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Beginner’s Textbook – International Relations Theory

E-International Relations • Nov 30 2017 • Features

A lively, readable and relevant foundational introduction to IR theory that will help students to see not only what theories are, but why they matter.

Review – Perspectives on the Grenada Revolution

Gary Williams • Sep 20 2017 • Features

With chapters drawn from a wide range of authors, this collection succeeds in furthering our understanding of the Grenada Revolution’s complexities and enduring legacy.

Interview – William I. Robinson

E-International Relations • Sep 16 2017 • Features

Professor Robinson answers questions on his theory of global capitalism, the future of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and the role of the BRICS in world order.

Interview – Bernard D’Mello

E-International Relations • Sep 10 2017 • Features

Journalist Bernard D’Mello discusses Fidel Castro’s legacy in the Global South, imperialism, Maoist movements in South Asia and India’s status as an emerging power.

Review – Decolonizing Dialectics

Joseph Leigh • Jul 7 2017 • Features

In this ambitious if uneven work, Ciccariello-Maher aims to establish a conception of dialectical thought adequate to the premises of anticolonial critical theory.

Review – Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

Jan Tattenberg • May 19 2017 • Features

An exponent of longue durée history, Armitage brings together several trains of thought in this volume which begins in ancient Rome and ends in contemporary Syria.

Review – Antonio Gramsci

John Holst • Mar 14 2017 • Features

McNally’s edited book acquaints novices with the substance of Gramsci’s thought, but fails on its own terms by ignoring the supposed universality of Gramscianism.

International Relations Theory

Stephen McGlinchey and Dana Gold • Jan 9 2017 • Articles

The approaches in IR theory each possess a legitimate, yet different, view. They offer a means by which to attempt to understand a complex and frequently changing world.

Exploding Inequality is Killing Democracy

Jon D. Wisman • Jan 4 2017 • Articles

“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both” (Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1916-1939). “Democracy is first and foremost about equality: equality of power and equality of sharing in the benefits […]

The Failed Coup in Turkey: Prolonged Conflict in the State Apparatus

Gonenc Uysal • Sep 21 2016 • Articles

Contrary to the hegemonic paradigm that has portrayed the military as an elitist institution, this paper considers civil-military relations as a field of class struggle.

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