Features

Review – The CIA on Campus

David N. Gibbs • Jun 18 2013 • Features

The contributors to The CIA on Campus explore the costs of the US victory in the Cold War, notably the way that the US intelligence services infiltrated and to some degree corrupted US universities.

Interview – Terry Nardin

E-International Relations • Jun 18 2013 • Features

Professor Terry Nardin of the National University of Singapore answers your questions about humanitarian intervention, human rights, recent events in the Middle East and West Africa, and global justice.

Review – Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe

Lorna Fox O'Mahony • Jun 13 2013 • Features

Mary Manjikian’s book is an invaluable contribution, and will be a primary reference point for those exploring the regulation of squatting across Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Interview – Thomas Pogge

E-International Relations • Jun 12 2013 • Features

Thomas Pogge answers questions about global poverty, achieving a just global redistribution of income, John Rawls’ legacy, and his book World Poverty and Human Rights.

Review – Nigeria at Fifty

Toyin Falola • Jun 9 2013 • Features

In analysing the fifty years since Nigeria’s independence, this collection of essays argues for reform that delegitimises the elite rent seekers in the state while concurrently empowering the impoverished populace.

Review – The Politics of Nation-Building

Kendrick Kuo • Jun 8 2013 • Features

Harris Mylonas’ novel approach to nation-building not only pioneers a new theory in the well-trodden ethnopolitics field, but also integrates international relations with comparative politics.

Review – Churchill and Finland

Keith Olson • Jun 7 2013 • Features

Through an in depth examination of the Winston Churchill’s relationship with Finland, Markku Ruotsila explains Churchill’s geostrategic interests as well as his anticommunist ideology.

Review – China’s Development: Capitalism and Empire

Gordon Redding • Jun 6 2013 • Features

This multidisciplinary study of China’s economic reform asserts that a unique mode of capitalism will likely emerge within the state as it gradually works to overcome the strictures of communism.

Review – Anglo-American Relations

Alanna O'Malley • Jun 5 2013 • Features

Dobson and Marsh’s edited volume offers a wide-ranging view of how the US-UK relationship functions, through what mechanisms or with which tools, and why it is a source of intellectual intrigue.

Review – Celebrity Humanitarianism

Carlo Piccinini • Jun 3 2013 • Features

Ilan Kapoor questions the effectiveness of celebrity humanitarianism through a thought provoking analysis that considers it as a ‘spectacle’ for covering up the wrongs of capitalism.

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