Patrick Ossian Cohrs (Alistair Horne Fellow in 2006-07)

The New Atlantic Order. The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

This new history elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world: the struggle to create, for the first time, a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century (1860–2020). Placing it in a broader historical and global context, Patrick O. Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric ‘world order’ of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system – a system that could not yet be global but had to be essentially transatlantic.

Paul Gootenberg (MPhil, 1981) Editor

Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (Oxford Handbooks, 2022) 

With 35 original contributions encompassing the entire globe, this handbook is the first major compendium of the “new global drug history,” covering some 5,000 years of intoxicating academic histories.

Julia Margaret Zulver (DPhil Sociology, 2015)

High-Risk Feminism: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts (Rutgers University Press, 2022) 

This book documents the experiences of four grassroots women’s organisations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict.

Dr Fusako Innami (DPhil Oriental Studies, 2014)

Touching the Unreachable (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship—relationality with the other through the skin—in modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable—that is, the lack of characters’ complete ability to touch what they try to reach for—provides a critical intervention on the issue of intimacy.

Tomer Mazarib (Academic Visitor, 2018-19)                     

From Desert to Town: The Integration of Bedouin into Arab Fellahin Villages and Towns in the Galilee, 1700-2020 (Sussex Academic Press, 2022)

From Desert to Town sheds light on the integration of Bedouin living in fellahin towns and villages in the Galilee, between 1700 and 2020. The purpose is to analyse the dynamics of the factors and circumstances that led to this migration. Official history has always lacked data on the Bedouin population in Palestine. Historians have recorded the biography of particular elites, and especially in the context of local warfare and tribal antagonisms, but have hitherto neglected ongoing migration from desert life to town life of Bedouin in the Galilee.

Sally Tomlinson (SAM 1984-85)

Education and Race from Empire to Brexit (Policy Press, 2019)

Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether populist views that there should be a British identity – or a Scottish, Irish or Welsh one – will prevail. Alternatively, arguments based on equality, human rights and economic needs may prove more powerful.

Joel Ng (DPhil International Relations, 2013)

Contesting Sovereignty: Power and Practice in Africa and Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Sovereignty is a foundational idea upon which regional organisation of nations is built, yet its demise has often been predicted. Regionalism, which commits states to common frameworks such as rules and norms, tests sovereignty as states relinquish some sovereign power to achieve other goals such as security, growth, or liberalisation. This book examines the practice of normative contestation over sovereignty in two regional organisations of Africa and Asia – the AU and ASEAN.

Hugh Turpin (SCR, 2020-22)

Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion

(Stanford University Press, 2022)

There are few instances of a contemporary Western European society more firmly welded to religion than Ireland is to Catholicism. For much of the twentieth century, to be considered a good Irish citizen was to be seen as a good and observant Catholic. Today, the opposite may increasingly be the case. The Irish Catholic Church, once a spiritual institution beyond question, is not only losing influence and relevance; in the eyes of many, it has become something utterly desacralised. In this book, Hugh Turpin offers an innovative and in-depth account of the nature and emergence of “ex-Catholicism”—a new model of the good, and secular, Irish person that is being rapidly adopted in Irish society.

Eberhard Kienle (Research Fellow, 1987)

Egypt: A Fragile Power (Routledge, 2022)

This book focuses on authoritarian rule, unresolved economic challenges, and external dependency, explaining the salient political and economic features of contemporary Egypt against the backdrop of its history since the beginning of the 19th century. Presenting a comprehensive account of developments, it challenges common assumptions about secularists, Islamists, and revolutionaries, as well as ‘modernisation’, ‘economic reform’, and political stability.

Alfred J. Rieber (Visiting Fellow, 2000)

Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War (Oxford University Press, 2022)

In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. The study takes an original approach to the region based on the geography, social conditions, and imperial rivalries that spans several centuries, culminating in three wars during the first half of the twentieth century. Against this background, Rieber focuses on leadership – personified by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Tito – as the key to explaining events

Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury (MPhil Modern South Asian Studies, 2017)

The China Factor: Beijing’s Expanding Engagement in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Routledge, 2022)

The China Factor explores Beijing’s political, economic, and defence relations with Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, and weighs the dividends of the bilateral relationships to better comprehend the geopolitical subtleties in the region. How China’s engagement in the region is also linked to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wider ambitions of national rejuvenation is also illuminated. The book subsequently draws out the implications for India, discusses New Delhi’s engagement with its neighbours, and suggests policy recommendations for a way forward.

Michael Manulak (DPhil International Relations, 2009)

Change in Global Environmental Politics: Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

As wildfires rage, pollution thickens, and species disappear, the world confronts the environmental crisis with a set of global institutions in urgent need of reform. Yet, these institutions have proved frustratingly resistant to change. By re-envisioning the role of timing and temporality in social relations, Manulak’s analysis presents a new approach to understanding transformative phases in international cooperation. We may now be entering such a phase, he argues, and global actors must be ready to realise the opportunities presented. Charting the often colourful and intensely political history of change in global environmental politics, this book sheds new light on the actors and institutions that shape humanity’s response to planetary decline. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of international relations, international organisation and environmental politics and history.

Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn (MPhil Russian and East European Studies, 2001; DPhil International Relations, 2003)

Central Asia and Southeast Asia: Exploring the Dynamics of Greater Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

This book offers insights into institutional, bilateral, and multilateral dimensions of ASEAN-Central Asia relations and is written from a practitioner’s perspective. It features interviews with diplomats and experts in the region, from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgystan.

Professor Amnon Sella (SAM 2001, Visiting Fellow 1982-3)

From Jasna Gura to the ship, in Hebrew, waiting for a translation (Carmel Publishing House, 2021)