Reviews

Review – Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

Mark Beautement • May 16 2012 • Features

Fragments of the Afghan Frontier combines painstaking anthropological field research with extensive historical analysis to assess Afghanistan’s frontier regions and people.

Review – Keeping a Sharp Eye

Daniel Conway • May 4 2012 • Features

Daniel Conway reviews Peter Vale’s intriguing and entertaining overview of cartoons focused on the last century of South Africa’s troubled international relations.

Review – The Glorious Art of Peace

Harry Booty • May 1 2012 • Features

Often relegated to a fringe area of the study of war, peace studies is often marginalised as an even more specific sub-division of its militaristic counterpart.

Review – Security and Environmental Change

Marc Van Impe • Apr 25 2012 • Features

Dalby’s book provides an inspiring conceptual framework to deal with environmental security. Whilst worthy of further study, it is built on a restricted perception of reality.

Review – An Enemy We Created

Christian Dennys • Apr 20 2012 • Features

van Linschoten and Kuehn’s detailed accounts of the early development of the international jihadists and the Taliban is a wide ranging and useful addition to post 9/11 literature.

Review – Religions of the Silk Road

Luke M. Herrington • Apr 18 2012 • Features

Foltz’s Religions of the Silk Road uniquely considers the histories of Central Asia, globalization, trans-Eurasian trade, and religion through a broad interdisciplinary lens.

Review – The End of Certainty

Ioannis Mantzikos • Apr 6 2012 • Features

Distinguished Professor of International Relations Stephen Chan criticizes current analyses of international developments as being based primarily on western systemic models that steadily impose a cultural monopoly on the field.

Review – Talking to the Enemy

Alasdair McKay • Apr 4 2012 • Features

In this remarkably astute book based on field work and interviews, Scott Atran offers an intricate and nuanced glimpse into the world of terrorists.

Review – Strategic Vision

Alex Stark • Mar 29 2012 • Features

In this book, Zbigniew Brzezinski surveys the forces today that will shape the geo-political landscape of the near- and medium-term future.

Review – Unanswered Threats

R. McKay Stangler • Mar 27 2012 • Features

Some states fail to recognize, respond to, and counteract rising states that pose a danger. What accounts for this underbalancing? This is the question Schweller attempts to answer.

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