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Faculty 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.

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2024/2025 Book Launches

  • September 20, 2024: Welcoming the Stranger, Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications, by Ori Z Soltes and Rachel Stern
  • September 23, 2024: Handbook of Aid and Development, edited by Shanta Devarajan, Raj Desai, and Jennifer Tobin
  • September 30, 2024: The Outbreak Atlas, by Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie Moore
  • October 29, 2024: Working Women in Jordan, by Fida Adely
  • December 10, 2024: For Women and Girls Only. Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age, by Jessica Roda

Spring Semester:

  • February 13, 2025: Crucibles of Power. Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule, by Michael David-Fox
  • March 14, 2025: The Black Box. Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea, by Victor Cha
  • May 15, 2025: Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy, by Maraam Dwidar

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

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  • February 5, 2021: The Return of Great Power Rivalry by Matthew Kroenig
  • November 5, 2020: Curiosity Studies by Arjun Shankar
  • October 30, 2020: A World Safe for Democracy by G. John Ikenberry
  • ​October 22, 2020: Isolationism by Charles Kupchan
  • October 16, 2020: Exit from Hegemony by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon
  • October 8, 2020: Mobilizing for Development by Kristen Looney
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