Best World Affairs Books
Best Free World Affairs Books of 2024
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National and International Civilian Protection Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Book Reviews
Timea Spitka“In this book, Timea Spitka raises hopeful possibilities to transform the IsraelPalestinian conflict. She considers the many national and international governmental and nongovernme...
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Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico Book Reviews
Claire Lindsay“In her illuminating and careful readings of Mexico This Month and Mexican Folkways, Claire Lindsay recuperates an important piece of Mexican and hemispheric American history. Maga...
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Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship Book Reviews
Katariina Holma & Tiina KontinenThis open access book discusses and addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of...
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Physical Disability and Sexuality Book Reviews
Xanthe Hunt, Stine Hellum Braathen, Mussa Chiwaula, Mark T. Carew, Poul Rohleder & Leslie SwartzThis open access edited volume explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted by the editors, and firstperson narrative...
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Belgian Exceptionalism Book Reviews
Didier Caluwaerts & Min ReuchampsThis book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a nonBelgian audienc...
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Territory and Democratic Politics Book Reviews
Oscar MazzoleniBorders,  democratic legitimacy, multiscale statehood, governance : the covid crisis has shaken things up and emphasized both the contradictions and the central s...
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European E-Democracy in Practice Book Reviews
Leonhard Hennen, Ira van Keulen, Iris Korthagen, Georg Aichholzer, Ralf Lindner & Rasmus Øjvind NielsenThis open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyz...
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No More Nagasakis Book Reviews
Toyokazu Ihara, Hirokazu Miyazaki & Xavier Riles MiyazakiIn a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, atomic bomb survivor Tomokazu Ihara describes the bombing of his home city of Nagasaki in 1945, traces his activism against...
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Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics Book Reviews
Maximilian Conrad, Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Asimina Michailidou, Charlotte Galpin & Niko PyrhönenThis open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EUfunded Jean Monnet Network on   “PostTruth Po...
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UniTs Book Reviews
Maxime RocheA new assembly has began, as we see against nations tribes and identities, there was war, these was terrorism, there was crime, impunity, and injustice, a new assembly wonder to ca...
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The Future of Radioactive Waste Governance Book Reviews
Maarten Arentsen & Rinie van EstThis Open Access book examines the radioactive waste management policies of ten European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switze...
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Swiss Democracy Book Reviews
Wolf Linder & Sean MuellerThis open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism a...
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Juleo Book Reviews
Junge Liberale BayernJuleo das offizielle Mitgliedermagazin der Jungen Liberalen Bayern.  Neben Rückblicken auf vergangene Veranstaltungen und Informationen rund um die Jungen Liberalen (JuLi...
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2050 China Book Reviews
Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Xiao Tang & Shenglong LiuThis book is open access under a CC BYNCND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese ...
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Political Reform Reconsidered Book Reviews
Satoshi Machidori       This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the ...
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European Citizenship after Brexit Book Reviews
Patricia MindusThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its sha...
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The True Causes of Greek Anti-Semitism Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffThis essay explores the true causes of antiSemitism. AntiSemitism is alwasy a financial phenomenon, and the essay examines the interaction betweeen the Greek political and economic...
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Migration in Africa Book Reviews
Michiel de Haas & Ewout FrankemaThis book introduces readers to the age of intraAfrican migration, a period from the mid19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inw...
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The Future of Africa Book Reviews
Jakkie CilliersThis open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, wha...
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The Road to the Russia-Ukraine War Book Reviews
OSD.newsDoves attacked during Pope's prayer for peace in Ukraine ABC News, 26 January 2014 "In what some are interpreting as an ominous sign for world peace, two white doves rele...
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The Reversion of the Human Mindset Book Reviews
Aaron W. KatzenbergerHow the human conditions of fame, power, and revenge has altered how global society responds to conflict.
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Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy Book Reviews
David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski & Flavia GhenceaThis open access book assesses NonTerritorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national min...
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The MENA Region and COVID-19 Book Reviews
Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller & Jan Claudius VölkelFocusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world’s richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights i...
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The Asian 21st Century Book Reviews
Kishore MahbubaniThis open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world vill...
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The Rock Breaks the Globalists Empire Book Reviews
Pierre-Louis OursWhat is the ordained fate of the OneWorldGovernment/NewWorldOrder? How, when and by whom will it be broken? What will this do to the America we know? What does it all mean at the i...
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A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi Book Reviews
Michał LubinaThis book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Book Reviews
Sachin Chaturvedi, Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel, Xiaoyun Li, André de Mello e Souza, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos & Dorothea WehrmannThis open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including go...
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - Dispelling Counter Arguments Book Reviews
Archie loweryThis piece aims to dispel end essentially disprove some of the ‘counterarguments’ that are being used to discredit the BLM movement.
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Juleo Book Reviews
Junge Liberale BayernJuleo das offizielle Mitgliedermagazin der Jungen Liberalen Bayern.  Neben Rückblicken auf vergangene Veranstaltungen und Informationen rund um die Jungen Liberalen (JuLi...
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Civil Society in China Book Reviews
Runya QiaoanChinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women’s rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This b...
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Taking the EU to Court Book Reviews
Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp & Emmanuelle MathieuThis open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1...
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Engendering Democracy in Africa Book Reviews
Niamh GaynorThis book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics ...
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Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation Book Reviews
Andrew Cherry, James Haselip, Gerard Ralphs & Isabella E. WagnerThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume is concerned with the evolution and achievements of cooperation in research and innovation between Africa and...
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The State of Peacebuilding in Africa Book Reviews
Terence McNamee & Monde MuyangwaThis open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences a...
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The Israel-Lebanon War of 2006 and the Ceyhan-Haifa Pipeline Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffThis booklet explains why the Israel Lebanon war of 2006 was just another war for oil and natural gas. It also explores the recent war of July 2014 in Gaza between Israel and Hamas...
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Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa Book Reviews
Zaheera JinnahThis open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in postapartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and...
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Youthquake 2017 Book Reviews
James Sloam & Matt HennThis book investigates the reasons behind the 2017  youthquake  – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap ...
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Oil Wars Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffThis booklet describes various incidents of oil and natural gas wars between different countries. There is no connection between the booklet's chapters. Each chapter was writt...
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Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe Book Reviews
Astrid Lorenz & Lisa H. AndersThis open access book provides an indepth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal tre...
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An Economy and a State for Lebanon Book Reviews
Charbel NahasLebanon is going through the worst crisis in its history. Even as the crisis was brewing, the usual proposals, out of touch with economic and social reality, kept popping up: move ...
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The Battle for Caspian Oil During World Wars Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffA very short essay with the the battles for the Caspian oil during World Wars, but also during more recent wars of attrition
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Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa Book Reviews
Edalina Rodrigues SanchesThis book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa. T...
Best Paid World Affairs Books of 2024
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National and International Civilian Protection Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Book Reviews
Timea Spitka“In this book, Timea Spitka raises hopeful possibilities to transform the IsraelPalestinian conflict. She considers the many national and international governmental and nongovernme...
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Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico Book Reviews
Claire Lindsay“In her illuminating and careful readings of Mexico This Month and Mexican Folkways, Claire Lindsay recuperates an important piece of Mexican and hemispheric American history. Maga...
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Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship Book Reviews
Katariina Holma & Tiina KontinenThis open access book discusses and addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of...
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Physical Disability and Sexuality Book Reviews
Xanthe Hunt, Stine Hellum Braathen, Mussa Chiwaula, Mark T. Carew, Poul Rohleder & Leslie SwartzThis open access edited volume explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted by the editors, and firstperson narrative...
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Belgian Exceptionalism Book Reviews
Didier Caluwaerts & Min ReuchampsThis book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a nonBelgian audienc...
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Territory and Democratic Politics Book Reviews
Oscar MazzoleniBorders,  democratic legitimacy, multiscale statehood, governance : the covid crisis has shaken things up and emphasized both the contradictions and the central s...
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European E-Democracy in Practice Book Reviews
Leonhard Hennen, Ira van Keulen, Iris Korthagen, Georg Aichholzer, Ralf Lindner & Rasmus Øjvind NielsenThis open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyz...
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No More Nagasakis Book Reviews
Toyokazu Ihara, Hirokazu Miyazaki & Xavier Riles MiyazakiIn a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, atomic bomb survivor Tomokazu Ihara describes the bombing of his home city of Nagasaki in 1945, traces his activism against...
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Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics Book Reviews
Maximilian Conrad, Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Asimina Michailidou, Charlotte Galpin & Niko PyrhönenThis open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EUfunded Jean Monnet Network on   “PostTruth Po...
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UniTs Book Reviews
Maxime RocheA new assembly has began, as we see against nations tribes and identities, there was war, these was terrorism, there was crime, impunity, and injustice, a new assembly wonder to ca...
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The Future of Radioactive Waste Governance Book Reviews
Maarten Arentsen & Rinie van EstThis Open Access book examines the radioactive waste management policies of ten European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switze...
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Swiss Democracy Book Reviews
Wolf Linder & Sean MuellerThis open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism a...
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Juleo Book Reviews
Junge Liberale BayernJuleo das offizielle Mitgliedermagazin der Jungen Liberalen Bayern.  Neben Rückblicken auf vergangene Veranstaltungen und Informationen rund um die Jungen Liberalen (JuLi...
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2050 China Book Reviews
Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Xiao Tang & Shenglong LiuThis book is open access under a CC BYNCND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese ...
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Political Reform Reconsidered Book Reviews
Satoshi Machidori       This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the ...
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European Citizenship after Brexit Book Reviews
Patricia MindusThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its sha...
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The True Causes of Greek Anti-Semitism Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffThis essay explores the true causes of antiSemitism. AntiSemitism is alwasy a financial phenomenon, and the essay examines the interaction betweeen the Greek political and economic...
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Migration in Africa Book Reviews
Michiel de Haas & Ewout FrankemaThis book introduces readers to the age of intraAfrican migration, a period from the mid19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inw...
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The Future of Africa Book Reviews
Jakkie CilliersThis open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, wha...
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The Road to the Russia-Ukraine War Book Reviews
OSD.newsDoves attacked during Pope's prayer for peace in Ukraine ABC News, 26 January 2014 "In what some are interpreting as an ominous sign for world peace, two white doves rele...
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The Reversion of the Human Mindset Book Reviews
Aaron W. KatzenbergerHow the human conditions of fame, power, and revenge has altered how global society responds to conflict.
-
Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy Book Reviews
David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski & Flavia GhenceaThis open access book assesses NonTerritorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national min...
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The MENA Region and COVID-19 Book Reviews
Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller & Jan Claudius VölkelFocusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world’s richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights i...
-
The Asian 21st Century Book Reviews
Kishore MahbubaniThis open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world vill...
-
The Rock Breaks the Globalists Empire Book Reviews
Pierre-Louis OursWhat is the ordained fate of the OneWorldGovernment/NewWorldOrder? How, when and by whom will it be broken? What will this do to the America we know? What does it all mean at the i...
-
A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi Book Reviews
Michał LubinaThis book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of...
-
The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Book Reviews
Sachin Chaturvedi, Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel, Xiaoyun Li, André de Mello e Souza, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos & Dorothea WehrmannThis open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including go...
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - Dispelling Counter Arguments Book Reviews
Archie loweryThis piece aims to dispel end essentially disprove some of the ‘counterarguments’ that are being used to discredit the BLM movement.
-
Juleo Book Reviews
Junge Liberale BayernJuleo das offizielle Mitgliedermagazin der Jungen Liberalen Bayern.  Neben Rückblicken auf vergangene Veranstaltungen und Informationen rund um die Jungen Liberalen (JuLi...
-
Civil Society in China Book Reviews
Runya QiaoanChinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women’s rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This b...
-
Taking the EU to Court Book Reviews
Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Miriam Hartlapp & Emmanuelle MathieuThis open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1...
-
Engendering Democracy in Africa Book Reviews
Niamh GaynorThis book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics ...
-
Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation Book Reviews
Andrew Cherry, James Haselip, Gerard Ralphs & Isabella E. WagnerThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume is concerned with the evolution and achievements of cooperation in research and innovation between Africa and...
-
The State of Peacebuilding in Africa Book Reviews
Terence McNamee & Monde MuyangwaThis open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences a...
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The Israel-Lebanon War of 2006 and the Ceyhan-Haifa Pipeline Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffThis booklet explains why the Israel Lebanon war of 2006 was just another war for oil and natural gas. It also explores the recent war of July 2014 in Gaza between Israel and Hamas...
-
Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa Book Reviews
Zaheera JinnahThis open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in postapartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and...
-
Youthquake 2017 Book Reviews
James Sloam & Matt HennThis book investigates the reasons behind the 2017  youthquake  – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap ...
-
Oil Wars Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffThis booklet describes various incidents of oil and natural gas wars between different countries. There is no connection between the booklet's chapters. Each chapter was writt...
-
Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe Book Reviews
Astrid Lorenz & Lisa H. AndersThis open access book provides an indepth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal tre...
-
An Economy and a State for Lebanon Book Reviews
Charbel NahasLebanon is going through the worst crisis in its history. Even as the crisis was brewing, the usual proposals, out of touch with economic and social reality, kept popping up: move ...
-
The Battle for Caspian Oil During World Wars Book Reviews
Iakovos AlhadeffA very short essay with the the battles for the Caspian oil during World Wars, but also during more recent wars of attrition
-
Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa Book Reviews
Edalina Rodrigues SanchesThis book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa. T...
