The quest to fix the United Nations is almost as old as the organization itself. Eighty years ago, Allied leaders imagined a ...

Those precise drone strikes were a sign of things to come. More than two years into the war, the TB2 is still a fixture of ...

When the Pew Research Center asked Americans last year to name the best presidents of recent decades, Republicans and ...

Mullaney’s spirited narrative, half detective story, half history of technology, is a sequel to his equally fascinating book ...

Patomaki wonders whether it is possible for future generations to build a system of world government capable of grappling with planetary-scale threats.

Two studies offer fascinating portraits of the increasingly sophisticated and networked world of autocracy, dictatorship, and tyranny.

This book by Dallara, the former managing director of the Institute of International Finance, is part blow-by-blow account of the Greek debt crisis that started in 2009 and part memoir.

Peri’s book documents the discovery of thousands of letters between Soviet and American women dating from 1943 to 1953.

This crisply written, deeply researched, and clearly argued book examines what the authors dub the United Kingdom’s “corruption services industry.” ...

In his thorough historical exploration of memorials and magnificent edifices in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Kalashnikov argues that the frenzy of monument building and grand architectural projects was ...

Drawing on the experiences of the once vibrant and vital nationalist parties of Egypt and Morocco, Fenner traces the decline of mass movements that won their countries’ independence yet deteriorated ...

The authors of this nonpartisan analysis of the economic and financial challenges facing the United States identify neglected aspects of public debts and deficits, investment in the country’s youth, ...