Articles
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UN Peacekeeping or the Reinvention of Colonialism? An Interview with Margot Tudor.
Traditional historiography has regarded the UN Peacekeeping missions as the liberal international order’s initiative to mediate the conflicts of the postcolonial world and avoid escalation towards another great war. It was a…
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The Neglected History of International Political Economy: A Roundtable on Eric Helleiner’s “Contested World Economy.”
Organized by Mirek Tobiáš Hošman, Editor-at-Large The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has experienced a rapid expansion since the second half of the 20th century. Especially the turbulent decade of the…
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Colonizing Kashmir: An interview with Hafsa Kanjwal
Joining a new wave of critical scholarship on global decolonization, Hafsa Kanjwal’s 2023 monograph Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford University Press) offers a compelling and provocative account of Indian state-building…
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Coal mining, resource anxieties, and regimes of governance: A Roundtable on Victor Seow’s “Carbon Technocracy”
Compiled by Liat Spiro, Editor-at-Large. Participant bios: Mark Hendrickson is associate professor of History at UC San Diego and author of American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I…
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Review: Inspectors for Peace by Elisabeth Roehrlich
Elisabeth Roehrlich, Inspectors for Peace: A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) Review by Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut. On the morning of May 18, 1974,…
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Historicizing a planetary future: A discussion with Emma Rothschild on the convergence of climate science and historical thinking in the “1800 Histories” project.
TPF Executive board members Glenda Sluga and Heidi J.S. Tworek interviewed Emma Rothschild on her latest project “1800 Histories”; a collaborative effort to bring together climate science methodologies and various micro-histories of…
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Finding Law in the History of Global Violence: An Interview with Lauren Benton
Violence is, in the public imagination, the law’s radical Other. Brutality and cruelty, we tend to believe, are elements that flourish in law’s absence. Not only is the appearance of violence a…
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The Fiftieth Anniversary of India’s Peaceful Nuclear Explosion: An Interview with Jayita Sarkar
Today, May 18, 2024, marks the fiftieth anniversary of India’s peaceful nuclear explosion or PNE. To mark the occasion, the Toynbee Prize Foundation facilitated a conversation between historian Jayita Sarkar and myself.…
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Adding Global Temporalities to Interwar History: A Book Review of “The Interwar World” (eds. Denning and Tworek)
This review was collaboratively authored by the Interwar Histories Working Group at the European University Institute, comprising of Wouter Baas, Anna Breidenbach, Ferdinand Valentin Mowinckel and Thomas Porsborg Sørensen. Read an interview with…