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ISA 2026 Book Highlights: New and Noteworthy Titles from the Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security series

Watch this brief video overview of the Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security series. The series is headed by general editor Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken, who is the President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) as well as Senior Research Professor at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of…

What Would Thucydides Say Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Have Learned About Power?

Few classical texts have been invoked as frequently in contemporary debates about great-power rivalry as Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. References to the ancient historian now appear regularly in discussions of U.S.–China competition, Russia’s confrontation with the West, and the broader dynamics of international security. In recent years, these debates have been shaped in…

Why Clausewitz Still Matters: J. Furman Daniel at ISA 2026

Dr. J. Furman Daniel III, author of Restoring Clausewitz: A Critical Companion to On War Meet the Author at ISA 2026 Join Dr. J. Furman Daniel III for a meet-the-author event at the International Studies Association annual convention. Sunday, March 22, 202610:00–10:30 a.m. (#ISA2026 Exhibit Hall Coffee Break)Cambria Press Booth 202 If Clausewitz is still one of the most cited thinkers in…

#Cambria Press #military strategy #Security Studies

Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition Today: Rebecca Patterson at ISA 2026

Irregular warfare plays a central role in strategic competition today, as states increasingly pursue their objectives below the threshold of armed conflict. Rather than relying solely on direct military confrontation, contemporary competition unfolds through political, economic, informational, and other non-kinetic means that challenge conventional distinctions between war and peace. These…

AAS 2026 Asian Studies Book Highlights

Watch this short video to see the books that will be showcased at the AAS 2026 conference. Parallel Journeys Eurasian History Through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE–1936 CE) Anthony J. Barbieri-Low This 520-page anthology offers a comparative history of Eurasia through several firsthand travel accounts spanning 2,400 years. Thematic pairings—Marco Polo and Zhao Rugua, Matteo Ricci and Xie Qinggao,…

#Asian Studies #Cambria Press #China #Sinophone

Understanding Nuclear Strategy in a Changing World

Debates about nuclear deterrence and strategic stability have reemerged as central concerns in contemporary security studies. As great-power competition intensifies and nuclear modernization programs accelerate, policymakers, scholars, and military professionals are once again grappling with enduring questions about the role of nuclear weapons in international order. The Cambria Rapid…

Understanding Venezuela 2026 through the Lens of Coercive Diplomacy

The dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, has reignited urgent debates about the tools the United States uses to exert influence abroad. While Richard Outzen’s US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order was published in April 2025 before these developments, its strategic analysis of U.S. coercive diplomacy from 1991 to 2020 provides a vital framework for…

#Cambria Press #Cambria RCCS Series #great power competition #International Relations #international security #Nicolás Maduro #sanctions #Security Studies #U.S. foreign policy #US coercive diplomacy #Venezuela

What to Read in 2026: Critical Insights on Global and National Conflict and Security

As global tensions escalate and strategic competition intensifies, scholars and practitioners alike must turn to timely, authoritative sources. The Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series delivers exactly that, offering critical insights into today’s most urgent threats—from irregular warfare and proxy conflict to nuclear deterrence, alliance dynamics, and U.S. grand…

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#Cambria Press #Clausewitz #deterrence #international secutiry #irregular warfare #nuclear #Security Studies #US Taiwan #US-China

Beyond Sinocentrism: Ethnocultural Others in Early Modern China

Beyond Sinocentrism: Ethnocultural Others in Early Modern China by Huili Zheng offers the first sustained study of how early modern Chinese literature imagined and negotiated encounters with ethnocultural others. Focusing on fictional narratives from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries, the book examines how Chinese literati used imaginative writing to engage a rapidly changing…

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#Beyond Sinocentrism #Cambria Press #Chinese literature #early modern China #ethnocultural others #global history #Huili Zheng #Sinocentrism #travel and encounter #world literature

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low on Parallel Journeys

We spoke with Professor Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (University of California, Santa Barbara) about his new book Parallel Journeys: Eurasian History Through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE–1936 CE)—a unique anthology that presents a sweeping comparative history of Eurasia through the eyes of travelers spanning 2,400 years—and asked him to reflect on its central ideas. Q: You’ve included several new English…

#Anthony J. Barbieri-Low #Cambria Press #Chinese travel writing #comparative history #cross-cultural exchange #Eurasian history #global history #Parallel Journeys #travel writing #world literature

How to Read Clausewitz's On War

Restoring Clausewitz: A Critical Companion to On War by J. Furman Daniel, III, addresses a persistent problem in the study of war and strategy: Carl von Clausewitz’s On War is widely cited, frequently invoked, and rarely read with care. Even when it is read, its arguments are often misunderstood or reduced to slogans detached from their historical and theoretical context. Daniel’s book is…

#Clausewitz #On War

Teaching Ecocinema and Environmental Humanities: A Ready-to-Use Syllabus

As environmental crises continue to transform global culture, Ecological and Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China’s Sociocultural Landscape through Ecocinema by Professor Shuqin Cui, the Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College, offers an innovative framework for teaching and studying film, ecology, and environmental humanities. Bridging ecocriticism, cinema…

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#Cambria Press #Chinese cinema #ecocinema #ecocriticism #Ecological and Environmental Turns #environmental humanities #Film studies #Shuqin Cui #syllabus #teaching resources

Beyond Standard Mandarin: Cornelius Kubler on Sinitic Language Diversity

What does it really mean to “speak Chinese”? Many equate Chinese with Standard Mandarin, an assumption that conceals the vast complexity of the Sinitic language family. In A Handbook of Sinitic Languages, Dialects, and Non-standard Mandarin, Professor Cornelius Kubler, in collaboration with the late Clement Chu Sing Lau, confronts this misconception by offering a richly textured exploration of…

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US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order: A Critical Analysis of Post–Cold War Strategies

Why has the United States so often failed to translate its unmatched power into durable global influence? US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order: A Critical Analysis of Post–Cold War Strategies offers a timely and incisive assessment of U.S. foreign policy from 1990 to 2020, a period that began with unchallenged primacy and ended in renewed great power competition. Focusing on coercive…

#American foreign policy #China and Russia strategies #global order analysis #great power competition #post-Cold War strategy #Richard Outzen #sanctions and statecraft #US coercive diplomacy #US diplomacy failures #US military threats

Dress, Feminism, and New Woman Writing

Includes B&W illustrations Claire Allen-Johnstone’s Dress, Feminism, and New Woman Writing explores the vital intersections between fashion, gender politics, and literature in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. At a time when women’s roles and rights were under heated debate, clothing became central to feminist discourse. Authors and publishers used dress strategically—from…

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#feminism and fashion history #George Egerton feminist literature #New Woman literature #Olive Schreiner and dress reform #Sarah Grand New Woman fiction #sartorial biography #Victorian gender norms

Reading Art in Literature

Dore J. Levy’s Reading Art in Literature: The Marvelous Case of The Story of the Stone offers a landmark contribution to the study of Cao Xueqin’s eighteenth-century masterpiece, also known as Hongloumeng or Dream of the Red Chamber. This literary—not art-historical—study examines how paintings, heirlooms, mystical artifacts, and the celebrated Prospect Garden are embedded in the novel as…

Teaching Irregular Warfare and strategic competition: A Course-Ready Syllabus

Irregular warfare and strategic competition define much of today’s global security environment. Professors teaching in security studies, political science, and international relations are looking for texts that not only explain these dynamics but also provide a framework for teaching them in the classroom. Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century…

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