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Back to SearchShelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 717
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes …
2 years, 5 months ago
Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 186
China’s rise to global prominence is a pretty good contender for the most important world development in the past 30 years. But now the question is h…
2 years, 5 months ago
David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 119
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and d…
2 years, 5 months ago
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 542
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or …
2 years, 5 months ago
Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor, "Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 93
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but als…
2 years, 5 months ago
Mateo Jarquín, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 218
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as s…
2 years, 5 months ago
Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 185
Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stor…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Rhetoric of Crisis in Israel-Palestine: A Discussion with Amos Goldberg
Episode 144
This week, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Je…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 99
In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Michael De Groot argues that…
2 years, 6 months ago
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 234
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or …
2 years, 6 months ago