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Book Review: Rethinking Democracy and Development Assistance in the Middle East and North Africa
Reviewed Book: Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa. Lynne Rienner Publishers (2025) – Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg and Hicham Alaoui Book review by Antonia Ricciardiello Authored by political scientists Guilain Denoeux (Colby College), Robert Springborg (Simon Fraser University and Istituto Affari Internazionali) and Hicham Alaoui (University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University), Making Aid Work: Duel
The International Spectator
Dec 10, 20255 min read
Book Review: Occupation and Resistance in Palestine: A Decolonial Perspective
Reviewed Book: Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality, and Settler Colonialism . I.B....
The International Spectator
Sep 26, 20255 min read
Book Review: Challenging Political Binaries in Turkey’s Pluralist Reality
Reviewed Book: Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond . Cambridge University Press (2025) -...
The International Spectator
Jul 2, 20254 min read
Book Review: How to make a State between International and Constitutional Law
Reviewed book: Law for Leviathan: Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State , Oxford University Press (2023) - by Daryl J....
The International Spectator
May 27, 20254 min read
Book Review: The interdisciplinary concept of EU borders between geopolitical tensions
Reviewed book : The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World, Palgrave Macmillan (2024) – by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt,...
The International Spectator
May 26, 20255 min read
Book Review: Law and Statehood in the Caliphate: An analysis of ISIS’ Legal Framework
Reviewed book: Islamic State as a Legal Order: To Have No Law but Islam, Between Shari'a and Globalization , Routledge (2022) - by...
The International Spectator
Apr 8, 20255 min read
Book Review: How Is the Energy Transition Reproducing Global Injustices?
Reviewed book: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions , 1st edition, 2024 – by Miriam Lang,...
The International Spectator
Mar 12, 20254 min read
Book Review: The Global Economy Between Economic Interdependence And Economic Coercion
Reviewed book: Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy , 1st edition, 2023 – by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman...
The International Spectator
Feb 12, 20254 min read
Book Review: Technology Is a Political Choice: Acemoglu and Johnson’s Power and Progress
Reviewed book: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity , 1st Edition (2023) - by Daron Acemoglu and...
The International Spectator
Feb 5, 20255 min read
Book Review: A Comprehensive and Applied Perspective on Contemporary Security
Reviewed book: "Security Studies: An Applied Introduction" , 1st Edition (2024) - edited by Norma Rossi and Malte Riemann Book review by...
The International Spectator
Jul 23, 20244 min read
Book Review: Unraveling Climate Change and Human Mobility
Reviewed book: Calum Nicholson, Benoit Mayer. (2023). "Climate Migration - Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy and Research”-...
The International Spectator
May 13, 20245 min read
Book Review: Looking Beyond the Arab Uprisings: The Recovery Path of Conflict-affected MENA Countries
Makdisi S. and Soto R. (edited by) (2023), The Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings. Towards Reconstruction, Democracy, and Peace , New York,...
The International Spectator
Apr 22, 20245 min read
Book Review: Security Assistance in the Middle East. Challenges and the Need for Change
Alaoui H. and Springborg R. (edited by) (2023). Security Assistance in the Middle East. Challenges and the Need for Change, Boulder:...
The International Spectator
Mar 5, 20245 min read
Book Review: Transatlantic relations amidst a shifting geopolitical landscape
- Reviewed book: “Natalizia G. e Termine L. (a cura di) (2023), La NATO verso il 2030. Continuità e discontinuità nelle relazioni...
The International Spectator
Jan 15, 20244 min read
Book Review: Intersectionality: A starting point for an inclusive and gender-sensitive migration policy
Book Review by Maria Lucia Hernandez Reviewed Book: Anastasia Christou and Eleonore Kofman. Gender and Migration . London: Springer, 2022...
The International Spectator
Dec 7, 20234 min read
Book Review: The Making of an EU Common Foreign Policy between Law and Geopolitics
- Reviewed book : EU Common Foreign and Security Policy After Lisbon. Between Law and Geopolitics / Luigi Lonardo, Springer, 2023, 162...
The International Spectator
Nov 9, 20233 min read
Book Review: Hong Kong’s Decolonisation as a Pathway to the City’s Rebirth?
- Reviewed book : After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997-2019 / Daniel F. Vukovich. - Singapore: Springer...
The International Spectator
Oct 24, 20235 min read
Book Review: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919. Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence
Hellyer, H.A. and Springborg, Robert. 2022. The Egyptian Revolution of 1919. Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence....
The International Spectator
Jul 13, 20235 min read
Book Review: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
- by Olena Pokotilo Despite the rather high demand for democratic tendencies in society, the relatively young twenty-first century cannot...
The International Spectator
Apr 17, 20234 min read
Book Review: The Age of Unpeace: How connectivity causes conflict
- Reviewed Book: Leonard, Mark. The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict. Random House, 2021. - Book Review by Mario Parolari...
The International Spectator
Jan 23, 20234 min read
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