Review

During apartheid, South Africa built local administrations that delivered social services at First World levels to the small white minority, even as they ignored...

For a long time, Western historians downplayed the influence that West Africa’s precolonial political traditions have had on the region’s modern culture, economics,...

This book is short on hard data and long on generalizations, but it is nonetheless worth reading because it expresses a popular argument: that China’s growing...

Dwyer’s compelling study of mutinies in West Africa, which are growing increasingly common, is welcome because it concentrates on the rank and file and...

Berwouts’ savvy history explores how the Democratic Republic of the Congo has changed since the official end of the war that devastated the country from the late...

In this study of China’s efforts to become the only nation other than the United States capable of operating comprehensively in...

As Xi Jinping embarks on his second five-year term as China’s top leader, Minzner delivers a withering assessment of his first one, in a well-informed contribution...

Billions of dollars are flowing out of China, as part of the country’s Belt and Road Initiative, to build ports, railways, roads, pipelines, and telecommunications...

Since the early 1990s, most Indian strategists have viewed China as their country’s main security threat.

By studying the Taiwanese entrepreneurs who built these firms, Hamilton and Kao shed light on the relationship between globalization and the Asian economic miracle....

Tunsjo challenges the prevailing view of U.S.-Chinese relations, arguing that even though China is not the military or economic equal of the United States, it is...

This pathbreaking report investigates the ways in which China seeks to shape politics and public opinion in Europe.

Wald has written a competent history of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and of how the House of Saud came to dominate the Arabian Peninsula in the...

Frampton exhaustively chronicles the history of the Muslim Brotherhood from its founding in 1928 to the Arab Spring of 2011.

Vogler, a former ExxonMobil executive, recounts the seven years he spent on and off in Iraq between 2003 and 2015 working to rebuild the oil sector.

Between 2000 and 2015, 50 million Muslim women joined the global work force, raising the total to 150 million, with a combined income of $1 trillion.

This collection of hundreds of excerpts from interviews of refugees who have fled the violence that has gripped Syria since 2011 makes for sickening, although...

Bechev introduces a sophisticated and cool-headed corrective to the crude image of Russian foreign policy favored by much of the Western press.

The story of Stalin’s terror is well known, except for one dimension: the fate of those among the tormentors who were themselves swept into the meat grinder.

From 1973 to 1988, Verdery, an anthropologist, spent a total of nearly four years conducting field research in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romania.