Review – The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership
Daalder and Lindsay’s book critiques the loss of US leadership under Trump but fails to break new ground or present a clear account of what leadership is or should be.
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Review – From Righteousness to Far Right
Mc Cluskey proposes an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies by focusing on the response of a small Swedish village to 100 resettled Syrian refugees.
Review – The EU-Japan Partnership in Shadow of China
This edited collection considers the developments in EU-Japan relations within the current shifting and uncertain international context of the rise of China and populism.
Interview – Pınar Bilgin
Pınar Bilgin explores her research on international political sociology, postcolonial thought and critical security studies, particulalry in relation to the Global South.
Review – The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth
Mandelbaum’s book is an analytically flawed, contradictory and unconventional piece of realist scholarship that considers the instability of the post-Cold War period.
Reducing Greenhouse Gases Is a Security Issue
Climate change isn’t just an environmental or economic problem. It’s also a security problem because of food and water shortages, humanitarian emergencies, and migration.
Interview – Tom Watts
Tom Watts discusses his research on security cooperation as an instrument of remote warfare, Obama’s counterterrorism policies and life as an early-career scholar.
Demography, Migration and Security in the Middle East
Addressing the impact of current population patterns on Middle Eastern communities and migration in the region is imperative for achieving security and stability.
Interview – Jonna Nyman
Jonna Nyman discusses the ‘energy security paradox’, energy securitisation, her fieldwork in China and current research that seeks to understand security beyond the West.
Review – Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
The book crafts unique and insightful approaches to security, political economy, nationalism and IR which build upon a wealth of scholarship on race, gender, and culture.
Chinese Diplomacy in Africa: Constructing the Security-Development Nexus
China has socialised African leaders into a narrative of South-South cooperation that calls for increased cooperation and legitimises the security-development nexus.
