Reviews

Review – Is International Affairs Too ‘Hard’ For Women?

Jenny M Lewis • Aug 6 2014 • Features

Tyler et al raise important issues, but Institutional strategies to address why so few women still make it to the top of international affairs in Australia are needed.

Review – Putin’s Wars: The Rise of Russia’s New Imperialism

Valerie Pacer • Aug 5 2014 • Features

Van Herpen expertly details the complicated legacy that empire has on the modern Russian state – and offers an important background to on-going events in Ukraine.

Review – When the United States Invaded Russia

Christian Dennys • Aug 1 2014 • Features

Richard’s book should be read – not for lessons on Afghanistan & Iraq – but as a timely reminder of the dangers of mission creep and the consequences of the use of force.

Review – Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy

K.P. O'Reilly • Jul 29 2014 • Features

Bentley’s analysis offers important insights about how politically loaded seemingly neutral idioms used in the war on terror are manipulated by the powers that be.

Review – Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong

Francis Grice • Jul 28 2014 • Features

Ingalls’ translation of Mao’s poems and thought-provoking thesis have considerable merit, but readers will benefit most by approaching it with a critical eye.

Review – The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism

Benjamin Franks • Jul 23 2014 • Features

Clark successfully employs a neo-Hegelian framework to examine the benefits of anarchism’s alternative participatory, anti-hierarchical forms of organisation.

Review Feature – Terrorism and Political Violence

Robert Bunker • Jul 23 2014 • Features

This review considers the contributions of two very useful, and student friendly, new books that add to the growing literature on terrorism and political violence.

Review – The Politics of Exile

Rhys Crilley • Jul 22 2014 • Features

Dauphinée masterfully eschews the conventional ways of presenting research and through storytelling provides insights into the Bosnian war and its dire aftermath.

Review – Intelligent Compassion

Laura Sjoberg • Jul 21 2014 • Features

Confortini’s analysis of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom benefits feminist IR theory by making it more accessible and clearly applicable.

Review – Transforming Violent Political Movements

Victor Asal • Jul 20 2014 • Features

Grisham’s insightful and relevant work provides a useful theoretical model to predict and understand the transformation and evolution of violent rebel movements.

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