Perspectives on Politics

James H. Read, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University Book Review: Political Theory The song fancifully illustrates what the editors of Political Creativity call “creative syncretism” (p. 29), a phenomenon they regard as central […]

Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv Book Review: Political Theory Until recently an obscure concept in the humanities and social sciences, the term “Eurasianism” has considerable political and intellectual prominence today. With Vladimir Putin’s 2011 […]

Margaret Moore, Queen’s University, Canada Book Review: Political Theory Oliviero Angeli’s Cosmopolitanism, Self-determination and Territory is an intelligent and thoughtful contribution to the recent burgeoning literature on territory from what he describes as a cosmopolitan […]

Brandon M. Terry, Harvard University Book Review: Political Theory A challenge confronting any attempt to revisit Malcolm X’s intellectual legacy is the need to sift through a fragmentary and often contradictory inheritance to precisely describe […]

Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin, Madison Paul Staniland is emerging as one of the most creative and influential scholars of political violence. His Networks of Rebellion will cement that reputation. Already the winner of two […]

Paul Staniland, University of Chicago Scott Straus has written an extremely important book, arguing that genocide has crucial ideological foundations, but that these conditions only lead to genocide when situational incentives drive a process of […]

Paul Whiteley, University of Essex The constraints on democratic governments imposed by globalization have been an important issue in international political economy for some years. The essence of the debate is whether globalization constrains or […]

Timothy Hellwig, Indiana University, Bloomington This is the third and last book (at least for now) of a series of studies on British elections authored by the principal investigators of the much-admired British Election Study […]