Category: Politics

January 9, 2018

An Introduction to Rethinking Investment Incentives

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. This video, by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), introduces the book and how it explores the...

October 22, 2017

Safwan Masri on the success of Tunisian democracy after the Arab Spring

Watch four videos from Safwan M. Masri’s recent talk at George Washington University in support of his new book, TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY.

October 19, 2017

Tunisia and the Arab Spring

Listen to an interview with Safwan M. Masri, author of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY!

October 18, 2017

A Different Trajectory

Read an excerpt from chapter 14 of TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

October 17, 2017

Introducing Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Read an introductory excerpt from TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY, by Safwan M. Masri, with a foreword by Lisa Anderson!

September 28, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Conflict between North and South Korea, on an Intimate Scale

Welcome to the Columbia University Press Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD candidate at Columbia University, reflects on Yi Mun-yol’s novel Meeting with My Brother and current events. Are you confused by the barrage of threats launched...

September 8, 2017

A Media Roundup for Making Sense of the Alt-Right

Track the many ongoing discussions of the Alt-Right with a media roundup for MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley.

September 7, 2017

The "Alt-Lite"

Read an excerpt from MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley, on the “fellow travelers” of the Alt-Right movement, dubbed the “Alt-Lite,” and explains why making this distinction is crucial in coming to an accurate view of the Alt-Right!

September 6, 2017

The Long History of White Nationalism in America

Read an excerpt, originally posted by LitHub, on the difficulty of tracing the lineage of the Alt-Right due to the complexity of the history of white nationalism in the U.S., from MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley.

September 5, 2017

Introducing Making Sense of the Alt-Right

Read an excerpt from the introduction to MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, by George Hawley!

September 1, 2017

The Forgotten World of Communist Bookstores

Read an article that originally appeared in Jacobin Magazine by Joshua Clark Davis, author of FROM HEAD SHOPS TO WHOLE FOODS!

July 28, 2017

Horror, Disbelief, and Shame

Read an excerpt from the chapter on Huey Newton from STRUGGLE ON THEIR MINDS: THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RESISTANCE, by Alex Zamalin!