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vol. 12, issue 1 - October, 2018
The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis
vol. 11, issue 1 - October, 2017
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure
Libertad Protester
vol. 10, issue 9 - June, 2017
The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State
vol. 10, issue 4 - January, 2017
Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus
vol. 10, issue 3 - December, 2016
The United States, China, and the Money Question
vol. 9, issue 1 - October, 2015
Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina
vol. 8, issue 6 - March, 2015
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
vol. 6, issue 8 - May, 2013
A New World Order? Africa and China
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
vol. 6, issue 3 - December, 2012
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Detail from the painting Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the French Revolution of 1830.
vol. 6, issue 1 - October, 2012
Socialism Takes Over France, Again?
This detail from an illustration in a 1911 Industrial Workers of the World publication depicts a class of workers struggling to hold up finely dressed elites while they drink and dine.
vol. 5, issue 12 - September, 2012
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
In 2007, Russia planted a titanium flag in the chilly arctic depths at the North Pole.
vol. 5, issue 11 - August, 2012
Russia and the Race for the Arctic
Canada's Athabasca Glacier.
vol. 5, issue 8 - May, 2012
Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future
Hundreds of people who lost jobs when freezing weather hit California in January 2007 line up to register for the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
vol. 5, issue 3 - December, 2011
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment
Oil and coal dominated U.S. energy production in the twentieth century.
vol. 5, issue 2 - November, 2011
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America
A U.S. Coast Guard sailor stands guard over more than 40,000 pounds of Latin American cocaine seized in 2007 and valued at around $500 million.
vol. 4, issue 12 - September, 2011
The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking
A ship moves along the Bosporus through Istanbul, part of the only sea route from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
vol. 4, issue 11 - August, 2011
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal
A 1900 poster shows President William McKinley campaigning for the maintenance of a gold standard for the dollar, which he said gave Americans prosperity and prestige.
vol. 4, issue 6 - March, 2011
Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money
Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff stands before an image of her mentor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula).
vol. 4, issue 3 - December, 2010
South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election
President Obama signing the new student loan legislation in March 2010.
vol. 3, issue 12 - September, 2010
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy
A sign illustrating Level 5 Water Restrictions in Goulburn, New South Wales, 2006, during the worst of Australia's decade-long drought.
vol. 3, issue 7 - April, 2010
Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis
A collection of packaged food items.
vol. 3, issue 6 - March, 2010
Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
Stalin's boots are all that remain of his statue in Budapest. In 1989, popular revolutions exploded across Central and Eastern Europe, bringing an end to communist rule and the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Twenty years later, as eastern Europeans mark the anniversary of these events, Professor Dragostinova analyzes the social and political weight of those boots in the region.
vol. 3, issue 3 - December, 2009
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
vol. 3, issue 2 - November, 2009
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
The Wilds' former home in Detroit, MI.
vol. 2, issue 8 - May, 2009
Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America
An Alaskan fisherman holds up part of his catch, a large Alaskan King Crab.
vol. 1, issue 12 - September, 2008
A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters
A home for sale in Columbus, OH. Picture by the author.
vol. 1, issue 8 - May, 2008
(Fore)Closing on the American Dream
The Kenya flag.
vol. 1, issue 7 - April, 2008
Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

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Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies
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Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution
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"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
October, 2014
Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?
September, 2014
There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies
July, 2014
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
June, 2014
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?
Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt book cover.
October, 2013
Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010 (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
June, 2013
Fifty Years and Counting
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011 (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
December, 2012
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (Princeton University Press, 2012)
November, 2012
What to Do About the Money?
Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm (Princeton University Press, 2012)
October, 2012
Blood and Steel
Philanthropy in America: A History (Princeton University Press, 2012)
February, 2012
The Gifts That Keep On Giving
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
January, 2012
The Man Who Re-Invented China
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants (Princeton University Press 2010)
June, 2011
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xii + 344 pp.)
May, 2011
Wagging the Dog
The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
March, 2011
All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present book review.
August, 2009
Between the East and the West
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
February, 2009
Invisible Man
A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
January, 2009
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
May, 2008
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

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