In their book, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, Hal Brands and Michael Beckley argue that China is passing its economic peak. It is this factor that may be more dangerous than a rising China, and that conflict may happen sooner than most believe.

This important book returns the rich and contextually valuable perspectives of different peoples to the policy forefront. The broad divisiveness witnessed globally, but with specific emphasis on democratic nations, could be better managed if we were all willing to be a little foxier. 

The latest book by Richard Hanania examines American historic and contemporary foreign policy decisions through the lens of public choice theory. When it comes to decisions about national security, often the outsized role of foreign actors, weapons manufacturers, and bureaucrats is the deciding factor. 

It has recently become fashionable in Washington and other defence and foreign policy establishments to view China as eternally devious. Susan Shirk rejects this as historical revisionism, emphasising how domestic politics have pushed China towards overreach.

Julia Margaret Zulver’s  High-Risk Feminism in Colombia comes at just the right moment. Over the last decade, Latin America’s bottom-up feminist movements have begun again to rise to the forefront of advancing gender justice in the world.

The IAEA’s safeguards system defends human civilisation. Trevor Findlay’s book casts new light on one of humanity's greatest achievements, enabling a non-specialist reader to better understand some of the issues and influences affecting how the safeguards system has developed

Michael Mandelbaum’s latest book takes readers through America’s rise from weak settler nation to hyper-power hegemon over the past 250 years. While it leaves us speculating about the present fifth age currently taking shape, it is clear that the fourth has been demonstrably troubling.  

The United States is going through a profound transition to which there are only difficult and costly choices. In this latest book on America's political chaos, we are taken deep into the future of an unacceptable but perhaps unavoidable breakup of the union.  

Under the leadership of Abe Shinzo, Japan devised a grand strategy for managing China’s rising economic and military power. In Line of Advantage, Michael J. Green argues that no other country has done this as deliberately or successfully as Japan.

Julia Gillard’s sexism and misogyny speech is now regarded as a defining moment in Australian political history. This book documents its lasting impact on Australian political, social and popular culture, and its empowerment of women around the world as they identify with its core message: enough is enough.