Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor eds., "The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives" (Cornell UP, 2025)
About this episode
This episode features a discussion with editors Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor about their edited collection on the global perspectives of the Second World War.
Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025) This ambitious edited collection encourages readers to think in bigger ways about the global Second World War. That includes a wider frame in space and time, but also a larger geopolitical perspective of the war as a world-system crisis and an expanded social perspective on who fought the war and why. A team of international scholars take on this task in chapters ranging from the global alliance system and colonial mobilization to studies of particular cities and dockyards. In a wide-ranging conversation with both editors, we discuss questions of imperialism, the rise and limits of US global hegemony, the 'ragged ends' of the war, and the social movements of a window of global possibility in 1945–46. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security
People in this episode
Host: Marshall Poe
Guests: Andrew N. Buchanan, Ruth Lawlor
Topics covered
- global perspectives on war
- geopolitical analysis
- imperialism
- US global hegemony
- social movements
- world-system crisis
Keywords
- Second World War
- global alliance system
- colonial mobilization
- social movements
- geopolitical perspective
- imperialism
- US hegemony
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cornell University Press
Books & works: The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives
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