Comment & Opinion - Review Archive

27 April 2017
Written in the early 1970s by renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, the manuscript for Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life has remained in storage…
11 April 2017
Dialectics in World Politics edited by Shannon Brincat. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2015. 216 pp, £95 hardcover 978-0-415-62527-2 This edited book provides an…
04 April 2017
Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court’s Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace, by Mark Kersten. Oxford: Oxford University Press,…
24 March 2017
Citizens’ Wealth: Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People by Angela Cummine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2016. 296 pp,…
20 March 2017
One of the most panoramic, as well as readable analyses of our time’s conundrums can be found in David Held’s Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political…
14 March 2017
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Lisa Messeri. Duke University Press. 2016. In Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, Lisa…
10 March 2017
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press. 2016. In The Econocracy: The Perils of…
06 March 2017
The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: the evolution and roles of the Revolutionary Guards by Hesam Forozan. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2016. 255 pp, £100 hardcover…
14 February 2017
State Capitalism: How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 287pp, £19.99 hardcover 9780199385706…
13 February 2017
The Ways of the World. David Harvey. Profile Books. 2016. The Ways of the World offers an intellectual journey through the work of David Harvey over the past five decades,…