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Book Review - Islamist Radicalisation in Europe and the Middle East... and Talking to Terrorists....
Mabel González Bustelo 12 April 2013
Why and under what circumstances do individuals, groups or larger parts of societies radicalise? What are t... more  
Book review: Confront and Conceal: Obama’s secret wars and surprising use of American power
Robert Matthews 22 January 2013
Focusing mainly on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Egypt, the Arab Spring, and the new roles of drones... more  
Book review: The political psychology of war rape: studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Political Psychology of War Rape Nora Sveaass 19 December 2012
Inger Skjelsbæk has written an important, informative and well-written book about sexual violence against w... more  
Book review: From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape
From-Recipients-to-Donors-Emerging-Powers-and-the-Changing-Development-Landscape by Zed books Patrícia Magalhães Ferreira 16 November 2012
This book is not only an overarching and well-grounded analysis of the history, institutional aspects, disc... more  
Book review: The international human rights movement: a history
Cover Int\'l human rights mov\'t by Aryeh Neier - Princeton Press Jean-Paul Marthoz 2 November 2012
The international human rights movement has become a permanent actor on the global scene. Blending ground-b... more  
Book review: The Rise of China and India in Africa
Cover of The Rise of China and India in Africa by Fantu Cheru and Cyril Obi (Eds) Axel Martin-Aronsson 29 October 2012
The Rise of China and India in Africa  investigates the changing power dynamics on the continen... more  
Pakistan - A Hard Country: Book review
Marco Mezzera 23 April 2012
Presenting Pakistan as a weak state but with a strong society, Anatol Lieven tries to build up a convincing... more  
Book review - Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement
Book cover of 'Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement' Carmen López Alonso 25 October 2011
This book traces the history of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement back to its origins in the Egyp... more  
Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of State and Market Reform in Sri Lanka
María Villellas Ariño 6 August 2011
Why did liberal peace fail in Sri Lanka? Why did a peace process that gained so much international attentio... more  
Pernicious parallels in US war policy
Mariano Aguirre 6 January 2011
The United States' protracted fight against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised the spectre of... more  

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