Review – Saving the News
This book provides a compelling account of why government action is required in the US to protect media freedoms under the First Amendment.
Review – Never-Ending War on Terror
This book focusses on the American military and cultural response to 9/11, and questions whether the campaign will ever have an end in sight.
Review – The Misinformation Age
A useful account of how to identify factors driving the spread of false beliefs in society, but it remains to be seen whether the warnings come too late.
Review – Beyond the Steppe Frontier
This book is a well-collated collection of biographical accounts and empirical studies that gives life to the Sino-Russian border.
Review – Time Is A Mother
This poetry collection includes themes of personal loss and mortality that also provide insights into broader political struggles and conflicts in IR.
Review – White as the Shroud
This book delves into the little-analysed Siachen War in the interest of providing a broad account of border conflicts between India, China, and Pakistan, and the battle for Kashmir.
Review – Constructing the Responsibility to Protect
This excellent volume provides a coherent package of the debates on R2P in theory and practice, highlighting its continually contested nature.
Review – Feminist Solutions for Ending War
This book presents a wide variety of solutions to war that are grounded in feminist theory, and promotes awareness and discourse on the issue.
Review – Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration
Michanne Steenbergen draws on understandings of power and critiques of existing UN practices to elucidate how empowerment gained by female ex-combatants is often lost upon their reintegration into society.
Review – Say It Loud!
Randall Kennedy’s thought-provoking collection of essays depicts how his views on race relations evolved over the course of his career in academia.
