Comment & Opinion - Review Archive

26 August 2020
Human Geopolitics: States, Emigrants, and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions by Alan Gamlen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 352 pp., £65 hardcover 978-0-19-883349-9 In an…
14 August 2020
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World by Roman Krznaric. WH Allen. 2002. 0753554496 I owe Roman Krznaric – his brilliant 2008 paper How Change Happens,…
07 August 2020
Out of Italy by Fernand Braudel. Flammarion. 1991. ISBN-10: 2080135007 Fernand Braudel wrote several smaller (in size) books that dealt with his favorite themes of capitalism…
27 July 2020
World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It) by Alex J. Bellamy. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019. 288 p.p. £20 hardcover 9780198833529 The achievement of world peace has not been…
10 July 2020
Branko Milanovic explores Yuen Yuen Ang's new book that argues (some) corruption has played an important role in China's rapid growth. Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor…
07 July 2020
Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance edited by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 264 pp., £74 hardcover 9780231185387, £25…
03 July 2020
The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age by Elizabeth Shackelford. New York: Public Affairs 2020. 304 pp., $29 hardcover 9781541724488, $17.99 e-book…
24 June 2020
The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts by Harriet Allsopp and Wladimir Van Wilgenburg. London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2019. 264 pp., £75 hardcover 978-…
01 June 2020
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu. Repeater. 2020. Amongst the turmoil of recent years, there are perhaps two broad overriding…
15 May 2020
Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region by May Darwich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 218 pp, £75 hardcover…