Comment & Opinion - Review Archive

09 April 2021
"The World Turned Upside Down"—a critical review (Part 1) This may be the most difficult book review to write. I have decided to break it into two parts. Writing it is difficult…
26 March 2021
Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations by Kyle M. Lascurettes. New York: Oxford University Press 2020. 336 pp…
18 February 2021
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How To Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton. London: John Murray Press, 2020. 336 pp., £20 hardcover 9781529352528, £10.99…
12 February 2021
Power Switch: How We Can Reverse Extreme Inequality by Paul O’Brien. Changemaker Books 2020. 120 pp., £7.99 paperback 9781789047493, £4.99 e-book 9781789047509 Early in the…
17 December 2020
The Media Manifesto by Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik. Cambridge: Polity, 2020. 142 pp., £35 hardcover 9781509538058, £9.99 paperback…
11 December 2020
Quagmire in Civil War by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. 340 pp., £74.99 hardcover 9781108486767, £24.99 paperback 9781108708265, $26 e-book…
11 November 2020
Aid and Technical Cooperation as a Foreign Policy Tool for Emerging Donors: The Case of Brazil, by Déborah Barros Leal Farias. Abingdon: Routledge 2018. 200 pp., £96 hardcover…
29 October 2020
Markovits, D. (2019) The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite. Penguin Random House. ISBN…
26 October 2020
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky. London: Hurst, 2020. 297 pp., £45 hardcover 9781787382121 Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky’s joint…
01 October 2020
BRI and International Cooperation in Industrial Capacity: Industrial Layout Study edited by Xu Shaoshi. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 590 pp., 67 b/w Illust, £120…