Ranked #1
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air... Read more
12 Aug 2023
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52mins
Ranked #2
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the communi... Read more
30 Jul 2023
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1hr 8mins
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Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)
In Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (Fordham UP, 2022), Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technic... Read more
30 Jul 2023
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49mins
Ranked #4
Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publicat... Read more
24 Jul 2023
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41mins
Ranked #5
Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and p... Read more
23 Jul 2023
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35mins
Ranked #6
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
In Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Duke University Press, 2022) Dr. Penny ... Read more
19 Jul 2023
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1hr 27mins
Ranked #7
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that near... Read more
14 Jul 2023
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #8
Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)
Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)
The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan — America’s longest and one of its most frustrating — serves as a vivid ... Read more
1 Jul 2023
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38mins
Ranked #9
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly esc... Read more
30 Jun 2023
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1hr 19mins
Ranked #10
Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 (Stanford UP, 2023) investigates the political and social imaginaries of... Read more
22 Jun 2023
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1hr 3mins