Comment & Opinion - Review Archive

15 April 2022
Democracy’s Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy by Brian S. Mueller. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021. 312 pp., £36…
22 March 2022
The United States vs China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership by C. Fred Bergsten. Cambridge: Polity 2022. 384 pp., £25 hardcover 9781509547357 Although Fred Bergsten’s…
04 March 2022
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia by Robtel Neajai Pailey. Cambridge University Press 2021. 250 pp., £75…
16 February 2022
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn. London: Verso 2022. 416 pp., £20 paperback 9781839766190, £20 e-book 9781839766213 Working to…
13 January 2022
States, Markets, and Foreign Aid by Simone Dietrich. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN: 9781009007290 Back in the day, when I was doing advocacy on trade and globalization, I…
20 December 2021
Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law by Gregory Shaffer. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp., £74.99 hardcover…
29 November 2021
Branko Milanovic explores the life of the enigmatic economist through a recent book on his friendship with David Hume. Dennis Rasmussen’s book The infidel and the professor is a…
04 November 2021
Constructions and Instrumentalizations of the Past: A Comparative Study of Memory Management in the Region edited by Ninna Mörner. CBEES State of the Region Report. Stockholm:…
21 October 2021
No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality by Paul Adler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 344 pp., £36 hardcover…
06 October 2021
From Anger to Action Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable Planet. by Harriet Lamb and Ben Jackson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. I’ve…