Reviews

Review – The CIA on Campus

David N. Gibbs • Jun 18 2013 • Features

The contributors to The CIA on Campus explore the costs of the US victory in the Cold War, notably the way that the US intelligence services infiltrated and to some degree corrupted US universities.

Review – Nigeria at Fifty

Toyin Falola • Jun 9 2013 • Features

In analysing the fifty years since Nigeria’s independence, this collection of essays argues for reform that delegitimises the elite rent seekers in the state while concurrently empowering the impoverished populace.

Review – The Politics of Nation-Building

Kendrick Kuo • Jun 8 2013 • Features

Harris Mylonas’ novel approach to nation-building not only pioneers a new theory in the well-trodden ethnopolitics field, but also integrates international relations with comparative politics.

Review – Churchill and Finland

Keith Olson • Jun 7 2013 • Features

Through an in depth examination of the Winston Churchill’s relationship with Finland, Markku Ruotsila explains Churchill’s geostrategic interests as well as his anticommunist ideology.

Review – China’s Development: Capitalism and Empire

Gordon Redding • Jun 6 2013 • Features

This multidisciplinary study of China’s economic reform asserts that a unique mode of capitalism will likely emerge within the state as it gradually works to overcome the strictures of communism.

Review – Anglo-American Relations

Alanna O'Malley • Jun 5 2013 • Features

Dobson and Marsh’s edited volume offers a wide-ranging view of how the US-UK relationship functions, through what mechanisms or with which tools, and why it is a source of intellectual intrigue.

Review – Celebrity Humanitarianism

Carlo Piccinini • Jun 3 2013 • Features

Ilan Kapoor questions the effectiveness of celebrity humanitarianism through a thought provoking analysis that considers it as a ‘spectacle’ for covering up the wrongs of capitalism.

Review – Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico

Robert Bonner • May 28 2013 • Features

Robert J. Bunker’s wide ranging edited collection provides valuable insight into the activities of Mexican drug cartels and gangs – though the analysis is short on policy prescriptions.

Review – The Breaking of Nations

Filipa Pestana • May 27 2013 • Features

This collection of essays by Robert Cooper offers a concise yet often controversial view of Europe’s place in the new world order and of what can be done to tackle fanaticism.

Review – After Empire

Kendrick Kuo • May 21 2013 • Features

Ambitious in scope, Peter Zarrow’s After Empire is a descriptive and analytical history of the intellectual currents that swept away China’s edifice of kingship and erected a new polity.

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