Reviews
An Informal Empire
Duncan Bowie on South America
Small Earthquakes by Shafik Meghji published by Hurst
Meghji is a London-based writer of travel guides. This new book focuses on...
Beyond “Institutional” racism and towards structure
Don Flynn on racial bias
Structural Racism: The Dynamics of Opportunity and Race in America by Stephen Menendian published by Routledge
It is now over a quarter of a...
Survival after Stalin
Nigel Doggett on Soviet dissidents
To the Success of our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans published by...
Global Behemoths: How shadow banks govern our lives
Bryn Jones on casino capitalism
The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet by Ann Pettifor published by Verso
The casino is...
Not a Revolution
Duncan Bowie on the General Strike
Nine Days in May by Jonathan Schneer published by Oxford University Press
It was perhaps inevitable that the centenary of...
On aggressive Zionism
Mike Scott-Baumann on Zionism and conflict
A Forever War: Israel, Palestine and the Struggles for Statehood by Colin Schindler published by Swift Press
Colin Shindler’s new...
Lifeline to Freedom
Duncan Bowie on past welcomes for refugees
The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain by Charmian Brinson and Jana Barbora Buresova published by Valentine Mitchell
This...
Ancient history?
Gill Bennett on the Cold War from the Soviet perspective
The World of the Cold War 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok published by Penguin
Do we really...
A continuous tragedy
Patrick Costello on repeated errors
America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region by Marc Lynch published by Hurst
As Professor Marc Lynch explicitly states, his...
The waning of Françafrique
Nigel Watt on French Africa
Colonialism Devours Itself by Gerard Prunier published by Hurst
In 1945, France, briefly led by Charles De Gaulle, struggled to be...
No longer a joke
Duncan Bowie on Arctic geopolitics
So You Want to Own Greenland? by Elizabeth Buchanan published by Hurst
This book was published last September, before Donald Trump’s...
Heart of the matter
Mike Davis on fundamental questions of post-colonialism
Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail by Peter Hain published by Policy Press
Peter Hain goes to the...