Review – Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics
This title offers a new and interesting contribution, not only for the English school, but also for the entire discipline of International Relations.
Review – Gendering European Integration Theory. Engaging new Dialogues.
Although the volume lacks a deeper gender-blind approach, it prepares the ground for a more meaningful dialogue between gender studies and the wider social sciences.
Review – International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa
Insightful case studies that support the authors’ concept of R2P³ make this book an indispensable read not only for academics, but everyone who deals with R2P.
Review – Splinterlands
Feffer’s novel is a compelling, short and readable account of what may happen to our world when forms of global integration disintegrate and there is no common future.
Review – Ethics, Diversity and World Politics: Saving Pluralism From Itself
John Williams provides essential insights for anyone with interest in ethical pluralism in contemporary politics, and sets the agenda for future research in this field.
Review – Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion
This book vividly shows how ‘things’ become agents within a New Materialism frame, making it a fine contribution of to the development of International Relations theory.
Review – The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
One of the world’s leading historians of the early modern European imperial imagination brings together the best of his life’s work on the intellectual history of empire.
Review – Epidemics in Modern Asia
Though Peckham’s cultural history of disease contains conceptual shortcomings, his historical account is still an unconventional yet insightful read.
Review – Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development
Paulson makes a worthy and ambitious contribution to undermining old, narrow feminist paradigms, which enables the creation of more inclusive approaches.
Review – Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises
A timely volume that details what we have learned from a long history of attempts to govern sovereign debt, and which is bound to be a reference for debates yet to come.
