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New Books in National Security

Marshall Poe
Cold War
China
National Security
Russia
World War II
Vietnam War
United States
Iran
International Relations
Ukraine
Human Rights
Iraq
Counterinsurgency
NATO
India
Syria
CIA
Terrorism
Israel
Democracy

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In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising powers like India and China are reshaping global peace governance. Over recent decades, both countries ha... more

The opening of Iraq's Ba'th

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the world's most impenetrable autocracies. Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Re... more

Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025)

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ambitious edited collection encourages readers to think in bigger ways

about the global Second World War. That includes a wid... more

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contributions have been all but written out of history. Now, drawing on private and previously-classified do... more

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Monalisa Adhikari
Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling
University of Stirling
Episode: Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Claire Hubbard-Hall
Historian and author specializing in women in intelligence
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Episode: Claire Hubbard-Hall, "Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024)
Kirill Shamiev
Associate Analyst, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Episode: Kirill Shamiev, "Imperfect Equilibrium: Civil-Military Relations in Russian Defense Policymaking" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Richard Bennet
Senior Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland
University of Maryland
Episode: Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
Alex Noyes
Co-author of War at Arm's Length
Yale University Press / academic researcher
Episode: Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
Witold Henisz
Professor of Management at the Wharton School, co-author
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Episode: Witold J. Henisz, "Geostrategy by Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)
Damien Van Puyvelde
Associate Professor and Head of the Intelligence and Security Research Group at Leiden University; Research Fellow at Strategic Research Institute of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces
Leiden University; Strategic Research Institute of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces
Episode: Damien Van Puyvelde, "The DGSE: A Concise History of France's Foreign Intelligence Service" (Georgetown UP, 2026)
Jeffrey Whyte
Lecturer in International Relations
Lancaster University
Episode: Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Charlie Glaser
Professor, Senior Fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program; author of Retrench, Defend, Compete
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: Charles L. Glaser, "Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China" (Cornell UP, 2025)

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Eleonora Mattiacci
Host of The New Books Network interview series; affiliated with Amherst College.

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4.3 out of 5 stars from 59 ratings
  • National Security - the Traditional and the Holistic

    A previous reviewer criticized the “left-leaning” direction of some of the authors’ texts. Some of them are very left-leaning and do not at first come under the “traditional" topic of “National Security” - strategy, geopolitics, military history, arms and arms control, nuclear weapons, etc. written by practitioners in the discipline.

    The left leaning works are more “holistic” in nature and do not usually fit within the previously defined constructs of National Security. They are usually authore... more

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    Dan7013
    United States6 years ago
  • fake name, hard left political hatchet job.

    I listened to five podcasts all were mislabeled. Three were actually introduced as "Latino Studies" , another dealt with a High Scholl course in NY which tought police work to kids ( veridct was of course "bad" ). What all podcats had in common was a regressive left narrative and how the hard left deals with and aproaches police related matter. If you are a National Security professional, you will not recognize yourself as this is never talked about. Looks like Marxist academics took over the po... more

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    Daniel Berlin Brigade
    United States10 years ago
  • Very interesting selection of books/authors!

    Really enjoy this podcast. I like that both scholars and practitioners are interviewed for their insights.

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    5
    Susancarruth
    Canada11 years ago
  • Good podcast

    This is a informative and fascinating podcast. I highly recommend it.

    Apple Podcasts
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    nbamendola
    United States12 years ago

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Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Q: What are the global implications of having two competing models of peacebuilding—liberal and post-liberal?
The guest discusses how increased non-Western engagement fractures the global consensus on international support, while also potentially energizing forgotten peace initiatives; hedging by elites can benefit national leaders at the expense of marginalized groups.
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Q: What does post-liberal conflict management look like in practice?
The guest outlines five core features of post-liberal conflict management—state-centric orientation, emphasis on stability and development, leadership by national and regional actors, normative ambivalence toward liberal principles, and a pragmatic, context-driven approach with little formal institutionalization.
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Q: Can you give us a brief overview of the liberal peace model?
The guest describes the liberal peace model as the dominant post-Cold War framework that promoted democracy, rule of law, and liberal economy as pathways to peace, but notes critiques about its effectiveness and the way it has been implemented.
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off please by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book? What kinds of questions did you want to investigate?
The author explains that the project grew out of doctoral research and focuses on three central questions about how emerging powers engage in peace processes, how their engagement interacts with liberal peace-building projects, and how this shapes domestic political settlements in conflict-affected states.
Rory Cormac, "Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: What were some of the key challenges the IRD faced in making propaganda credible across different local contexts?
A major challenge was the lack of local knowledge; writers, often refugees with language and cultural insight, had to craft messages that resonated locally while maintaining an appearance of authenticity, which was difficult and sometimes produced absurd or overtly biased outputs.

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A scholarly interview series that centers on newly published academic books and research in security, defense, and international affairs. Episodes cover topics such as psychological warfare, grand strategy, arms control, NATO stability policing, Arctic geopolitics, civil-war peacekeeping, and the history of U.S. intelligence, often pairing a book author with a host who guides rigorous, theory-driven conversations and concrete historical or policy implications. The show tends to blend deep academic analysis with practical policy insights, featuring researchers, historians, and policy analysts who situate their work within broader geopolitical trends and contemporary security challenges. Noteworthy qualities include a consistent emphasis on h... more

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