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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

Investigative reporter Bob Woodward once noted that assassination was the Scarlett letter of America

North Korea was an important player in the decolonisation of Africa. Freedom fighters across the con

In this episode, RBI director John Torpey speaks with Estonian parliamentarian and defense expert Ka

How does nuclear technology influence international relations? While many books focus on countries a

On this episode, rural sociologist Dr. Irna Hofman explores how Tajikistan’s cotton fields illuminat

East Central Europe Since 1989 (Routledge, 2025)  examines politics, economics, media, religious ins

Kishore Mahbubani, longtime Singaporean diplomat and academic, opens his new memoir with a provocati

The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation fo

Impartiality is a guiding principle in United Nations peace operations that has helped legitimize mu

Elsa Stamatopoulou’s Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Det

In this episode of International Horizons, John Torpey talks with Heribert Adam, Professor Emeritus

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice (University of Delaware Press, 2023) e

Since Kenya's invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with t

The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite

At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Andrea Chandler to talk about her new

Finland, a minor player on the international arena and burdened with the tag of ‘Finlandization’ dur

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, v

When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were