Fall 2024

Amaney Jamal’s concise and thought-provoking book stands in a long and somewhat depressing tradition in the study of political change. Since the late 1950s, when political scientists and area specialists began studying the development of state institutions and party systems …

Paul Kennedy does not shy away from large subjects. He is the author of, among many other works, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, which charted Europe’s extraordinary ascendancy …