Drawing on the experiences of the once vibrant and vital nationalist parties of Egypt and Morocco, Fenner traces the decline of mass movements that won their countries’ independence yet deteriorated ...

Patomaki wonders whether it is possible for future generations to build a system of world government capable of grappling with planetary-scale threats.

When the Pew Research Center asked Americans last year to name the best presidents of recent decades, Republicans and ...

The quest to fix the United Nations is almost as old as the organization itself. Eighty years ago, Allied leaders imagined a ...

Two studies offer fascinating portraits of the increasingly sophisticated and networked world of autocracy, dictatorship, and tyranny.

Slotkin is well known for his trilogy on the myth of the frontier, which explores the central role violence has played through the American national experience. He uses myth to mean the stories “true, ...

Goodman's book uses vignettes from the COVID-19 pandemic to explain how breakneck deregulation promoted by self-interested business leaders and consultants who prioritized efficiency resulted in ...

A new autobiography and a 2022 documentary film explore the life and career of Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. representative and former Speaker of the House.

Peri’s book documents the discovery of thousands of letters between Soviet and American women dating from 1943 to 1953.

Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft this superbly-constructed history of Cold War diplomacy.

This crisply written, deeply researched, and clearly argued book examines what the authors dub the United Kingdom’s “corruption services industry.” ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...