Understanding Iran requires a deeper path of scholarship than simply looking at Iran’s current composition. The books featured here approach Iran in a historical context.
Jennifer L. Hesterman’s latest book straddles the line between a training and explanatory text, providing a welcome approach to understanding the growing threat of violent non-state actors.
Confusion reigns when it comes to religion and IR. Hoover and Johnston’s edited collection brings together a series of short essays attempting to clarify the complexities.
While suffering from some structural concerns, this handbook offers a resourceful journey across an impressive number of ‘new’ security threats.
What is the place of the sacred and secular in aid work? Barnett and Gross Stein’s edited collection explores the tensions of secularization and sanctification in modern humanitarianism.
Ali Alfoneh’s analysis of Iran’s political sphere offers a comprehensive and systematic study of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the pivotal role the powerful group may play in the state’s nuclear future.
In a proposed global context of Western hegemony Bobby Sayyid argues that Islamism falls outside the orbit of the West and represents the only available counter-hegemonic discourse to it.
These two edited collections provide detailed accounts of critical methodologies and methods, and are a welcome addition to a sub field that is seemingly no longer at the margins.
Colonel Nick Pratt discuses successful counter-insurgency practices, the Obama administration’s drone program, women terrorists, and future international security threats.
The demise of Yugoslavia gave rise to the creation of new nation-states, whose emerging ‘citizenship regimes’ are analysed in this collection to ascertain their origins and shortcomings.
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