Governing Security After War examines the political dimensions of security governance, arguing that the extent to which state policymakers adopt changes to the management and oversight of security forces depends on internal political dynamics.
Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780197572382
By Louis-Alexandre Berg
Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze how states pursue nuclear weapons by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics.
Princeton University Press, 2022, ISBN:
By Vipin Narang
A brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time – how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functional. The Great Experiment draws crucial insights from history, social psychology, and comparative politics.
Penguin Press, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0593296813
By Yascha Mounk
World War in Syria provides a comprehensive study of the first ten years of the Syrian War, as well as an extensive background into the history of Syria’s longstanding conflict with the Western world and its regional strategic partners. It offers an analysis of the conflict through the paradigm of an international ‘world war’, and provides information vital to understanding the conflict’s implications for international security and the motivations and interests of all major parties involved. Clarity Press, 2021, ISBN-13: 978-1949762464 By A. B. Abrams
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos share a core utopian project: the salvation of humanity through the exploitation of space. Much like the imperial project on Earth, this renewed effort to conquer space is presented as a religious calling. Astrotopia exposes the values of capitalist technoscience as the product of bad mythologies and offers a vision of exploring space without reproducing the atrocities of earthly colonialism.
University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780226821122
By Mary-Jane Rubenstein
In recent years, China has become a world leader in e-commerce, e-currency, 5G and artificial intelligence, cementing itself as a major competitor to established powers. How has China pulled this off? The answer lies in the country’s Digital Silk Road, a multi-faceted programme to connect the world via digital means.
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-1803921204
By Gerald Chan
Where does the US-China rivalry sit today? More importantly, what will the world look like in 2030? The key factors are speed, scale, unity, technology and finance. From rare metals in the ground to cyber and weapons in space, the US-China rivalry will shape and shake the world.
Economic Security Council Inc., 2022, ISBN-13: 979-8985251111
By Carl Delfeld
While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. Even countries we thought could never experience another civil war – such as the USA, Sweden and Ireland – are showing signs of unrest. How Civil Wars Start explains the rise of civil war and the conditions that create it.
Viking, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0593137789
By Barbara F. Walter
When the “sharing economy” launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work—giving earners flexibility, autonomy, and a decent income.
University of California Press, 2020, ISBN-13: 978-0520325050
By Juliet Schor
Tarek Cherkaoui reveals how geo-political and ideological legacies of the past, which divide the world into a dichotomy of ‘us’ against ‘them’, play a dominant role in reinforcing the ensuing polarization of our media.
London, Bloomsbury, 2021.
By Tarek Cherkaoui.
Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
By Liat Berdugo
In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden strategy behind systemic racism.
Cornell University Press, 2021.
By Jim Freeman
Newell elucidates how these activities intersect with privacy, free speech, and access to information law and argues that rather than being emancipatory systems of police oversight, body-worn cameras are an evolution in police image work and state surveillance expansion.
Univ of California Press, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis, Future War and the Defence of Europe considers in the round how peace can be maintained on a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914.
Oxford, May 2021.
By John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, and Julian Lindley-French
The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the historical origin and evolution of the foreign policy orientations of revisionist states in the past.
Oxford, June 2021.
By Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu
A sober and frank account of the strategic options and constraints affecting NATO. This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point.
Oxford, 2021.
Edited by Janne Haaland Matlary and Robert Johnson
The author shifts the focus of political rhetoric regarding international tax rules from tax havens and the Global North to the damaging impact of this regime on the Global South.
Cornell University Press, 2021.
By Martin Hearson
Ullrich retells Hitler’s story in clear prose, striking a proper balance between argument and narrative while citing the most vivid evidence.
Knopf; Illustrated edition, September 1, 2020.
By Volker Ullrich
Ferris’ informative official history of GCHQ, one of the United Kingdom’s leading intelligence agencies, is remarkable.
Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2021.
By John Ferris
Zoellick combines a practitioner’s wisdom, gleaned from half a dozen jobs in senior government posts.
Publisher: Twelve; Illustrated edition, August 4, 2020.
By Robert B. Zoellick