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New Books in World Affairs

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The Politics Of Evaluation
International Organizations
United Nations
United States
Bureaucratic Influence
Evaluation Politics
NATO
Philippines
China
Sustainable Development Goals
Cold War
Decolonization
Democracy
Taiwan
Us-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
Eurasia
Eurafrica
Afroasia
Artificial Intelligence
Global Power Dynamics

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While decolonization liberated territories, it left the root causes of historical injustice unaddressed. Governance change did not address past wrongs and transferred injustice through political and financial architectures.

In Calibrating Colonial C... more

From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no longer a check on power or a source of objective information but a means by which governments and... more

Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the effects of polarization on domestic politics, little is known about how polarization influences intern... more

Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ores for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it ... more

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R. Jisung Park
Assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania researching the effects of the natural environment on labor markets and human capital outcomes.
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Episode: R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Deborah Gordon
Senior Principal in the Climate Intelligence Program at RMI and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University
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Episode: Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Piotr Pietrzak
Co-founder of In Statu Nascendi Think Tank, political thinker, author, and trained ontologist.
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Episode: Piotr Pietrzak, "Strengthening International Relations Through Transformative Theory and Practice" (Information Science Reference, 2025)
Dr. Gustav Meibauer
Assistant professor in international relations at Radeveld University
Radeveld University
Episode: Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
Fara Dabhoiwala
Historian and senior research scholar at Princeton University
Princeton University
Episode: What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
Maria Fedorova
Author and scholar with a background in history and agriculture
Author of 'Seeds of Exchange'
Episode: Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
Tyler Jost
Assistant professor at Brown University, focused on Chinese foreign policy and international security.
Brown University
Episode: Tyler Jost, "Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dr. Susannah Fisher
A researcher at University College London focused on adapting to climate change.
University College London
Episode: Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Thea Riofrancos
Author and academic focused on energy politics and green capitalism.
W. W. Norton
Episode: Thea Riofrancos, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

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  • Slanted against Russia and ignoring Corporate control of capitalist economies and disinterested in the countries of the Global South. Monopoly financial capitalism is almost wholly dismissed as a factor in the collapse of "liberal" ideology.

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    3 years ago
  • Slanted against Russia and ignoring Corporate control of capitalist economies and disinterested in the countries of the Global South. Monopoly financial capitalism is almost wholly dismissed as a factor in the collapse of "liberal" ideology.

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Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write the book, what questions you're asking in it, what's the origins and developments of this project?
I wanted to connect industry and innovation with the aspect of empire and the exploitation of land, seeing connections between them as my research progressed.
R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: What does this active hope really look like for you?
He emphasizes the importance of recognizing that there is still time to make a difference in climate action, both in mitigation and adaptation efforts.
R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: How has your personal connection to nature shaped the way you understand our relationship with the planet?
Park states that his experiences in nature have informed his questions about climate change and the link between the environment and human well-being.
R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: How does heat affect the way we work, study, or even think?
He highlights that hotter temperatures can significantly impact student exam performance, labor productivity, and even local crime rates.
R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: Your book explores the deeper, sometimes hidden consequences of climate warming. What are some of those slow-moving impacts?
He explains that they include increased temperatures affecting agricultural productivity, labor performance, crime rates, and health implications from wildfire smoke.

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