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How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need …
Israel’s Lobby
An unflinching exposé of Israel’s Lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom.
Imperialist Realism
Imperialist Realism explores how Americans have come to accept their global empire not because they believe in its righteousness but because they believe no alternative to U.S. hegemony is possible.
Rethinking China
In Rethinking China, Zhengyu “Z” Huang delivers a timely and incisive critique of the prevailing US narrative on China–challenging long-held assumptions …
Cold War Liberalism
Power in a Time of Emergency In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US …
The Trillion Dollar War Machine
How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home
Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War Since 1945
In this groundbreaking reflection on America’s relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension …
America, América
A New History of the New World In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the …
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Since Kenya’s invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant …
Ravens on a Wire
Vietnam’s dark legacy, as faced on the West Germany border With the torment of Vietnam finally ended, the U.S. Army …
Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations
Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history …
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its …
Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly …
Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon’s tour de force, …
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization …
Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (Governance, Security and Development)
This book asks if it is time to “reboot” the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley …
On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century
On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump …
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions
How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the …
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane. In the years since 9/11, we have entered …
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically …
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Case for Nationalism in a Warming World
The climate emergency is intensifying, while international responses continue to falter. In Climate Change and the Nation State, Anatol Lieven outlines …
Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Empire’s Workshop is the classic analysis of Latin America’s role as proving ground for imperial US strategies and tactics, now in …
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in …
The Russia Trap
A must read for anyone who cares about our nation’s security in these cyber-serious, hair-trigger times. Susan Eisenhower Every American …