Review – Authoritarian Africa: Repression, resistance, and the power of ideas
The book explores why authoritarian regimes have persisted in Africa and investigates the extent to which European colonialists can be blamed for Africa’s problems.
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.
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.
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.
Review – Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States
A worthwhile read offering an excellent analysis of peacekeeping missions and gendered norms that regulate them.
Review – Navies and Maritime Policies in the South Atlantic
Essential reading for those interested in maritime security; the book provides a careful insight into the issues and threats to maritime policies in the South Atlantic.
Review – The Hacker and the State
A much needed academic contribution to the IR cyber space literature that includes well-informed examinations of cyber attacks that have taken place in recent decades.
