Comment & Opinion - Review Archive

17 July 2019
Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War by Jana Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018. 306 pp., £75 hardcover 9781108471114 The…
15 July 2019
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn. 2018. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737563   There is a Chinese saying about two people sharing the same bed…
12 July 2019
The Logic of Financial Nationalism: The Challenges of Cooperation and the Role of International Law by Federico Lupo-Pasini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017. 306 pp., £…
11 July 2019
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal by William J. Burns. New York: Random House, 2019. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the…
02 July 2019
Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 162 pp., £55.00 hardcover 978-0-198-78980-2 This book…
24 May 2019
The China boom: Why China will not rule the world by Ho-fung Hung. Published 2015 by Columbia University Press.   I read with pleasure the recent book “The China boom: Why China…
21 May 2019
China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial by Gordon C.K. Cheung. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018. 224 pp., £75 hardcover 978-1-78471-490-1. While…
08 May 2019
Book Review – Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options edited by R. Mechler, L. Bouwer, T. Schinko, S. Surminski, and J. Linnerooth-Bayer.…
08 April 2019
The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization edited by Chiara Oldani and Jan Wouters. London and New York: Routledge 2018. 182 pp., £115 hardcover 9781138583627 The…
03 April 2019
Fukuyama, F. 2012. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX.    I mentioned in my last post in which I reviewed…