Columbia Global Reports

12/05/2025

Go deeper into President Stubb's argument for a new world order with his forthcoming book, THE TRIANGLE OF POWER

On sale January 13 but available for preorder now from CGR in the US and Biteback Publishing in the UK

US-> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-triangle-of-power
UK-> https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-triangle-of-power

Without significant changes, “the multilateral system as it exists will crumble,” warns Finnish President Alexander Stubb. And “the alternatives are much worse: spheres of influence, chaos, and disorder.” https://fam.ag/4rzoEII

12/04/2025

Happy UK pub day to Sonia Faleiro's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia
(and of course still sale now in the US!)

“Sonia Faleiro is a master of narrative reportage, illuminating every topic she touches.” —Fatima Bhutto

learn more & get your copy now--> https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-robe-and-the-sword-how-buddhist-extremism-is-shaping-modern-asia-sonia-faleiro/9d89fb1400d02271

12/03/2025

“Mr. Subramanian is an elegant and witty writer.... He makes of his subject a fascinating travelogue.”

The Wall Street Journal reviews Samanth Subramanian’s THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES ⤵️

The routes of competing undersea cables are convoluted and geopolitically tangled. They are also easy for would-be saboteurs to find.

12/01/2025

"As Subramanian's excellent new book makes clear, the internet does indeed consist (at least in part) of a vast network of glass tubes—fiber-optic cables."

Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) reviewed Samanth Subramanian's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES (out now in the US & UK!) ⤵️

Ian Kumekawa dives into Samanth Subramanian’s “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.”

11/30/2025

"Often struggles against colonialism seem impossible, but at some point something changes and there's a space for seemingly impossible struggles to win."

Jeffrey Wasserstrom talks about THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE on Made in China Journal's Gateway to Global China podcast 🎧 ⤵️

In 2019, more than a million people poured onto the streets of Hong Kong, with many returning week after week. The song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ soon emerged as the movement’s unofficial anthem. What began as a protest against an ill-advised extradition bill quickly became, for many, the city’s ...

11/27/2025

Happy UK pub day to Samanth Subramanian's THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World
(and of course still on sale now in the US!)

“A brief, lyrical survey of the internet’s underwater infrastructure.” —The Economist

➡️ Get your copy now: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-web-beneath-the-waves-the-fragile-cables-that-connect-our-world-samanth-subramanian/0d6fac05b995369c

11/26/2025

|| NEW EPISODE || Six years after Hong Kong’s mass protests, Yangyang Cheng talks with sociologist Ching Kwan Lee and historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom about the struggle’s enduring significance, its transnational afterlives, and what it teaches us amid today’s democratic backsliding. Link in comments.

11/25/2025

"The monks leading these violent movements seem driven not by a pursuit of nirvana in the afterlife, but by a quest for dominance in this one."

Read an excerpt from Sonia Faleiro's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD (on sale now in the US / Dec 4 in the UK) in the The Guardian ⤵️

The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals

11/24/2025

Flying somewhere for Thanksgiving this week? We might have just the book for you!

In WHY FLYING IS MISERABLE: AND HOW TO FIX IT, Vanderbilt University Law School professor and policy expert Ganesh Sitaraman explains how flying became so, well, miserable, and what we can do to fix it

✈️ https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/why-flying-is-miserable

11/21/2025

🌟 THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect Our World, by Samanth Subramanian is a The Economist Best Book of 2025!

Learn more & get your copy now--> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-web-beneath-the-waves

11/19/2025

Why did sports leagues go from opposing gambling to embracing it?

"The short answer is money. The long answer is also money."

Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joined WHYY's Sports in America with David Greene to unpack the rapid rise and acceptance of legalized sports gambling 🎧 ⤵️

Podcast Episode · Sports In America with David Greene · 11/18/2025 · 50m

11/17/2025

"It is a speculative instrument purely for my own use and my own entertainment, which to me qualifies it as gambling rather than investing."

Jonathan D. Cohen, author of LOSING BIG, joined CBS Sunday Morning to explain why he'd argue the prediction market Kalshi is more about gambling than it is about investing. 📺 ⤵️

The people behind the prediction market Kalshi, where people can place wagers on everything from elections and sports contests to the anticipated bridesmaids...