Reviews

Review – Against All Odds: Voice of Popular Struggle in Iraq

Zahra Ali • Dec 21 2015 • Features

By giving a voice to popular movements which resist Iraq’s dramatic and dreadful situation, Issa manages to bring some hope and positive insight to the Iraqi context.

Review – How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism

Chris Grocott • Dec 16 2015 • Features

Using fresh theoretical tools and analysis to challenge the received wisdom of capitalist development, this title will be of considerable use to a variety of scholars.

Review – MIKTA, Middle Powers, and New Dynamics of Global Governance

Hakan Mehmetcik • Dec 9 2015 • Features

By being one of the few scholarly texts to focus on the MIKTA, Jongryn’s edited volume is a substantial contribution to global governance literature.

Review – The Incubus of Intervention

Jakob R. Avgustin • Dec 2 2015 • Features

A remarkable account of differences between John F. Kennedy and Allan Dulles that significantly contributes to our understanding of US involvement in Indonesia.

Review – Russia and the New World Disorder

Joseph Larsen • Nov 27 2015 • Features

An informative and lucid scholarly contribution that expertly blends the domestic and international to offer a compelling account of how policy is made in Russia.

Review Article – The BRICs and International Relations

Ray Kiely • Nov 21 2015 • Features

These two academically rigorous books serve as valuable guides to the relations among BRICs and provide engaging analyses on their impact on international order.

Review – The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christian Scheinpflug • Nov 17 2015 • Features

A work of prime scholarship on the origins of the First World War, within which students and scholars of international relations will find plenty of substance.

Review – Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

Elizabeth Austin • Nov 12 2015 • Features

Although this title makes some valid points to support its hypothesis regarding corporate capitalism, ultimately a clear and substantial vision of revolution is lacking.

Review – Race and Racism in International Relations

Roger Epp • Nov 8 2015 • Features

This book ably serves as a point of entry into the demanding yet necessary subject of race and racism which is so often neglected within International Relations research.

Review – The EU’s Foreign Policy: What Kind of Power and Diplomatic Action?

Guri Rosen • Nov 3 2015 • Features

This thought-provoking volume on the EU’s role as an international actor contains numerous strong chapters, but sadly their coherence together as a whole is lacking.

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