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Book Review | Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost America
In Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost America, David Shambaugh tracks the US-China relationship, from the early Cold War origins of engagement to a more confrontational relationship after...
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Book Review | Nationalism: A World History
In Nationalism: A World History, Eric Storm examines the global evolution of nationalism, from the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through to the resurgence of nationalist ideas in...
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With the rise of social media and populist leaders like Trump who have undermined the authority of facts in politics, many say we’re living in a “post-truth” era. In On Truth in Politics, Michael...
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Book Review | They Called It Peace
Lauren Benton‘s They Called It Peace explores how imperial powers legitimised violence as a necessary means of peacekeeping. She argues that powerful countries continue this legacy through the liberal...
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Book Review | The Lure of Economic Nationalism
In The Lure of Economic Nationalism, Kenneth A. Reinert looks at the historical roots of economic nationalism and its consequences for international trade, politics and cooperation. Reinert provides a...
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Book Review | Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters is a wide-ranging discussion between economist Thomas Piketty and philosopher Michael J. Sandel on ways to think about and achieve real equality. Though its...
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Book Review | Chokepoints
Chokepoints by Edward Fishman explores how the US leverages control over financial, technological, and maritime infrastructure through invisible “chokepoints” to increase its global power. Though...
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Book Review | Nation Branding in the Americas
Nation Branding in the Americas by Efe Sevin, César Jiménez-MartÍnez and Pablo Miño explores how countries across the Americas use branding to shape their image internationally, attract investment and...
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Book Review | Growth: A Reckoning
Daniel Susskind‘s Growth: A Reckoning examines modernity’s relentless pursuit of economic growth, both its benefits (like mass poverty alleviation and technological development) and its harms (like...
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Book Review | Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order
Darshana M. Baruah’s Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order explores 21st-century Indian Ocean geopolitics, focusing on trade, political power shifts and maritime security....
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Book Review | Taming Silicon Valley
Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus examines the growing influence of AI, controlled by profit-driven Big Tech companies, on society and the dangers of AI’s unchecked development. Marcus’s insights...
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Book Review | Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism examines how the extractive industries like oil and mining have enriched corporations and governments while fuelling inequality, exploiting workers and causing...
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Book Review | Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism
Markus Holdo’s Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism examines how citizens engage with and leverage power through participatory institutions in capitalist societies. The book is meticulously...
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Book Review | Conscience Incorporated
Michael Posner‘s Conscience Incorporated makes the case for strengthening corporate responsibility in an era of political and economic upheaval, from labour rights and ESG investment to AI regulation...
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Book Review | Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men by Patricia Owens reveals how men diminished women’s role in shaping International Relations as an academic discipline in Britain. Drawing on...
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Book Review | Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World
Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World by Andrew Dougall explores how developments in communication technology influence and facilitate nationalist movements. Comparing Trump’s breakthrough via the...
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Book Review | Made in China
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson‘s Made in China examines the development of the trade partnership between the US and China after the Cold War, ushered in by President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and...
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Book Review |“They Just Need to Get a Job”: 15 Myths on Homelessness
Mary Brosnahan’s “They Just Need to Get a Job” examines how homelessness policies have developed in the US and UK across the decades. Drawing on the author’s experience working in the field, the book...
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Book Review | War, Data, and Ecology after Nonhuman Witnessing
Michael Richardson’s War, Data, and Ecology after Nonhuman Witnessing reimagines the act of witnessing in the age of AI as a human-nonhuman relational process, exploring technological warfare,...
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Book Review | Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization
Simon Sherratt‘s Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization critiques global corporate influence on democracy, exploring the intersection of finance, technology, and politics. The book’s...
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