What's New in April 2025

This month, three new titles have been added to What Everyone Needs to Know®. Find out more:

 

• Libya and the West by Peter L. Hanh, provides an overview of Libya’s modern history through the perspective of Libyan–Western relations. Tracing Libya’s history from the Barbary Wars to the present day, it explains how Libya came to play an outsized role in world affairs during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

 

• Spain (2nd ed.) by  William Chislett provides a wide sweep of Spain’s often turbulent history in order to understand the country’s current state of affairs and challenges. It covers topics from the legacy of the Muslim presence, the Spanish Empire, and the separatist Catalan region, to how the transition to democracy was achieved after the death of General Franco in 1975.

 

• The Illicit Global Economy by Peter Andreas seeks to answer questions about how illicit global markets are structured and operate, how they intersect with state institutions and practices, how they interact with the legal economy, and how they shape and are shaped by domestic and international politics. 

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