Two famous definitions of the modern state—the “human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory' and 'a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another”—were both given at lectures in summer 1919.

“An explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice”

In today's article, Faridah Zaman reflects on how the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924 sparked a renewed interest in the republican ideal of Islamic political thought.

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This, from Naz Modirzadeh, is an excellent, rigorous piece of work with which those of us who happen to write on international law, particularly its history and theory, will find much to agree and disagree.
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This is the first in a new series of re-evaluations we are doing. Starting it off with Sam C H 🏳️‍🌈 on Imagined Communities!
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Get your hands on this early folks, it's 🔥🔥🔥 amazon.com/Solidarity-Eco…

On April 12, join us at Wendy's Subway for the launch of Mohamed Amer Meziane's 'The States of the Earth'. Meziane will present and read from the book, followed by a conversation with Anna Della Subin and judith surkis.

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Historians and IR people! The paperback of my book is out now. Get a discount using POL1224 at cambridge.org/9781009055130 🤓✌️

Can we conceive of family history without the history of abortion? Read Hannah M. Stamler's *24 new article in Gender & History that considers how historians should imagine, remember, and narrativize histories of abortions within their networks of kin. doi.org/10.1111/1468-0…

Great podcast on Stefanos Geroulanos’s great book podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new…

Johann Gottfried Herder's Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (translated by Gregory Martin Moore) is one of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first new, unabridged English translation in over two centuries. Read a sample: hubs.ly/Q02p9SS80

Interesting map showing what % of various German cities were destroyed in the Second World War

'The Architectonic of Foucault's Critique' is now officially published (open access) in the European Journal of Philosophy

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New on advance access: 'Property and the End of Empire in International Zones, 1919–1947'

by Anna Ross (@WarwickHistory, Warwick Global History and Culture Centre)

#OpenAccess

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It’s publication day!

I’m giving away gratis copies to the first ten grad students who share this post.

Others can still get 30% off with code P325 when ordering directly from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Is the state here to stay?

Jonathan Blake assesses the stakes of state power and state sovereignty in an overheating world, reviewing books by philosopher Philip Pettit and historians Charles Maier & Natasha Wheatley (@Harvard_Press Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s):

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Robert Pippin’s new book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Including Ed Baring’s “Marxism of, by, and for the People: Karl Korsch and the Problem of Worker Education”

Featuring one of our Top 10 books for International Women’s Day:

The Life and Death of States by Natasha Wheatley

Read Lauri von Pfaler’s book review here: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…

Shal Marriott (Shal Marriott) discusses with Samuel Moyn (@samuelmoyn) his latest book, Liberalism against Itself (@yalepress 2023). They talk political theory, historical analysis, the role of novels in Cold War liberalism, and more.

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