Comment & Opinion - Review Archive
Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan and the Fate of US Power in the Pacific Century has, according to the numerous blurbs on the cover and comments on the Amazon,…
The World’s Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize, by Geir Lundestad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 229 pp., £18.99 hardcover 9780198841876…
Climate and Society: Transforming the Future by Robin Leichenko and Karen O’Brien. Cambridge: Polity Press 2019. 250 pp., £55 hardcover 9780745684383, £18.99 paperback…
Branko Milanovic reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay.
I have reviewed Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (OPO)…
The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition and Distress edited by Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 368 pp., $89 hardcover…
Save the Children’s José Manuel Roche has a book he wants you to read.
So, it turns out that nowadays democracy seldom dies through violent coup d’état. More commonly (and…
International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations edited by Daniel Laqua, Wouter Van Acker, and Christophe Verbruggen.…
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier. 2018. Penguin. ISBN: 0062748653
Paul Collier’s new book “The future of capitalism” is a very hard book to…
The Politics of Terror by Erica Chenoweth and Pauline Moore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 512 pp., £47.99 paperback 978-0-19-979566-6
Under the backdrop of…
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers. Harvard University Press. 2017.
This is not a book about Chinese history as such. It is a…