Xi: A Study in Power
Who is Xi Jinping? Although he came to power a decade ago, he remains an enigmatic leader who is often…
Books In-Brief
Terror in Transition: Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations
Succession is a critical juncture that may threaten the very survival of a terrorist group. It is the precise time…
Superstates: Empires of the Twenty-First Century
How should superstates be governed? Can such states be effectively governed at all? If they survive, will they thrive?
How Fake News Shapes World Order
Abram’s book is a revealing account of how perception replaces reality by providing history, context, and analysis for a trend…
How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
What will the next big thing in warfare be? How can militaries successfully adapt to meet the challenge?
The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
The basic assumptions of the Cold War era no longer hold, and a fresh look is urgently needed.
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism
How is the rise of central banks more problematic than many might expect? Leon Wansleben provides answers in his new…
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
From sanctions to competing for influence abroad, warfare has taken a more subtle, sly, undeclared, unending, and, most importantly, unrestricted,…
The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation
Is information technology accelerating creative destruction? How are large corporations shooting the capitalist system in the foot? How do we…
An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics
Have contemporary realists lost their way? An Unwritten Future re-examines classical realism in the international politics arena.
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
The Capital Order leaves even the most skeptical of readers with the question: “Has capitalism lost its innocence to its…
Identified, Tracked, and Profiled: The Politics of Resisting Facial Recognition Technology
Peter Dauvergne showcases the challenges that activists face in their fight against the creeping normalization of facial recognition technology.
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
The Economic Weapon offers valuable insight into seeing the power and consequences of sanctions.
The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States
Read how propaganda plays a big role in manufacturing the setting of silence.
Worlds at Stake: Climate Politics, Ideology, and Justice
Aaron Saad takes the reader on a critical journey by using an exploratory approach on differing ideologies and climate justice.
Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Natalia Grincheva’s Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age presents online museums as places of modern cultural diplomacy and explores how…
Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting”
Kerry K. Gershaneck believes there is an urgent need to establish an Asian political warfare center of excellence, to investigate,…
Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia
Ben Bland’s Man of Contradictions shows how Joko Widodo’s presidency mirrors a range of modern Indonesia’s paradoxes: democracy and totalitarianism,…
