownlee, “Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Oct 28, 2012 • 1h 1m
Blake Mobley, “Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence: How Terrorist Groups Elude Detection” (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Oct 23, 2012 • 45m
Maurice Punch, “State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles: Counter Insurgency, Government Deviance and Northern Ireland” (Pluto Press, 2012)
Oct 16, 2012 • 56m
Mark Haas, “The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Jul 18, 2012 • 47m
Riaz Hassan, “Suicide Bombings” (Routledge, 2011)
Jul 9, 2012 • 48m
Khalid Almezaini, “The UAE and Foreign Policy: Foreign Aid, Identity, and Interests” (Routledge, 2011)
Jul 9, 2012 • 56m
Jeffrey Mankoff, “Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)
Mar 15, 2012 • 1h 0m
Garrett Graff, “The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror” (Little Brown, 2011)
May 26, 2011 • 44m
Michael Auslin, “Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations” (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 5, 2011 • 54m
Michael Auslin, "Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations" (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 5, 2011 • 54m
Stewart A. Baker, “Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism” (Hoover Institution, 2010)
Apr 22, 2011 • 52m
William Bennett and Seth Leibsohn, “The Fight of Our Lives: Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam” (Thomas Nelson, 2011)
Apr 15, 2011 • 44m
W. Taylor Fain, “American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region” (Palgrave-McMillan, 2008)
Mar 14, 2011 • 1h 0m
Audrey Kurth Cronin, “How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns” (Princeton UP, 2010)
May 28, 2010 • 1h 0m
Nicholas Thompson, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War” (Henry Holt, 2010)
Feb 18, 2010 • 1h 2m
Julian E. Zelizer, “Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security From WWII to the War on Terrorism” (Basic Books, 2010)
Jan 14, 2010 • 1h 7m
Robert Hendershot, “Family Spats: Perception, Illusion and Sentimentality in the Anglo-American Special Relationship” (VDM, 2009)
Mar 13, 2009 • 1h 5m
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