New Books in World Affairs
Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books
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- đŹđ§ English
- last modified
- 2025-01-01 10:15
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- 2025-01-01 09:00
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- 3.42 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-01 | If tales of Chinaâs radical âopening upâ to the world over the last 30 years imply that the country was somehow âclosedâ before this, then one need only think of Beijingâs dalliances with various potential socialist allies during the Cold War to dispel... |
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| 2025-01-01 |
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024) The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism: A World History (Princeton UP, 2024), historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nati... |
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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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| 2024-12-27 |
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications Why has the Indo-Pacific become the pre-eminent theatre of global geo-strategic and geo-economic competition? What is the interest and role of different actors such as China, Russia, the US, the EU and NATO in the region? How are small island developin... |
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| 2024-12-26 |
Enze Han, "The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2024) Many studies of China's relations with and influence on Southeast Asia tend to focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regional influence. Yet, scholars and pundits often fail to appreciate the complexity of the contemporary Chines... |
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| 2024-12-24 | Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations (Stanford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Amélie Barras explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interro... |
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| 2024-12-22 |
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023) The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increased inequality within countries. Is this phenomenon a small hiccup in the overall wave of globalization... |
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| 2024-12-17 |
Mattias Fibiger, "Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2023) Conventional accounts of the Cold War focus on competition between the United States and Soviet Union as key to shaping world events. In focusing on the agency of Indonesiaâs Suharto regime during its first decades, Matthias Fibiger casts new light on ... |
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| 2024-12-16 |
Yaacov Yadgar, "To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism" (NYU Press, 2024) In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation "Jewish" amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to ... |
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| 2024-12-13 |
Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023) Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a 'Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu State), little attention has been paid to the linkages between Modi's India and the governme... |
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