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Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking by Van Jackson

November 15, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Geoffrey Roberts Van Jackson’s Grand Strategies of the Left (2024) delineates three varieties of ‘progressive worldmaking’, each of which aspires to reshape the context that gives rise to traditional security problems in […]

Geopolitics

Peace and War Over Königsberg – Great Britain and the Destiny of Immanuel Kant’s Hometown by Gerfried Horst

October 29, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 3

Book Review by David Shirreff “I fully realise that … the killing of civilians when it is the result of bona-fide military activity is inevitable. But there must be a fair balance between the means […]

Economics

Tracking Marx’s Capital – Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism by Ahmet Tonak and Sungur Savran

October 13, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism is an important new book by two well-known Marxist economists from Turkey. Ahmet […]

Economics

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

August 22, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović The very well-written and easy to read book by Gary Gerstle (The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order) makes two key points. First, and continuing from Gerstle’s previous book […]

Economics

Misfit in Moscow: How British diplomacy in Russia failed: 2014-2019 by Ian Proud

July 7, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Geoff Roberts Notable among dissenters from NATO’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine have been former Western ambassadors such as Jack Matlock and Chas Freeman in the United States, Britain’s Tony Brenton, […]

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Lobbying for Zionism: On both sides of the Atlantic, by Ilan Pappe

June 24, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Peter Oborne Cross-posted from Middle East Eye No review has yet been published of Professor Ilan Pappe’s magnificent and passionate new book on the Zionist lobby. This silence is no surprise. Even a passing […]

Economics

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zach Carter

June 9, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Zachary Carter’s biography of Keynes “The price of peace” is not a typical biography. It opens when Keynes was 31 years of age in the Summer of 1914  working on […]

Economics

Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

May 9, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement.  She is a columnist for the left-wing journal, Tribune, and a regular panellist on political debates in broadcasting – often […]

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Economics

Vulture Capitalism, by Grace Blakeley

May 8, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Michael Roberts. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Her profile and popularity took her last book, Stolen, straight into the top 50 of all books on Amazon.  Her new book, entitled Vulture Capitalism: Corporate […]

Economics

The Order of Inequality: The Confucian Case by Tongdong Bai

April 12, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Professor Tongdong Bai (whom I had the pleasure to meet in Shanghai and who kindly alerted me to his new book) has recently published a book called perhaps somewhat provocatively […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

Economics

The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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