IRAN'S LOOK EAST POLICY edited by Mehran Kamrava is the first systematic analysis of the causes, manifestations, and consequences of Iran's "Look East" policy. #Iran #Policy #Geopolitics Learn more here: https://ow.ly/X9ge50XxLoA

Thank you! 🙏🏾 Much love to @cornellupress.bsky.social 🫶🏾

Or @edebruin.bsky.social's study of coup prevention. 7/ @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

A huge amount of research shows that leaders balancing external and internal threats/interests usually prioritize the latter, esp. with their own armies. E.g. see @proftalmadge.bsky.social's great book The Dictator's Army @cornellupress.bsky.social 6/ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

RESTLESS QUIETISTS by Matteo Benussi asks “How does Islamic virtue become attractive to young urbanites in predominantly secular societies?” and “What makes #religion perturbing in the eyes of temporal authorities?”. #IslamicStudies #Anthropology Learn more here 👉 https://ow.ly/M07x50XxKOY

In WINNING IT BACK, David A. Crockett explores why presidents who promise to set things aright—to "restore"—so often usher in the opposite. #Politics #History #Presidents Learn more here: https://ow.ly/6IKl50XxK3N

CARIBBEAN BLOOD PACTS by Aaron Coy Moulton shows how the transnational counterrevolution against the Guatemalan Revolution became a lesson for those who spent the next decades fighting the region's dictatorships in the shadow of the Cold War. #History Learn more here: https://ow.ly/iCvU50XxJKT

THE FRENCH MÉDERSA by Samuel D. Anderson explores how the French state pursued a century-long project of bicultural Franco-Muslim education in its northwest African colonies, resulting in a new type of school, the médersa. #History #Africa Learn more here: 📚✨ https://ow.ly/Y00C50XxJB5

🌏 RETRENCH, DEFEND, COMPETE by Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking strategy for securing US interests amid China’s rise and outlines how to manage the world’s most consequential geopolitical rivalry—before it’s too late. #USChina #Geopolitics Learn more: https://ow.ly/ITgB50XlRLZ

🌍 NORMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Second Edition) by Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid and considers its impact on how we grapple with race and racism in international relations today. #InternationalRelations #Race #Apartheid Learn more here: https://ow.ly/RS9w50XlR2c

In WHEN REBELS WIN, @kaimthaler.bsky.social explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

WHEN THE CITY STOPPED: STORIES FROM NEW YORK'S ESSENTIAL WORKERS by Robert Snyder included in The Best Books of 2025 by @newyorker.com #ThreeHills Read more: www.newyorker.com/best-books-2... @rws2025.bsky.social

🇺🇸 ORCHESTRATING POWER by Nathan K. Finney examines how the American state expanded for WWI through the Council of Defense system—revealing how local decisions drove national mobilization. #WWI #History #AmericanHistory #Governance Learn more here: https://ow.ly/XhJC50XlQ2n

“Entangled Alliances is an original look at how the American Revolution affected [Haiti] the Caribbean world’s most profitable slave colony.” 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Grateful for this review of my book with @cornellupress.bsky.social in the Journal of the American Revolution. 📚 allthingsliberty.com/2025/12/enta...

🌍 AFTER BARBARY by Timothy Mason Roberts traces how Algeria became a key site in the making of the American and French empires—from the Barbary Wars through decolonization. #History #Empires #France #Algeria #USHistory Learn more here: https://ow.ly/NEuI50XlPNL

A HUDSON VALLEY RECKONING tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past. Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... @debrabruno.bsky.social

🌏 THE FUTURE IS FOREIGN by Hilary Holbrow investigates how elite Japanese firms are responding to population decline—and how labor shortages are reshaping gender, immigration, and inequality in Japan. #Japan #Sociology #Inequality #Workplace Learn more here ⬇️ https://ow.ly/XaFT50XlPpX

💻 DIGITAL INITIATION RITES by Vita Peacock explores how digital technologies shaped the lives and political transformations of Anonymous participants in Britain between 2014 and 2017. #VitaPeacock #Anthropology #DigitalMedia #Anonymous Learn more here: https://ow.ly/32f550XlzVI

Humbled to see my book with @cornellupress.bsky.social alongside works by some of my favorite authors. 🙏🏾📚🙌🏾

🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights Learn more here ⬇️ https://ow.ly/ljY050XlP8w

On this day, December 18, in 1893, Albert Pullman died. Would the 1894 Pullman strike have been averted had he lived? @cornellupress.bsky.social @chicagomuseum.bsky.social @iowastatehistory.bsky.social

New #BookReview #ScandinavianStudies Kendra Willson reviews Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia by Stephen A. Mitchell @cornellupress.bsky.social 2023 doi.org/10.1080/0361...

🏠 THE FUTURE OF HIDING by Francisco Martínez analyzes the territorial dimensions of secrecy and how concealment unfolds around energy infrastructure and identity politics in eastern Estonia. #Anthropology 📘 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/5E7A50XlzIW

📣Learn more about some of the titles we are releasing this month 📚 > www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...

🎭 SHAKESPEARE AND LOSS by Sarah Beckwith explores how, in #Shakespeare's late tragedies, the most fundamental forms of understanding and life that bind human communities together—grieving, loving, giving, acting and doing—can become dangerously obscure. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/nN9N50XlzTI

Now available! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Still hunting for holidays gifts for a social scientist, global policy professional, or other person interested in conflict & international affairs? When Rebels Win is now officially out from @cornellupress.bsky.social! Use code 09BCARD for 30% off www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Thanks American Antiquarian Society for highlighting my book with @cornellupress.bsky.social alongside new works by other phenomenal AAS fellows. 📚

Daniela R. P. Weiner will discuss her book, TEACHING A DARK CHAPTER: HISTORY BOOKS AND THE HOLOCAUST IN ITALY AND THE GERMANYS, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. #SaveTheDate January 29, 2025 More info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/kaplan-brauer-lecture-daniela-r-p-weiner/

💀 THIS BODY OF DEATH by Eileen Sperry explores how early modern English lyric poetry reshapes our understanding of mortality—not as a single event, but as ongoing decay and instability in the here and now. #Poetry #DisabilityStudies #Shakespeare Learn more here ⬇️ https://ow.ly/Q1Ua50XlzPp

Check out the books we are publishing this month! ❄️ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...

🕯️ A MOST QUIET MURDER by Susannah Wilson examines the death of a five-year-old girl in late nineteenth-century France, unfolding the mystery through judicial investigations, psychiatric evaluations, and a dramatic trial for murder. #TrueCrime #History 🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/lrUm50Xlzsz

📖 ALLEGORIES OF FORMAT by Malika Maskarinec examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of nineteenth-century Swiss author Gottfried Keller, best known for his 1855 novel Green Henry (Der grüne Heinrich). #LiteraryStudies #Media #Publishing Discover more: https://ow.ly/mM1250XlzAc

Out officially on Monday!

My chat with @civicspod.bsky.social about *Entangled Alliances* published by @cornellupress.bsky.social was pure joy. I hope you enjoy our conversation. ⬇️📚🎙️

🌏 RETRENCH, DEFEND, COMPETE by Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking strategy for securing US interests amid China’s rise and outlines how to manage the world’s most consequential geopolitical rivalry—before it’s too late. #USChina #Geopolitics Learn more: https://ow.ly/ITgB50XlRLZ

🔥 WHEN REBELS WIN by Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways—and how ideology, not just resources, explains whether wars destroy or build states. #CivilWar #Politics Learn more here: https://ow.ly/ANhy50XlRoi

Peter Ekman, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism - @cornellupress.bsky.social, November 2024 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

📖 It’s official 🥳 Second edition of Norms in International Relations is out! @cornellupress.bsky.social #norms #apartheid #racism #SouthAfrica #HumanRights Grateful to fabulous editor Jackie Teoh and colleagues who provided great suggestions 🙏

🌍 NORMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Second Edition) by Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid and considers its impact on how we grapple with race and racism in international relations today. #InternationalRelations #Race #Apartheid Learn more here: https://ow.ly/RS9w50XlR2c

GHOSTS AND THINGS BY @abriefel.bsky.social argues that #Victorians turned to the dead to understand the material culture of their present. Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #BookSky #Spiritualism

🇺🇸 ORCHESTRATING POWER by Nathan K. Finney examines how the American state expanded for WWI through the Council of Defense system—revealing how local decisions drove national mobilization. #WWI #History #AmericanHistory #Governance Learn more here: https://ow.ly/XhJC50XlQ2n

Check out my latest post for the @cornellupress.bsky.social blog!

🌍 AFTER BARBARY by Timothy Mason Roberts traces how Algeria became a key site in the making of the American and French empires—from the Barbary Wars through decolonization. #History #Empires #France #Algeria #USHistory Learn more here: https://ow.ly/NEuI50XlPNL

Excited "Orchestrating Power" made the 2025 book list for the great team @contingent-mag.bsky.social! contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2... @cornellupress.bsky.social @milwritersguild.bsky.social @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social

ENCOUNTERING RACE IN ALBANIA is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. 🔗Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/what-albania-can-teach-us-about-race/ @chelsiwo.bsky.social

🌏 THE FUTURE IS FOREIGN by Hilary Holbrow investigates how elite Japanese firms are responding to population decline—and how labor shortages are reshaping gender, immigration, and inequality in Japan. #Japan #Sociology #Inequality #Workplace Learn more here ⬇️ https://ow.ly/XaFT50XlPpX

💻 DIGITAL INITIATION RITES by Vita Peacock explores how digital technologies shaped the lives and political transformations of Anonymous participants in Britain between 2014 and 2017. #VitaPeacock #Anthropology #DigitalMedia #Anonymous Learn more here: https://ow.ly/32f550XlzVI

🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights Learn more here ⬇️ https://ow.ly/ljY050XlP8w