James J. Sheehan is professor of history emeritus at Stanford University. His most recent book is Making a Modern Political Order (Notre Dame University Press, 2023).
Article Democracy and Its Discontents Making sense of the recent surge of radical Right parties in Europe By James J. Sheehan December 5, 2024 Politics Culture Europe
Article Did the Revolution of 1848 Fail? The story of 1848 has been told often and well, but never with the breadth and depth of Christopher Clark’s extraordinary book. By James J. Sheehan October 18, 2023 Politics Books History
Article A Missed Opportunity? Not One Inch is a book to which historians will return again and again, examining the decade after the 1989 surprise. By James J. Sheehan June 2, 2022 Russia History Foreign Affairs
Article A New Europe? What kind of European state is the war in Ukraine likely to make? By James J. Sheehan March 30, 2022 Russia Ukraine War and Peace Politics
Article Here to Stay Perry Anderson reflects upon the ‘de facto solidarity’ and undemocratic nature of the European Union. By James J. Sheehan March 22, 2022 Politics Nonfiction International
Article From Trotsky to Soros What does violence in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh have to do with WWI-era Moscow? A new book details the destructive power of anti-Semitic myths By James J. Sheehan February 27, 2019 Jewish-Christian Relations Foreign Affairs War and Peace
