Review Essays

Recently Received Books: Theory, Philosophy & History

 

Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories

Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories
by Charles Lemert

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 194pp.

Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag

Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
By Nicolas Werth

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Asia

Complex Political Victims

Complex Political Victims
By Erica Bouris

Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007. 211pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics

The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War

The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
By David Livingstone Smith

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. 263pp.

How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan

How We Missed the Story:
Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan

By Roy Gutman

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2008. 321pp.

* Cross-listed in Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism
& Regional: Asia

Democracy, Freedom and Coercion: A Law and Economic Approach

Democracy, Freedom and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach
Edited by Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. 276pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics
& Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights
&
Development, Democracy & Health

Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework

Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework
By David M. Estlund

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 309pp.

* Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money?

Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money?
By Bethany Barratt

New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. 239pp.

* Cross-listed in Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide

Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide
By Helen Fein

Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 279pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes, & Genocide

Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy

Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy
By Clair Apodaca

New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. 231pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & the West

The Future Almost Arrived: How Jimmy Carter Failed to Change U.S. Foreign Policy

The Future Almost Arrived: How Jimmy Carter
Failed to Change U.S. Foreign Policy

By Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh

New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2008. 373pp.

The Just War Myth: The Moral Illusions of War

The Just War Myth: The Moral Illusions of War
By Andrew Fiala

Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. 211pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes, & Genocide
& Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

Burden or Benefit?: Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies

Burden or Benefit?:
Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies

Edited by Helen Gilbert & Chris Tiffin

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 229pp.

*Cross-listed in Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

International Human Rights Law: Returning to Universal Principles

International Human Rights Law:
Returning to Universal Principles

By Mark Gibney

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2008. 149pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics

Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War

Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and
Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War

By David H. Price

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2008. 370pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & the West

Welfare, Right, and the State: A framework for thinking

Welfare, Right, and the State:
A framework for thinking

By David P. Levine

New York, NY: Routledge. 2008. 146pp.

Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory
of Reflective Judgment

By Maria Pia Lara

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2007. 230pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes, & Genocide

Reparations to Africa

Reparations to Africa
By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. 257pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics
& Regional: Africa

Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics

Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics
By Jennifer Lind

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2008. 242pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics

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