A War on Mexican Drug Cartels or a War on Surplus Humanity?
A new war on drugs featuring military intervention against Mexican drug trafficking groups portends a new mode of political rule and capital accumulation in the United States.
Review – Latin American Extractivism
Steve Ellner’s edited work provides an insightful, if not wholly convincing, argument against dismissing the pink tide and the associated approach to extractivism in Latin America.
Review – The Scientist and the Spy
Hvistendahl’s book charts the story of Robert Mo, the subject of an FBI investigation into industrial espionage, presenting a rich example of an everyday lived experience of the reality of international relations.
Review Feature – The US Foreign Policy Consensus in Crisis
Richard Coughlin analyses Kagan and Walt’s decade old debate on IR theory, the clash between realism and liberalism and how it ties into modern politics in the Trump era.
Review – Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
Susskind’s account is compelling in terms of its capacity to characterise the coming of the digital lifeworld and to suggest how we can reinvent politics within it.
Review Feature – Organised Crime in Mexico
This review feature examines two books that address developments in organised crime in Mexico, the roots of violence, and the challenges faced by the new government.
War and Identity: The Path to Trump and Beyond
What we need … is a critique of neoliberalism that builds a progressive alliance … and moves us beyond the parameters of our deeply embedded national identity
Review – Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Ian Bremmer argues that the shortcomings of globalism have been channeled into ‘us vs. them politics’, however the solutions he offers need to be broadened.
Review – America Abroad
Brooks and Wohlforth’s book is a defense of deep engagement as a means to maintain a US-led international order but neglects the impact of domestic political issues.
Review – Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
Peter Frase’s book illuminates the potential effects of robotization and climate change on a post-capitalist future and the institutional structures that might emerge.
