Features

Review – Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond

Michael Jennings • Oct 12 2012 • Features

This volume moves beyond orthodox presentations of neopatrimonialism and the African state, but it does not offer anything particularly new or radical in its approach, whether theoretical or empirical.

Review – War Beyond the Battlefield

Sheldon G. Levy • Sep 30 2012 • Features

David Grondin’s edited collection represents a variety of perspectives that aim to demonstrate that the locus of battle is not on the traditional battlefield in the War on Terror.

Review – Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defence

Katharine Wright • Sep 29 2012 • Features

In Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defence, Annica Kronsell challenges an assumption that gender mainstreaming is more achievable than gender parity in military organisations.

Student Book Features: American Politics

Stephen McGlinchey • Sep 26 2012 • Features

The organisation of the various organs of government in the US can seem impenetrable. The books featured here provide an accessible route into US politics and foreign policy.

Review – Security, Risk and the Biometric State

Katja Lindskov Jacobsen • Sep 24 2012 • Features

Following the events of 9/11, biometrics has received considerable attention. Muller makes an important contribution to the debate and raises new questions to consider within the security discourse.

Review – Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

William W. Stueck • Sep 18 2012 • Features

Through reconstruction of conversations between Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean diplomats, Shen Zhihua provides a vivid account of the origins and course of the Korean War from the Communist side.

Student Book Features: Four Ways into Political Philosophy

James Wakefield • Sep 11 2012 • Features

Buying a good textbook to help navigate any subject is essential. Each of the texts discussed here brings students to the discipline via a different route.

Review – The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir

Tahir Abbas • Sep 7 2012 • Features

Despite it’s certain shortcomings, there are few books that prove as illuminating as this excellent tome. It is likely to remain an important contribution to the literature for many years to come.

Review – The Philosophy of Sociality

James Wakefield • Sep 6 2012 • Features

Raimo Tuomela explicates the concept of “us” and what it means to act as group. What Tuomela does in this book is to examine an old idea and reveal what we understood by it all along.

Review – Nuclear Energy and Global Governance

Alvin Almendrala Camba • Sep 4 2012 • Features

Trevor Findlay’s Nuclear Energy and Global Governance is a very well-researched manuscript that deals with the drivers and the constraints of a possible global nuclear energy revival.

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