Book cover of Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation by Mona El-Ghobashy
Africa

Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation

Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt’s 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos, military communiqués, open letters, constitutional contentions, protest slogans, parliamentary debates, and court decisions. […Learn More]

Book cover of The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth by Michael Mandelbaum
History

The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. To be sure, wars took place in this era, but less frequently and on a far smaller scale than in previous periods. […Learn More]

Book cover of Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall by Margaret E. Roberts
International & World Politics

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in China

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be easily evaded by savvy internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be enormously effective. Taking advantage of digital data harvested from the Chinese internet and leaks from China’s Propaganda Department, Roberts sheds light on how censorship influences the Chinese public. […Learn More]