William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)

William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security:...

Up next

Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason, “categorical imperative,” and conception of perpetual peace in the global order decisively influenced both intellectual history and twentieth-century politics, shaping eve ...  Show more

Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) is an interdisciplinary examination of the stubborn attachment of Asian diasporas to settler-colonial ideals and of the decolonial possibilities Asian diasporic films imagine. Author Beenash Jafri ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

#138 Matthew Canham on Cognitive Security
The Cognitive Crucible

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorse ...

  Show more

Former Head of FBI Counterintelligence Bill Priestap on Top Spy Threats
Intelligence Matters

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Bill Priestap, the former head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, speaks with host Michael Morell about the evolving counterintelligence challenges facing the United States. Priestap, now a Centennial Fellow with Georgetown Univers ...  Show more

From the Vault: John Dee, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Elizabethan scholar Dr. John Dee was one of the most learned men of the 16th century, applying his intense mathematical intellect to matters scientific, political, alchemical and occult. He advised Queen Elizabeth, sought communion with angelic beings, advocated British expansion ...  Show more

Peter Layton, "Grand Strategy" (2018)
New Books in Political Science

With the revival of great power competition in international relations, the term "grand strategy" has also encountered a considerable revival from its Cold War era heights of prestige. What exactly is "grand strategy" and how should policy-makers of different countries, states, a ...  Show more