Reviews

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.

Review – Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism

Joanna Warson • Mar 7 2016 • Features

Although a bit light on analysis, Hansen and Jonsson succeed in showing perceptively how European integration and colonialism in Africa are related.

Review – The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons

John Walton Cotman • Mar 2 2016 • Features

An important and groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarly volume which highlights the lessons that can be drawn from the errors and triumphs of the Grenada Revolution.

Review – Cooperation and Drug Polices in the Americas

Juan Carlos Garzón-Vergara • Feb 25 2016 • Features

A title that offers valuable lessons for scholars and practitioners, challenging traditional views about U.S. cooperation and highlighting the inertia of current policy.

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