Review – Fauda
At once familiar and revelatory for television-watching audiences, Fauda is one of the most realistic artistic portrayals of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict available.
Review – The Square
Noujaim’s documentary masterfully conserves the Egyptian revolution for future generations, and thereby confirms the relevance of film for liberation struggles.
Review – Indus Divided: India, Pakistan and the Indus Basin Dispute
Ignoring environmental aspects, Haines studies the Indus River as state-building factor, contributing to research on changing territoriality as result of climate change.
Open Access Book – Ukraine in Conflict: An Analytical Chronicle
Through a series of articles written between 2013 and 2017, this book examines Ukraine during its period of conflict following the Euromaidan protests.
Review – Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East
Hashemi and Postel dissect the links between sectarianism and power politics in the Middle East, making their study a must-read for students of the Arab revolutions.
Interview – Wendy Brown
Professor Brown discusses neoliberalism’s threat to democracy, how capital and religious violence subvert sovereignty, and expounds on the state of critical theory.
Review – Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought
While Boisen and Murray do not quite meet the aims they set themselves, their edited volume is a worthy and frequently suggestive contribution to modern political theory.
Review – Under Weber’s Shadow
A welcome and critical reappraisal of Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, which draws attention to the pivotal relevance of their theories.
Review – Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens
A fair introductory text for newcomers to space security, but for those already experienced in space policy the arguments and controversies will be quite familiar.
Review – Che, My Brother
A useful and highly readable addition to the ‘good’ literature, which succeeds in telling us something more subtle than the tendency to one-dimensional diatribes.
