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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

Jul 14, 2022Escaping Gravity is Belfer Center Senior Fellow and former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's first-hand account of the transformation of the space agency. She describes how a handful...

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Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture

Jul 18, 2022In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how...

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Where Do Divergent US and Chinese Approaches to Dealing with North Korea Lead?

Aug 30, 2022For the United States, the dominant approach has been economic coercion. Despite applying stringent sanctions, the United States has been ineffective in convincing North Korea to give up...

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Democracy in Hard Places

Aug 5, 2022Includes chapters written by a distinguished cast of experts on democracy and comparative political regimesPresents new case studies of democratic survival in the developing worldOffers...

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North America 2.0: Forging a Continental Future

Nov 9, 2022North America has survived a tumultuous three decades since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. What characterizes our shared region today? What sort of region can...

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Emergency Management in North America

Nov 9, 2022The authors argue that emergencies and disasters know no borders, and responses demand cooperation. Highlighting examples of successful cooperation— as well as a few notable failures—they...

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A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them...

Nov 18, 2022A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. In A Hacker’s Mind, Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that...

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Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures

Nov 23, 2022Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. With chapters that raise awareness, address...

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Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of...

Dec 27, 2022The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left its nearly 30,000 nuclear weapons spread over the territories of four newly sovereign states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and...

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Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama

Feb 15, 2023Hand-Off details the Bush administration’s national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council...

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The International Law of the Sea and Arctic Governance: Paving the Way to...

Feb 21, 2023Arctic Initiative Research Fellow Andrey Todorov analyzes options to integrate the ecosystem-based approach (EBA) with Arctic Ocean governance.

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After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg

Apr 25, 2023The Nuremberg Tribunals, like the Tokyo Trials, were landmarks in implementing international justice because they documented genocide and countless atrocities that Axis forces committed...

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Reporting World War II

Apr 25, 2023This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or...

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SPIES: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Jun 6, 2023The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.

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Seapower by Other Means: Naval Contributions to National Objectives Beyond...

Apr 28, 2023In this book, an international collection of historians and strategists share new, or re-learned, perspectives to serve as inspiration for further study and to broaden the discussion on...

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'Our Proud Spirited Fellows' The American Navy in U.S. Public Diplomacy with...

Aug 1, 2023Using the private journals of commission secretaries Henry Marie Brackenridge and Dr. William Baldwin, as well as Captain Sinclair, this chapter will explore the establishment of American...

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Nuclear Waste

Aug 1, 2023This chapter appears in Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans between Heritage and Future.Nuclear waste epitomizes the Anthropocene. Scientific discovery of nuclear fission in the 1930s...

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Security in the Cyber Age

Dec 14, 2023Cyberspace is essential for socializing, learning, shopping, and just about everything in modern life. Yet, there is also a dark side to cyberspace: sub-national, transnational, and...

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A Life in the American Century

Jan 22, 2024In this deeply personal book, Joseph Nye shares his own journey living through the American century.

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China's Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy in the MENA

May 15, 2023In contrast to Nye’s definition of soft power compared to US “hard” power and diplomatic supremacy, it was Hu Jintao in 2007 who first used the term at the 17th Congress of the Chinese...

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