As Australia’s new government attempts to reset the country’s troubled relationship with China, James Curran’s new book reminds us that there have always been ups and downs in the relationship. There are many lessons to learn from experience.

Nicholas Mulder explores the historical use of economic sanctions. He uncovers how this coercive wartime tool was turned into a peacekeeping instrument with unintended consequences.

Terrorist organisations need money to carry out their activities. Jessica Davis uncovers the many ways terrorist organisations procure and protect the funds which finance their operations.

The CCP now has both the capability and intent to compete in and win geostrategic contests. The more contested strategic relationship between China and the West will likely only deteriorate in the period ahead, according to Bates Gill. 

David Horner’s account of Australia’s management of its wars between 1914 and 2003 surveys the big decisions involved. It covers much useful history while drawing out rules of the “war game.”

The divide between Republicans and Democrats is widely seen as the most fundamental one in contemporary American politics. Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan challenge this notion.

Fiona Hill fears that American politics will head in a Russian-style authoritarian direction unless it can restore the infrastructure of opportunity.

Rahul Sagar’s To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours provides a window into the Indian approach towards international affairs by going back to the conceptually formative years of the nation-state.

We are currently living in a new era, that of the strongman, according to Gideon Rachman. And this era arguably began with Vladimir Putin.   

The sharing of power between popes and kings was a longstanding feature of Western European politics. Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita delves into this history to present a novel argument for why Western countries are more likely to experience prosperity and democracy.