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The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins. Edited by Wale Adebanwi. Boydell & Brewer. 2018.
Fabien Cante says this book is a formidable place to…
Beyond Gridlock by Thomas Hale, David Held et al. Cambridge: Polity 2017. 313 pp., £55 hardcover 9781509515714, £18.99 paperback 9781509515721, £18.99 Open eBook 9781509515752…
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman. New York: Custom House 2017. 352 pp, $24.99 hardcover 9780062654618, $9.99 e-book 9780062654458
The war…
Book Review - All Rise: The High Ambitions of the International Criminal Court and the Harsh Reality
All Rise: The high ambitions of the International Criminal Court and the harsh reality by Tjitske Lingsma. Utrecht: Ipso Facto 2017. 448 pp, €29.95 paperback 978-90-77386-20-0, $…
How to Rig an Election, by Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas. Yale University Press.
A lot of the power of a successful book is in its ‘big idea’ – the overall frame that endures long…
A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel. Democracy Without Borders, 2018. 422 pp., £18 paperback 978-3942282130, £10.43…
Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise by Alfred Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017. 213 pp, £75 hardcover 9781107194526
Perhaps…
Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents, Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Edited by Fikret Adaman, Bengi Akbulut and Murat Arsel. IB Taurus, London 2017.
This is a…
Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East by Ezgi Basaran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 224 pp, £17.99 hardcover 9781784538415
The title of most intractable…
Why We Lie about Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change by Pablo Yanguas. Zed Books: London. 2018.
Every so often you read something that brilliantly articulates an…