Reviewed Book: Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: between Justice and Sovereignty. Duke Press (2025) – Delia Duong Wendel Book review by Beatrice Morani Delia [ Duong Ba Wendel’s Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty  (Duke University Press, 2025) offers an original and visceral analysis of what she conceptualises as trauma heritage , understood as the spatialization of traumatic past events. Employing Rwanda’s genocide memorial landscape as a case study, the volume is a...

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: Dueling with...

Guest: Altea Pericoli  ( Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow jointly affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and the Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University ) Episode available here The International Spectator  is pleased to present a new podcast episode exploring how Gulf States have emerged as influential actors in the field of international development assistance. In this episode, Altea Pericoli  (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral...