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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

In 1971, as the international monetary system was on the brink of collapse, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally told a group of worried European finance ministers that the dollar was “our currency, ...

Over the last decade, India has drawn ever closer to the United States, tentatively aligning itself with Washington as it continues to eschew formal alliances. This approach has paid off, securing U.S ...

This obsession with wielding and countering chokepoint power may seem sudden, but it has evolved over the last quarter century as a byproduct of globalization itself. As economies integrated, ...

How Trump Voters Seized the Party From Republican Leaders, Seth Masket, a political scientist, conducted extensive interviews and surveys throughout 2021 and 2024 with the Republican officials ...

Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and U.S. Policy in the Asia-Pacific, 1898–1972, Giuseppe Paparella sets out to explain how American presidents’ nationalist belief systems have shaped foreign policy ...

Understanding Pakistan’s Strategic Debates, edited by Christopher Clary and Sameer Lalwani, is an important tour of Islamabad’s views on all kinds of issues, including relations with China, India, and ...