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Volume 11, issue 3, 2013

Preface pp. 311-312

Alan Finlayson

Critique and Political Argumentation pp. 313-320

Alan Finlayson

Political Discourse Analysis: The Dangers of Methodological Absolutism pp. 321-327

Colin Hay

How to Make a Drama Out of a Crisis pp. 328-335

Stephen Coleman

Argument, Deliberation, Dialectic and the Nature of the Political: A CDA Perspective pp. 336-344

Isabela Fairclough and Norman Fairclough

Barack Obama and the Calculus of Presidential Ambiguity pp. 345-357

Michael Foley

From Hubris to Nemesis: Tackling US Decline pp. 358-368

Michael Keaney

Getting Asia Right and Advancing the Field of IR pp. 369-377

Yong-Soo Eun and Kamila Pieczara

Crisis, Resources and the State: Executive Politics in the Age of the Depleted State pp. 378-390

Martin Lodge

Surveillance and Identity: Discourse, Subjectivity and the State by David Barnard-Wills. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 213pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 3072 pp. 391-392

Cherry M. Miller

Pragmatism: An Introduction by Michael Bacon. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. 221pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 4665 7 pp. 391-391

Joel Wolfe

The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon-Constrained World by John Barry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 328pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0 19 969539 3 pp. 392-393

Christopher Hrynkow

Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction by Finn Bowring. London: Pluto Press, 2011. 302pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 0 7453 3141 6 pp. 393-393

Mark Bode

Michael J. Shapiro: Discourse, Culture, Violence by Terrell Carver and Samuel Chambers (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 222pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 415 78347 7 pp. 393-394

Gemma Bird

Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights: Some Contemporary Views by Claudio Corradetti (ed.). Oxford: Springer, 2011. 319pp., £126.00, ISBN 978 9400723757 pp. 394-394

Kevin W. Gray

Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox by Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese. Boulder CO: Paradigm, 2012. 371pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 1 61205 143 7 pp. 394-395

Richard Cotter

Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis by Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman and Sanford Schram (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 308pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 0 521 16820 5 pp. 395-396

Andreas Aagaard Nøhr

Cultural Identity and Political Ethics by Paul Gilbert. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. 208pp., £21.99, ISBN 978 0 7486 2388 4 pp. 396-396

Andrew Shorten

Theorizing Power by Jonathan Hearn. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 251pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 0 230 246577 pp. 396-397

Gwilym David Blunt

Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma by Vivian Ibrahim and Margit Wunsch (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 208pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 67151 4 pp. 397-398

Gülşen Seven

The Power of Ideology: From the Roman Empire to Al-Qaeda by Alex Roberto Hybel. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 272pp., £26.00, ISBN 978 0 415 50406 5 pp. 397-397

Yves Laberge

In Praise of Reason by Michael P. Lynch. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2012. 166pp., £13.95, ISBN 9 780262 017220 pp. 398-399

Shaun P. Young

The Concept of the Political by Hans J. Morgenthau. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 164pp., £22.99, ISBN 978 0 230 36309 0 pp. 399-399

Clifford Angell Bates

Marx for Today by Marcello Musto (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 256pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 50359 4 pp. 399-400

Dunja Larise

Democracy and Public Space: The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance by John R. Parkinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 246pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 0 19 921456 3 pp. 400-401

Jason Edwards

Sovereignty and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination by Scott G. Nelson. Oxford: Routledge, 2010. 193pp., £24.99, ISBN 9780415666053 pp. 400-400

Clifford Angell Bates

The Development and Antidevelopment Debate: Critical Reflections on the Philosophical Foundations by Martha Jalali Rabbani. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 184pp., £55.00, ISBN 9781409409977 pp. 401-402

Sujay Ghosh

Loser Sons: Politics and Authority by Avital Ronell. Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 208pp., £23.99, ISBN 9780252036644 pp. 402-403

Michael Mack

An Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolkit by Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 340pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 0 7486 4399 8 pp. 402-402

Daniel Duggan

Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought by Patricia Vieira and Michael Marder (eds). New York: Continuum, 2012. 172pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 1 4411 6921 1 pp. 403-404

Pol Bargués

Constitutional Referendums: The Theory and Practice of Republican Deliberation by Stephen Tierney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 341pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 0 19 959279 1 pp. 403-403

Iñigo González-Ricoy

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community by Bernard Yack. Chicago IL: Chicago University Press, 2012. 344pp., £16.00, ISBN 978 0 2269 4467 8 pp. 404-405

Andrew Shorten

Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency by Lea Ypi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 226pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 19 959387 3 pp. 405-405

Anthony J. Langlois

Global and Regional Problems: Towards an Interdisciplinary Study by Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 244pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0841 3 pp. 405-406

Yves Laberge

Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid by Jennifer Clapp. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. 201pp., £18.50, ISBN 978 0 8014 5039 6 The Ethics of Trade and Aid: Development, Charity or Waste? by Christopher D. Wraight. London: Continuum, 2011. 178pp., £12.99, ISBN 9781441125484 pp. 406-407

Katarzyna Jarecka-Stępień

Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy by Jeffrey A. Bader. Washington DC: Brookings Institute, 2012. 171pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 0 8157 2242 7 pp. 406-406

Philip Gannon

Targeting Peace: Understanding UN and EU Targeted Sanctions by Mikael Eriksson. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 296pp., £65.00, ISBN 9781409419327 European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy: When and Why do they Work? by Clara Portela. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 208pp., £26.00, ISBN 978 0 415 50274 0 pp. 408-409

Borja Guijarro-Usobiaga

Teaching Politics and International Relations by Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Simon Lightfoot (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 260pp, £22.99, ISBN 978 1,137 00339 3 pp. 409-410

Laura Cashman

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs by Richard Falk, Mark Juergensmeyer and Vesselin Popovski (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 459pp., £27.50, ISBN 978 0 19 978158 4 pp. 409-409

Christopher May

The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760–2010 by John M. Hobson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 393pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 1 107 60454 4 pp. 410-410

Emilian Kavalski

The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare by George Kassimeris and John Buckley (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 467pp., £75.00. ISBN 978 0 7546 7410 8 pp. 410-411

Fred Lawson

Feeling Betrayed: The Roots of Muslim Anger at America by Steven Kull. Washington DC: Brookings Institute Press, 2011. 275pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 0 8157 0559 8 pp. 411-412

Mark Grzegorzewski

The Oxford Handbook of War by Julian Lindley-French and Yves Boyer (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 709pp., £90.00, ISBN 978 0 19 956293 0 The Ashgate Research Companion to War: Origins and Prevention by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 664pp., £95.00, ISBN 978 0 7546 7826 7 pp. 412-413

Chris Rahman

The Sociology of Globalization by Luke Martell. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. 336pp., £61.75, ISBN 978 0 7456 3674 0 pp. 413-413

Fabrício Henricco Chagas Bastos

Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft by B. J. C. McKercher (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 528pp., £115.00, ISBN 9780415781107 pp. 413-414

Andrei Alexandru Babadac

The Colonial Signs of International Relations by Himadeep Muppidi. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2012. 193pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 1 84904 015 0 pp. 414-415

Emilian Kavalski

The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East by Kenneth Pollack et al. Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2011. 381pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 0 8157 2226 7 pp. 415-416

Ghasem Torabi

International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect by Anne Orford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 248pp., £23.99, ISBN 978 0521186384 pp. 415-415

Aidan Hehir

The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research by Alex Schmid (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 719pp., £150.00, ISBN 9780415411578 pp. 416-417

Diego Muro

The US–EU Security Relationship by Wyn Rees. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 236pp., £24.99, ISBN 9780230221857 pp. 416-416

Alan P. Dobson

Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations by Laura J. Shepherd (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 416pp., £24.99, ISBN 978 0 415 45388 2 pp. 417-418

Petra Debusscher

Armaments, Disarmament and International Security by SIPRI Yearbook 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 564pp., £100.00, ISBN 9780199695522 pp. 418-418

Ghasem Torabi

The Politics of Military Occupation by Peter M. R. Stirk. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 252pp., £22.99, ISBN 978 0 7486 4484 1 pp. 418-419

Christopher M. Brown

The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics by Marc Trachtenberg. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 317pp., £19.95, ISBN 978 0 691 15203 5 pp. 419-420

Peter Harris

The Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) by Ian Taylor. Oxford: Routledge, 2011. 117pp., £75.00, ISBN 780415548601 pp. 419-419

Lina Benabdallah

Territory, War, and Peace by John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 250pp., £24.99, ISBN 978 0 415 42414 1 pp. 420-420

Ghasem Torabi

Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century by Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer and Steven Weber (eds). New York: Continuum, 2011. 320pp., £18.99, ISBN 9781441178107 pp. 421-422

Yuliya Zabyelina

Labor Relations in New Democracies: East Asia, Latin America and Europe by José A. Alemán. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 196pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 230 62348 4 pp. 421-421

Sebastian Karcher

The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being by Carol Graham. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. 164pp., £16.99, ISBN 9780815721277 pp. 422-422

Simon Wigley

Comparing Media Systems beyond the Western World by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini (eds). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 344pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 0 107 69954 0 pp. 422-423

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi

Comparative Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond by Finn Laursen (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 282pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0181 0 pp. 423-424

Min Shu

Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space by Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schröder (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 258pp., £60.00, ISBN 9781409412502 pp. 424-424

Neil Robinson

The Politics of Survival by Marc Abélès. Hastings: Duke University Press, 2010. 230pp., £14.99, ISBN 978 8223 4607 4 pp. 424-425

Akin Akinwumi

The Withering of the Welfare State: Regression by James Connelly and Jack Hayward (eds). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 220pp., £57.50, ISBN 978 0 230 33714 5 pp. 425-426

Axel Kaehne

Climate Clever: How Governments Can Tackle Climate Change (and Still Win Elections) by Hugh Compston and Ian Bailey. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 136pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0415 67977 0 pp. 425-425

Paul Tobin

Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences by Martha Crenshaw. Oxford: Routledge, 2011. 268pp., £24.99, ISBN 9780415780513 pp. 426-427

Ahmet Tolga Turker

Reimagining Child Soldiers by Mark Drumbl. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 239pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 19 959266 1 pp. 427-428

Kirsten J. Fisher

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics by Jonathan Dean. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 226pp., £57.50, ISBN 978 0 230 23892 3 pp. 427-427

Fran Amery

Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist Framework by Bina Fernandez. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 194pp., £55.00, ISBN 9784109405078 pp. 428-429

Sydney Calkin

Capabilities, Power, and Institutions: Toward a More Critical Development Ethics by Stephen L. Esquith and Fred Gifford (eds). University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2010. 216pp., £53.50, ISBN 978 0 271 03661 8 pp. 428-428

Ana Estefanía Carballo

The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics by David Held, Angus Hervey and Marika Theros (eds). Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 228pp., £15.99, ISBN 9780745652023 pp. 429-430

Paul Tobin

The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Observation Became an International Norm by Susan D. Hyde. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 245pp., £22.95, ISBN 9780801449666 pp. 430-430

Toby S. James

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth: The Future of Our Built Environment by Robert Kirkman. London: Continuum, 2010. 174pp., £12.99, ISBN 978 1 4411 0280 5 pp. 430-431

Christopher Hrynkow

Public Policy: A New Introduction by Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 376pp., £24.99, ISBN 978 0230278394 pp. 431-432

Israel Solorio Sandoval

Campaign Communication and Political Marketing by Philippe J. Maarek. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 255pp., £22.99, ISBN 9781444332353 pp. 432-432

Cheryl Anderson

Politics, Health, and Health Care: Selected Essays by Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein. London: Yale University Press, 2012. 544pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0300110876 pp. 432-433

Martin Powell

The News and Public Opinion: Media Effects on Civic Life by Max McCombs, R. Lance Holbert, Spiro Kiousis and Wayne Wanta. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 210pp., £15.99, ISBN 9780745645193 pp. 433-433

Célia Belim

Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality: From Nature to the Lab by Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 606pp., £25.99, ISBN 978 0521136488 pp. 433-434

Fatemeh Shayan

Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order by Ronaldo Munck, Carl Schierup and Raúl Wise (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 135pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 415 68327 2 pp. 434-435

Markus Kip

Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence by V. G. Julie Rajan. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 400pp., £24.95, ISBN 9780415532464 pp. 435-436

Caitlin Ryan

Development by Anthony Payne and Nicola Phillips. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. 222pp., £15.19, ISBN 978 0 7456 3068 7 pp. 435-435

Fabrício Henricco Chagas Bastos

Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change by Jeffrey Rosen and Benjamin Wittes (eds). Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2011. 271pp., £20.99, ISBN 978 0 8157 2212 0 pp. 436-436

Amanda Harmon Cooley

Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence by Daniel Rothbart. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 368pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 415 69393 6 pp. 436-437

Luigi Petrella

Natural Resources and Social Conflict: Towards Critical Environmental Security by Matthew A. Schnurr and Larry A. Swatuk (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 264pp., £57.50, ISBN 9780230297838 pp. 437-437

Manola Grotjohann

Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader by Peter Stone (ed.). Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2011. 262pp., £14.95, ISBN 9 781845 402082 pp. 438-438

Nenad Stojanovic

Islamism by Anders Strindberg and Mats Wärn. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 217pp., £15.99, ISBN 9780745640617 pp. 438-439

Ali Wibisono

Defeating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? by Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 340pp., £15.99, ISBN 9780199731725 pp. 439-439

Caryl Thompson

Securitizing Islam: Identity and the Search for Security by Stuart Croft. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 278pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 1 107 63286 8 pp. 439-440

Ali Wibisono

New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown's Logic of History by Oliver Daddow. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 287pp., £14.99, ISBN 9780719076411 pp. 440-441

William Stallard

British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years by Oliver Daddow and Jamie Gaskarth (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 304pp., £60.00, ISBN 9780230280427 pp. 441-441

Victoria Honeyman

The Development of a Discipline: The History of the Political Studies Association by Wyn Grant. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 182pp., £19.99, ISBN 9781444332100 pp. 442-442

Andrew Scott Crines

British Politics: A Beginner's Guide by Richard S. Grayson. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010. 200pp., £9.99, ISBN 9781851687688 pp. 442-443

Mark Stuart

The Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Government Works by Robert Hazell and Ben Yong. Oxford: Hart, 2012. 278pp., £19.95, ISBN 978 1849463102 pp. 443-443

Libby McEnhill

Gender Equality in the Welfare State? by Gillian Pascall. Bristol: Policy Press, 2012. 194pp., £21.99, ISBN 978184742664 2 pp. 444-445

Libby McEnhill

Developments in British Politics 9 by Richard Heffernan, Philip Cowley and Colin Hay (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 368pp., £25.99, ISBN 9870230221741 pp. 444-444

Mark Stuart

Speakers and the Speakership by Paul Seaward (ed.). London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 153pp., £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4443 3289 6 The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions by Shane Martin and Olivier Rozenberg (eds). London: Routledge, 2012. 168pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0415669801 pp. 445-446

William Stallard

State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles: Counter Insurgency, Government Deviance and Northern Ireland by Maurice Punch. London: Pluto Press, 2012. 229pp, £18.99, ISBN 9780 74533147 8 pp. 445-445

Paolo Morisi

Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives: Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance by Alexander Smith. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 152pp., £60.00, ISBN 9780719079696 pp. 447-448

Andrew Scott Crines

Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Political Prisoners and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland by Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. 195pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 7190 8011 1 pp. 447-447

Gordon Clubb

Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London by Benjamin Weinstein. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. 204pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 86193 312 9 pp. 448-449

Emily Robinson

British Government and Politics: A Comparative Guide by Duncan Watts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 446pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 0 7486 4454 4 pp. 448-448

Andrew Steven Gunn

Political Parties and Interest Groups in Norway by Elin Haugsgjerd Allern. Colchester: ECPR Press, 2011. 390pp., £31.00, ISBN 978 0955820366 pp. 449-450

Alexandre Afonso

Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture 1931–1941 by Katerina Clark. London: Harvard University Press, 2011. 420pp., £25.95, ISBN 978 0 674 05787 6 pp. 450-451

Neil Robinson

The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus by Dimitri Almeida. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 200pp, £80.00. ISBN 978 0 415 69374 5 pp. 450-450

Thomas McMeeking

After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe by Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond (eds). London: I. B. Tauris, 2012. 288pp., £14.99, ISBN 978 1 84885 993 7 pp. 451-451

Liam Stanley

European Economic Governance and Policies: Volume I: Commentary on Key Historical and Institutional Documents by Kenneth Dyson and Lucia Quaglia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 873pp., £85.00, ISBN 9780199594511 pp. 451-452

Agustin Jose Menendez

Rethinking Democracy and the European Union by Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 248pp., £26.99, ISBN 9780415690720 pp. 452-453

Cristian Nitoiu

No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default by Martin Gilman. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2010. 331pp., £26.99, ISBN 978 026201 4656 pp. 453-454

Ararat L. Osipian

Research Design in European Studies: Establishing Causality in Europeanization by Theofanis Exadaktylos and Claudio M. Radaelli (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 273pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 230 28531 6 pp. 453-453

Alice Cunha

Using Europe: Territorial Party Strategies in a Multi-level System by Eve Hepburn. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. 265pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 0 7190 8138 5 pp. 454-454

Teresa Ruel

Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe: From Local to Transnational by Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 344pp., £29.99, ISBN 978 0 415 50265 8 pp. 454-455

Seckin Baris Gulmez

Europe's Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular by Luca Mavelli. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 172pp., £26.99, ISBN 978 0 415 69329 5 pp. 455-455

Desiree Bryan

Political Party Survival of Small Parties in Europe by Jae-Jae Spoon. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011. 220pp., £62.50, ISBN 978 0472117901 pp. 456-457

Klejd Këlliçi

Globalisation and European Integration: Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations by Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek and Andreas Tsolakis (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 280pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 61184 8 pp. 456-456

David J. Bailey

Integrating Europe: Informal Politics and Institutional Change by Jeffrey Stacey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 270pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 19 958476 5 pp. 457-457

Eugenio Salvati

Politics of International Criminal Justice: German Perspectives from Nuremberg to The Hague by Ronen Steinke. London: Hart, 2012. 160pp., £30.00, ISBN 978 1849463133 pp. 457-458

Steven C. Roach

Europeanization, Integration and Identity: A Social Constructivist Fusion Perspective on Norway by Gamze Tanil. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 190pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0415698498 pp. 458-459

Nihan Akincilar

Political Parties and Public Policy in the German Länder: Where Parties Matter by Ed Turner. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 263pp., £57.50, ISBN 9780230284425 pp. 459-460

David S. Moon

Making EU Foreign Policy: National Preferences, European Norms and Common Policies by Daniel C. Thomas (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 240pp., £57.50, ISBN 9780230280724 pp. 459-459

Monika Sus

The Re-invention of the European Radical Right: Populism, Regionalism and the Italian Lega Nord by Andrej Zaslove. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2011. 288pp., £74.00, ISBN 978 0 7735 3851 1 pp. 460-461

Daunis Auers

European Union Economic Diplomacy: The Role of the EU in External Economic Relations by Stephen Woolcock. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 205pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 0 7546 7931 8 pp. 460-460

Gabriel Siles-Brügge

The Challenge of the American Presidency: Washington to Obama by Philip Abbott. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 314pp., £51.95, ISBN 978 0 7391 6666 6 pp. 461-462

Priyanka Singh

Poverty, Welfare and Public Policy by D.J. Besharov and D.M. Call (eds). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 544pp., £29.99, ISBN 9781444335132 pp. 462-463

Libby McEnhill

Precarious Democracies: Understanding Regime Stability and Change in Colombia and Venezuela by Ana Maria Bejarano. Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. 327pp., £34.95, ISBN 9780268022266 pp. 462-462

Alex McDougall

The Apartisan American: Dealignment and the Transformation of Electoral Politics by Russell Dalton. Washington DC: CQ Press, 2012. 240pp., £21.99, ISBN 978 1452216942 pp. 463-463

Stuart Fox

Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century by Jacob S. Hacker and Ann O'Leary (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 269pp., £18.99. ISBN 978 0 19 978192 8 pp. 464-465

Volkan Yilmaz

Land and Dignity in Paraguay by Cheryl Lynn Duckworth. London: Continuum, 2011. 186pp., £65.00, ISBN 9781441133939 pp. 464-464

Kirk Tyvela

America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society by Lisa S. Nelson. London: MIT Press, 2010. 258pp., £23.95, ISBN 978 026201 4779 pp. 465-465

Mark Rice

The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America by Robert H. Nelson. University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2010. 388pp., £21.50, ISBN 9780271035826 pp. 465-466

Kelly C. MacPhail

Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 239pp., £16.95, ISBN 978 0 691 15305 6 pp. 466-467

Betsy Super

Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power by Inderjeet Parmar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 356pp., £24.00, ISBN 9 780231 146289 pp. 467-467

Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn

The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future by Robert A. Pastor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 264pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 19 978241 3 pp. 467-468

Amanda Murphyao

Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland by Robert Wuthnow. Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2012. 484pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0 691 15055 0 pp. 468-469

Stratos Patrikios

Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar by Ian Holliday. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 287pp., £20.50, ISBN 978 0 231 16127 5 pp. 469-470

Kai Chen

China Experiments: From Local Innovations to National Reform by Ann Florini, Hairong Lai and Yeling Tan. Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2012. 216pp., £20.99, ISBN 978 0 8157 2200 7 pp. 469-469

Michael Rochlitz

Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and West by Peter J. Katzenstein (ed.). London: Routledge, 2012. 296 pp., £24.00, ISBN 978041580952 8 pp. 470-470

Sebastian Maslow

Africa and IMF Conditionality: The Unevenness of Compliance, 1983–2000 by Kwame Akonor. New York: Routledge, 2012. 163pp., £26.00, ISBN 978 0 415 65347-3 pp. 471-472

Matthias Kranke

Stable Outside, Fragile Inside? Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia by Emilian Kavalski (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 236pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0 7546 7600 3 pp. 471-471

Aijan Sharshenova

Guarding the Guardians: Civil–Military Relations and Democratic Governance in Africa by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 218pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0414 9 pp. 472-472

Moses Kibe Kihiko

The International Politics of the Persian Gulf by Mehran Kamrava (ed.). New York: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 374pp., £25.83, ISBN 9780815632801 pp. 472-473

Fatemeh Shayan

Community of Insecurity: SADC's Struggle for Peace and Security in Southern Africa by Laurie Nathan. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 186pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 3044 5 pp. 473-473

Matthew Graham

Who Rules South Africa? by Martin Plaut and Paul Holden. London: Biteback Publishing, 2011. 420pp., £14.99, ISBN 9781849544085 pp. 473-474

Eleanor Beevor

Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran by Nader Sohrabi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 447pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 521 19829 5 pp. 474-475

Mehmet Karabela

The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception by Mahjoob Zweiri and Emma C. Murphy (eds). Reading: Ithaca Press, 2011. 168pp., £50.00, ISBN 9780863723476 pp. 475-475

Simon Mabon

Volume 11, issue 2, 2013

The Tyranny of Relevance and the Art of Translation pp. 149-167

Matthew Flinders

Political Science, Impact and Evidence pp. 168-173

Peter John

Designing Politics: A Neglected Justification for Political Science pp. 174-181

Gerry Stoker

The Impact Imperative: Here Come the Women:-) pp. 182-189

Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs

A View from the Foothills: Public Engagement among Early Career Researchers pp. 190-199

Lee Savage

Political Science and Publicity pp. 200-208

Jeffrey C. Isaac

In Defence of Political Theory: Impact and Opportunities pp. 209-215

Thom Brooks

Shooting (or Ignoring) the Messenger pp. 216-221

Ronald Rogowski

The Future of Political Science pp. 222-227

Matthew Flinders and Peter John

Sovereign Justice: Global Justice in a World of Nations by Diogo P. Aurelio, Gabriele De Angelis and Regina Queiroz (eds). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011. 250pp., £99.95, ISBN 978311024573 pp. 228-228

Jan-Erik Lane

Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth: A Deconstructive Perspective by Miriam Bankovsky. London: Continuum, 2012. 250pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 1441 1954 18 pp. 228-229

Gemma Bird

Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism by Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight (eds). Notre Dame IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2011. 365pp., £34.95, ISBN 978 0268022259 pp. 229-229

Chidella Upendra

Social Injustice: Essays in Political Philosophy by Vittorio Bufacchi. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 202pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 230 25160 1 pp. 229-230

Erik De Bom

Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues by Paul Cairney. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 327pp., £24.99, ISBN 978 0 230 22971 6 pp. 230-230

Moses Kibe Kihiko

The Origins of Free Peoples by Jason Caro. London: Continuum, 2011. 176pp., £65.00, ISBN 9781441113047 pp. 230-231

Beniamino F. Cislaghi

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010. 336pp., £40.00, ISBN 9781845 401931 pp. 231-232

Daniel Duggan

Debates on Democratization by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Philip J. Costopoulos (eds). Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 313pp., £13.00, ISBN 9780801897771 pp. 232-232

Michael T. Rogers

The Dream in Islam: From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration by Iain R. Edgar. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. 145pp., £21.00, ISBN 9780857452351 pp. 232-233

Mehmet Karabela

The Marx Dictionary by Ian Fraser and Lawrence Wilde. London: Continuum, 2011. 223pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 1 4411 7832 9 pp. 233-234

Paul Blackledge

The Philosophy of Sartre by Anthony Hatzimoysis. Durham: Acumen, 2011. 142pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 1 84465 047 7 pp. 234-235

Christian Gilliam

The Politics of Eloquence: David Hume's Polite Rhetoric by Marc Hanvelt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 217pp., £33.95, ISBN 978 1 4426 4379 6 pp. 234-234

David Randall

The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of ‘De armis Romanis’ by Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 388pp., £75.99, ISBN 9780199600519 pp. 235-236

Clifford Angell Bates

Anarchism and Political Modernity by Nathan Jun. New York: Continuum, 2012. 250pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 1 4411 6686 9 pp. 235-235

Mara-Daria Cojocaru

Beyond Anarchy: The Complex and Chaotic Dynamics of International Politics by Dylan Kissane. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2011. 291pp., £34.90, ISBN 9783838202310 pp. 236-236

Tom Hashimoto

The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and Its Consequences by Matthew H. Kramer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 353pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 19 864218 2 pp. 236-237

Eric M. Rovie

Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy by Christian Marazzi. Los Angeles CA: MIT Press, 2011. 159pp., £10.95, ISBN 9781584351030 pp. 237-238

Andy Knott

Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe by Tim Mulgan. Durham: Acumen, 2011. 228pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 1 84465 488 8 pp. 238-239

Justin Moss

Herbert Marcuse: An Aesthetics of Liberation by Malcolm Miles. London: Pluto Press, 2012. 194pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 0 7453 3038 9 pp. 238-238

Diana Boros

Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook by Joshua Parens and Joseph C. Macfarland (eds). Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 443pp., £19.95, ISBN 9780801476815 pp. 239-239

James G. Mellon

Before and After 9/11: A Philosophical Examination of Globalization, Terror and History by Tom Rockmore. London: Continuum, 2011. 192pp., £17.99, ISBN 9781441118929 pp. 239-240

Daniel E. Westlake

Badiou's Deleuze by Jon Roffe. Durham: Acumen, 2012. 196pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 1 184465 509 0 pp. 240-241

Lukas Verburgt

Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance by Bruce R. Scott. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. 672pp., £62.99, ISBN 978 1 4614 1878 8 pp. 241-242

John Lowe

Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes by Sean Sayers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 195pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 230 27654 3 pp. 241-241

Paul Blackledge

Federalism: A Normative Theory and Its Practical Relevance by Kyle Scott. London: Continuum, 2011. 213pp., £16.99, ISBN 9781441177148 pp. 242-242

Erik De Bom

The Real World of Democratic Theory by Ian Shapiro. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 291pp., £18.95, ISBN 978 0 691 09001 6 pp. 242-243

Sylvester Odion Akhaine

Friendship and the Political: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schmitt by Graham M. Smith. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2011. 263pp., £17.95, ISBN 9781845402464 On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 352pp., £20.50, ISBN 978 0 231 14723 1 pp. 243-244

Preston King

Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order by Natan Sznaider. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 205pp., £15.99, ISBN 9780745647968 pp. 244-245

Magdalena Zolkos

Moralism: A Study of a Vice by Craig Taylor. Durham: Acumen, 2012. 187pp., £14.99, ISBN 978 1 84465 494 9 pp. 245-246

Edward Hall

Pluralism and Liberal Politics by Robert B. Talisse. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 177pp., £80.00, ISBN 9 780415 884211 pp. 245-245

Edward Hall

Karl Marx by Paul Thomas. London: Reaktion, 2012. 224pp., £10.95, ISBN 978 1 86189 906 4 pp. 246-246

Paul Blackledge

The Politics of Misrecognition by Simon Thompson and Majid Yar (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 179pp., £ 55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0169 8 pp. 246-247

Chandran Komath

Neo-liberal Ideology: History, Concepts and Policies by Rachel S. Turner. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 248pp., £19.99, ISBN 9780748642991 pp. 247-248

Evangelia Sembou

Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory: Thinking the Body Politic by F. Vander Valk (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 294pp., £27.99, ISBN 9780415782029 pp. 248-248

Jason Edwards

Health Justice by Sridhar Venkatapuram. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 270pp., £16.99, ISBN 9780745650357 pp. 248-249

Simon Wigley

On Rawls, Development and Global Justice: The Freedom of Peoples by Huw Lloyd Williams. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 242pp., £57.50, ISBN 9780230277823 pp. 249-250

Erik De Bom

The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 287pp., £15.19, ISBN 978 0 8223 5112 2 pp. 249-249

Ben Trott

The Defetishized Society: New Economic Democracy as a Libertarian Alternative to Capitalism by Chris Wyatt. New York: Continuum, 2011. 236pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 1 4411 5933 5 pp. 250-251

Peter Lavenia

The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations by Nira Yuval-Davis. London: Sage, 2011. 252pp., £25.99, ISBN 978 1 4129 2130 5 pp. 251-251

Gillian Hutchison Perry

Russia's Energy Policies: National, Interregional and Global Levels by Pami Aalto (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012. 266pp., £57.00, ISBN 978 1 84980 029 7 pp. 251-252

Fatemeh Shayan

Global Leadership in Transition: Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive by Colin I. Bradford and Wonhyuk Lim (eds). Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. 351pp., £19.99, ISBN 9780815721451 pp. 252-253

Jan-Erik Lane

Re-thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction by Badredine Arfi. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 224pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 78360 6 pp. 252-252

Shang-Lin Wu

Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel W. Drezner. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 153pp., £10.95, ISBN 9780691147833 pp. 253-254

Christopher Housenick

On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800–1945 by John Fisher and Anthony Best (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 306pp., £70.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0119 3 pp. 254-254

Ben Lombardi

International Law, International Relations and Global Governance by Charlotte Ku. Oxford: Routledge, 2012. 232pp., £25.99, ISBN 978 0 415 77873 2 pp. 254-255

Christopher May

The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States by James Mayall and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (eds). London: Hurst, 2011. 375pp., £20.00, ISBN 978 1 84904 126 3 pp. 255-255

Fernando Cavalcante

European–American Relations and the Middle East: From Suez to Iraq by Daniel Möckli and Victor Mauer (eds). New York: Routledge, 2011. 259pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 47664 5 pp. 255-256

Mark Duckenfield

Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic and Ideological Fissures by Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 271pp., £85.00, ISBN 9780415586245 pp. 256-257

Francesco Marone

International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation by T. V. Paul (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 308pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 1 107 60455 1 pp. 257-257

Surinder Mohan

Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence: Technology, Security and Culture by Columba Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 299pp., £18.99, ISBN 9780521130417 pp. 257-258

Jan Kallberg

Migration and Climate Change by Étienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud and Paul De Guchteneire (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 425pp., £19.99, ISBN 9781107663354 pp. 258-258

Clare Sharkey

Military Threats: The Costs of Coercion and the Price of Peace by Branislav L. Slantchev. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 313pp., £55.00, ISBN 9780521763189 pp. 259-259

Patrick Shea

Political Leaders and Democratic Elections by Kees Aarts, André Blais and Hermann Schmitt (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 241pp., £50.00, ISBN 9780199259007 Platform or Personality? The Role of Party Leaders in Elections by Amanda Bittner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 208pp., £47.00, ISBN 9780199595365 pp. 260-261

Diego Garzia

The People vs the State: Reflections on UN Authority, US Power and the Responsibility to Protect by Ramesh Thakur. New York: United Nations University, 2011. 242pp., £12.75, ISBN 978 92 808 1207 7 pp. 260-260

Ryan Boudwin

Prime Ministers in Power: Political Leadership in Britain and Australia by Mark Bennister. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 240pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0230273214 pp. 261-262

Nicholas Allen

Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan by Pepper D. Culpepper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 221pp., £19.99, ISBN 9780521134132 pp. 262-263

Jaemin Shim

Semi-presidentialism and Democracy by Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu (eds). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 296pp., £60.00, ISBN 9780230242920 pp. 263-264

Harshan Kumarasingham

State Formation, Parties and Democracy: Studies in Comparative European Politics by Hans Daalder. Colchester: ECPR Press, 2011. 303pp., £34.00, ISBN 9781907301179 pp. 263-263

Paolo Morisi

Democracy in the South: Participation, the State and the People by Brendan Howe, Vesselin Popovski and Mark Notaras (eds). Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2010. 233pp., £23.99, ISBN 978 92 808 1178 0 pp. 264-265

Adam Gill

Immigrant Nation by Paul Scheffer. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 389pp., £19.99, ISBN 9780745649627 pp. 265-265

Caryl Thompson

Real Green: Sustainability after the End of Nature by Manuel Arias-Maldonado. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 211pp., £55.00, ISBN 9781409424093 pp. 265-266

Christopher Hrynkow

Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis: The World Economy in Transition by Berch Berberoglu (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 201pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 1239 7 pp. 266-266

Christopher May

Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle by Nico Carpentier. Bristol: Intellect, 2011. 405pp., £19.95, ISBN 9781841504070 pp. 267-267

James Dennis

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger and Christopher Pierson (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 876pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 19 957939 6 pp. 267-268

Edwin Griggs

Food by Jennifer Clapp. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. 218pp., £12.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 4936 8 pp. 268-269

Nick James

The Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics by Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 512pp., £27.99, ISBN 978 0 415 78058 2 pp. 268-268

Johannes Fritz

Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems by Josep Colomer (ed.). Colchester: ECPR Press, 2011. 204pp., £65.00, ISBN 9781907301162 pp. 269-269

Stefano Rombi

Cyberspaces and Global Affairs by Sean S. Costigan and Jake Perry (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 377pp., £75.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 2754 4 pp. 270-270

Andrew Whiting

Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff by Rowan Cruft, Matthew H. Kramer and Mark R. Reiff (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 394pp., £60.00, ISBN 9780199592814 pp. 270-271

Stéphane Lefebvre

The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society by Michael Edwards (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 515pp., £95.00, ISBN 978 0 19 539857 1 pp. 271-272

Hakki Taş

Rethinking Security Governance: The Problem of Unintended Consequences by Christopher Daase and Cornelius Friesendorf (eds). London: Routledge, 2010. 223pp., £85.50, ISBN 9780415532624 pp. 271-271

Yuliya Zabyelina

Rationality and the Environment: Decision-Making in Environmental Politics and Assessment by Bo Elling. London: Continuum, 2010. 281pp., £29.99, ISBN 978 1 84971 078 7 pp. 272-272

Rory Shand

The Rise and Demise of the Capitalist World System by Hartmut Elsenhans. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011. 217pp., £17.68, ISBN 978 3 86583 608 3 pp. 273-273

Cemal Burak Tansel

Evaluating Democratic Innovations: Curing the Democratic Malaise? by Brigitte Geissel and Kenneth Newton (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 222pp., £26.99, ISBN 978 0 415 66920 7 pp. 273-274

Jeffrey D. Hilmer

The United Nations Democracy Agenda: A Conceptual History by Kirsten Haack. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 256pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 0719079818 pp. 274-274

Fernando Cavalcante

New Directions in Genocide Research by Adam Jones (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 312pp., £26.99, ISBN 9780415495974 pp. 275-276

Guy Lancaster

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence by Loch K. Johnson (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 902pp., £95.00, ISBN 9780195375886 pp. 275-275

Andrei Alexandru Babadac

Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta Krippner. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 234pp., £29.95, ISBN 978 0674050846 pp. 276-276

Cleo Politof

Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model by Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti. Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2012. 278pp., £20.95, ISBN 978 0 691 13904 3 pp. 276-277

Patrícia Calca

The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts by Henry Milner. Lebanon NH: Tufts University Press, 2010. 291pp., £30.50, ISBN 9781584659389 pp. 277-278

Johannes Fritz

Women, Peace and Security by Funmi Olonisakin, Keren Barnes and Eka Ikpe (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 242pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 58797 6 pp. 278-279

Esther Mana Akanya

Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement by Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 188pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 60577 9 pp. 278-278

Angelo Scotto

A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age by Zizi Papacharissi. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. 200pp., £14.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 4525 4 pp. 279-280

James Dennis

Left Parties in Governments by Jonathan Olsen, Michael Koß and Dan Hough (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 207pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0 230 23650 9 pp. 279-279

Yiannos Katsourides

The Official History of Privatisation, Volume II: Popular Capitalism, 1987–1997 by David Parker. London: Routledge, 2012. 664pp., £75.00, ISBN 978 0 415 69221 2 pp. 280-281

Matthew Francis

The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations by Michael L. Ross. Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2012. 289pp., £19.95, ISBN 978 0 691 14545 7 Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas by John-Andrew McNeish and Owen Logan (eds). London: Pluto Press, 2012. 370pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 0 7453 3117 1 pp. 281-282

Neil Robinson

Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 337pp., £22.95, ISBN 9780674057814 pp. 281-281

Christopher M. Brown

Global Urban Analysis: A Survey of Cities in Globalization by Peter J. Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang and Frank Witlox (eds). London: Earthscan, 2011. 438pp., £95.00, ISBN 978 1849712132 pp. 282-283

Eric Petersen

Making Rights Claims: A Practice of Democratic Citizenship by Karen Zivi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 158pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 19 982640 7 pp. 283-283

Anthony J. Langlois

Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945–2007 by Samuel Berlinski, Torun Dewan and Keith Dowding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 208pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0521519724 pp. 284-285

Nicholas Allen

The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Re-thinking Its Legacy by Arthur Aughey and Cathy Gormley-Heenan (eds). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 169pp., £65.00, ISBN 9780719084980 pp. 284-284

William Stallard

House of Lords Reform since 1911: Must the Lords Go? by Peter Dorey and Alexandra Kelso. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 235pp., £57.50, ISBN 978 023 027166 1 pp. 285-286

Fiona Williams

Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels by Sarah Childs and Paul Webb. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 299pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 230 27900 1 pp. 285-285

Elizabeth McEnhill

Leaders of the Opposition from Churchill to Cameron by Timothy Heppell (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. 273pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 230 29647 3 pp. 286-287

Elizabeth McEnhill

The Politics of New Labour by Andrew Pearmain. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2011. 281pp., £15.99, ISBN 9781907103254 pp. 287-288

David S. Moon

Cameron and the Conservatives: The Transition to Coalition Government by Timothy Heppell and David Seawright (eds). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 268pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 230 31410 8 pp. 287-287

Thomas Quinn

Electing and Rejecting Party Leaders in Britain by Thomas Quinn. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 248pp., £57.50, ISBN 978 0 230 21961 8 pp. 288-288

Andrew Scott Crines

The Labour Party and the World, Volume 2: Labour's Foreign Policy since 1951 by Rhiannon Vickers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 243pp., £65.00, ISBN 9780719067464 pp. 289-289

Oliver Daddow

Political Participation in Britain: The Decline and Revival of Civic Culture by Paul Whiteley. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 196pp., £24.99, ISBN 978 0 4039 4266 1 pp. 289-290

Michael Moran

Political Communication in Britain: The Leader Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election by Dominic Wring, Roger Mortimore and Simon Atkinson (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 349pp., £19.99, ISBN 9780230301467 pp. 290-291

Andrew Scott Crines

Religion and Change in Modern Britain by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 408pp., £27.99, ISBN 978 0 415 57581 2 pp. 290-290

Ekaterina Kolpinskaya

Wales Says Yes: Devolution and the 2011 Welsh Referendum by Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012. 234pp., £25.99, ISBN 978 0 7083 2485 1 pp. 291-292

David S. Moon

The Politics of Means and Ends: Policy Instruments in the European Union by Holger Bähr. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 213pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 1070 6 pp. 292-293

Graeme Crouch

Tax Politics in Eastern Europe: Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise by Hilary Appel. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011. 189pp., £51.95, ISBN 9780472117765 pp. 292-292

Michael Steffens

Immigration and Conflict in Europe by Rafaela M. Dancygier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 345pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 521 15023 1 pp. 293-294

Bozena Sojka

EU Counterterrorism Policy: A Paper Tiger? by Oldrich Bures. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 277pp., £60.00, ISBN 9781409411239 pp. 293-293

Lella Nouri

The Worlds of European Constitutionalism by Gráinne De Búrca and J. H. H. Weiler (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 348pp., £19.99, ISBN 97805211777757 pp. 294-295

Agustín José Menéndez

Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism after 1950 by Orfeo Fioretos. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. 245pp., $49.95, ISBN 9780801449697 pp. 295-295

Martin B. Carstensen

The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia by Josip Glaurdić. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2011. 432pp., £40.00, ISBN 9780300166293 pp. 295-296

Vladimir Ðorđević

The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe: Modernization in Hard Times by Silja Häusermann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 276pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 521 18368 0 pp. 296-296

Elias Naumann

Political Communication in European Parliamentary Elections by Michaela Maier, Jesper Strömbäck and Lynda Lee Kaid (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 268pp., £60.00, ISBN 9781409411321 pp. 296-297

Stefanie Walter

Small States in the European Union: Coping with Structural Disadvantages by Diana Panke. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 243pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0528 3 pp. 297-297

Stella Ladi

EU Energy Security in the Gas Sector: Evolving Dynamics, Policy Dilemmas and Prospects by Filippos Proedrou. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. 171pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 3804 5 pp. 298-298

Olga Khrushcheva

Experimentalist Governance in the European Union by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeithin (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0 19 957249 6 pp. 298-299

Katrina Kelly

European Parliament Elections after Eastern Enlargement by Hermann Schmitt (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 168pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0 415 50948 0 pp. 299-299

Eugenio Salvati

Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies by John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw (eds). Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 395pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0 691 15146 5 pp. 300-300

Donald M. Gooch

Bolivia: Refounding the Nation by Kepa Artaraz. London: Pluto Press, 2012. 241pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 0 7453 3089 1 pp. 300-301

Anaïd Flesken

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics by Peter Kingstone and Deborah J. Yashar (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 608pp., £120.00, ISBN 978 0 415 87522 6 pp. 301-302

Direnç Kanol

Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization and the Left by Benjamin Goldfrank. University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2011. 291pp., £33.95, ISBN 9780271037943 pp. 301-301

Adam Gill

The Development of American Finance by Martijn Konings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 199pp., £55.00, ISBN 9780521195256 pp. 302-302

Martin B. Carstensen

International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific: Patterns, Consequences and Management by Jacob Berkovitch and Mikio Oishi. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 220pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0 415 58004 5 pp. 303-303

James Whibley

Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia by Eric McGlinchey. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. 216pp., £24.50, ISBN 9780822961680 pp. 303-304

Emilian Kavalski

Islam and Politics in South East Asia by Johan Saravanamuttu (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 208pp., £26.95, ISBN 9780415625340 pp. 304-304

Majid Daneshgar

Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body by Sonja van Wichelen. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 184pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0415497244 pp. 304-305

Majid Daneshgar

China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC by Daniel F. Vukovich. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 185pp., £80.00, ISBN 9 798 0 415 59220 8 pp. 305-305

Yujia Zhao

The New Scramble for Africa by Padraig Carmody. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 244pp., £47.50, ISBN 978 0 7456 4784 5 pp. 306-306

Moses Onyango

The Politics of Sub-national Authoritarianism in Russia by Vladimir Gel'man and Cameron Ross (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 229pp., £55.00, ISBN 9789544678885 pp. 306-307

Allison C. White

Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper. London: Zed Books, 2012. 217pp., £12.99, ISBN 978 1842779330 pp. 307-308

Kawu Bala

The New Cultural Climate in Turkey: Living in a Show Window by Nurdan Gurbilek. London: Zed Books, 2011. 217pp., £14.99, ISBN 9781848134874 pp. 307-307

Engin Koca

The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East by Patrick Seale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 820pp., £32.00, ISBN 978 0521 1813 71 pp. 308-309

Jörg Michael Dostal

After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa? by Ian Shapiro and Kathreen Tebeau (eds). Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 376pp., £34.95, ISBN 9780813930978 pp. 309-309

Moses Kibe Kihiko

Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimization by Colin Shindler. London: Continuum, 2012. 308pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 1 4411 5013 4 pp. 309-310

Lior Erez

Volume 11, issue 1, 2013

A Message from the Editor pp. 1-1

Mark Wenman

Governing the G ames: High Politics, Risk and Mega-events pp. 2-14

Will Jennings

Sport Politics and the O lympics pp. 15-25

Jonathan Grix

The European Public Sphere: Myth, Reality or Aspiration? pp. 26-38

Cristian Nitoiu

Foundations of Political Order in Emerging Democracies pp. 39-51

Michael Seeberg

Oligarchy and Democracy in Post-Suharto Indonesia pp. 52-64

Yuki Fukuoka

T aiwan's 2012 Presidential Election pp. 65-74

Jonathan Sullivan

Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy by Christopher K. Ansell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 280pp., £17.99, ISBN 9780199772445 pp. 75-75

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown by Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster. Oxford: Routledge, 2011. 167pp., £80.00, ISBN 9780415498098 pp. 75-76

Nathaniel O'Grady

Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theory by Richard Beardsworth. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 272pp., £16.99, ISBN 9780745643243 pp. 76-77

Joanna Rozpedowski

Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times by Seyla Benhabib. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 298pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 5443 0 pp. 77-77

Kei Hiruta

Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civil Engagement by Ben Berger. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 201pp., £24.95, ISBN 9780691144689 pp. 77-78

Michael T. Rogers

Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds by Steven J. Brams. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2011. 319pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0,262 01522 6 pp. 78-79

Jason Ferrell

Global Theory from Kant to Hardt and Negri by Gary Browning. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 208pp., £57.50, ISBN 9780230524736 pp. 79-79

Andy Knott

Edmund Burke for Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning and Politics by William F. Byrne. De Kalb IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. 227pp., £36.50, ISBN 9780875806495 pp. 79-80

Clifford Angell Bates

Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues by Paul Cairney. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 327pp., £24.99, ISBN 978 0,230 22971 6 pp. 80-80

David Richards

On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by G. A. Cohen. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 288pp., £16.95, ISBN 978 0691148717 pp. 81-81

Richard Mullender

A World of Becoming by William E. Connolly. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 215pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 8223 4879 5 pp. 81-82

Shashank Chaturvedi

Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice by Rhiannon Firth. London: Routledge, 2012. 200pp., £75.00, ISBN 9780415669016 pp. 82-83

Andy Robinson

Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony by Jonathan S. Davies. Bristol: Polity Press, 2011. 192pp., £24.99, ISBN 9781847426147 pp. 82-82

Dipankar Sinha

Metaethics: An Introduction by Andrew Fisher. Durham: Acumen, 2011. 192pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 1 84465 258 7 pp. 83-84

Tony Milligan

The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction by Helen Frowe. London: Taylor and Francis, 2011. 256pp., £17.99, ISBN 9780415492409 pp. 84-85

Vittorio Bufacchi

The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice by Rainer Forst. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 351pp., £34.00, ISBN 978 0 231 14708 8 pp. 84-84

Shaun P. Young

Ethics and the Use of Force: Just War in Historical Perspective by James Turner Johnson. Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. 174pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 1857 3 pp. 85-86

Eric M. Rovie

A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change by Stephen M. Gardiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 489pp., £22.50, ISBN 9780195379440 pp. 85-85

Megan Blomfield

The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions and Judgement by Duncan Kelly. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 400pp., £27.95, ISBN 9780691143132 pp. 86-87

Hussein Banai

World in Crisis: The End of the American Century by Gabriel Kolko. London: Pluto Press, 2009. 182pp., £12.99, ISBN 978 0745328652 pp. 87-88

Dan Tamir

The Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism by Jack Knight and James Johnson. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 336pp., £20.95, ISBN 9780691151236 pp. 87-87

Hussein Banai

Democracy, Equality and Justice by Matt Matravers and Lukas H. Meyer (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 262pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 415 59292 5 pp. 88-89

Vidhu Verma

Appeals to Interest: Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency by Dean Mathiowetz. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. 228pp., £53.95, ISBN 9780271048505 pp. 88-88

Akinbola E. Akinwumi

Mimesis and Reason: Habermas's Political Philosophy by Gregg Daniel Miller. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011. 185pp., £53.50, ISBN 9781438437392 pp. 89-90

Luke Neal

Conservatism by Kieron O'Hara. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 375pp., £19.95, ISBN 9781861898128 pp. 90-90

Victor Stepien

New Wars and New Soldiers: Military Ethics in the Contemporary World by Paolo Tripodi and Jessica Wolfendale. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 296pp., $99.95, ISBN 978 1 4094 0105 6 pp. 90-91

Eric M. Rovie

Multilateral Security and ESDP Operations by Fulvio Attiná and Daniela Irrera (eds). Ashgate: Farnham, 2010. 207pp., £57.00, ISBN 978 1409407072 pp. 91-92

Yuliya Zabyelina

The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen by Stephen K. White. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 135pp., £33.95, ISBN 978 0 674 03263 7 pp. 91-91

John Lowe

Theory and Practice of International Mediation: Selected Essays by Jacob Bercovitch. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 286pp., £80.00, ISBN 978 0 415 46958 6 pp. 92-93

Kirsten J. Fisher

Realism and World Politics by Ken Booth (ed.). London: Routledge, 2011. 346pp., £26.99, ISBN 9780415570589 pp. 93-93

Jan-Erik Lane

Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies and Responses by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote Jr, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller (eds). Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2010. 418pp., £20.95, ISBN 978 0 262 514644 pp. 93-94

Jan-Erik Lane

The Consequences of Counterterrorism by Martha Crenshaw (ed.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2010. 421pp., £34.50, ISBN 978 0 87154 073 7 pp. 94-95

Diego Muro

Unrecognized States by Nina Caspersen. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. 210pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 0 7456 5343 3 pp. 94-94

Oumar Ba

Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy by Adrian Dellecker and Thomas Gomart (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 251pp., £85.00, ISBN 9780415547338 pp. 95-96

Irina Kustova

Sino–American Relations: Challenges Ahead by Yufan Hao (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 254pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 1 4094 0797 3 pp. 96-97

Jan-Erik Lane

Fish by Elizabeth R. DeSombre and J. Samuel Barkin. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 177pp., £12.99, ISBN 9780745650203 pp. 96-96

Christopher M. Brown

Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security by Swanee Hunt. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 262pp., £22.99, ISBN 9780822349754 pp. 97-97

Vladimir Ðorđević

Rethinking Imperialism by Ray Kiely. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 320pp., £25.99, ISBN 978 0 230 20106 4 pp. 97-98

Cemal Burak Tansel

Domestic Law Goes Global: Legal Traditions and International Courts by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Emilia Justyna Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 263pp., £55.00, ISBN 9781107004160 pp. 98-99

Christopher May

Migration in the Global Political Economy (Volume 17, International Political Economy Yearbook) by Nicola Phillips (ed.). London: Lynne Rienner, 2011. 337pp., £55.95, ISBN 9781588267627 pp. 99-100

Peter S. Cruttenden

The Logic of Positive Engagement by Miroslav Nincic. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 224pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0 8014 5006 8 pp. 99-99

Ian Hall

A New Science of International Relations: Modernity, Complexity and the Kosovo Conflict by Damian Popolo. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 237pp., £55.00, ISBN 9781409412267 pp. 100-101

Pol Bargués

The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution by Keith L. Shimko. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 249pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 521 12884 1 pp. 101-102

Chris Rahman

Intercultural Communication: A New Approach to International Relations and Global Challenges by Houman A. Sadri and Madelyn Flammia. London: Continuum, 2011. 317pp., £22.99, ISBN 9781441103093 pp. 101-101

Alistair Brisbourne

Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama by Stanley R. Sloan. New York: Continuum, 2010. 317pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 1 4411 3805 7 The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security and Identity by Veronica M. Kitchen. London: Routledge, 2010. 153pp., £75.00, ISBN 978 0 415 57017 6 NATO and Terrorism: Organizational Expansion and Mission Transformation by James W. Peterson. New York: Continuum, 2011. 208pp., £17.99, ISBN 9781441129765 pp. 102-103

Wyn Rees

Building Regions: The Regionalization of the World Order by Luk van Langenhove. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 187pp., £55.00, ISBN 9781409419525 pp. 104-104

Asa K. Cusack

Enduring Territorial Disputes: Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy and Settlement by Krista E. Wiegand. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 340pp., £21.50, ISBN 978 0 8203 3946 7 pp. 104-105

Mark Duckenfield

Electoral Malpractice by Sarah Birch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 224pp., £50.00, ISBN 9780199606160 pp. 105-106

Toby S. James

Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries by Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 373pp., £22.99, ISBN 9780521187251 pp. 106-106

Neil Robinson

What's Left of the Left: Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times by James Cronin, George Ross and James Shoch (eds). Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 413pp., £19.99, ISBN 9780822350798 pp. 106-107

Max Crook

Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organise Democracy by Russell J. Dalton, David M. Farrell and Ian McAllister. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 238pp., £55.00, ISBN 9780199599356 pp. 107-108

Sergiu Gherghina

Citizens, Context and Choice: How Context Shapes Citizens’ Electoral Choices by Russell J. Dalton and Christopher J. Anderson (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 288pp., £55.00. ISBN 9780199599233 pp. 107-107

Torgeir Krohn

Decentralization and Recentralization in the Developing World: Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America by J. Tyler Dickovick. University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2011. 213pp., £52.95, ISBN 9780271037905 pp. 108-109

Filipe Teles

Parliament and Congress: Representations and Scrutiny in the Twenty-First Century by William McKay and Charles W. Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 577pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 19 927362 1 pp. 109-109

Fiona Williams

Political Atlas of the Modern World: An Experiment in Multidimensional Statistical Analysis of the Political Systems of Modern States by Andrei Melville, Yuri Polunin, Mikhail Ilyin, Mikhail Mironyuk, Ivan Timofeev, Elena Meleshkina and Yan Vaslavskiy. Chichester: Blackwell, 2010. 256pp., £90.00, ISBN 978 1444335804 pp. 109-110

Dan Tamir

Labour Rights and Multinational Production by Layna Mosley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 287pp., £18.99, ISBN 978 0 521 69441 4 pp. 110-111

Jewellord T. Nem Singh

Ageing Populations in Post-industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politics by Pieter Vanhuysse and Achim Goerres (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 269pp., £75.00, ISBN 978 0 415 60382 9 pp. 111-111

Tim Meijers

Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship by Margaret Abraham, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Laura Martou-Alipranti and Evangelia Tastsoglou (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 212pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0 7546 7779 6 pp. 111-112

Gillian Hutchinson Perry

Stuart Hall and ‘Race’ by Claire Alexander (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 240pp., £85.00, ISBN 9780415613002 pp. 112-113

John Lowe

Handbook of Human Rights by Thomas Cushman (ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, 2011. 768pp., £125.00, ISBN 9780415480239 pp. 113-114

Vittorio Bufacchi

The Women's Movement: Inside and Outside the State by Lee Ann Banaszak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 247pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 0 521 13286 2 pp. 113-113

Victoria Boniface Makulilo

War and Rape: Law, Memory and Justice by Nicola Henry. London: Routledge, 2011. 167pp., £25.99, ISBN 9780415564731 pp. 114-115

Rasa Balockaite

Crack Capitalism by John Holloway. London: Pluto Press, 2010. 305pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 7453 3008 2 pp. 115-115

Uday Chandra

The Failure of Capitalist Production by Andrew Kliman. London: Pluto Press, 2011. 256pp., £17.99, ISBN 9780745332390 pp. 115-116

David J. Bailey

Women, Gender and Politics: A Reader by Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 349pp., £22.50, ISBN 9780195368819 pp. 116-116

Ana Gilling

Talking Politics by Bhikhu Parekh in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 129pp., £18.99, ISBN 9780198071549 pp. 116-117

Sarbeswar Sahoo

Why Politics Can't be Freed from Religion by Ivan Strenski. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 216pp., £20.99, ISBN 978 1 4051 7648 4 pp. 117-118

Senem Ertan

Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914–1991 by Willie Thompson. London: Pluto Press, 2011. 278pp., £19.99, ISBN 978 0745327112 pp. 118-118

Dan Tamir

Ecological Modernisation and Renewable Energy by David Toke. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 202pp., £55.00, ISBN 9780230224261 pp. 118-119

Geoffrey C. Chen

Television News, Politics and Young People: Generation Disconnected? by Mike Wayne, Julian Petley, Craig Murray and Lesley Henderson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 235pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 230 21935 9 pp. 119-120

Stuart Fox

Sport under Communism: Behind the East German ‘Miracle’ by Mike Dennis and Jonathan Grix. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 280pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0230227842 pp. 120-121

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Earth by Andrew C. Billings. Abingdon: Routledge, 2008. 184pp., £26.99, ISBN 978 0 415 77251 8 pp. 120-120

Hugh O'Donnell

The Olympics: A Critical Reader by Vassil Girginov (ed.). London: Routledge, 2010. 452pp., £35.00, ISBN 978 0 415 44536 8 pp. 121-122

Scarlett Cornelissen

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany by Kay Schiller and Christopher Young. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2010. 342pp., £16.95, ISBN 978 0 520 26215 7 pp. 122-123

Thomas M. Hunt

Terrorism and the Olympics: Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future by Anthony Richards, Pete Fussey and Andrew Silke (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 252pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0415499392 pp. 122-122

Michael Moran

Welfare Policy under New Labour: The Politics of Social Security Reform by Andrew Connell. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. 189pp., £56.00, ISBN 9781848853898 pp. 123-124

Andrew Scott Crines

The Making of British Socialism by Mark Bevir. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 350pp., £24.95, ISBN 9780691150833 pp. 123-123

James Hall

Britain and Europe: A Political History since 1918 by N. J. Crowson. Oxford: Routledge, 2011. 214pp., £25.99, ISBN 9780415400206 pp. 124-125

Christopher Prosser

The Ages of Voluntarism: How we Got to the Big Society by Matthew Hilton and James McKay (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 208pp., £14.99, ISBN 9780197264829 pp. 125-125

Anjelica Finnegan

Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness by Tariq Modood and John Salt (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 281pp., £55.00, ISBN 9780230296879 pp. 125-126

John Lowe

Irish Journalism before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession by Kevin Rafter (ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 240pp., £14.99, ISBN 9780719084522 pp. 126-126

Ian Miller

Parliamentary Socialisation: Learning the Ropes or Determining Behaviour by Michael Rush and Philip Giddings. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 266pp., £57.50, ISBN 9780230284890 pp. 127-127

Martin Ejnar Hansen

Plaid Cymru: An Ideological Analysis by Alan Sandry. Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2011. 226pp., £48.00, ISBN 9781860571169 pp. 127-128

David S. Moon

Managing Labour Migration in Europe: Ideas, Knowledge and Policy Change by Alex Balch. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. 230pp., £65.00, ISBN 978 0 7190 8072 2 pp. 128-129

Valasia Savvidou

Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge by Rob Atkinson, Georgios Terizakis and Karsten Zimmermann (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. 200pp., £75.00, ISBN 978 0 415 56289 8 pp. 128-128

Katrina Kelly

The European Union, Counter Terrorism and Police Co-operation, 1992–2007: Unsteady Foundations? by David Brown. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. 204pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 7190 7464 6 pp. 129-130

Andrew Whiting

Gender and the European Union by Johanna Kantola. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 270pp., £22.99, ISBN 978 0 230 54233 4 pp. 130-131

Petra Debusscher

The Second Tier of Local Government in Europe: Provinces, Counties, Départements and Landkreise in Comparison by Hubert Heinelt and Xavier Bertrana (eds). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 368pp., £80.00, ISBN 9780415602570 pp. 130-130

Filipe Teles

Labour Migration in Europe by Georg Menz and Alexander Caviedes (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 254pp., £55.00, ISBN 9978 0 230 27482 2 pp. 131-132

Kenneth Horvath

The Politics of Inequality in Russia by Thomas F. Remington. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 215pp., £19.99, ISBN 9781107422247 pp. 132-133

Neil Robinson

Widen the Market, Narrow the Competition: Banker Interests and the Making of a European Capital Market by Daniel Mügge. Colchester: ECPR Press, 2010. 187pp., £27.00, ISBN 9781907301087 pp. 132-132

Martin B. Carstensen

Mass Media and Modern Warfare: Reporting on the Russian War on Terrorism by Greg Simons. Ashgate: Farnham, 2010. 207pp., £55.00, ISBN 978 0 7546 7472 6 pp. 133-134

Yuliya Zabyelina

France, Social Capital and Political Activism by Francesca Vassallo. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 205pp., £57.50, ISBN 978 0 230 51800 1 pp. 134-134

Giampiero Lupo

Converging Europe: Transformation of Social Policy in the Enlarged European Union and in Turkey by İpek Eren Vural (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 274pp., £60.00, ISBN 9781409407096 pp. 134-135

Digdem Soyaltin

Russia's Authoritarian Elections by Stephen White (ed.). London: Routledge, 2011. 203pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 415 69671 5 pp. 135-136

Peter Shearman

Abortion Politics in Congress: Strategic Incrementalism and Policy Change by Scott H. Ainsworth and Thad E. Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 225pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 521 74004 3 pp. 136-137

Donald M. Gooch

The European Union and Democracy Promotion: A Critical Global Assessment by Richard Youngs (ed.). Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 206pp., £31.00, ISBN 9780801897320 pp. 136-136

Nihan Akincilar

Violent Democracies in Latin America by Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein (eds). Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 324pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 8223 4638 8 pp. 137-137

Peter S. Cruttenden

The Politics of Disgrace: The Role of Political Scandal in American Politics by Nancy E. Marion. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010. 206pp., £36.60, ISBN 978 1594605086 pp. 138-138

Marija Zurnic

Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement by Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2011. 154pp., £24.95, ISBN 9780896802803 pp. 138-139

Anaïd Flesken

Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States by William G. Roy. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 286pp., £24.95, ISBN 978 0 691 14363 7 pp. 139-140

Dana Sawchuk

US Civil–Military Relations after 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil–Military Bargain by Mackubin Thomas Owens. New York: Continuum, 2011. 211pp., £14.99, ISBN 9781441160836 pp. 139-139

Jana Jonasova

The Making of Northeast Asia by Kent Calder and Min Ye. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. 368pp., $24.95, ISBN 978 0 804 76922 8 pp. 140-141

Sebastian Maslow

The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia by Erik Martinez Kuhonta. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. 368pp., £42.95, ISBN 978 0804770835 pp. 141-141

Daniel Béland

From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China by Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee and Mary E. Gallagher (eds). Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 233pp., £24.95, ISBN 9780801450242 pp. 141-142

Jan-Erik Lane

Politics in India: Structure, Process and Policy by Subrata K. Mitra. Oxford: Routledge, 2011. 266pp., £22.99, ISBN 9780415585897 pp. 142-143

Sojin Shin

Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics by Sherry L. Martin. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 232pp., £26.50, ISBN 9780801449178 pp. 142-142

Akihiro Ogawa

Curtin's Empire: Australian Encounters by James Curran. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 176pp., £17.99, ISBN 978 0 521 14622 7 pp. 143-144

Ian Hall

Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest by Hamid Dabashi. London: Harvard University Press, 2011. 392pp., £22.95, ISBN 9780674049451 pp. 144-144

Alberto Gasparetto

Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front by Myriam Denov. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 234pp., £16.99, ISBN 978 0 521 69321 9 pp. 144-145

Kirsten J. Fisher

Israeli Statecraft: National Security Challenges and Responses by Yehezkel Dror. London: Routledge, 2011. 246pp., £85.00, ISBN 97804156166300 pp. 145-145

Robert Spain

A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1990: From Protest to Challenge (Vol. 6, 1980–1990) by Gail M. Gerhart and Clive L. Glaser. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2010. 778pp., £48.00, ISBN 9780253354228 pp. 145-146

Matthew Graham

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria by Benjamin Thomas White. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 231pp., £65.00, ISBN 9780748641871 pp. 147-147

Daniel Neep

War and Conflict in Africa by Paul D. Williams. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 306pp., £17.99, ISBN 9780745645452 pp. 147-148

Rasul Ahmed Minja