She has served as Acting and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and in senior roles at the National Security Council and U.S.

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.

Mullaney’s spirited narrative, half detective story, half history of technology, is a sequel to his equally fascinating book on the invention of the Chinese typewriter.

This book by Dallara, the former managing director of the Institute of International Finance, is part blow-by-blow account of the Greek debt crisis that started in 2009 and part memoir.