Book Reviews

The Sins of Our Fathers: A Review of "Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War: The Legal Cynicism of Criminal Militarism"

Elizabeth Trobaugh

/ May 26, 2016

John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser, and Anna Hansen, in Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War, paint the picture of exactly how a preventive war in Iraq could happen. From the disbanding of the Ottoman Empire...

Private Sector Potential: A Review of Natalie Ralph’s “Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries”

Madeline Vellturo

/ Jan 01, 2016

Natalie Ralph’s Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries presents an unprecedented approach to the rapidly emerging field of corporate peacemaking. Ralph explores the role extractive transnational...

A Hotter Cold War

Eloy H.S. Oliveira

/ Jan 01, 2016

In The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America’s Grasp, energy expert Marin Katusa explains how and why the U.S. is losing its hegemony in the energy market to Russia, and what...

Setting It Straight: Debunking Common Misperceptions of Oil and America’s Quest for Energy Independence

Michael J. Gibbons Jr.

/ Jan 01, 2016

With his new book Myths of the Oil Boom, Dr. Steve Yetiv builds upon his previous work, which is centered on energy security, U.S. foreign policy, and the Persian Gulf. Dr. Yetiv makes the argument...

Fossil Fuels: Manna from Heaven or Magma from Hell?

Syed Raza

/ Jan 01, 2016

Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil provokes a rethinking of the relations between the human and non-human world, democracy and fuel, reality and representation,...

America’s Soviet Sweetheart: The Life of the ‘Billion Dollar Spy’

Steven J. Murphy

/ Oct 26, 2015

Review of The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman. New York, Doubleday, 2015. 312 pp. $28.95 ISBN 978-0-385-53760-5 “I am a dissident at...