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Collapse – The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

February 16, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Branko Milanović Vladislav M. Zubok’s splendid “Collapse” is a chronicle of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It opens with the appointment of Yuri Andropov in 1985 and ends at Christmas 1991 […]

Geopolitics

Subimperial power: Australia in the international arena by Clinton Fernandes

January 11, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Are there states that are a part of the hierarchical global “imperial” order and fulfill “pro-consular” duties, but have non-negligible power of their own? I do not know if such […]

Austerity

The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few and Failed the Poor – A Two Hundred Year History by Stewart Lansley

December 19, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant political economists of our time. In his prodigious and prolific thinking one often encounters a thought, many just one sentence, that […]

Austerity

The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective

December 4, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]

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Economics

Visions of Inequality – From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanović

October 9, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Although the topic of inequality is vital to today’s discussions about politics and economics, it is surprising how little importance was attributed to it in the past. Until the […]

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Climate Crisis

Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

September 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

EU politics

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

September 23, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Peter Ramsay Liberals and leftists were quick to denounce the vote to leave the EU as an expression of racist nationalism. It was a lazy slander for which there was little evidence […]

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National Politics

J. Malcolm Garcia – Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful: Afghan Stories

August 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Book Review by Ron Jacobs Cross-posted from Counterpunch. J. Malcolm Garcia is a journalist. Then again, he is so much more. He travels to lands besieged by war and imperial economic policies and exposes the […]

Economics

The Paradox of Debt by Richard Vague

August 15, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Steve Keen Very rarely do I review a book and find that the best way to convey its significance is to quote, verbatim, its first four paragraphs: In 2020, during the darkest […]

National Politics

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

August 2, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Geoffrey Roberts Are historians, as Serhii Plokhy suggests, really the worst interpreters of current events, except for everyone else? As a historian myself, I would like to believe so. It’s a comforting […]

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EU politics

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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