Features

Review – Across the Line of Control

Daanish Mustafa • Jan 20 2013 • Features

Across the Line of Control provides an analysis of the recent history, politics, demographics and key events in the history of all of Kashmir, with a special focus on the PAK.

Review – The Peace In Between

Anna K. Jarstad • Jan 19 2013 • Features

This book provides a broad spectrum of how international actors engage in peacebuilding and training for self-defence, and how local actors interact with each other after a war has ended.

Review – Why Civil Resistance Works

David Cortright • Jan 17 2013 • Features

This book revolutionizes the study of political change. The authors’ findings fundamentally challenge traditional realist assumptions about the efficacy of military force and the nature of political power.

Infographic: 5 years of e-IR

E-International Relations • Jan 14 2013 • Features

Explore the story of e-International Relations’ first five years – and discover some of our exciting plans for 2013…

Review – Racism without Racists

Shayla C. Nunnally • Jan 8 2013 • Features

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s important book examines the prevalence of racism in a post-Civil War United States, and the powerful role it continues to play in hindering development within minority groups.

Review – National, European and Human Security

Richard Matthew • Jan 7 2013 • Features

National, European and Human Security examines whether, if at all, human security and national security have converged in the past decade, and how they currently co-exist.

Review – Orientalism

Conor Heaney • Jan 4 2013 • Features

Said’s seminal work remains pertinent, not just because of the postcolonial and poststructuralist literature which it sparked, but because its insights can be seen in the current mainstream attitude towards Islam.

Interview – Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

E-International Relations • Jan 3 2013 • Features

e-IR kicks off its brand new monthly interviews feature with Harvard University’s Joseph S. Nye, Jr. who answers some of your questions on soft power, China, and the Arab Spring & offers advice for young scholars.

Review – African Women’s Movements

Maria Martin de Almagro • Jan 2 2013 • Features

This work examines the evolving sociopolitical transformation of women’s status in African societies, making a valuable contribution to the literature on gender and activism by illuminating how and why women mobilized and the difficulties in enacting transformative change.

Review – Holiday Reading

Thomas Messer • Dec 29 2012 • Features

As the holiday period descends and students and scholars take a break, how do you keep your brain from stagnating? This feature contains four book recommendations to keep your mind stimulated.

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