Book Notes
Since 1969, Journal of Peace Research (JPR) has published short Book Notes in addition to longer Review Essays. From 2014, the Book Notes have been published open access and online at PRIO’s website, with a link from the JPR page at our publisher’s site. They are indexed by Google and frequently downloaded. The Book Notes are published online shortly after they have been approved by the editor. Review Essays, which are published infrequently, remain as published articles in the print journal.
The basic rules for the Book Notes remain the same: The books should be relevant to the topics covered by the journal and preferably published in the same year or the year before. The reviewer should be competent in the field and should not be a colleague or a recent close collaborator of the author(s) or editor(s) of the book. The overall length of the Book Note, including a full bibliographic reference and the reviewer’s name and affiliation, should be no more than 300 words. For the format, see the published Book Notes at www.prio.org/jpr/BookNotes.
The editor of the column is Nils Petter Gleditsch. Potential contributors are invited to contact the editor at booknoteseditor@prio.org.
Book Notes
2023
- Review of Han Dorussen, ed. (2022) Handbook on Peacekeeping and International Relations, by Ross Fetterly. Published online 1 March 2023
- Review of Toby Rider & Andrew Owsiak (2022) On Dangerous Ground: A Theory of Bargaining, Border Settlement, and Rivalry, by Steven Beard. Published online 1 March 2023
- Review of Vegard Skirbekk (2022) Decline and Prosper! Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children, by Nico Keilman. Published online 1 March 2023
- Review of Frode Ringdal; Svein Mykkeltveit & Tormod Kværna (2022)
NORSAR and the Nuclear Test Ban, by Sverre Lodgaard. Published online 13 February 2023
- Review of Ursula Daxecker & Brandon Prins (2021) Pirate Lands: Governance and Maritime Piracy, by Edyta Roszko. Published online 13 February 2023
- Review of Surinder Mohan (2022)
Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, by Kaushik Roy. Published online 13 February 2023
- Review of Anna Arutunyan (2022)
Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow's Struggle for Ukraine, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 26 January 2023
- Review of Andrea Bartoletti (2022)
Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars, by William R Thompson. Published online 26 January 2023
- Review of Keir Giles (2023) Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 26 January 2023
- Review of Craig S Brown (2022)
Steve Wright: A Spy for Peace, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Lars-Erik Cederman; Simon Hug & Julian Wucherphennig (2022)
Sharing Power, Securing Peace? Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War, by Stephen E Gent. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Michael Coppedge; Amanda B Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen & Staffan I Lindberg, eds (2022)
Why Democracies Develop and Decline, by Michael K Miller. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Christopher J Coyne (2022) In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Stefan Döring (2022) Cooperation and Conflict amid Water Scarcity, by Päivi Lujala. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Chin-Hao Huang (2022) Power and Restraint in China's Rise, by John Mueller. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Martin Indyk (2021)
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Marc Owen Jones (2022)
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media, by Anita R Gohdes. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of John Mueller (2021)
The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Rohan Mukherjee (2022)
Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions, by Torbjørn L Knutsen. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Monika Nalepa (2022)
After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice & Democratic Stability, by Andreas Juon. Published online 2 January 2023
- Review of Sidney Tarrow (2022) Power in Movement, by Babak RezaeeDaryakenari. Published online 2 January 2023
2022
- Review of Christian Davenport & Benjamin Appel (2022)
The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination and Recurrence, by Daniel W Hill jr. Published online 24 November 2022
- Review of Banafsheh Keynoush (2022)
The World Powers and Iran: Before, During and After the Nuclear Deal, by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Published online 24 November 2022
- Review of Francesca Lessa (2022)
The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, by Emad A Ayasreh. Published online 24 November 2022
- Review of Ayşe Zarakol (2022)
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 24 November 2022
- Review of Nasir A Andisha (2021)
Neutrality and Vulnerable States: An Analysis of Afghanistan's Permanent Neutrality, by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Published online 5 October 2022
- Review of Hal Brands & Michael Beckley (2022) Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, by John Mueller. Published online 5 October 2022
- Review of Juan Cole (ed) (2022)
Peace Movements in Islam: History, Religion, and Politics, by Trond Bakkevig. Published online 5 October 2022
- Review of Robert C Johansen (2021) Where the Evidence Leads: A Realistic Strategy for Peace and Human Security, by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert. Published online 9 September 2022
- Review of Christopher Blattman (2022)
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, by Håvard Hegre. Published online 9 September 2022
- Review of David Kilcullen & Greg Mills (2021)
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan, by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Published online 9 September 2022
- Review of Michael R Gordon (2022) Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, by John Mueller. Published online 7 September 2022
- Review of Henry A Kissinger (2022)
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, by Torbjørn L Knutsen. Published online 17 August 2022
- Review of Mark Galeotti (2022)
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 16 August 2022
- Review of Alex Wellerstein (2021) Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, by Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer. Published online 16 August 2022
- Review of Steven O'Connor & Guillaume Piketty, eds (2021)
Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies: From Civil Conflict to Coalition Wars, 1848–2015, by Edoardo Corradi. Published online 16 August 2022
- Review of Laurence Saffer (2022)
Plumber, Lecturer, Pacifist, Spy (?): How Uncle Cyril Saved the World. Cyril Pustan 1929–1977, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 8 August 2022
- Review of Nicholas Mulder (2022) The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Modern Tool of War, by John Mueller. Published online 8 August 2022
- Review of Michael K Miller (2021)
Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization, by Eirin Haugseth. Published online 27 July 2022
- Review of Barbora Holá; Hollie Nyseth Brehm & Maartije Weerdesteijn, eds (2022) The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes, by Corinna Jentzsch. Published online 27 July 2022
- Review of Anthony A Tarr; Julie-Anne Tarr, Maurice Thompson & Jeffrey Ellis, eds (2022)
Drone Law and Policy Global Development, Risks, Regulation and Insurance, by Samar Abbas Nawaz. Published online 27 July 2022
- Review of Paul Brummell (2022)
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents, by Iver B Neumann. Published online 16 May 2022
- Review of Steve Feldstein (2021)
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance, by Espen Geelmuyden Rød. Published online 16 May 2022
- Review of Sophie Haspeslagh (2021)
Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 16 May 2022
- Review of Brett J Kyle & Andrew G Reiter (2021)
Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy: The Politics of Military Justice, by Claire Simmons. Published online 28 April 2022
- Review of Peou Sorpong (2022)
Peace and Security in Indo-Pacific Asia: IR Perspectives in Context, by Virak Prum. Published online 28 April 2022
- Review of Ladan Affi; Liv Tønnessen & Aili Mari Tripp, eds (2021)
Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, by Jenny Lorentzen. Published online 11 April 2022
- Review of Alexander B Downes (2021)
Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong, by James Lee Ray. Published online 11 April 2022
- Review of Haakon Gjerløw; Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tore Wig & Charles Wilson (2022)
One Road to Riches: How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development, by Michael Alvarez. Published online 11 April 2022
- Review of Manuel Vogt (2019)
Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States, by Laia Balcells. Published online 11 April 2022
- Review of Philip Dwyer & Mark Micale, eds (2021)
The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence, by Gordon Burt. Published online 1 March 2022
- Review of Richard Hanania (2022)
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 1 March 2022
- Review of Bruce D Jones (2021)
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 1 March 2022
- Review of Catherine Turner & Martin Wählisch (eds) (2021) Rethinking Peace Mediation: Challenges of Contemporary Peacemaking Practice, by Kristoffer Lidén. Published online 1 March 2022
- Review of Ida Rudolfsen (2021)
Fighting for Food? Investigating Food Insecurity as a Source of Urban Unrest, by Idean Salehyan. Published online 15 February 2022
- Review of Meghan A Stewart (2021)
Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War, by Pinar Tank. Published online 15 February 2022
- Review of Vittorio Emanuele Parsi (2021)
The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order, by Matthew Evangelista. Published online 4 February 2022
- Review of Steven Pinker (2021)
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, by Nils B Weidmann. Published online 4 February 2022
- Review of Paul Beaumont (2021)
Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense, by Christoph Laucht. Published online 4 February 2022
- Review of Martin J Levy (2021)
Ban the Bomb! Michael Randle and Direct Action against Nuclear War, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 11 January 2022
- Review of Fiona Hill (2021)
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunities in the 21st Century, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 11 January 2022
- Review of Barbara F Walter (2022) How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 11 January 2022
- Review of Anna Borshchevskaya (2022)
Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Alina Chan & Matt Ridley (2021)
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, by Stig S Frøland. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Jan Matti Dollbaum; Morvan Lallouet & Ben Noble (2021)
Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of David S Meyer (2021) How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter, by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Samuel Moyn (2021)
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, by Atsushi Tago
. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Shivaji Mukherjee (2021)
Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India, by Bethany Lacina. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Robert D Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett (2020)
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago, and How We Can Do It Again, by Henrik Syse. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Stent, Angela E (2019)
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 7 January 2022
- Review of Ayelet Harel-Shalev & Shir Daphna-Tekoah (2020)
Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat, by Bruno Oliveira Martins. Published online 5 January 2022
- Review of David Graeber & David Wengrow (2021)
The Dawn of Everything: A New Story of Humanity, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Published online 3 January 2022
- Review of Murshed, Syed Mansoob (2021) Essays on Civil War, Inequality and Underdevelopment, by Raul Caruso. Published online 3 January 2022
2021
- Review of Erica Chenoweth (2021) Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Maiyoraa Jeyabraba. Published online 26 November 2021
- Review of Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili & Ilia Murtazashvili (2021)
Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan, by Arne Strand. Published online 26 November 2021
- Review of Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (2020)
In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, by Enzo Nussio. Published online 29 October 2021
- Review of Colin Kahl & Thomas Wright (2021)
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 29 October 2021
- Review of Bertil Lintner (2021)
The Wa of Myanmar and China's Quest for Global Dominance, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 20 September 2021
- Review of Alaa Tartir; Tariq Dana & Timothy Seidel (eds) (2021) Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspectives, by Kjersti G Berg. Published online 20 September 2021
- Review of Carsten Wieland (2021) Syria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 20 September 2021
- Review of Barbara Elias (2020)
Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars, by Giuseppe Spatafora. Published online 23 August 2021
- Review of Ronald F Inglehart (2021)
Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing It, and What Comes Next?, by Paul Froese. Published online 23 August 2021
- Review of Peter J Rimmel (2020)
China's Global Vision and Actions, by Ilaria Carrozza. Published online 23 August 2021
- Review of Eve Zucker & Laura McGrew, eds (2020) Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence: Imagination, Empathy, and Resilience, by Inger Skjelsbæk. Published online 3 August 2021
- Review of Michael Brzoska & Jürgen Scheffran (eds) (2020)
Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts, by Nina von Uexkull. Published online 2 August 2021
- Review of Richard Falk (2021)
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, by Peter Wallensteen. Published online 2 August 2021
- Review of Mathilde Fasting ed., with Francis Fukuyama (2021)
After the End of History: Conversations with Francis Fukuyama, by Torbjørn L Knutsen. Published online 2 August 2021
- Review of Justin Schon (2021)
Surviving the War in Syria: Survival Strategies in a Time of Conflict, by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Published online 2 August 2021
- Review of Brian Daizen Victoria (2019)
Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin, by Gregory M Reichberg. Published online 2 August 2021
- Review of Francisco Villagrán de León (2021) Soberanía y no intervención: orígenes y evolución, by Matthew Evangelista. Published online 2 August 2021
- Review of Jannis Grimm; Kevin Koehler; Ellen M Lust; Ilyas Saliba & Isabell Schierenbeck (2020)
Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences, by Kaja Borchgrevink. Published online 29 June 2021
- Review of Janet I Lewis (2020)
How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond, by Haakon Gjerløw. Published online 29 June 2021
- Review of Tore Bjørgo & Miroslav Mareš (eds) (2019)
Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities, by Regina Bateson. Published online 16 June 2021
- Review of Daniela Huber (2021)
The International Dimension of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict: A Post-Eurocentric Approach, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 16 June 2021
- Review of Theodore McLauchlin (2020)
Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars, by Wendy Pearlman. Published online 16 June 2021
- Review of Claudio Corradetti (2020)
Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law: The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason, by Kristoffer Lidén. Published online 31 May 2021
- Review of Richard Ned Lebow (2020)
Ethics and International Relations: A Tragic Perspective, by Alex J Bellamy. Published online 31 May 2021
- Review of Caroline A Hartzell & Matthew Hoddie (2020)
Power Sharing and Democracy in Post-Civil War States: The Art of the Possible, by Anna Jarstad. Published online 29 April 2021
- Review of Gabriele Schwab (2020) Radioactive Ghosts, by Christoph Laucht. Published online 29 April 2021
- Review of Lisa Feldman Barrett (2020)
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, by Sebastian Schutte. Published online 16 April 2021
- Review of Kim Ghattas (2020)
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 16 April 2021
- Review of Paul Collier & John Kay (2020)
Greed is Dead: Politics after Individualism, by Ådne Cappelen. Published online 7 April 2021
- Review of Costantino Pischedda (2020)
Conflict Among Rebels: Why Insurgent Groups Fight Each Other, by Giuseppe Spatafora. Published online 7 April 2021
- Review of Daniel Trottier; Rashid Gabdulhakov & Qian Huang (2020)
Introducing Vigilant Audiences, by Tore Bjørgo. Published online 7 April 2021
- Review of Michael Coppedge et al. (2020)
Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change, by Michael Alvarez. Published online 7 April 2021
- Review of Erica De Bruin (2020)
How to Prevent Coups d'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival, by Jerg Gutmann. Published online 12 March 2021
- Review of Lisa Hultman; Jacob D Kathman & Megan Shannon (2019)
Peacekeeping in the Midst of War, by Kristin Lund. Published online 12 March 2021
- Review of Susan M Lindee (2020)
Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War, by Bruno Oliveira Martins. Published online 12 March 2021
- Review of Lorenz M Lüthi (2020)
Cold Wars: Asia, The Middle East, Europe, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 12 March 2021
- Review of Benjamin Miller, with Ziv Rubinovitz (2020)
Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump, by Torbjørn L Knutsen. Published online 12 March 2021
- Review of Anne Marie Baylouny (2020) When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon, by Sarah A Tobin. Published online 10 February 2021
- Review of Dov H Levin (2020)
Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions, by Bernt Aardal. Published online 10 February 2021
- Review of Graciela Chichilnisky & Armon Rezai, eds. (2020)
Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, by Asbjørn Torvanger. Published online 28 January 2021
- Review of Donatella della Porta & Mario Diani (2020)
Social Movements: An Introduction, by Bintu Zahara Sakor. Published online 28 January 2021
- Review of Michael Dumper (2020)
Power, Piety, and People: The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century, by Trond Bakkevig. Published online 28 January 2021
- Review of Julius Hess (2019) Leviathan Staggering: A Quantitative Analysis of the State's Coercive Capacity and Intrastate Violence, by Peder Landsverk. Published online 28 January 2021
- Review of Guillermo Trejo & Sandra Ley (2020)
Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico, by Mauricio Rivera. Published online 28 January 2021
- Review of Michael J Boyle (2020)
The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace, by Luqman Saeed. Published online 12 January 2021
- Review of Mathew C Klein & Michael Pettis (2020)
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, by Luqman Saeed. Published online 12 January 2021
- Review of Wolfram Lacher (2020) Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by Emadeddin Badi. Published online 12 January 2021
- Review of A S Bhalla (2019)
Asia's Trouble Spots: The Leadership Question in Conflict Resolution, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 8 January 2021
- Review of Mikhail Suslov (2020)
Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 8 January 2021
- Review of Laurence Lustgarten (2020)
Law and the Arms Trade: Weapons, Blood and Rules, by Nicholas Marsh. Published online 4 January 2021
- Review of Laurence Broers & Anna Ohanyan, eds. (2020)
Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World, by Shaazka Beyerle. Published online 4 January 2021
- Review of Chad M Bauman (2020) Anti-Christian Violence in India, by Dag-Erik Berg. Published online 4 January 2021
2020
- Review of Peter Furtado, ed. (2020)
Revolutions: How They Changed History and What They Mean Today, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 17 December 2020
- Review of Kristina Spohr (2020)
Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 17 December 2020
- Review of Rutger Bregman (2020)
Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Paul F Diehl. Published online 13 November 2020
- Review of David G Lewis (2020) Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 13 November 2020
- Review of Daniel C Mattingly (2020)
The Art of Political Control in China, by Espen Geelmuyden Rød. Published online 21 October 2020
- Review of Sarah Birch (2020)
Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political Order, by Sirianne Dahlum. Published online 21 October 2020
- Review of Brendan Rittenhouse Green (2020)
The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control and the Cold War, by Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer. Published online 21 October 2020
- Review of Michael A Cohen & Micah Zenko (2019)
Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 7 October 2020
- Review of Nicolas Lemay-Hébert (2019)
Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding, by Kristoffer Lidén. Published online 7 October 2020
- Review of Noah Feldman (2020)
The Arab Winter: A Tragedy, by Jon Nordenson. Published online 7 October 2020
- Review of Jonathan Fox (2020)
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me: Why Governments Discriminate Against Religious Minorities, by Richard Traunmüller. Published online 14 September 2020
- Review of Rosemary A. Kelanic (2020)
Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics, by Lala Muradova. Published online 14 September 2020
- Review of Rashid Khalidi (2020)
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 1 September 2020
- Review of Romain Malejacq (2019)
Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan, by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Published online 1 September 2020
- Review of Michael Mandelbaum (2019)
The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 1 September 2020
- Review of Michael Shellenberger (2020)
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, by Jon Naustdalslid. Published online 1 September 2020
- Review of David Stasavage (2020)
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today, by Tore Wig. Published online 13 August 2020
- Review of Andrei Kozyrev (2019)
The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy, by Matthew Evangelista. Published online 13 August 2020
- Review of Emilia Justyna Powell (2020) Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes, by Karen J Alter. Published online 10 August 2020
- Review of Miriam F Elman; Catherine Gerard; Galia Golan & Louis Kriesberg (2019)
Overcoming Intractable Conflicts: New Approaches to Constructive Transformations, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 10 August 2020
- Review of Luigi Caranti (2017) Kant's Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress, by Kristoffer Lidén. Published online 10 August 2020
- Review of Jason Lyall (2020)
Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War, by Dan Reiter. Published online 6 July 2020
- Review of Antony Dapiran (2020) City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 2 July 2020
- Review of Ziv Bohrer; Janina Dill & Helen Duffy (2020) Law Applicable to Armed Conflict, by Matthew Evangelista. Published online 16 June 2020
- Review of Zeev Maoz & Errol A Henderson (2020)
Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era, by Matthias Basedau. Published online 28 April 2020
- Review of Tareq Baconi (2018)
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 20 March 2020
- Review of Frank Dikötter (2019)
How To Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century, by Carl Henrik Knutsen. Published online 14 February 2020
- Review of Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (2020)
Quagmire in Civil War, by Giuseppe Spatafora. Published online 14 February 2020
- Review of Bjørn Lomborg, ed. (2018) Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 14 February 2020
- Review of Yelena Biberman (2020) Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India, by Åshild Kolås. Published online 14 February 2020
- Review of Sanjib Baruah (2020)
In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast, by Åshild Kolås. Published online 14 February 2020
- Review of William B Bonvillian; Richard van Atta & Patrick Windham, eds. (2019) The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies, by Ingvar Botnen. Published online 14 February 2020
- Review of Paul D'Anieri (2019)
Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 13 February 2020
- Review of Amy Kaplan (2018)
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 21 January 2020
- Review of Nils B Weidmann & Espen Geelmuyden Rød (2019)
The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies, by Steve Pickering. Published online 21 January 2020
- Review of Yvette Selim (2019)
Transitional Justice in Nepal: Interests, Victims and Agency, by Julie Jarland. Published online 21 January 2020
- Review of Lise Morjé Howard (2019) Power in Peacekeeping, by Andrea Ruggeri. Published online 2 January 2020
- Review of Ahmet T Kuru (2019)
Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, by Therese Sefton. Published online 2 January 2020
- Review of Geir Lundestad (2019)
The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 2 January 2020
- Review of Michael E O'Hanlon (2019)
The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War over Small Stakes, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 2 January 2020
2019
- Review of Paul Collier (2018)
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties, by Indra de Soysa. Published online 6 December 2019
- Review of Wilhelm Verwoerd (2019)
Verwoerd: My Journey Through Family Betrayals, by David Mitchell. Published online 6 December 2019
- Review of Asle Toje & Bård Nikolas Vik Steen, eds (2019) The Causes of Peace: What We Know Now, by Stijn van Weezel. Published online 25 November 2019
- Review of Bear F Braumoeller (2019)
Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age, by Michael Spagat. Published online 25 November 2019
- Review of Alan Gamlen (2019)
Human Geopolitics: States, Emigrants, and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions, by Cathrine Talleraas. Published online 31 October 2019
- Review of Adam Przeworski (2019)
Crises of Democracy, by Carl Henrik Knutsen. Published online 31 October 2019
- Review of Pippa Norris & Ronald Inglehart (2019)
Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism, by Tore Wig. Published online 7 October 2019
- Review of Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley & David Quinn, eds (2019)
Research Handbook on Mediating International Crises, by Kaisa Hinkkainen Elliott. Published online 7 October 2019
- Review of Alex J Bellamy(2019)
World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It), by Erik Melander. Published online 7 October 2019
- Review of Seán Molloy (2017)
Kant's International Relations: The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace, by Gregory M Reichberg. Published online 13 September 2019
- Review of Khaled Elgindy (2019)
Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 13 September 2019
- Review of Samuel A Greene & Graeme B Robertson (2019)
Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 5 September 2019
- Review of Samy Cohen (2019) Doves Among Hawks: Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements, by Hanne Eggen Røislien. Published online 5 September 2019
- Review of Jørgen Jensehaugen (2018)
Arab-Israeli Diplomacy under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians, by Ellen Jenny Ravndal. Published online 20 August 2019
- Review of Vera Mironova (2019)
From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists: Human Resources of Non-State Armed Groups, by Edoardo Corradi. Published online 15 August 2019
- Review of Tanisha M Fazal (2018)
Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict, by Livia Isabella Schubiger. Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann (2019)
In Defense of Universal Human Rights, by Andrew Thompson. Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Peter Krause (2017)
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win , by Sebastian Schutte. Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Mariya Y Omelicheva & Lawrence P Markowitz (2019)
Webs of Corruption: Trafficking and Terrorism in Central Asia, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Parag Khanna (2019)
The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Culture, and Conflict in the 21st Century, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Adèle Garnier; Liliana Lyra Jubilut & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2018)
Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance, by Natalie Welfens . Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Kathryn Sikkink (2017)
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, by Rebecca Cordell. Published online 5 August 2019
- Review of Pamina Firchow (2018)
Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War, by Han Dorussen. Published online 12 June 2019
- Review of Scott M Moore (2018)
Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins, by Ashok Swain. Published online 12 June 2019
- Review of Timo Kivimäki (2019)
The Failure to Protect: The Path to and Consequences of Humanitarian Interventionism, by Alex J Bellamy. Published online 11 June 2019
- Review of Patrick Milton; Michael Axworthy & Brendan Simms (2018)
Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 11 June 2019
- Review of Michael J Montesano; Terence Chong & Mark Heng, eds. (2018) After the Coup: The National Council for Peace and Order Era and the Future of Thailand, by Marte Nilsen. Published online 11 June 2019
- Review of Richard SJ Tol (2019)
Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy, by Vally Koubi. Published online 11 June 2019
- Review of John Vasquez (2018)
Contagion and War: Lessons from the First World War, by Scott Wolford. Published online 11 June 2019
- Review of Alaa Tartir & Timothy Seidel, eds. (2019)
Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 18 May 2019
- Review of Anna Ohanyan, ed. (2018)
Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 18 May 2019
- Review of Max Abrahms (2018)
Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History, by Michael Becker. Published online 16 April 2019
- Review of Katharine Fortin (2017)
The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law, by Akihiro Yamaguchi. Published online 16 April 2019
- Review of Alison Brysk & Michael Stohl, eds. (2019)
Contesting Human Rights: Norms, Institutions, and Practice, by Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann. Published online 26 March 2019
- Review of Priscilla Hayner (2018)
The Peacemaker's Paradox: Pursuing Justice in the Shadow of Conflict, by Christoph Steinert. Published online 26 March 2019
- Review of Enamul Choundhury & Shafiquul Islam, eds. (2018)
Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts: Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions, by Ariel Dinar. Published online 26 March 2019
- Review of Sondre Lindahl (2019)
A Critical Theory of Counterterrorism: Ontology, Epistemology and Normativity, by Sara M T Polo. Published online 27 February 2019
- Review of Stephen M Walt (2018)
The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of US Primacy, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 27 February 2019
- Review of Salla Huikuri (2019)
The Institutionalization of the International Criminal Court, by Timo Kivimäki. Published online 27 February 2019
- Review of Duncan French & Louis J Kotzé, eds. (2018)
Sustainable Development Goals: Law, Theory and Implementation, by Håvard Mokleiv Nygård. Published online 6 February 2019
- Review of Justin Vaïsse (2018)
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America's Grand Strategist, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 6 February 2019
- Review of David A Backer; Ravi Bhavnani & Paul K Huth (2018)
Peace and Conflict 2017, by Jonathan Pinckney. Published online 6 February 2019
- Review of Siniša Malešević (2017)
The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence, by Matthew Evangelista. Published online 7 January 2019
- Review of Øystein Tunsjø (2018)
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 7 January 2019
2018
- Review of Oliver Kaplan (2017) Resisting War. How Communities Protect Themselves, by Helga Malmin Binningsbø. Published online 28 November 2018
- Review of David Thompson (2018)
The Returned: They Left to Wage Jihad, Now They're Back, by Richard Gehrmann. Published online 28 November 2018
- Review of Seth Anziska (2018)
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 28 November 2018
- Review of Olivier Roy (2017)
Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State, by Thomas Hegghammer. Published online 28 November 2018
- Review of Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund (2018)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World – and Why Things Are Better than You Think, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 8 November 2018
- Review of Christian Davenport; Erik Melander & Patrick M Regan (2018) The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study It, by Alexandru Balas. Published online 6 November 2018
- Review of Larry Hancock (2018) Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare from Truman to Putin, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 6 November 2018
- Review of Natalie Koch (2018) The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 6 November 2018
- Review of Hannes Černy (2017)
Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict, by Scott N Romaniuk. Published online 11 September 2018
- Review of Yasha Mounk (2018)
The People vs. Democracy, by Tore Wig. Published online 11 September 2018
- Review of Abbey Steele (2017)
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War, by Kerstin Fisk. Published online 11 September 2018
- Review of Le Hong Hiep & Anton Tsvetov, eds. (2018)
Vietnam's Foreign Policy under Doi Moi, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 11 September 2018
- Review of Gordon Burt (2018)
Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2017, by Peter Abell. Published online 2 August 2018
- Review of Brian D Taylor (2018)
The Code of Putinism, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 2 August 2018
- Review of Daniel Ellsberg (2017)
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 9 July 2018
- Review of Philippe Sands (2016)
East West Street, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 9 July 2018
- Review of Aila M Matanock (2017) Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 18 June 2018
- Review of Philip Roessler (2016) Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa, by Cullen Hendrix. Published online 5 June 2018
- Review of Evgeny Finkel (2017)
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, by Drew Stommes. Published online 5 June 2018
- Review of Benjamin Lessing (2017) Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America, by Therése Pettersson. Published online 7 May 2018
- Review of Romina Gurashi & Neno Gabelia (2017) A Federal Perspective on the Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict: From Intractability to Pacification, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 7 May 2018
- Review of Ho-Won Jeong (2016) International Negotiation: Process and Strategies, by Thomas G Matyók. Published online 7 May 2018
- Review of Walter Scheidel (2017) The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, by Rolf Aaberge. Published online 23 April 2018
- Review of Helge Blakkisrud & Elana Wilson Rowe (eds) (2018) Russia's Turn to the East: Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 23 April 2018
- Review of Steven Pinker (2018)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, by Tore Wig. Published online 23 April 2018
- Review of Topher L McDougal (2017) The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict, by Andreas Forø Tollefsen. Published online 23 April 2018
- Review of Claudio Giulio Anta (2017)
Albert Einstein: The Roads to Pacifism, by Henrik Syse. Published online 23 April 2018
- Review of Michael McFaul (2018) From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador to Putin's Russia, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 19 March 2018
- Review of Burak Bilgehan Ozpek (2017) The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds: Anatomy of a Failure, by Bahar Baser. Published online 19 March 2018
- Review of Laia Balcells (2017) Rivalry and Revenge: The Politics of Violence during Civil War, by Daniel Krcmaric. Published online 19 March 2018
- Review of Evelin Lindner (2017) Honor, Humiliation, & Terror: An Explosive Mix - And How We Can Defuse It With Dignity, by Bonnie Selterman. Published online 19 March 2018
- Review of Dimitar Bechev (2017) Rival Power: Russia’s Influence in Southeast Europe, by Pavel Baev. Published online 13 February 2018
- Review of Nathan Thrall (2017)
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 13 February 2018
- Review of David Kang (2017)
American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century, by Jiakun Jack Zhang. Published online 17 January 2018
- Review of Erica Benner (2017)
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 9 January 2018
- Review of Florian Zollmann (2017)
Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention, by Greg Simons. Published online 9 January 2018
- Review of Laura Neack (2017)
National, International, and Human Security: A Comparative Introduction, by Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv. Published online 9 January 2018
2017
- Review of Kemal Kirişci (2017) Turkey and the West: Fault Lines in a Troubled Alliance, by Pavel Baev. Published online 6 December 2017
- Review of Azar Gat (2017) The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?, by Joshua S Goldstein. Published online 6 December 2017
- Review of Michael G Ignatieff (2017) The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 27 November 2017
- Review of Anne Stenersen (2017) Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, by Kristian B Harpviken. Published online 27 November 2017
- Review of Shireen T Hunter (ed.) (2017) The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus: Prospects for Regional Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 9 November 2017
- Review of Bethany Lacina (2017) Rival Claims: Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism, by Erika Forsberg. Published online 4 October 2017
- Review of Morten Bergsmo; Klaus Rackwitz & Song Tianying (eds) (2017) Historical Origins of International Criminal Law, volume 5, by William H Wiley. Published online 4 October 2017
- Review of Claus Kreß & Stefan Barriga (eds) (2017) The Crime of Aggression: A Commentary, vols 1, 2, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 2 October 2017
- Review of M Cherif Bassiouni (2017) Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and Its Aftermath: 2011–2016, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 2 October 2017
- Review of Kei Koga (2017) Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa: Power Shifts, Ideas, and Institutional Change, by Timo Kivimäki. Published online 11 September 2017
- Review of Pamela E Pennock (2017) The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 11 September 2017
- Review of Bobo Lo (2017) A Wary Embrace, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 11 September 2017
- Review of Thomas Hegghammer (ed.) (2017) Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists, by Stathis N Kalyvas. Published online 11 September 2017
- Review of Birgit Bräuchler (2015) The Cultural Dimension of Peace: Decentralization and Reconciliation in Indonesia, by Victoria Kumala Sakti. Published online 17 August 2017
- Review of Tom Woodhouse; Hugh Miall; Oliver Ramsbottom & Christopher Mitchell, eds. (2015) The Contemporary Conflict Resolution Reader, by Kai Chen. Published online 17 July 2017
- Review of William Norris (2016) Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control, by Jiakun Jack Zhang. Published online 29 June 2017
- Review of Bruce J Dickson (2016) The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 9 June 2017
- Review of Fiona Hill & Clifford G Gaddy (2015) Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, by Ion Marandici. Published online 9 June 2017
- Review of Alexander Betts & Paul Collier (2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System, by Jørgen Carling. Published online 5 May 2017
- Review of Michael Stohl; Mark I Lichbach & Peter Nils Grabosky, eds, (2017) States and Peoples in Conflict: Transformations of Conflict Studies, by Jóhanna K Birnir. Published online 5 May 2017
- Review of Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind & Yuval Noah Harari (2016)
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 24 April 2017
- Review of Osamah F Khalil (2016) America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 24 April 2017
- Review of Elin Bjarnegård & Joakim Kreutz, eds, (2017) Debating the East Asian Peace, by Jiakun Jack Zhang. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Steve Pickering (2017) Understanding Geography and War, by Paul F Diehl. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Brandon Valeriano & Ryan C Maness (2015) Cyber War Versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System, by Hanne Eggen Røislien. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Joas Wagemakers (2016) Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community, by Petter Nesser. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Frank Dikötter (2016) The Cultural Revolution. A People's History 1962–1976, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 3 April 2017
- Review of Elieh Podeh (2015) Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 3 April 2017
- Review of Stein Tønnesson (2017) Explaining the East Asian Peace: A Research Story, by Steve Chan. Published online 3 April 2017
- Review of Maybritt Jill Alpes (2017)
Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at Any Cost, by Heidi Østbø Haugen. Published online 20 March 2017
- Review of Timo Kivimäki (2016) Paradigms of Peace: A Pragmatist Introduction to the Contribution to Peace of Paradigms of Social Science, by Judith Large. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann (2016)
State Food Crimes, by Ida Rudolfsen. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Shlomi Dinar & Ariel Dinar (2016) International Water Scarcity and Variability, by Andrea K Gerlak. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Dara Kay Cohen (2016) Rape During Civil War, by Christopher K. Butler. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Maria Koinova (2013) Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States: Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo, by Anna Batta. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Macartan Humphreys (2016) Political Games: Mathematical Insights on Fighting, Voting, Lying & Other Affairs of State, by Han Dorussen. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Emil J Kirchner; Thomas Christiansen & Han Dorussen, eds, (2016) Security Relations between China and the European Union, by Joakim Kreutz. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Nick Cheeseman & Nicholas Farrelly, eds, (2016)
Conflict in Myanmar: War, Politics, Religion, by Marte Nilsen. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Rajan Menon & Eugene Rumer (2015) Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 5 January 2017
2016
- Review of Salim Yaqub (2016)
Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and US-Middle East Relations in the 1970s, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 20 December 2016
- Review of Derek Chollet (2016) The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 17 October 2016
- Review of Karl DeRouen Jr (2015) An Introduction to Civil Wars, by Patrick M Regan. Published online 29 September 2016
- Review of Robert Legvold (2016) Return to Cold War, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 2 September 2016
- Review of Gary Goertz; Paul F Diehl & Alexandru Balas (2016)
The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 29 August 2016
- Review of David T Mason & Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, eds, (2016) What Do We Know about Civil Wars?, by Kristin M Bakke. Published online 24 August 2016
- Review of John Quigley (2016) The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 23 August 2016
- Review of Roy Behnke & Michael Mortimore (eds) (2016) The End of Desertification?, by Ole Magnus Theisen. Published online 22 August 2016
- Review of Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2016) Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change, by Thomas Bernauer. Published online 18 August 2016
- Review of David Shambaugh (2016) China's Future, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 25 July 2016
- Review of Kristin Bakke (2015) Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles: Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec, by Edward C Holland. Published online 20 July 2016
- Review of Richard Shirreff (2016) 2017 War with Russia: An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 20 July 2016
- Review of Ewan Harrison & Sara McLaughlin Mitchell (2014)
The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 7 June 2016
- Review of Piki Ish-Shalom (2013) Democratic Peace. A Political Biography, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 7 June 2016
- Review of Peter Wallensteen (2015) Understanding Conflict Resolution, by Charles Butcher. Published online 6 June 2016
- Review of Robert D Blackwill & Jennifer M Harris (2016) War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 18 May 2016
- Review of Mark Engler & Paul Engler (2016) This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century, by Pauline Moore. Published online 22 March 2016
- Review of Daniel Strieff (2015)
Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: The Politics of Presidential Diplomacy, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 18 February 2016
- Review of Andrea Carcano (2015) The Transformation of Occupied Territory in International Law, by Matthew Saul. Published online 17 February 2016
- Review of Anthony B Atkinson (2015) Inequality: What can be done?, by Gudrun Østby. Published online 16 February 2016
- Review of Colin Shindler (2015) The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 9 February 2016
- Review of Alex De Waal (2015) The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power, by Allard Duursma. Published online 9 February 2016
- Review of Ryan D Maness & Brandon Valeriano (2015) Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber, and Maritime Policy as New Sources of Power, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 4 January 2016
- Review of Carles Boix (2015) Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences for Human Welfare, by Carl Henrik Knutsen. Published online 4 January 2016
2015
- Review of Mark Salter (2015)
To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka, by Anne Julie Semb. Published online 10 December 2015
- Review of David Cadier & Margot Light (eds.) (2015)
Russia's Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 26 November 2015
- Review of Frank Dikötter (2013) The Tragedy of Liberation. A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 29 October 2015
- Review of Louisa Lim (2014) The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, by Caitlin McCulloch. Published online 21 October 2015
- Review of April Carter; Howard Clark & Michael Randle (eds.) (2013, 2015) A Guide to Civil Resistance, by Brian Martin. Published online 21 October 2015
- Review of Chanaka Talpahewa (2015)
Peaceful Intervention in Intra-State Conflicts: Norwegian Involvement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process, by Indra de Soysa. Published online 25 September 2015
- Review of Harvey Starr (ed.) (2015)
Bruce M Russett: Pioneer in the Scientific and Normative Study of War, Peace and Policy, by Peter Wallensteen. Published online 31 July 2015
- Review of Brian Martin (2015)
Nonviolence Unbound, by Jonathan Pinckney. Published online 31 July 2015
- Review of Mary Elizabeth King (2015) Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India: The Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change, by April Carter. Published online 31 July 2015
- Review of Galia Golan (2015) Israeli Peacemaking since 1967: Factors behind the Breakthroughs and Failures, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 12 May 2015
- Review of Thomas Piketty (2013) Capital in the Twenty-first Century, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 30 April 2015
- Review of Michael P Colaresi (2014) Democracy Declassified: The Secrecy Dilemma in National Security, by Helga Hernes. Published online 29 April 2015
- Review of Daniel E Zoughbie (2014) Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 13 March 2015
- Review of Lars-Erik Cederman; Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Halvard Buhaug (2013) Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War, by Erin K Jenne. Published online 9 February 2015
- Review of Edward Newman (2014)
Understanding Civil Wars: Continuity and Change in Intrastate Conflict, by Meredith Reid Sarkees. Published online 5 January 2015
2014
- Review of Peou Sorpong (2014) Human Security Studies: Theories, Methods, and Themes, by Virak Prum. Published online 13 November 2014
- Review of John McHugo (2014) Syria: From the Great War to Civil War, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Joel S Migdal (2014) Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Ian Morris (2014)
War: What Is It Good For?, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Keith Lowe (2012)
Savage Continent. Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of John B Judis (2014) Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Our Harsh Logic (2012) Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories 2000–2010, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 19 June 2014
- Review of Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv; Dawn R. Bazley, Marina Goloviznina & Andrew J. Tanentzap, eds (2014) Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic, by Pavel Baev. Published online 9 April 2014
- Review of Johan Galtung & Dietrich Fischer (2013) Johan Galtung, Pioneer of Peace Research, by Hans-Henrik Holm. Published online 9 April 2014
- Review of David Shambaugh (2013) China Goes Global: The Partial Power, by Timo Kivimäki. Published online 9 April 2014
- Review of Ping Yi (2013) Sensou to heiwa no aida [Between War and Peace], by Hitomi Takemura. Published online 9 April 2014
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