Drawing on the experiences of the once vibrant and vital nationalist parties of Egypt and Morocco, Fenner traces the decline of mass movements that won their countries’ independence yet deteriorated ...

Patomaki wonders whether it is possible for future generations to build a system of world government capable of grappling with planetary-scale threats.

The quest to fix the United Nations is almost as old as the organization itself. Eighty years ago, Allied leaders imagined a ...

Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft ...

Mullaney’s spirited narrative, half detective story, half history of technology, is a sequel to his equally fascinating book ...

This book by Dallara, the former managing director of the Institute of International Finance, is part blow-by-blow account of the Greek debt crisis that started in 2009 and part memoir.

A new autobiography and a 2022 documentary film explore the life and career of Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. representative and former Speaker of the House.

Slotkin is well known for his trilogy on the myth of the frontier, which explores the central role violence has played through the American national experience. He uses myth to mean the stories “true, ...

Goodman's book uses vignettes from the COVID-19 pandemic to explain how breakneck deregulation promoted by self-interested business leaders and consultants who prioritized efficiency resulted in ...

Two studies offer fascinating portraits of the increasingly sophisticated and networked world of autocracy, dictatorship, and tyranny.

Drawing from archival collections in the Russian North and Far East, as well as on doctors’ memoirs, Healey describes the drama of being a doctor in the Soviet gulag’s labor camps in the 1920s through ...

Peri’s book documents the discovery of thousands of letters between Soviet and American women dating from 1943 to 1953.