The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, is a riveting account of the people who created the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928. It tells the story of visionaries who tried to limit war through law and traces the impact of international law on…
Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
No region is more important to contemporary global security and economic relations than the Asia Pacific. Richard McGregor, in Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century, describes the challenges the United States faces in light of the rivalry between Japan and China – Japan as a steadfast U.S.…
The Future of War: A History
The distinguished historian, Lawrence Freedman shows how intellectuals, novelists, film makers and military strategists have thought about war. Thinking about war in the last 150 years, Freedman argues, has been shaken by one epoch-changing event: nuclear weapons. Yet The Future of War: A History traces important continuities in thinking about war before and after the…
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine is the gripping story of the famine the Soviet leadership induced in Ukraine. This beautifully written history speaks to one of the most important global issues. Famines, then and now, are never the result of natural causes only; they are also the result of deliberate choices that…
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
In a lucid and important book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap? Graham Allison reaches back to Thucydides to tell the story of the conflict between rising powers and those that have already risen and asks if China and the United States are destined to fall into Thucydides’ Trap. Learning from…