Book Launches

In support of the last phase of the research cycle and the fostering of communities of research, the Mortara Center sponsors and organizes Book Launches for Georgetown faculty members.

2024/2025 Book Launches

Upcoming:

  • January 16, 2025: The Black Box. Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea, by Victor Cha
  • February 13, 2025: Crucibles of Power. Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule, by Michael David-Fox

2023/2024 Book Launches

  • The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace by Elizabeth N. Saunders
  • We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War by Matthew Kroenig, Dan Negrea, and Mike Pompeo
  • The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations  by Michael David-Fox
  • Inoculating Cities: Case Studies of the Urban Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Matthew Boyce & Rebecca Katz
  • Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Abraham Newman & Henry Farrell
  • Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji

2022/2023 Book Talks

  • April 12, 2023: ​The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954 by Gregory Brew & David Painter
  • April 4, 2023: Cooperating for the Climate by Joanna Lewis
  • February 28, 2023: Weaponizing Water: Water Stress & Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa & The Middle East by Marcus King
  • October 20, 2022: Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World by Robert J. Lieber

2020/2021 Book Talks

Click on the title of the book of your choice to watch the recording.