Professor Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics and founding director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College. She is the author of One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy and the forthcoming Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Leaks:…
DetailsScott Shane, winner of the 2016 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone, is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, where he has covered national security since 2004. He has written on recruiting by the Islamic State; the debate…
DetailsA Rage for Order tracks the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring. Combining dramatic storytelling with an original analysis of the Arab world today, Worth captures the psychic and actual civil wars raging throughout the Middle East and explains how the dream of an Arab renaissance gave way to a new…
Laura Secor takes us deep into an Iran that few of us know. With stunning revelations and evocative writing, her ambitious work, Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran, portrays a post-revolutionary generation of reformers whose vision of a modern Islamic state continues to meet frustration. In the book Secor explores the…
The fall of the Soviet Union took with it one of history’s greatest propaganda machines. Or so we thought. From the front lines of a nation’s political death and rebirth, Arkady Ostrovsky documents a relationship between Russian media and the Kremlin that helps explain the rise of Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the oligarchs who…
In Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World, Shadi Hamid has dared to go where few scholars have ventured, as he courageously examines the political nature and history of Islam. The enduring conflicts of the Middle East, the social cleavages of the Persian Gulf, even the constrictive rule of Central Asia…
In the afterglow of America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Rosa Brooks journeys to the heart of a post-9/11 military to discover a resilience that spells anything but retreat. In How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, Brooks documents a Pentagon that now oversees the most pervasive military the…