980 Episodes

  1. Robert Dallek, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life” (Viking, 2017)

    Published: 7/12/2018
  2. Sarah Snyder, “From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed Foreign Policy”

    Published: 7/3/2018
  3. Michael Belgrave, “Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885” (Auckland UP, 2017)

    Published: 6/29/2018
  4. Odd Arne Westad, “The Cold War: A World History” (Basic Books, 2017)

    Published: 6/13/2018
  5. Matthew Karp, “This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at The Helm of American Foreign Policy” (Harvard UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/14/2018
  6. Nancy Mitchell, “Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War” (Stanford UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/9/2018
  7. Jessica Elkind, “Aid Under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War” (U Kentucky Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/9/2018
  8. Colin G. Calloway, “The Indian World of George Washington” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 5/7/2018
  9. Kathlene Baldanza, “Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/7/2018
  10. Ji-Young Lee, “China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination” (Columbia UP, 2017)

    Published: 5/3/2018
  11. Harlan Ullman, “Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts” (Naval Institute Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/2/2018
  12. Max Boot, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam” (Liveright, 2018)

    Published: 4/13/2018
  13. Daniel Bessner, “Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual” (Cornell UP, 2018)

    Published: 4/11/2018
  14. Katrin Paehler, “The Third Reich’s Intelligence Service: The Career of Walter Schellenberg” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

    Published: 4/6/2018
  15. William R. Polk, “Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North” (Yale UP, 2018)

    Published: 4/6/2018
  16. David A. Hollinger, “Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World and Changed America” (Princeton UP, 2017).

    Published: 4/6/2018
  17. Antony G. Hopkins, “American Empire: A Global History” (Princeton UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/19/2018
  18. David Narrett, “Adventurism and Empire” (UNC Press, 2015)

    Published: 2/23/2018
  19. Brian Jenkins, “Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War” (McGill-Queens UP, 2014)

    Published: 2/8/2018
  20. David Stevenson, “1917: War, Peace, and Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 1/22/2018

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Interviews with scholars of diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics about their new books.