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Scotland will go to the polls on September 18th for a referendum on independence, the outcome of which is very much in doubt. Regardless of the result, the referendum campaign…
Demobilizing Irregular Forces, by Eric Y. Shibuya. Cambridge / Malden MA: Polity Press, 2012. 167 pp, £45/€54 hardcover 978-0-7456-4885-9, £13.99/€16.80 paperback 978-0-7456-4886-…
Will China Dominate the 21st Century? By Jonathan Fenby. Cambridge: Polity 2014. 139 pp, £35 hardcover 978-0-7456-7926-6; £9.99 paperback 978-0-7456-7927-3; £7.49 e-book 978-0-…
Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act, edited by Dan Kuwali and Frans Viljoen. Oxford and New York: Routledge 2014. 398 pp…
Why Occupy a Square? People, Protests, and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution, by Jeroen Gunning & Ilan Zvi Baron. London: Hurst & Company, 2013. 256 pp, £20 paperback…
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014. 696 pp, £29.95 hardcover 9780674430006
It is…
Can War Be Eliminated? By Christopher Coker. Cambridge: Polity 2014. 120 pp, £35 hardcover 9780745679228; £9.99 paperback 9780745679235; £7.49 e-book 9780745682075
Christopher…
Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What We Can Do About It by Ian Goldin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 224 pp, £12.99 hardcover 978-0-19-969390-0…
Good-Bye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System, by Simon Reich and Richard Ned Lebow. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014. 208 pp, $95.00-£65.00,…
Globalization has had a dual effect on the sovereignty of the nation-state. Since 1945, the normative framework of human rights has embedded a sense of obligation on the part of…