Interview – Ian Manners
Professor Ian Manners discusses the EU as a global gender actor, European integration, and he explains planetary politics in relation to the EU.
Review – War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
Bowen provides a masterful contribution through his presentation of a Clausewitzian spacepower theory.
Interview – Miguel Dhenin
Miguel Dhenin talks about the military’s role in public services and politics in Brazil, as well as the ‘strategic environment’ in the Brazilian context.
Review – Authoritarian Africa: Repression, resistance, and the power of ideas
The book explores why authoritarian regimes have persisted in Africa and investigates the extent to which European colonialists can be blamed for Africa’s problems.
Interview – Gwilym David Blunt
Gwilym David Blunt discusses global poverty as a crime against humanity, the right to resist, Black Lives Matter, and how COVID-19 has shaped resistance.
Review – Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
The book maps the intersecting forms of oppression Indigenous women and subverts colonial histories through the narration of resistance.
Interview – Lydia Cole
Lydia Cole reflects on her fieldwork, affective failure and misrecognition, as well as her research using conflict textiles, encouraging the use of visual art and poetry in research.
Review – Hotels and Highways
An empirically rich discussion of the negotiations and translations involved in the travels of modernisation theory to Turkey during the Cold War era.
Interview – Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme
Salvador Regilme talks about Covid-19, Trump, Biden, and multilateralism in relation to US foreign policy, as well as the current state of the human rights regime.
Review – Break All the Borders: Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East
An ambitious book that analyses how recent developments in Middle Eastern politics have affected the regional order from an international relations perspective.
