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Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives

This book significantly contributes to understanding economic issues from a global perspective, dissecting them into separated factions. As...

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets

A gripping book, The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets will appeal to anyone with a curiosity in American...

Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space

This book provides a quite satisfying overview of the use of nationalism as a tool for gaining power and interests in post-Soviet countries...

South Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy in the Middle East

The book aims both to reveal the political, economic, and institutional nexus in foreign policy approaches in line with geopolitical interests and...

Why Bharat Matters

Why Bharat Matters offers a comprehensive overview of India’s foreign policy strategies and their implications for its future role. The book is a...

China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and Manifestations

China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and Manifestations is the volume that provides the readers with an all-encompassing view of the state of the...

Myanmar’s Fragmented Democracy: Transition or Illusion?

Myanmar’s Fragmented Democracy: Transition or Illusion? by Felix Thiam Kim Tan is a valuable contribution to the study of Myanmar’s political...

Islam and Capitalism in the Making of Modern Bahrain

The book covers the period of the currently ruling al-Khalifa dynasty since 1783. The emphasis is upon the economic conditions in the island state....

Globalisation Impacts: Countries, Institutions and COVID-19

Comprehensively, the strength of the book is the depth of its historical excavation and the synchronization of relevant literature on...

Neoliberalism and Unequal Development: Alternatives and Transitions in Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Although the topics are handled regionally, the book makes a wide contribution to the literature since the effects of neo-liberalism; globalization...

China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order

One aspect that makes the study significant is that the book examines the subject comprehensively with more than 200 interviews and original...

Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender?

This well-researched book offers an in-depth examination of Moscow’s activities on the continent. Similarly, it gives helpful insights into the...

The Russian Military Intervention in Syria

The book is an important study as it deals with how international peace and security cannot be achieved since states act in their own interests....

Russia Rising: Putin’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

Overall, the book under review provided fruitful discussions thanks to distinguished experts. It is helpful for policymakers and analysts to...

Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation

Overall, this book presents a holistic and comprehensive perspective of armed orders in South Asia from a historical perspective. The book has a...

Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance

Tareq Baconi focuses on Hamas as one of the major actors and most active ones in military resistance against occupation in the Palestinian case in...

Russia after 2020: Looking ahead after Two Decades of Putin

As an editorial work, which makes it difficult for the book to be discussed as a whole, it can be emphasized, in some parts of the book, that the...

Humanitarian and Military Intervention in Libya and Syria: Parliamentary Debate and Policy Failure

The book sheds light on the political, strategic, and historical factors shaping the international response to interventions. Thus, it clearly...

Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech

The book covers human rights violations, which the author describes as genocide, experienced by the Rohingya people; the Myanmar ruler’s view of...

The European Union as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor

The book meets most of the arguments mentioned in the title, except the EU actorness. Lack of military power in action, unwillingness of some...

Social Media and International Relations

In today’s world where the world axis has shifted almost entirely to technology, social media can be used as a great marketing tool for the...

First Nationalism then Identity: On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity

First Nationalism then Identity is an important work providing a refreshing view of the interaction between nationalism and identity by focusing on...

Re-Globalization New Frontiers of Political, Economic, and Social Globalization

This timely book informs us that the world has entered the re-globalization process. This process, which is known as the ‘new normal’ among the...

Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition amid Systemic Turbulence

The book is an important reference for any researcher looking into the relations between Türkiye and Russia, and also to understand both countries’...

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