Reviews

Review – Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

James Esson • May 24 2016 • Features

A title which maps out the state of the art within the field, while also providing insights on how to challenge prevailing conceptual and theoretical approaches.

Review – Ethics and Global Security

Fiona Robinson • May 12 2016 • Features

Burke et al. offer refreshingly optimistic thinking on security. Their book is required reading for anyone interested in, and concerned about, our common future.

Review – Hollywood 9/11: Superheroes, Supervillains and Super Disasters

Tiago Alves de Moraes Sarmento • May 2 2016 • Features

From documentaries to Team America, the rich material that Pollard describes might help one understand what entertainment in the new millennium is grounded upon.

Review – Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

Adrian Budd • Apr 23 2016 • Features

Focusing on tensions between economic transnationalization and the persistence of inter-state rivalry, Woodley poses challenging questions for all perspectives in IR.

Review – The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950

Kevin Birth • Apr 10 2016 • Features

An extremely valuable addition to literature on the history of time standardization and globalization which challenges dominant narratives of inevitable progress.

Review – Humanitarian Business

Kai Chen • Apr 3 2016 • Features

Humanitarian Business explores some of the most critical characteristics of humanitarian action in ever-changing contexts, and richly deserves the praise it has received.

Review – Asia’s New Battlefield

Laura Southgate • Mar 26 2016 • Features

A comprehensive analysis of the current battle for primacy in the Western Pacific which would be of benefit to students, academics, policy-makers and the general public.

Movie Review – ‘Hail, Caesar!’ and the Red Menace

W. Alejandro Sanchez • Mar 23 2016 • Features

‘Hail, Caesar!”s major contribution to the IR field is to remind us that the current tensions between the two global powers are nothing new.

Review – Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet

Sophie Barnett • Mar 18 2016 • Features

Deibert convincingly argues for the legitimate need of cybersecurity, but fails to provide a solution of how to resolve the tension between cyber-control and openness.

Review – Clausewitz on Small War

Simon Taylor • Mar 12 2016 • Features

A welcome addition to the growing recent scholarship on Clausewitz which will add depth to theoretical and analytical approaches to war and strategic studies.

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