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This year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. Few documents in world history have been as extensively studied and analyzed, and it is fair to ask if there is anything new to be said about the Declaration. There certainly is. Much of the scholarly and popular writing on the Declaration has […]
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Why do governments get overthrown? Why are many political systems chronically unstable? The Coup Trap in Latin America answers these questions by explaining why political systems fall prey to endless cycle of golpes and contra golpes. It provides an innovative explanation of why officers and civilians (“the coup coalition”) overthrow presidents – and will be […]
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Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On May 18, 1918, fourteen thousand high school students from St. Louis, Missouri, public schools, accompanied by fourteen drum corps and seven professional bands, paraded […]
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From The United Arab Republic, 1963 (Cairo: Information Department) When I started researching the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (formerly National Guidance), I wondered why the government would dedicate an entire ministry to something as abstract as ‘culture’. I was familiar with the theoretical debates about the concept of culture in modern-day social science, but it […]
Read MoreAs we live through the transformation of the post-Cold War international order, politicians, diplomats, and scholars have fastened upon the pre-First World War era as a guide to what might emerge in its place. They portray a world, then and now, beset by rivalries between rising and falling powers, wars of territorial conquest, spheres of […]
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At the height of its expansion, the Tang (618-907) stretched from Tajikistan to Manchuria. The breakup of this empire was a cataclysmic event with wide repercussions in China and beyond. To chart the Tang’s decline and fall, my new book adopts the perspective of Gao Pian (821-87), an illustrious general, military governor of large swaths […]
Read MoreWhen historians write about Jews in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s final years, the story is often framed almost entirely through repression. The destruction of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, the campaign against “cosmopolitans,” and the Doctors’ Plot have come to define what many scholars describe as the darkest chapter of Soviet Jewish history. My book, […]
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Everyone who discovers a new species nowadays has the right to name it. This name has to conform to rather intricate rules established by international professional associations. These conventions can be traced back to the eighteenth century, when Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) introduced a taxonomic nomenclature based on a binomial system: every species receives a two-part […]
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