Books For Review Archives - Politics Today https://politicstoday.org/category/books-for-review/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:07:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order https://politicstoday.org/chinas-law-of-the-sea-the-new-rules-of-maritime-order/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:07:58 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/chinas-law-of-the-sea-the-new-rules-of-maritime-order/

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China’s Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China’s maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing “the rules” of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea.

Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300256475

By Isaac B. Kardon 

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What does China’s regional diplomacy tell us about the country’s geopolitical position and ambitions, and what patterns does it reveal? Building from international relations theories focused on how external threats, domestic politics, and ideology influence foreign policy, Yuxing Huang puts forward a nuanced argument. He suggests that in an environment of numerous regional competitors and alignments, China has developed a form of asymmetric statecraft toward its many weaker neighbors.

University of British Colombia Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780774868112

By Yuxing Huang

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]]> Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology https://politicstoday.org/chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds-most-critical-technology/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:59:44 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds-most-critical-technology/

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Chip War reveals that China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity. Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems.

Scribner, 2022, ISBN: 9781982172008

By Chris Miller

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]]> Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel https://politicstoday.org/hostile-homelands-the-new-alliance-between-india-and-israel/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:59:04 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/hostile-homelands-the-new-alliance-between-india-and-israel/

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Hostile Homelands puts India’s relationship with Israel in its historical context, looking at the origins of Zionism and Hindutva; India’s changing position on Palestine; and the countries’ growing military-industrial relationship from the 1990s. Lucid and persuasive, Essa demonstrates that the India-Israel alliance spells significant consequences for democracy, the rule of law and justice worldwide.

Pluto Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780745345017

By Azad Essa

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]]> Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector https://politicstoday.org/governing-security-war-politics-institutional-change-security-sector/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 06:23:08 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/governing-security-war-politics-institutional-change-security-sector/

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Governing Security After War examines the political dimensions of security governance, arguing that the extent to which state policymakers adopt changes to the management and oversight of security forces depends on internal political dynamics.

Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780197572382

By Louis-Alexandre Berg

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]]> Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation https://politicstoday.org/seeking-the-bomb-strategies-nuclear-proliferation/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 06:16:10 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/seeking-the-bomb-strategies-nuclear-proliferation/

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Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze how states pursue nuclear weapons by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics.

Princeton University Press, 2022, ISBN:

By Vipin Narang

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]]> The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure https://politicstoday.org/the-great-experiment-diverse-democracies/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 06:12:01 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/the-great-experiment-diverse-democracies/

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A brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time – how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functional. The Great Experiment draws crucial insights from history, social psychology, and comparative politics.

Penguin Press, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0593296813

By Yascha Mounk

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In recent years, China has become a world leader in e-commerce, e-currency, 5G and artificial intelligence, cementing itself as a major competitor to established powers. How has China pulled this off? The answer lies in the country’s Digital Silk Road, a multi-faceted programme to connect the world via digital means.

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-1803921204

By Gerald Chan

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]]> How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them https://politicstoday.org/how-civil-wars-start/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:55:57 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/how-civil-wars-start/

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While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. Even countries we thought could never experience another civil war – such as the USA, Sweden and Ireland – are showing signs of unrest. How Civil Wars Start explains the rise of civil war and the conditions that create it.

Viking, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0593137789

By Barbara F. Walter 

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]]> The News Media At War: The Clash of Western and Arab Networks in the Middle East https://politicstoday.org/cherkaoui-tarek-the-news-media-at-war-the-clash-of-western-and-arab-networks-in-the-middle-east/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:31:44 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/cherkaoui-tarek-the-news-media-at-war-the-clash-of-western-and-arab-networks-in-the-middle-east/

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Tarek Cherkaoui reveals how geo-political and ideological legacies of the past, which divide the world into a dichotomy of ‘us’ against ‘them’, play a dominant role in reinforcing the ensuing polarization of our media.

London, Bloomsbury, 2021.

By Tarek Cherkaoui.

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]]> The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine https://politicstoday.org/berdugo-liat-the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-videography-aesthetics-and-politics-in-israel-and-palestine/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:17:38 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/berdugo-liat-the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-videography-aesthetics-and-politics-in-israel-and-palestine/

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Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine.

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

By Liat Berdugo

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]]> Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice https://politicstoday.org/rich-thanks-to-racism-how-the-ultra-wealthy-profit-from-racial-injustice-freeman-jim/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:11:53 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/rich-thanks-to-racism-how-the-ultra-wealthy-profit-from-racial-injustice-freeman-jim/

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In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden strategy behind systemic racism.

Cornell University Press, 2021.

By Jim Freeman

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]]> Contesting Revisionism: China, The United States, and the Transformation of International Order https://politicstoday.org/contesting-revisionism-china-the-united-states-and-the-transformation-of-international-order-chan-steve-huiyun-feng-kai-he-and-weixing-hu/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:46:35 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/contesting-revisionism-china-the-united-states-and-the-transformation-of-international-order-chan-steve-huiyun-feng-kai-he-and-weixing-hu/

The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the historical origin and evolution of the foreign policy orientations of revisionist states in the past.

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The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the historical origin and evolution of the foreign policy orientations of revisionist states in the past.

Oxford, June 2021.

By Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu

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]]> Military Strategy in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge for NATO https://politicstoday.org/military-strategy-in-the-twenty-first-century-the-challenge-for-nato/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:29:14 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/military-strategy-in-the-twenty-first-century-the-challenge-for-nato/

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A sober and frank account of the strategic options and constraints affecting NATO. This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point.

Oxford, 2021.

Edited by Janne Haaland Matlary and Robert Johnson

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]]> Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency https://politicstoday.org/behind-the-enigma-the-authorised-history-of-gchq-britains-secret-cyber-intelligence-agency/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://politicstoday.org/behind-the-enigma-the-authorised-history-of-gchq-britains-secret-cyber-intelligence-agency/

Ferris’ informative official history of GCHQ, one of the United Kingdom’s leading intelligence agencies, is remarkable. Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2021. By John Ferris

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Ferris’ informative official history of GCHQ, one of the United Kingdom’s leading intelligence agencies, is remarkable.

Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2021.

By John Ferris

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