Reviews

Review – Winner Take All

Ross Anthony • Dec 11 2012 • Features

Through the presentation of numerous data sets, Moyo offers a counter-reading to a slew of biased writing which presents China’s growing role in the market for global resources without reflection on the Euro-American sphere’s continued domination of these markets.

Review – Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

Rhys Crilley • Dec 3 2012 • Features

This challenging book highlights how Shapiro’s writing-as-method and the stories of aesthetic subjects can be used to explore issues at a deeper level than psychological approaches.

Review – South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence

Scopas S. Poggo • Dec 3 2012 • Features

LeRiche and Arnold, despite certain shortcomings, offer a significant contribution to the study of wars and conflicts in the Sudan in particular, and Africa at large.

Review – Volunteer Tourism in the Global South

Stephen Wearing • Nov 28 2012 • Features

This work explores the phenomenon of volunteer tourism, especially the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice.

Review – The China Choice

Huw McKay • Nov 26 2012 • Features

No serious thinker on global and Asian regional security matters can afford to be ignorant of this book’s central thesis- America must make a choice very soon regarding China: to relinquish primacy to share power with China in a concert of Asia.

Review – Obama and the Middle East

Robert Mason • Nov 21 2012 • Features

As Barack Obama prepares to enter a second term Fawaz Gerges assesses his first term in relation to the Middle East, examining the major themes and historical constraints of Obama’s foreign policy.

Review – Why Leaders Lie

Thomas Messer • Nov 19 2012 • Features

Does lying in international politics occur? How often? Who benefits? What are the consequences? There are many questions to be considered in Mearsheimer’s Why Leaders Lie and it provides a starting point for further research and discussion.

Review – The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

Paul Dixon • Nov 17 2012 • Features

Paul B. Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn’s new handbook offers an opportunity to survey the state of the art in ‘orthodox’ counterinsurgency thinking.

Review – Democracy, Islam, And Secularism in Turkey

J. Paul Barker • Nov 14 2012 • Features

Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey illuminates some of the most compelling and significant questions driving the central debates in contemporary Turkey.

Review – Peacebuilding Through Community-Based NGOs

Roger Mac Ginty • Nov 8 2012 • Features

This book by Max Stephenson Jr. and Laura Zanotti discusses the contribution that NGOs, and civil society more generally, can make to peacebuilding.

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