Comment & Opinion - Review Archive

Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade: International Food Governance and Trade in Agriculture by Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar…
Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War by Bill Kissane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 285 pp., £18.99 hardcover 978-0-19-960287-2 This book deals with the…
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe (eds). Columbia University Press. 2017.  In The Contradictions…
In Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Alessandro Vercelli argues that the concepts of freedom which underpin neoliberal economics are at odds with those…
Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis: The Dark Heart of Europe by Christian Schweiger. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (New Horizons in European Politics series) 2016. 296 pp, £85…
Digital, Political, Radical by Natalie Fenton. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. 232 pp, £55 hardcover 978-0-7456-5086-9, £16.99 paperback 978-0-7456-5087-6, £16.99 e-book…
A review of Channel 4's "The State", a show that takes ISIS as its subject and Syria as its backdrop. But does it deliver on its promises? "The State" is a four-part television…
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China by Julian Gewirtz. Harvard University Press Perhaps the most momentous set of…
The Law of Deliberative Democracy by Ron Levy and Graeme Orr. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 239 pp, £110 hardcover 9780415705004, £39.99 e-book 9781315890159With this book –…
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang. 2016. Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy. We chose to highlight this book for the World…