Reviews

Review – Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy

K.P. O'Reilly • Jul 29 2014 • Features

Bentley’s analysis offers important insights about how politically loaded seemingly neutral idioms used in the war on terror are manipulated by the powers that be.

Review – Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong

Francis Grice • Jul 28 2014 • Features

Ingalls’ translation of Mao’s poems and thought-provoking thesis have considerable merit, but readers will benefit most by approaching it with a critical eye.

Review – The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism

Benjamin Franks • Jul 23 2014 • Features

Clark successfully employs a neo-Hegelian framework to examine the benefits of anarchism’s alternative participatory, anti-hierarchical forms of organisation.

Review Feature – Terrorism and Political Violence

Robert Bunker • Jul 23 2014 • Features

This review considers the contributions of two very useful, and student friendly, new books that add to the growing literature on terrorism and political violence.

Review – The Politics of Exile

Rhys Crilley • Jul 22 2014 • Features

Dauphinée masterfully eschews the conventional ways of presenting research and through storytelling provides insights into the Bosnian war and its dire aftermath.

Review – Intelligent Compassion

Laura Sjoberg • Jul 21 2014 • Features

Confortini’s analysis of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom benefits feminist IR theory by making it more accessible and clearly applicable.

Review – Transforming Violent Political Movements

Victor Asal • Jul 20 2014 • Features

Grisham’s insightful and relevant work provides a useful theoretical model to predict and understand the transformation and evolution of violent rebel movements.

Student Book Feature – IR Theory: A Critical Introduction

Victor Coutinho Lage • Jul 19 2014 • Student Features

By focusing on IR myths, & by using films to help understand theories, Weber’s textbook remains a major introduction to the perspectives associated with the study of IR.

Review – The Massacres at Mt. Halla

Peter Brett • Jul 15 2014 • Features

Hun Joon Kim’s analysis represents a welcome and well-written, but ultimately very partial, view of the search for ‘comprehensive truth’ in South Korea.

Review – What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It

Nick Chan • Jul 15 2014 • Features

Harris provides a good introduction to the politics of climate change and sets out a vision of what might occur if a world of states is replaced with one of people.

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