Interview – Vineet Thakur
Vineet Thakur highlights an alternative theory of the development of international relations, accounting for the previously omitted roles of non-Western actors and women.
Review – Empires of Eurasia
Mankoff’s geographical focus captures the dynamics of the region well, though this highlights the usual traits and his analysis would benefit from more local insight.
Failing in the Reflexive and Collaborative Turns: Empire, Colonialism, Gender and the Impossibilities of North-South Collaborations
As Postcolonial Theory becomes accepted in the mainstream, how do we control the means through which academia aims to re-invent its as only seemingly more benign?
Review – The Bivocal Nation
Batiashvili explores Georgian statehood and history by evaluating Georgian national narratives and ‘bivocality’ to understand how the modern nation has been formed.
Interview – Julian Go
Prof. Go discusses social theory, the need for a ‘third wave’ of postcolonial thought, the dangers of American exceptionalism and identifies the patterns of empire.
Review – The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
One of the world’s leading historians of the early modern European imperial imagination brings together the best of his life’s work on the intellectual history of empire.
Review – The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950
An extremely valuable addition to literature on the history of time standardization and globalization which challenges dominant narratives of inevitable progress.
Interview – Michael Hardt
Michael Hardt discusses the changing forms of global structures since writing Empire with Negri and the interactions between social movements, politics and academics.
Review – East, West, North, South: International Relations since 1945
This edition enlightens the reader to new facts and interpretations, although limited in their scope, about the events post-1945 and particularly those after 1986.
Review – China’s Development: Capitalism and Empire
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.
