Review – Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction
This book offers an audacious and detailed tour de force of the colonial and racial underpinnings of political science.
Review – Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism
This tour de force by Blaney and Inayatullah engages with a wide range of IPE scholars and presents an intriguing discussion of time and eurocentrism, though both warrant further analysis.
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.
