Reviews

Review – The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies

Stephane J. Baele • Jul 4 2013 • Features

While suffering from some structural concerns, this handbook offers a resourceful journey across an impressive number of ‘new’ security threats.

Review – Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism

Jared A. Pincin • Jul 2 2013 • Features

What is the place of the sacred and secular in aid work? Barnett and Gross Stein’s edited collection explores the tensions of secularization and sanctification in modern humanitarianism.

Review – Iran Unveiled

Michael Rubin • Jul 1 2013 • Features

Ali Alfoneh’s analysis of Iran’s political sphere offers a comprehensive and systematic study of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the pivotal role the powerful group may play in the state’s nuclear future.

Review – A Fundamental Fear

Dylan Loh • Jun 29 2013 • Features

In a proposed global context of Western hegemony Bobby Sayyid argues that Islamism falls outside the orbit of the West and represents the only available counter-hegemonic discourse to it.

Review – Citizenship after Yugoslavia

Nenad Rava • Jun 25 2013 • Features

The demise of Yugoslavia gave rise to the creation of new nation-states, whose emerging ‘citizenship regimes’ are analysed in this collection to ascertain their origins and shortcomings.

Review – The CIA on Campus

David N. Gibbs • Jun 18 2013 • Features

The contributors to The CIA on Campus explore the costs of the US victory in the Cold War, notably the way that the US intelligence services infiltrated and to some degree corrupted US universities.

Review – Nigeria at Fifty

Toyin Falola • Jun 9 2013 • Features

In analysing the fifty years since Nigeria’s independence, this collection of essays argues for reform that delegitimises the elite rent seekers in the state while concurrently empowering the impoverished populace.

Review – The Politics of Nation-Building

Kendrick Kuo • Jun 8 2013 • Features

Harris Mylonas’ novel approach to nation-building not only pioneers a new theory in the well-trodden ethnopolitics field, but also integrates international relations with comparative politics.

Review – Churchill and Finland

Keith Olson • Jun 7 2013 • Features

Through an in depth examination of the Winston Churchill’s relationship with Finland, Markku Ruotsila explains Churchill’s geostrategic interests as well as his anticommunist ideology.

Review – China’s Development: Capitalism and Empire

Gordon Redding • Jun 6 2013 • Features

This multidisciplinary study of China’s economic reform asserts that a unique mode of capitalism will likely emerge within the state as it gradually works to overcome the strictures of communism.

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