In this state-of-the-art comprehensive study, UN economists take a starkly dim view of Latin America’s overall performance.

Canizales, a sociologist, offers a full-blown defense of the rights of young migrants arriving illegally in the United States from Mexico and Central America.

Thoroughly reviewing the voluminous primary and secondary sources, Streeter concludes that the United States was not directly involved in the coup but that Washington helped create a climate of ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule.

In this original and richly argued book, Seymour takes the reader into the dark and disturbing political and psychological underworld of apocalyptic right-wing nationalism.

If people see the future as open, losing in electoral democracy, for instance, is not calamitous—they can always try again. White worries that democratic societies increasingly fear that time is not ...

Kurzweil, a computer scientist and futurist at Google, argues that the world is on the doorstep of a technological revolution so profound it will alter what it means to be human.

Kaplan offers a bleak vision of a world in permanent political upheaval. Taking his title from T. S. Eliot’s famous poem about civilizational breakdown in the wake of World War I, Kaplan sees the ...

In this elegant and erudite revisionist study, Belleau, an anthropologist, refutes “blame the victim” excuses for mass violence during rule of Haitian dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier.

The growing influence of emerging economies, the rise of China as a great power, tensions between the United States and its ...

Charina Chou is Director and Chief Operating Officer at Google Quantum AI. James Manyika is Senior Vice President at Google ...

Sheila S. Coronel is Toni Stabile Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University and Co-Founder of ...