How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It marshals staggering evidence of the extent to which the United States has become an “oldigarchy” and offers solutions.

Yana Skorobogatov examines the death penalty in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, from the mid-1950s to 1991, in Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union.

The Rise of Qatar in Conflict Mediation, Sansom Milton and Ghassan Elkahlout argue that recent endeavors in peacemaking in Venezuela and Ukraine are of a piece with Qatar’s higher-profile conflict ...

Cognitive, Interpretive, and Explanatory Challenges, Georgiy Kasianov, a prominent historian, traces how the Holodomor has been remembered: from its return to open discussion in the late 1980s, ...

The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit and whether risks can be managed. In 1957, following the Soviet Sputnik launch, U.

An Insider’s Playbook for Winning in the New Era, Joe Ngai and Nick Leung insist that China is open for business even when many multinationals are trying to pull out.

An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy by Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown is an accessible and breezy explainer on international trade and commercial conflict.

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s intimate chronicle, delivers fresh insight into the level of chaos in Trump’s Oval Office and its stunning impact on ...

The Power of Uncertainty, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that modern Western society has built its institutions and worldviews on assumptions of rationality and predictability, failing to confront a ...

America in the Age of Violent Populism, Robert A. Pape, an expert on political violence around the world whose research mines large data sets, argues that a new age is dawning in the United States: an ...

This obsession with wielding and countering chokepoint power may seem sudden, but it has evolved over the last quarter century as a byproduct of globalization itself. As economies integrated, ...

China’s “Rejuvenation” of Its Memory, Volker Stanzel argues that the Chinese Communist Party’s power stems not only from coercion and economic performance but also from its ability to set language ...