Tarak Barkawi is a military historian and an interdisciplinary scholar of war and armed force in world politics. His last book, Soldiers of Empire, examined the multicultural armies of British Asia in the Second World War, conceiving Indian and British soldiers in cosmopolitan rather than national terms. It won the American Historical Association’s 2018 Paul Birdsall Prize and the International Studies Association’s 2018 Francesco Guicciardini Prize. Currently, he is working on the Korean War and the American experience of military defeat at the hands of those regarded as racially inferior. This project explores soldiers’ history writing as a site for war’s constitutive presence in society and politics. Tarak has also published articles on war and democracy in international relations; on postcolonial security studies; on critical war studies; and on Max Weber. He has taught professional soldiers in the UK, the US, NATO and elsewhere, and published commentary on global affairs.