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Review-Climate Leviathan: a much-needed look into the geopolitical and social consequences of climate change

September 29, 2019 Tmcwilliam 69d Comments

Climate leviathan, Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, verso, 2019 Mann and Wainwright’s work offers a unique framework for viewing solutions…

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Review-The Limits to Capital: Harvey’s classic remains as relevant as ever in this new edition

August 31, 2019 Tmcwilliam

The Limits to Capital, David Harvey, Verso, 2018 (1982) Harvey’s classic was written in a time when the neoliberal “revolution”…

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Explaining neoliberal inaction on climate change

July 28, 2019 Tmcwilliam

John Christopher’s 1958 work The Death of Grass follows a group of survivors as they flee civilizational collapse bought on…

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Posted in: Articles Filed under: climate change, neoliberalism

Review-Yemen in crisis: A brilliant analysis of one of the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time

July 2, 2019 Tmcwilliam

Yemen in crisis Helen Lackner Saqi 2017 The ongoing Yemeni civil war has not attracted as much media attention as…

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Review-Dictatorland: An impressive and focused book of some of the darkest periods in African history

April 9, 2019 Tmcwilliam

DictatorlandPaul KenyonHead of Zeus, 2018 Few books have explained the tragic history of post-independence Africa-caught between two competing cold war…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: History, resources

What is Putinism?

January 24, 2019 Tmcwilliam

Introduction Putin and his ideology has been the subject of much debate around the world. Steven Fish (2017) outlined what…

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Posted in: Articles Filed under: Russia

Review-Becoming China: An Excellent Account of how Modern China came to be and what makes it Unique

November 17, 2018 Tmcwilliam

Becoming China Jeanne-Marie Gescher Bloomsbury, 2017 This monumental work aims to show the “story behind the state” and is an impressive…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Asia, China, History

Review-The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas: a solid academic study of a field to often ignored in the geopolitics of energy

August 30, 2018 Tmcwilliam

The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas Agnia Grigas Harvard University Press, 2017 When it comes to the geopolitics of energy,…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Asia, Europe, resources, Russia

Explaining the Continuing US-Israeli Alliance

August 27, 2018 Tmcwilliam

The US relationship with Israel has been the cause of tensions for decades, with much of the International Community condemning…

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Posted in: Articles Filed under: History, Israel-Palestine, Middle east, USA

Review-Rogue State: a phenomenal indictement of Washington decisions both past and present

August 15, 2018 Tmcwilliam

Rogue state: A guide to the worlds only superpower (updated edition) William Blum Zed Books, 2014 Blum’s book does an…

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