New Books in National Security
Interviews with Scholars of National Security about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of National Security about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-03 20:27
- last episode published
- 2025-01-02 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-02 | North Korea is, to this day, still one of the world’s most mysterious countries. What little we know about daily life in the country comes from defectors or foreigners who’ve spent time there–some of whom have been on this show. But both camps present ... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024) As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: ... |
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| 2024-12-13 |
Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023) For more than 70 years, South Korea has woven the threat of North Korea into daily life. But now that threat has become mundane, and South Korean national security addresses family, public health, and national unity. Banal Security: Queer Korea in the ... |
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| 2024-12-08 | Over the last seven decades, some states successfully leveraged the threat of acquiring atomic weapons to compel concessions from superpowers. For many others, however, this coercive gambit failed to work. When does nuclear latency--the technical capac... |
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| 2024-11-26 | A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-century, Americans have watched their country extend its military power to what seemed the very ends of... |
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| 2024-11-24 | At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These warships—of enormous geopolitical import before the adve... |
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| 2024-11-22 | Youcef Soufi’s Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of three Muslim university students who disappeared from Winnipeg, Canada. In this gripping narrative, we lea... |
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| 2024-11-15 |
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023) Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, D. M. Giangreco’s Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story (Potomac Books, 2023) will discomfort both Truman’s c... |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018) Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the backgr... |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018) Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the backgr... |
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