By Serhiy Kudelia, author of “The Ukrainian State under Russian Aggression: Resilience and Resistance” Current History (2022) 121 (837): 251–57.
The Ukrainian military counteroffensive launched in August has restored Ukraine’s control over most of Kharkiv province and parts of the Done...
by Erika Weinthal and Jeannie Sowers, authors of “Health and Environmental Tolls of Protracted Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa“ Current History (2021) 120 (830): 339–345.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the brutal strategy of seeking to bombard cities into...
By Jesse Wozniak, author of Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State
During my first research trip to the Lead Police Training Academy on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, I observed a class of recruits on their last day of training finally get their hi...
By Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles
The past week marked historic recognition of injustice and suffering. In Minneapolis on April 20, a jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, on...
The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence.
In his new book, The United S...
by David Vine, author of The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State.
This week, in recognition of the nineteenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the twentieth consecutive year of U.S. war, a team o...
This Independence Day—as our nation is grappling with radical upheaval around health equity, inequality, and necessary social change—UC Press has chosen to feature titles that challenge the traditional ideas of freedom in the United States. The following books range in topics from immigra...