30 January, 2012
The Power of Invisibility
Suzanne Mettler's The Submerged State explores the hidden side of governmental intervention.
Category: World Politics
17 October, 2011
The Basket Case
Anatol Lieven's Pakistan: A Hard Country casts a knowledgeable and sympathetic eye over a troubled state.
International Deceit
John Mearsheimer's Why Leaders Lie attempts to account for the habit among politicians to lie to their constituents.
Under Eastern Eyes
Luke Harding's Mafia State takes on organized crime in Russia, finding a country still subject to its Cold War clichés.
25 July, 2011
The Monument and the Man
David James Smith's Young Mandela offers an intimate perspective on the formative years of the elder statesman.
16 May, 2011
Transparency Terrorist
Leigh and Harding draw on their close ties with WikiLeaks to analyse the personality and impact of Julian Assange.
Old Conflict in a New State
On the eve of independence from Khartoum, inter-community violence undermines the unity of South Sudan.
14 March, 2011
Baghdad Chassis
An exhibition of a car destroyed by a bomb in Baghdad provokes conversations about civilian suffering in war.
