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The crime of aggression
A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instead of collective state res...
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The criminal state
A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimesThe Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thoug...
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The environmental republic
A bold new conception of the republic for a planet in crisisRepublicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty with collective responsibility. The Environmental Republic reclaims this idea as the path ...
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The fire
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A powerful, unflinching portrait of a generation fighting for change in Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine “Sala’s dispatches are as immersive and original as they are anthropologically probing... [They] come alive in ways that ordinary newspaper journalism rarely do...
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The geopolitics of shaming
A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure and urging reform. Yet many of the most egregious violations appear to go unpunished. In...
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The grand strategy of the habsburg empire
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain success...
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The heat and the fury
“A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time.”—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable EarthAs a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no...
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The high seas
In this “essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas” (Will McCallum, author of How to Give Up Plastic), one of the world’s leading voices on the issue tracks the race to exploit and protect our last frontier.Two thirds of the world’s oceans lie beyond national borders. O...
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The idea of civilization and the making of the global order
The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniqu...
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The insiders’ game
How elites shape the use of force in American foreign policyOne of the most widely held views of democratic leaders is that they are cautious about using military force because voters can hold them accountable, ultimately making democracies more peaceful. How, then, are leaders able to wage war i...
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The new constructivism in international relations theory
In this engaging book, David M. McCourt makes the case for New Constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship. The book traces constructivist work on culture, identity, and norms within the historical, geographical, and professional contexts of world politics, and reflects on r...
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The rare metals war
Is the shift to renewable energy and digital devices going to free us from severe pollution, material shortages, and military tensions?
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The regime question
Ongoing struggles over core principles of democratic governanceThe regime question—often boiled down to “democracy or autocracy?”—has been central to democratic politics from the start. This has entailed not only fights over the extent of the franchise but also, crucially, ongoing struggles over ...
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The role of land and natural resources in conflict and peacemaking
Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.
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The strategist
An authoritative introduction to strategy—its enduring essentials, its inherent challenges, and the ways it will change in the twenty-first centuryWe live in a world in which America’s previous dominance has disappeared, violent states seek to remake the global order, and war itself has taken new...
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The u.s. military in the print news media
This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.
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The united states in decline
The essays in this volume examine finance, industry and strategy both internally and on a global scale. Contributors clarify our understanding of the current state and future trajectory of the United States and the effect of decline on its citizens and the world.
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The unquiet frontier
How America's vulnerable frontier allies—and American power—are being targeted by rival nationsFrom the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, natio...
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Those who remain
A vivid portrait of rural and working-class life that links the dynamics of social ties to far-right political alignments Rural and working-class voters in France have increasingly supported the politics—and the worldview—of the country’s far right. What accounts for this realignment? In Those Wh...
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To govern the globe
In a sweep through seven centuries from 1350 to 2050, the work explains how catastrophes-- pandemics, wars, and climate crisis--have shaped the destiny of empires and world orders.
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Tomorrow's battlefield
Investigative journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking expansion of the U.S. military’s covert wars in Africa
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Transformation of indigenous north america
This is a book about the adaptation of Indigenous groups in North America (Mexico, USA, Canada) and their interrelatedness to each other and outside influences over time.
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Turning the tide
US Central American policies project broader US economic, military, and social aims, impacting millions in Central America.
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Unmapping the 21st century
The 21st century has been characterized by great turbulence, climate change, a global pandemic, and democratic decay. Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two dominant concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. The book explains ho...
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Violence
Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture.
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We cannot escape history
The latest collection of essays from the Deutscher Prize winning Marxist scholar, Neil Davidson.
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