Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Who are the Wa of Myanmar and how, in three decades, have they built a force that is now the largest non-state military actor in Asia-Pacific? How doe...
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Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Quest for Freedom is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Profes...
Jussi M. Hanhimäki, "Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Is the West finished as a political idea? In recent years, observers have begun pointing to signs that the transatlantic community is eroding. When th...
Renee Ann Cramer, "Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Political Scientist Renee Ann Cramer’s newest book Birthing a Movement tells the stories of American midwives and their battle for reproductive rights...
Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Globalization is possibly the most important economic phenomenon of the past several decades. Opening borders, increasing trade and deepening integrat...
Matthew J. Lacombe, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners Into a Political Force" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force (Princeton, 2021) explores the scope and power of one of America’s most influential in...
Bernard Scott, "Cybernetics for the Social Sciences" (Brill, 2021)
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to ...
Marlene Laruelle, "Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia" (UCL Press, 2021)
This month we are delighted to host one of the most important voices in Central Asian Studies worldwide: Professor Marlene Laruelle from George Washin...
Robert J. Spitzer, "The Politics of Gun Control" (Routledge, 2020)
Dr. Robert J. Spitzer’s classic text, The Politics of Gun Control: 8th Edition (Routledge, 2020), has been revised based on new data on gun ownership ...
Joan Marie Johnson, "Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967" (UNC Press, 2020)
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ninet...