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Briefly Noted: Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation in World Politics
Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation in World Politics, Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 362 pp., $99.99 cloth, $34 .99 paperback. Transparency in international organizations (IOs) is at the top of the list of practices traditionally thought to comprise good governance and is often argued to […]
Briefly Noted: Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia
Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia, Catherine Renshaw (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 256 pp., $75 cloth, $75 eBook. In 2007, the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the ASEAN Charter and subsequently, in 2009, created the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights. One of the […]
Briefly Noted: Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights
A short book review of “Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights”
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In his latest book, Marcus Schulzke analyzes the ethical traditions of three national militaries—the U.S. Army, the British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)—to highlight the strengths and limitations of different ethical training systems in promoting moral warfare.
Briefly Noted: Burying Jihadis: Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity
A short book review of “Burying Jihadis: Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity”
Briefly Noted: Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History, by Stephen D. King
A brief book review of Stephen D. King’s Grave New World.
Briefly Noted: Psychology of a Superpower: Security and Dominance in U.S. Foreign Policy, by Christopher J. Fettweis
In this book, Christopher J. Fettweis applies lessons from psychology to analyze the impact that being the world’s sole superpower has had on the leaders of the United States and the foreign policies they have crafted since the end of the Cold War.
Briefly Noted: Dictators without Borders and The Fateful Triangle
The editors review two recent books, Dictators without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia, and The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation.
