Features

Review – Global Warming Gridlock

Nick Chan • Jun 25 2012 • Features

Global Warming Gridlock has in its crosshairs the conventional wisdom that has straitjacketed both national and international efforts at dealing with climate change

Review – Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence

Bleddyn E. Bowen • Jun 24 2012 • Features

Columba Peoples considers why it is that successive US administrations have pursued missile defence and calls for a critical approach to understand the role of technology in security.

Student Book Features: Human Rights and International Law

Peter Brett • Jun 21 2012 • Features

The realist view of law and human rights is rapidly going out of fashion. In its place liberal, constructivist and critical theories have come to the fore.

Review – Poor Economics

Alex Stark • Jun 19 2012 • Features

Written for a popular audience, the authors of Poor Economics seek to sweep aside the broad generalizations about global poverty that economic models tend to create.

Review — The Justice Cascade

Peter Brett • Jun 15 2012 • Features

For two decades now Kathyrn Sikkink has been a leading scholar of human rights in world politics. The Justice Cascade is perhaps her most ambitious work to date.

Review – How Institutions Evolve

Alvin Almendrala Camba • Jun 12 2012 • Features

Thelen uses institutional theory within a varieties of capitalism framework to explain the causes for variation in vocational training and skill formation amongst Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States.

Student Book Features: China and Iran

Stephen McGlinchey • Jun 12 2012 • Features

China and Iran are two states that will cross many students’ paths. Both nations, for different reasons, are at the centre of important contemporary debates in IR.

Linkage – Don’t Blame Theory!

A.C. McKeil • Jun 3 2012 • Features

Christian Reus-Smit diagnoses IR’s disciplinary ailment in Millennium’s latest special issue by pointing out that an anti-theoretical turn to pragmatist problem-solving research is not the correct prescription for IR.

Review – The Wars of Afghanistan

Martin J. Bayly • May 28 2012 • Features

Peter Tomsen has provided a comprehensive account of Afghanistan’s recent conflicts and illuminates aspects of this history in ways that only he could really achieve.

Review – The Future of Power

Luke M. Herrington • May 24 2012 • Features

Nye offers an intriguing analysis of the changing nature of power and how new geopolitical and economic trends will alter world politics in the coming years.

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