July 30, 2021

Regulating Family Offices Is Not the Answer

By Bill Woodson

The recent financial collapse of Archegos Capital Management and the corresponding multi-billion-dollar losses incurred by financial services firms that extended them credit, coupled with the market disruption caused by the panic selling needed to meet margin calls, has resurfaced a...

July 30, 2021

Browse Our AoM 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Myles Thompson

Socially distanced greetings, I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing. Because we are meeting virtually this year, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Press Blog. I...

July 28, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Business and Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice in order to...

July 26, 2021

The Complicated Legacy of Black Patriotism

By Justene Hill Edwards

Black people have been in the United States since before its founding. Though they have fought in every major military conflict in American history, African Americans have engaged in an uphill battle to force this nation to uphold the lofty...

July 23, 2021

Five Extraordinary Discoveries That Will Change the Way You Look at Fossils Forever

By Dr. Dean R. Lomax

Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: How did these animals actually behave? From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, Locked in Time: Animal...

July 22, 2021

To Make The World Porous: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

This week, I read blog posts from other academic presses through the lens of “opening” and all the things that can mean. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS TO LOOSEN THE BOUNDS OF THINGS… I arrived at this post’s project after reading...

July 20, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Sociology Catalog

Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. The books in this catalog exemplify the quality of scholarship that we prize, and they...

July 8, 2021

History Informs the Present: An AUP RoundUP

By Olivia Treynor

In my inaugural Columbia University Press Blog post, I thought it would be appropriate to think about the ways history informs the present. After all, I’m picking up where our previous bloggers left off, providing weekly thoughts on and highlights...

June 17, 2021

Challenged Friendships in Challenging Times

From the Introduction to U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century

By Abraham Denmark

As the twenty-first century seems to be dominated by great power competition between China and the United States, everyone wonders whether war will come and how to avoid it. In U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century: Empowering Allies and Partners,...

June 17, 2021

Camp Century in a Changing Arctic

By Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen

When Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken paid an official visit to the Kingdom of Denmark on May 16–20, 2021, he engaged with ministers from the Danish, Faroese, and Greenlandic governments. We know that they discussed bilateral ties and joint...

June 17, 2021

Which Way for the Biden/Blinken World Liberal Order?

By Leon Fink

In the spring 2017, Antony Blinken, then a resident fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, taught a seminar on America’s role in the world. Against a background of growing doubt among many Americans about the advantages of...

June 17, 2021

Browse Our SHAFR 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Stephen Wesley

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on...