Japan Decides 2024
December 1, 2025
The 2024 election was historic, with Japan’s long-ruling LDP suffering its second worst showing at the ballot box since it was founded.
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Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America’s Most Controversial Decision
January 27, 2025
The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important – and perhaps most controversial – event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many
The Yoga of Power
October 17, 2024
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. This
Rethinking U.S. World Power
July 8, 2024
Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World
What Side Are You On?
April 9, 2024
Renowned human rights activist Michael “Mike” Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, and the legacies of colonialism. From a childhood in the
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
April 2, 2024
South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation’s economy. Leader Park Chung Hee’s sense of backwardness and
The Oxford Handbook of Space Security
March 26, 2024
Space security is a complex assemblage of societal risks and benefits that result from space-based capabilities and is currently in a period of transformation as innovative processes are rapidly changing
The Age of Charisma
November 7, 2023
Charisma encompasses power, popularity, and influence. Yet behind the curtain, complexity, chaos, and insecurity lurk. Examining the lives of charismatic personalities in a variety of fields (religion, entertainment, business, sects,
What Ukraine Taught NATO About Hybrid Warfare
October 20, 2023
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced the United States and its NATO partners to be confronted with the impact of hybrid warfare far beyond the battlefield. Targeting Europe’s energy
Countering Terrorism on Tomorrow’s Battlefield
October 20, 2023
Every day, malicious actors target emerging technologies and medical resilience or seek to wreak havoc in the wake of disasters brought on by climate change, energy insecurity, and supply-chain disruptions.