Against the Liberal Order

Against the Liberal Order

The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939

Samuel J. Hirst, AB ’04, writes a history of interactions between the interwar Soviet Union and early Republican Turkey. The book, which begins in the aftermath of World War I, documents a distinctly state-led international politics.
Creating a federal government

Creating a federal government

Politicians often claim to know what kind of government the founders would have wanted. Presidential historian Peter Kastor was struck by the relative lack of scholarship around an obvious follow-up question: What kind of government did the founders actually create?
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