Features

Linkage – Simulating History to Understand International Politics

Daryl Morini • Apr 2 2012 • Features

IR students may one day thank Weir and Baranowski for making the discipline more fun via their latest journal article.

Review – Strategic Vision

Alex Stark • Mar 29 2012 • Features

In this book, Zbigniew Brzezinski surveys the forces today that will shape the geo-political landscape of the near- and medium-term future.

Review – Unanswered Threats

R. McKay Stangler • Mar 27 2012 • Features

Some states fail to recognize, respond to, and counteract rising states that pose a danger. What accounts for this underbalancing? This is the question Schweller attempts to answer.

Review – Unanswered Threats

Luke M. Herrington • Mar 19 2012 • Features

In Unanswered Threats, Randall Schweller challenges preconceptions about the prevalence of balancing behavior in international relations.

Student Book Features: Two Global Politics Textbooks

James Wakefield • Mar 16 2012 • Features

Global political studies is a multi-faceted discipline encompassing IR, foreign policy, and domestic policy. To new students, it can be bewildering.

Review – God’s Century

J. Paul Barker • Mar 5 2012 • Features

God’s Century is not the first book to make a case for the importance of religion in global affairs. Yet, Toft, Philpott, and Shah’s book is a valuable addition to the literature.

Review – After the Globe, Before the World

Alasdair McKay • Mar 3 2012 • Features

This book begins where R.B.J Walker left off in ‘Inside/Outside’, continuing his discussion of sovereignty, the state and the system of states.

Review – The Afghan Way of War

Martin J. Bayly • Mar 1 2012 • Features

In the current intervention in Afghanistan, the policy debate has often been shrouded in the sterile language of state-building and counter-insurgency.

Review – India’s Strategic Practice and the Return of History

Vineet Thakur • Jan 23 2012 • Features

Scholars from the South are infiltrating IR from within the discipline. To that trend, Vivekanandan’s work is a welcome addition.

Student Book Features: Oxford Handbooks

Stephen McGlinchey • Jan 20 2012 • Features

Having looked at the Handbook of IR last Autumn, our first feature of 2012 weighs in on 3 of its sister volumes on Climate Change, Political Science, and Millennialism.

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