Reviews

Review – The Language of Deception

Abdul Samad • Mar 5 2024 • Features

Justin Hutchens explores the potential for artificial intelligence to be used for malicious ends, but focusses purely on the risks while ignoring the possible benefits.

Review – Bandwagoning in International Relations

Alexandre Haym • Feb 29 2024 • Features

Dylan Motin explores the idea of bandwagoning with great powers in contemporary Asia and Europe, but could do with more discussion of the accompanying theories.

Review – The New United Nations

Martin Duffy • Feb 24 2024 • Features

This new edition provides a fresh look at the complexities of the UN and the challenges it faces, making it a welcome update to international relations scholarship.

Review – On Nationalism

Curtis Large • Feb 16 2024 • Features

This essay collection, edited by Sassoon, portrays Hobsbawm’s search to understand and evaluate nationalism through the ages, but could do with more contextual analysis.

Review – Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

Martin Duffy • Feb 14 2024 • Features

This movie depicts the life of protest-singer Joan Baez, using a combination of modern and archival imagery to effectively highlight her long-standing political impact.

Review – The Frontline

Taras Kuzio • Feb 3 2024 • Features

Serhii Plokhy’s collection of essays details the history of Ukraine and its tumultuous relationship with Russia, but lacks sufficient discussion on contemporary tensions.

Review – The Undocumented Americans

Ina Seethaler • Jan 29 2024 • Features

Karla Villavícencío offers a powerful, personal and novel perspective that suceeds in capturing the complexities of undocumented migrant life in America.

Review – The Covert Colour Line

Martin Thomas • Jan 24 2024 • Features

Kearns offers a cohesive account of how racialised thinking by Western intelligence organisations contributes to their failings, but could provide more focus on colonial links.

Review – Leadership

Matthew C. Kolasa • Jan 9 2024 • Features

Henry Kissinger analyses the statecraft of six historic leaders, but his implications for future global governance ignores the potential of a unified European power.

Review – Martialling Peace

Vanessa Gauthier Vela • Jan 3 2024 • Features

Nicole Wegner highlights the problematic acceptance of militarism that accompanies peacekeeping, but the Canadian case study raises questions about global applicability.

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