Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer has been celebrating women and, in particular, women of color on her blog Urban ethics and theory for the last year. Here are links to her Read Urban Planning Women 2014 series (latest first). This is an inspiring project by one of our most active affiliates. Follow Dr. Schweitzer, or listen…
June 10, 2013
by Martin H. Krieger
Ike’s Bluff by Evan Thomas and Threat Vector by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney
June 4, 2013
by Martin H. Krieger
Bureaucratic Politics – What Should We Teach? Essence of Decision by Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow
April 26, 2013
By Martin Kreiger
After the Music Stopped by Alan S Blinder
April 18, 2013
This week, we’re reading on two different but much related books on an important issue – Intelligence and US Foreign Policy, War and Decision by Paul Pillar and Douglas Feith. What was in Donald Rumsfeld’s mind when he demanded that the Iraq war would be launched with a much smaller number of troops than recommended by General Shinsheki? And, a propos of sufficient IED protection, “You go to war with the army you have.”
April 9, 2013
by Martin Krieger
Martin recommends John Rawls’ Political Liberalism, or rather, expects that most will delve into this book piecemeal.
March 15, 2013
Martin Krieger tackles Demystifying China by Naomi Standen. “It is a commonplace of historiography that national histories, at each time, are written so as to justify the current regimes . . . .”
March 12, 2013
Ten Principles for a Rule-Ordered Society, Enhancing China’s Governing Capacity by Shui Yan Tang – Reviewed by Martin Krieger
March 6, 2013
Martin Krieger tells us how he finds books to read, and shares his thoughts on Europe and the Islamic World by Tolanb, Veinstein, and Laurens is a survey from the development of Islam (Mohammed, 570-632 CE) to the present
February 20, 2013
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade by Avner Greif
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson