Review – Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
The book maps the intersecting forms of oppression Indigenous women and subverts colonial histories through the narration of resistance.
Interview – Lydia Cole
Lydia Cole reflects on her fieldwork, affective failure and misrecognition, as well as her research using conflict textiles, encouraging the use of visual art and poetry in research.
Review – Hotels and Highways
An empirically rich discussion of the negotiations and translations involved in the travels of modernisation theory to Turkey during the Cold War era.
Interview – Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme
Salvador Regilme talks about Covid-19, Trump, Biden, and multilateralism in relation to US foreign policy, as well as the current state of the human rights regime.
Review – Break All the Borders: Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East
An ambitious book that analyses how recent developments in Middle Eastern politics have affected the regional order from an international relations perspective.
Review – Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit
Shilliam tells the story of colonial and postcolonial Britain and the book’s power lies in its ability to not only narrate a history but also to portend its future.
Review – Status and the Rise of Brazil
This ambitious book provides a useful analysis of Brazil’s foreign policy and the dilemmas its status presents, but largely reproduces traditional perspectives.
Review – The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East
While Phillips provides an accessible and valuable international view of the Kurds, the book’s one-sided perspective on several issues fails the reader.
Interview – Lulama Smuts Ngonyama
Ambassador Ngonyama talks about his career, the economic diplomacy of developing countries, global inequality, and the future of global South diplomatic missions.
Call for Contributors – Asian Territorial and Maritime Disputes: A Critical Introduction
This book will explain the origins of the territorial and maritime disputes in Asia in an accessible way. We are accepting abstracts until 30 September.
