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New Books in Diplomatic History

Interviews with scholars of diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics about their new book

Episodes

Total: 987

For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers.

Throughout the nuclear age, states have taken many different paths toward or away from nuclear weapo

Christopher Tounsel's book Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solida

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza

China’s rise to global prominence is a pretty good contender for the most important world developmen

Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book

In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000-mile American road tri

In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy &am

The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the U

In April 1942, at least half a million people fled the city of Madras, now known as Chennai. The rea

On today's episode of the New Books Network, we are privileged to have Professor Arie Dubnov joining

The Middle East remains one of the world’s most complicated, thorny—and, uncharitably, unstable—part

Today I talked to Traian Sandu about his book Ceausescu: Le dictateur ambigu (Perrin, 2023). Born in

In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations o

Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommu

Why do great powers go to war? Why are non-violent, diplomatic options not prioritised? Nostalgic Vi

How do top-level public officials take advantage of immunity from foreign jurisdiction afforded to t

It’s very easy to study the history of the British Empire from the perspective of, well, the British

Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relation

Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell University