Publications

The Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA) is a program of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with the University of California Press and the California Digital Library.  GAIA provides a robust online and print environment for emerging areas of research on political life worldwide.  Its mission is to publish peer-reviewed books from across the humanities and social sciences that illuminate complex global phenomena, including those that contribute to the renewal of area studies.  

All volumes carry the joint imprint of GAIA and the University of California Press.  They are published simultaneously in free, open-access digital and reasonably priced paperback editions, in order to serve a truly global community of scholars and to encourage international intellectual exchange.

Browse GAIA's open-access digital volumes in the California Digital Library's eScholarship service.

Buy GAIA paperbacks from the University of California Press.

GAIA publishes four book series in addition to independent monographs and edited volumes in international studies.  

Nathan MacBrien, Publications Director
Nathan MacBrien is the editor of the Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA). He has worked as a scholarly acquisitions and manuscript editor for more than fifteen years, including at Stanford University Press and the University of Pittsburgh Press. He has published books in a wide range of fields, including history, sociology, anthropology, political science, the history of science, social theory and criticism, and area studies (especially East Asia, Latin America, and Russia and East Europe). He holds a bachelor’s degree in music history from Oberlin College, and is ABD in historical musicology from the University of Pennsylvania.