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general

a Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Weiss (eds.), (2003) Critical Discourse Analysis, Theory and Interdisciplinarity
  (Reviewed by Magdalena Zolkos - June 2004)

the environment

a Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw (eds.), (2003) A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound
  (Reviewed by Darrell Whitman - October 2003)
a Sherilyn MacGregor (2006), Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
  (Reviewed by Donna Knapp van Bogaert, University of Witwatersrand)     [pp. 58-59]


law

a Lawrence Rosen (2006), Law as Culture: An Invitation
  (Reviewed by Esther Abin, Keele University)     [pp. 50-51]
a Anne Orford (ed.) (2006), International Law and Its Others
  (Reviewed by Rohee Dasgupta, Keele Univeristy)     [pp. 52-54]

 

gender studies

a Heidi Nast (2005), Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace
  (Reviewed by Saheed Aderinto, University of Texas)     [pp. 55-57]
a Judith Sylvester and Suzanne Huffman (2002), Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis
  (Reviewed by Rohee Dasgupta - March 2004)

 

international relations

a Niels Kastfelt (2005), 'The Role of Religion in African Civil Wars'
  (Reviewed by M.H.A. Bolaji, Keele University, November 2007)
a Maja Zehfuss (2002), Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality
  (Reviewed by Hannes R. Stephan - July 2004)
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Paul Keal (2003), European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Moral Backwardness of International Society
  (Reviewed by Andreas Krebs - June 2004)

a Eric K. Leonard (2005), The Onset of Global Governance: International Relations Theory and the International Criminal Court
  (Reviewed by Dr. Chukwumerije Okereke - April 2006)

 

political and social philosophy

a E. Richard Atleo (2004), Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview
  (Reviewed by Andreas Krebs - January 2005)


politics

a Anna Triandafyllidou (2001), Immigrants and National Identity in Europe
  (Reviewed by Darrell Whitman - June 2004)
a Yael Navaro-Yashin (2002), Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
  (Reviewed by Zehra A. Beyli - December 2006)
a Review Essay:
Nancy Chang (2002), Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
Stephen J. Schulhofer (2002), The Enemy Within: Intelligence Gathering, Law
Enforcement, and Civil Liberties in the Wake of September 11

(Reviewed by Andrew Neal - May 2004)
a Danny Goldberg (2002), It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America after September 11
  (Reviewed by Andrew Neal - May 2004)
a Peter Wagner (ed.) (2006), The Languages of Civil Society
  (Reviewed by Carme Melo-Escrihuela - May 2007)
a  Dovile Budryte (ed.) (2005), Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States
  (Reviewed by Lucinda J. Thompson - October 2007)
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David Harvey (2006), A Brief History of Neoliberalism
(Reviewed by Christian Garland - November 2007)

 

security studies

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Ken Booth (ed.) (2005), Critical Security Studies and World Politics
  (Reviewed by Nicolas de Zamaróczy - July 2007)

a Barry Buzan and Ole Waever (2003), Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security
  (Reviewed by Emilian Kavalski - June 2004)



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