Review Feature – Temporality in International Relations
The two books in this feature provide a policy-focussed and theoretical analyses of the phenomenon of temporality, highlighting its importance and complexity when applied to IR.
Review – Global Reboot
This podcast from Foreign Policy should inspire listeners to think big, despite its largely abstract and Western centric approach to tackling global challenges in a post-pandemic world.
Review – Power Politics in Africa
By considering the hegemonic rivalry of Nigeria and South Africa, including their hard and soft power capabilities, this edited volume provides a much needed contribution to African perspectives on IR.
Review – The People Are Not an Image
Snowdon’s book reshapes the political imaginary of the reader and re-evaluates protest videos as vernacular devices.
Review – The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution
Liber and Press present a strong case for a more cautious approach to continued nuclear deterrence, but seem to overlook the potential for catastophe.
Review – Citizenship
Kochenov’s provocative book assesses the concept and practice of citizenship, which he contends has always, in essence, been racist.
Review – Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception
Andrew Neal’s thought-provoking book critiques the view of security as anti-politics and instead focuses on parliamentary politics and recent shifts in security practices.
Review – The Postcolonial African State in Transition
Amy Niang’s book takes up the urgent task of our collective postcolonial moment: to trace and critique historical trajectories, while finding in these the possibility to extract and abstract a plurality of modes of being, so as to create future imaginaries.
Review – International Relations, Music and Diplomacy
This volume contributes to explorations of the scholarly intertwining of inquiries into the performing arts, (popular) culture, and IR as conjoined fields of study.
Review – Europe and America: The End of the Transatlantic Relationship?
The differences on display in Cornwall and the damage done to transatlantic relations by the Trump era are the main topics explored in Federiga Bindi’s 2019 edited volume.
