Gaston argues that efforts to exercise influence through proxies—what she calls “local, hybrid, and substate forces”—are becoming “normalized” as new technologies permit remote warfare and as fragile ...

Bringing together essays by some of the most prominent political scientists focusing on the Middle East today, this volume documents the upheavals in the region occasioned by the U.S. response to the ...

To convey the impact of the two decades of conflict in Afghanistan itself, Rasmussen recounts the stories of half a dozen or so Afghans who came of age during the U.S. invasion, young men and women ...

In this provocative book, both witty and profoundly serious, he provides a human-scale history of the causes and consequences of rising temperatures in the Middle East.

Milton-Edwards and Farrell offer a clear-eyed account of Hamas’s development, from its early days in Gaza as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood during the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli ...

Graham argues that scholars of the humanities contributed to victory in World War II by transforming the practice of intelligence agencies.

Although the Battle of Antietam is a much-studied encounter, Budiansky’s consideration of nine people caught up in the battle and its aftermath is thoughtful and insightful.

Drawing on extensive new material, Nathans’ insightful history of Soviet dissidents introduces remarkable individuals who courageously and selflessly tried to pursue civil rights from the 1960s ...

This book presents thoughtful essays on the macroeconomic effects of economic policies that seek to mitigate global warming and reach the Paris agreement’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Wullweber argues that financial markets in advanced economies can no longer function without “unconventional policies” from central banks.

Baker, a veteran journalist, offers a deeply sourced investigation into the political economy of the sanctions imposed on Russia following its attack on Ukraine.

Lambert, a naval historian, insists that the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the nineteenth-century naval officer and historian who is the United States’ greatest naval thinker, has come to be unfairly ...