Dima Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities, examines a large-scale shift in Russia’s strategic thinking over the past year ...

From Hiroshima to the Age of Algorithms, John Arquilla laments the U.S. government’s fixation on nuclear weapons, airpower, and computational analytics, which has prevented its officials from grasping ...

How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It marshals staggering evidence of the extent to which the United States has become an “oldigarchy” and offers solutions.

The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit and whether risks can be managed. In 1957, following the Soviet Sputnik launch, U.

Maartje Abbenhuis describes how exploding bullets came to be seen as uniquely barbaric and how they influenced the laws of war.

Migration and Race on the Russia-China Border, Lauren Woodard, an anthropologist, investigates the effects of a repatriation program in Primorye, a region bordering China and North Korea, where the ...

Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money by Brendan Greeley provides a novel addition to the expanding shelf of volumes on the past, present, and future of the U.S. dollar.

Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Decline of Modern Russia, Mikhail Fishman draws on his experience as a political journalist to chronicle Russia’s journey since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Yana Skorobogatov examines the death penalty in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, from the mid-1950s to 1991, in Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union.

Cognitive, Interpretive, and Explanatory Challenges, Georgiy Kasianov, a prominent historian, traces how the Holodomor has been remembered: from its return to open discussion in the late 1980s, ...

America in the Age of Violent Populism, Robert A. Pape, an expert on political violence around the world whose research mines large data sets, argues that a new age is dawning in the United States: an ...

The Power of Uncertainty, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that modern Western society has built its institutions and worldviews on assumptions of rationality and predictability, failing to confront a ...