politics

Book Reviews

• Paul Avrich: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
  - fifty contemporary documents
• Glenn Banks, Chris Ballard: The Ok Tedi Settlement
  Issues, Outcomes and Implications
• Robert F. Barsky: Noam Chomsky
  A Life of Dissent
• Joel Beinin, Joe Stork: Political Islam**
  Essays from Middle East Report
• Franz Borkenau: The Spanish Cockpit
  An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
• Marilyn Butler: Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy
  - English political writing from the end of the 18th century
• James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti: Atlas of the Invisible*
  Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
• Noam Chomsky: Deterring Democracy
  - an indictment of American imperialism
• David Coady: What to Believe Now
  Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues
• Peter Cox, Till Koglin: The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure
  Spaces and (In)Equality
• Randolf S. David, Jonathan Y. Okamura: The Philippine Political and Economic Situation in View of 1992
• Barry Eichengreen: The Populist Temptation
  Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
• R.E. Elson: Suharto*
  A Political Biography
• Noah Feldman: After Jihad
  America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
• Sheila Fitzpatrick: On Stalin's Team*
  The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
• John Kenneth Galbraith: The Culture of Contentment
• Sabino Garcia Padilla Jr: Agrarian Revolution
  Peasant Radicalisation and Social Change in Bicol
• Rob Goodfellow: Api Dalam Sekam
  The New Order and the Ideology of Anti-Communism
• Sebastian de Grazia: Machiavelli in Hell
  - an intellectual biography
• Rob Jenkins: Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India
  - the persistence of liberal economic reform in the 1990s
• Brian Kahin, James Keller: Public Access to the Internet
• Brian Kahin, James H. Keller: Coordinating the Internet
  - governance, domain names, and interconnection agreements
• Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet: Everyday Politics in the Philippines
  Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village
• Joseph Ketan: The Name Must Not Go Down
  Political Competition and State-Society Relations in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
• Roedad Khan: Pakistan - A Dream Gone Sour
  - a high-ranking civil servant looks back
• Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn: Mexico
  The Struggle for Democratic Development
• Richard Lewontin, et al.: Not In Our Genes
  Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
• Anatol Lieven: Pakistan: A Hard Country
  - a broad-ranging survey of its contemporary politics
• Charles E. Lindblom: The Market System*
  What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
• Sarah Kenyon Lischer: Dangerous Sanctuaries
  Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
• Brian Martin: Information Liberation
  Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power
• Nur Masalha: Catastrophe Remembered
  Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
• Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany: The Untouchables
  Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
• Luuk Van Middelaar: The Passage to Europe*
  How a Continent Became a Union
• Steven E. Miller: Civilizing Cyberspace
  Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
• Tim Niblock: Saudi Arabia
  Power, Legitimacy and Survival
• George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
  - a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
• George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier
  - mining towns, class and socialism in 1930s Britain
• Robert O. Paxton: The Anatomy of Fascism
  - a historical approach
• Geoffrey Robertson: Crimes Against Humanity*
  The Struggle for Global Justice
• Garry Rodan: Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia
  - 1996 studies of opposition movements in individual countries
• James C. Scott: Two Cheers for Anarchism
  Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
• James C. Scott: Weapons of the Weak**
  Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
• Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom*
  - broad-ranging popular economics
• R.K. Sinclair: Democracy and Participation in Athens
  - the literary and epigraphical evidence
• Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson: The Dynamics of Evolution
  The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences
• Samuel Totten, et al.: Century of Genocide*
  Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
• Leon Trotsky: On Literature and Art
  - a literary critic as well as a revolutionary and a political theorist
• Dale Van Kley: The French Idea of Freedom*
  The Old Regime and The Declaration of Rights of 1789
• Lawrence Weschler: Calamities of Exile
  Three Nonfiction Novellas
• Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level
  Why Equality is Better for Everyone
• Martin Woollacott: After Suez
  Adrift in the American Century
• Lawrence Ziring: Pakistan in the Twentieth Century
  A Political History
• Arena Magazine
  - a journal of Australian politics and current affairs

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