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.

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.

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, ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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.

The Rise of Qatar in Conflict Mediation, Sansom Milton and Ghassan Elkahlout argue that recent endeavors in peacemaking in Venezuela and Ukraine are of a piece with Qatar’s higher-profile conflict ...

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 ...

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.

An Insider’s Playbook for Winning in the New Era, Joe Ngai and Nick Leung insist that China is open for business even when many multinationals are trying to pull out.