Category: International Relations

January 19, 2011

What do Americans Think of China?

With Hu Jintao visiting the United States this week, Barack Obama will have to navigate a variety of both international and domestic issues. How does China’s rise as an economic and military power affect the American public? Conventional wisdom often...

November 11, 2010

Siddharth Kara Wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize

We were very excited to learn that Siddharth Kara won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. The prize goes to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition....

August 16, 2010

Charli Carpenter on WikiLeaks

In a recent Foreign Policy article on the recent release by WikiLeaks of documents pertaining to the U.S. war in Afghanistan , Charli Carpenter, author of Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond,...

August 3, 2010

Feminist Review discusses Forgetting Children Born of War

In a recent post the Feminist Review discusses R. Charli Carpenter’s new book, Forgetting Children Born of War. The book explores why the human rights community does so little to protect children born as a result of rape during war....

June 28, 2010

Siddharth Kara's "Sex Trafficking" now available in paperback

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara is now available in paperback. The book has been one of our most critically acclaimed and bestselling titles over the last couple of years. More important, the book and...

April 12, 2010

Avner Cohen and Joseph Cirincione on the Nuclear Summit

The historic two-day nuclear summit is getting underway in Washington but not without a few, if not many, questions hanging over the event. One of the most controversial developments in the days leading up to the meeting was Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

February 23, 2010

The China we're stuck with — A post by Warren I Cohen

The following is a post from Warren I. Cohen, author of America’s Response to China, Fifth Edition: A History of Sino-American Relations In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a Chinese emissary of America’s hope for a strong, stable, and...

January 4, 2010

The myth of "Chindia" — An interview with Jonathan Holslag

At the end of the year, Jonathan Holslag, author of China and India: Prospects for Peace, was interviewed in the Wall Street Journal about the relationship between the two nations that many feel will be increasingly prominent in the coming...

December 7, 2009

James Igoe Walsh takes the page 99 test

Taking Ford Maddox Ford’s suggestion to heart (“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you”), The Page 99 Test asks authors to focus in on this particular page. Recently...

December 2, 2009

Views on Afghanistan and the Taliban

Last night, President Obama articulated his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, which is now in its eighth year. Needless to say, the complicated nature of Afghan politics, which is characterized by both change and chaos as well as...

November 13, 2009

More discussion of The Aid Trap

Interest in R. Glenn Hubbard’s The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty continues to grow as evidenced by his recent appearance on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo and a recent and much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed. Here is Hubbard discussing...

October 28, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard, Jeffrey Sachs, and others on rebuilding war-torn socieites

Last Friday, R. Glenn Hubbard, author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, participated in a conference on how to rebuild war-torn societies, with specific attention paid to Africa and Afghanistan. Video portions of the conference, including remarks...