Reviews

Review – The Square

Lucia Sorbera • May 5 2017 • Features

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

Raj Kaithwar • May 2 2017 • Features

Ignoring environmental aspects, Haines studies the Indus River as state-building factor, contributing to research on changing territoriality as result of climate change.

Review – Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

Ibrahim Halawi • Apr 28 2017 • Features

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.

Review – Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought

James Wakefield • Apr 23 2017 • Features

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

Andreas Zaunseder • Apr 17 2017 • Features

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

Bleddyn E. Bowen • Apr 12 2017 • Features

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

Antoni Kapcia • Apr 8 2017 • Features

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.

Review – Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

Sérgio Costa • Apr 3 2017 • Features

Go’s book is an important contribution to the greater project of deconstructing social theory and sociology to subsequently resurrect them for the 21st century.

Review – International Order in Diversity

Nathan Sears • Mar 28 2017 • Features

Though an empirically intriguing and entertaining read, Phillips and Sharman’s book falls short on theory and contains fallacious historical investigation.

Review – Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History

Steve Cushion • Mar 25 2017 • Features

The personal recollections in Kruijt’s book on players in revolutionary Latin America are so valuable that they eclipse the weaker explanatory, even slippery passages.

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