Traditionally, global politics has been understood as a grand competition among states—a chessboard on which statesmen play games of power politics and grand...

It has become common to hear warnings that in the near future, automation will destroy jobs and technological advances will accelerate economic and social...

Olson celebrates the heroism of people from occupied Europe who helped the Allies win World War II, challenging the view that their efforts counted for little in...

The great strength of this book is that it manages to be thought-provoking and entertaining at the same time, challenging the way readers think about war but doing...

In the history of U.S. politics, few meteors have burned as hot or hit as hard as Steve Bannon.

In his most ambitious and accomplished book yet, Brands upends the conventional wisdom on both the right and the left with an insightful perspective on the ways in...

Cowen’s timely and well-written book points to a central feature of contemporary American life: since the 1980s, U.S. society has become less dynamic and more risk...

Everything about The Pursuit of Power affirms a traditional approach to history. Written by one of the most eminent historians of Germany, it imposes a coherent...

Now a professor of international relations at Brown University, Andreas recalls his extraordinary childhood travels in Chile and Peru with his mother, Carol, a...

Toussaint Louverture was born a slave in 1743, but at the zenith of his power, he ruled all of Hispaniola, the Caribbean island that consists of present-day Haiti...

Hobsbawm, an eminent historian who passed away in 2012, was one of the United Kingdom’s leading public intellectuals, widely respected for his erudition and...

If you read only one book related to Russia this year, this should be it. Kelly’s magisterial intellectual biography of Alexander Herzen not only creates a complete...

In a detailed look at the nexus of American academic expertise on the Middle East and Washington’s diplomatic and intelligence power centers, from the Wilson era...

Jaundrill’s impressively researched study traces the origin of the modern Japanese military to the 1840s, when one martial arts teacher introduced a more...