Review – Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
Sakwa lays out a courageous and powerful case which directly challenges the prevailing ‘blame everything on Russia’ narrative regarding the current conflict in Ukraine.
Review – Alternative and Bottom-Up Peace Indicators
While helpfully presenting the limitations of top-down evaluation and the challenges facing bottom-up approaches, this volume leaves the reader wanting a more comprehensive engagement.
Review – The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare
Kaurin connects fruitfully with questions arising from asymmetrical warfare, providing particularly thoughtful reflections on the issues it poses for military education.
Review – Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security
A fascinating account of changes in the International Health Regulations, this volume will surely become a key text in the growing field of health diplomacy studies.
Review – The G20: Evolution, Interrelationships, Documentaion
Hajnal has penned a richly documented and well designed book which proves to be one of the best guides to an incredibly important institution of global governance.
Review – Putting Terrorism in Context
Dispelling many ideas that have been accepted uncritically by politicians and publics, the authors provide excellent analysis informed by the Global Terrorism Database.
Review – Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning
Irrespective of slight flaws, the authors provide a convincing analysis in favour of a cultural approach that provides a voice to those who are all too often overlooked.
Review – Faith-Based Organizations at the United Nations
Addressing a marked gap in IR literature, Haynes provides a timely account of how religious organizations play an increasingly important role in international affairs.
Review – Informal Ambassadors
Cooper makes a solid case for the mediating roles these cultural ambassadors played in elite circles, but at times her evaluation of their importance can seem stretched.
Review – Sexualities in World Politics
A timely collection that reflects the contemporary zeitgeist of LGBT politics, raises important disciplinary questions, and promises to open up new dialogue within IR.
