Features

Review – The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

Ricardo Padrón • Dec 22 2016 • Features

One of the world’s leading historians of the early modern European imperial imagination brings together the best of his life’s work on the intellectual history of empire.

Interview – Gilles Carbonnier

E-International Relations • Dec 18 2016 • Features

Gilles Carbonnier outlines his approach to humanitarian economics, reflects on recent changes in the humanitarian sector, and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration.

Review – Epidemics in Modern Asia

Michael Shiyung Liu • Dec 14 2016 • Features

Though Peckham’s cultural history of disease contains conceptual shortcomings, his historical account is still an unconventional yet insightful read.

Interview – Daniela DeBono

E-International Relations • Dec 10 2016 • Features

Daniela DeBono discusses her approach to the migration-human rights nexus, explains a cultural approach to human rights, and urges young scholars to question assumptions.

Review – Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development

Cristina Espinosa • Dec 9 2016 • Features

Paulson makes a worthy and ambitious contribution to undermining old, narrow feminist paradigms, which enables the creation of more inclusive approaches.

Interview – Prince El-Waleed M. Madibo

E-International Relations • Dec 3 2016 • Features

Prince Madibo talks about constructing and running a government in Sudan, the importance of coexistence, and theory and practice of development.

Review – Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez • Dec 2 2016 • Features

A timely volume that details what we have learned from a long history of attempts to govern sovereign debt, and which is bound to be a reference for debates yet to come.

Review – The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

Matthew Palmer • Nov 28 2016 • Features

An authoritative account of the intelligence services often tumultuous interactions with Downing Street, which nonetheless lacks a degree of theoretical appreciation.

Interview – Carlos Escudé

E-International Relations • Nov 28 2016 • Features

Professor Escudé talks about his peripheral realism, the fallacy of anthropomorphism, what’s wrong in Venezuela, and argues to separate theory and practice.

Interview – Carne Ross

E-International Relations • Nov 24 2016 • Features

Independent diplomat Carne Ross talks about the surprising influence of non-state actors, power politics and anarchy, as well as the poverty of academic IR.

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