Sea Power: Then and Now
June 26, 2024
Evan Mawdsley— Sea power is back in the news. In April 2022, the cruiser Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. Since last November, American and British warships have actively… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Writing a History of Ignorance
April 30, 2024
Peter Burke— Since the 1990s, a new kind of history has been flourishing: the history of knowledge—or better, the history of different kinds of knowledge, knowledges in the plural. Turning… READ MORE
The Sky Turns Black from Smoke
March 14, 2024
Marci Shore— The Sky Turns Black from Smoke Close to midnight on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, twenty-one-year-old Misha Martynenko, reeking of smoke, returned to the Kiev apartment he shared with… READ MORE
Who Can Possess Political Truth?
February 23, 2024
Robert D. Kaplan— Tiresias, the old, blind seer, the prophet who knows better than anyone else the will of the gods, is a recurring character in Greek mythology. “Mine is… READ MORE
Western Assets in Russia and Globalization’s Collapse
February 15, 2024
Elisabeth Braw— The globalization love story involving Russia and the West is definitely over. In response to a plan by Group of Seven (G7) governments to seize assets belonging to… READ MORE
A Woodworker, a Blacksmith, and Suspicious State Secrets
December 19, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter— According to recent reports, a woodworker, maid, and plumber may be among those called to testify against former U.S. President Donald Trump as he stands trial for… READ MORE
Ep. 126 — Do States Act Rationally?
November 22, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato about How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Starting with a… READ MORE
Archival Parallels: Donald Trump and Jefferson Davis
November 7, 2023
Yael A. Sternhell— Early in his presidency, commentators began calling Donald Trump “the first Confederate president.”1 There were obvious reasons why the sobriquet seemed to take—Trump spoke in a language… READ MORE
Migration and the End of Empire
October 5, 2023
Peter Heather — However you line up the different factors involved, there’s no doubt that immigration played a major role in the unraveling of the western half of the Roman… READ MORE
China Has Peaked? It Can Still Change World Order
September 28, 2023
John M. Owen IV— The smart money, it seems, is now saying that China has peaked. The slowing of the country’s economic growth is starting to seem like more than a… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life