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Volume XI

VOLUME I _______________________________________________________________________ October 2011
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Articles

Witness and Testimonies: A Diachronic Perspective on the History of the Bosnian Muslims
Rusmir Mahmutćehajić
3
The Morality of Humanitarian Interventions
Per Bauhn
23

Book Reviews

Jean-Pierre Chretién and Richard Banégas (eds) The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis: Identity, Violence and Power
Catherine Bolten
43
Edith Clowes Russia on the Edge
Thomas Ambrosio
49
Simon Dalby Security and Environmental Change
Len Broberg
55
David J. Gauthier Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling
Joseph Bien
59
Paul Gilroy Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
Shiera S. el-Malik
63
Jeffrey S. Juris Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Jackie Smith
67
Mark Malloch-Brown The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Pursuit of a New International Politics
Robert Weiner
73
Robert Meister After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights
Debra L. DeLaet
79
M. Jay Stottman Archaeologists as Activists
Curtis Hutt
85
Jan Teorell Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972-2006
Joseph Derdzinski
93
Howard J. Wiarda Latin American Politics and Development
Paul C. Sondro
97
Slavoj Žižek First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Edward Sankowski
101


VOLUME II _______________________________________________________________________ October 2012
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Articles

Images of Muslims in Evangelical Christian and Secular Right-Wing Discourse
Kristian Steiner
3
Pilgrimage in Turbulent Contexts: One Hundred Years of Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Curtis Hutt
34

Discussion

How to Arrive at a Judeo-Christian-Islamic Culture and Civilization
Enes Karić
65

Review Essays

When Is It Best to Remember? Maintaining the Sacred Center: The Bosnian City of Stolac
Ed Marques
74
Living Beyond the End Times
Edward Sankowski and Betty J. Harris

89

Book Reviews

Marwan Bishara The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution
Daniel G. Acheson-Brown
104
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
Leonard Harris
108
Rusmir Mahmutćehajić Hval i Djeva [The Praised and the Virgin]: Tom I: Vječnost u vjesničkim otkrivanjima [Vol. I: Eternity in Prophetic Revelation], Tom II: O trajanju i prekidu [Vol. II: On Continuity and Discontinuity], Tom III: Sabiranje rasutog [Vol. III: Reuniting the Scattered]
Desmond Maurer
112
Rusmir Mahmutćehajić Malo znanja. O drugome u muslimanskim vidicima [See English translation below]
Mile Babić
126
Rusmir Mahmutćehajić On the Other: A Muslim View [See Bosnian above]
Mile Babić
132
Arthur A. Natella International Relations in the Post-Industrial Era [Rephrasing the Third World]
Owen Mordaunt
138
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Annika Hughes
142
George Ritzer and Zeynep Atalay (eds) Readings in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates
Paul C. Sondrol
147
Quinn Slobodian Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Bruce Garver
150



VOLUME III ______________________________________________________________________ October 2013
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Articles

The Duty to Rescue and the Duty to Aid the Starving
Per Bauhn
4
War and Peace Theology in German and Swedish Christian Zionism
Kristian Steiner
38
Is Multiculturalism Good for Children? The Rights of the Child and Multiculturalist Policies in Sweden
Pernilla Ouis, Göran Adamson, Aje Carlbom
77

Review Essays

Jerusalem Obscured
Curtis Hutt
94
Sites of Contestation: What Apology Debates Tell Us about International Relations
Elizabeth S. Dahl
116
The Transgressive Allure of White Gold in Peruvian Amazonia: Towards a Genealogy of Coca Capitalisms and Social Dread
Bartholomew Dean
150

Book Reviews

Judith Armatta Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
Sabrina P. Ramet
168
Wesley Bernardini Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity
Brady DeSanti
170
Gabriella Blum and Philip B. Heymann Laws, Outlaws and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism
Malin Isaksson
174
John Calvert Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
Ramazan Kılınç
179
Ha-Joon Chang Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
Seb Bytyçi
183
Phillip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Brooker, and George Denton The Fate of Greenland—Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Ólafur Ingólfsson
187
Naisargi N. Dave Queer Activisim in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Rahul Rao
191
Jack Donnelly International Human Rights, 4th ed.
Eric A. Heinze
198
Elisabeth Ellis (ed) Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications
Alice Pinheiro Walla
202
Timothy Fuller (ed) Michael Oakeshott: Religion, Politics and the Moral Life
Noël K. O’Sullivan
208
Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khasnabish (eds) Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political
Julie A. Pelton
214
Sarah E. Kreps Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions after the Cold War
Jeffrey A. Griffin
219
Christina Luke and Morgan M. Kersel U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage
Nicholas J. Cull
223
Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan Vanantwerpen The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Robin Alice Roth
228
Paul Mojzes Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century
Marko A. Hoare
231
Jørgen S. Nielsen (ed) Islam in Denmark: The Challenge of Diversity
Aje Carlbom
236
Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
Sunil K. Sahu
242
Karen E. Smith Genocide and the Europeans
Kate Ferguson
248
Jürg Steiner The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy: Empirical Research and Normative Implications
Lauren Johnston
254
Paul W. Taylor Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics
Edward Abplanalp
260
Philippe Van Parijs Just Democracy: The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme
Joseph Bien
267


VOLUME IV __________________________________________________________________ November 2014
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Review Essay

Žižek’s Hegel
Gavin Hyman
4

Book Reviews

William H. F. Altman Martin Heidegger and the First World War
David A. White
16
William E. Connolly A World of Becoming
Stanimir Panayotov
24
David Epstein The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
Dave Ogden
29
Alex Golub Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea
Jerry K. Jacka
33
Chan Master Guo Jun Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen
Owen G. Mordaunt
37
Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepahn, eds. Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Renat Shaykhutdinov
42
Samuel McCormick Letters to Power: Public Advocacy without Public Intellectuals
Russell Jacoby
46
Sally Engle Merry Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice
Pattaka Sa-ngminet
51
Sari Nusseibeh What is a Palestinian State Worth?
Paul Kriese
56
Jonathan Rauch KINDLY INQUISITORS: The New Attack on Free Thought
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
58
Shlomo Sand The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth
Abdelwahab Hiba Hechiche
63
Bron Taylor, ed. Avatar and Nature Spirituality
Martin Schönfeld
69


VOLUME V __________________________________________________________________ November 2015
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Article

The Battle for Jerusalem: Marcel Dubois' Challenge to Roman Catholics, Israeli Jews, and Christian Zionists
Curtis Hutt
4

Discussion

Majority Rule: A Dysfunctional Polity Consensus: An Inclusive Democracy
Peter Emerson
26

Review Essays

Sloterdijk
Pieter Lemmens
49
Wittgenstein
David A. White
63

Book Reviews

Tom Bailey and Valentina Gentile (eds) Rawls and Religion
Pietro Maffettone
80
Allen Buchanan The Heart of Human Rights
Brian Kin Ting Ho
84
Joanna Crow The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History
Ramón J. Guerra
97
Michael W. Doyle The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill & the Responsibility to Protect
Timothy Mawe
102
Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris (eds) Truth and Democracy
Yann Allard-Tremblay
105
Stephen Elstub and Peter McLaverty (eds) Deliberative Democracy: Issues and Cases
Clodagh Harris
112
Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith (eds) Dictablanda: Politics, Work and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968
Maria S. Arbeláez
115
Jürgen Habermas The Crisis of the European Union: A Response
Barry Stocker
120
Emilie Hafner-Burton Making Human Rights a Reality
Debra L. DeLaet
127
John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild (eds) Africa in World Politics: Engaging a Changing Global Order
Manfred Wogugu
133
Kema Irogbe The Effects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia: A Global South Perspective
Clark Capshaw
138
J. S. Maloy Democratic Statecraft: Political Realism and Popular Power
John R. Wallach
142
Kari Marie Norgaard Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life
Eloise Harding
146
Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger JewsandWords
Leonard J. Greenspoon
149
Jacques Rancière Figures in History
Antonia von Schöning
152
Iavor Rangelov Nationalism and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the Balkans and Beyond
Joseph L. Derdzinski
158
Bassam Tibi Islamism and Islam
Dale Stover
163
Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
David S. Moon
174
Mark Ungar Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
Pablo Policzer
179
Slavoj Žižek Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism
Robert Sinnerbrink
183

Book Note

Anne Sisson Runyan and V. Spike Peterson (eds). Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium (4th ed)
Mary Ann Powell
185


VOLUME VI __________________________________________________________________ November 2016
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Article

Failure of Multiculturalism? Immigration, Radical Islamism, and Identity Politics in Europe
Fatos Tarifa and Monica Di Monte
5

Discussion

Philosophers in Search of Life…
David A. White
29

Review Essays

Tales of Humanitarian Intervention Gone Awry
Richard Falk
41
Victims without Philosophy
Stanimir Panayotov
47
Trouble in Paradise: Political Economy and Cultural Criticism
Edward Sankowski and Betty J. Harris
54

Book Reviews

Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum Rawls's Political Liberalism
Matthew Jones
67
Paulo Drinot and Alan Knight (eds) The Great Depression in Latin America
N. Clark Capshaw
70
Neil Faulkner Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
Bruce M. Garver
73
Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang How We Fight: Ethics in War
Roger Bergman
76
Jessica Gienow-Hecht (ed) Music and International History in the Twentieth Century
Frédéric Ramel
85
Lewis R. Gordon What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
Terrence L. Johnson
89
Carol C. Gould Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice
David Reidy
94
Agon Hamza (ed) Repeating Žižek
J. Jesse Ramírez
105
Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks (eds) Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Joseph L. Derdzinski
114
Austin Long The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK
Aaron Edwards
119
Ian R. MacMullen Civics Beyond Critics: Character Education in a Liberal Democracy
Eric R. Boot
123
Richard A. Posner Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary
Paul E. McGreal
131
Val Rosenfeld and Flor Fortunati (eds) Voices of the Undocumented
Ramón Guerra
135
Paul Rosenzweig, Timothy J. McNulty, and Ellen Shearer (eds) Whistleblowers, Leaks, and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security
Heidi Kitrosser
142
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, and Peter G. Danchin (eds) Politics of Religious Freedom
Amanda Ryan
146


VOLUME VII __________________________________________________________________ November 2017
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Article

The Glocal HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Need for an Extended Theory of Power in International Relations
Annika Hughes
4

Review Essays

Agamben’s Comic Messianism
Anthony Curtis Adler
31
Ethics of Mobility, Globalization, PoliticalEconomy, and Culture
Edward Sankowski and Betty J. Harris

47

Book Reviews

Christopher Bennett Bosnia’s Paralyzed Peace
Oliver P. Richmond
64
Kai Draper War and Individual Rights: The Foundation of Just War Theory
Nathan Wood
70
Andrew Fagan Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. Core Issues and Cases
Stener Ekern
76
Ryan Patrick Hanley (ed) Adam Smith: His Life, Thought and Legacy
Sarah Otten
81
Teresa Hoskyns The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space
Asma Mehan
86
Benjamin Isakhan (ed) The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the “Islamic State”
Kieran McConaghy
91
Henri Lauzière The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century
Matthew Vondrasek
99
John Seager and Lee S. Polansky (eds) The Good Crisis: How Population Stabilization Can Foster a Healthy U.S. Economy
Owen G. Mordaunt
104
James Q. Whitman Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Michael J. Kelly
110



VOLUME VIII__________________________________________________________________ November 2018
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Article

Is There a Crisis of Sustainable Development?
Edward Sankowski and Betty J. Harris
5

Review Essays

The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy
Triantafyllos (Tria) Gkouvas
26
The Life of the Law in Palestine
John Reynolds
47
Citizenship, Insurrection, and Recognition: European Critical Theory Before the Biopolitical Threshold
Miguel Vatter
60

Book Reviews

Elizabeth Anderson Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Uğur Aytaç
77
Alexander Brown Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination
Eric Heinze
85
H. Zeynep Bulutgil The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe
Andy Aydin-Aitchison
94
Alireza Doostdar The Iranian Metaphysicals
Elise K. Burton
100
Ian Gough Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing
Gillian Brock
105
Samuel Moyn Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
Andrew Fagan
108
Andrea Sangiovanni Humanity Without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights
David Jason Karp
118
Kathryn Sikkink Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
Brett J. Kyle
124
Peter Singer Famine, Affluence and Morality
Owen G. Mordaunt
129
Barbara Weinstein The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
Maria S. Arbeláez
136

Book Note

Elad Lapidot and Micha Brumlik Heidegger and Jewish Thought: Difficult Others
David A. White
140




VOLUME IX________________________________________________________________ November 2019
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Articles

Institutionalized Violence in the History of Mind/Body Dualism and the Contemporary Reality of Slavery and Torture: Reflections on Elaine Scarry and The Body in Pain
Wendy Lynne Lee
6
Using Bourdieu to Answer Spivak: On the Study of Historical Subaltern Religious Practices
Curtis Hutt
38

Review Essays

Rethinking Secularism: P. Harrison, É. Balibar, T. Asad
Sotiris Mitralexis
56
Technology, Science, and "Post-Humanity"
Edward Sankowski and Betty J. Harris
64
The Elephant in the Room
Peter Stone
85

Book Reviews

Olga Bertelsen (ed) Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine: The Challenge of Change
Emma Mateo
98
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire
Wendy Lynne Lee
103
Wael B. Hallaq Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge
Katlin Marisol Sweeney
113
Kia Lindroos and Frank Möller Art as a Political Witness
Lenore Metrick-Chen
117
Alison McQueen Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times
Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel
124
Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili Triadic Coercion: Israel's Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors
Richard English
132

Book Note

Giorgio Agamben The Omnibus Homo Sacer; What is Philosophy?
Sotiris Mitralexis
135

Panel Discussion

Are Reparations Possible? Lessons to the United States from South Africa
Richard Goldstone, Lewis Gordon, and Alecia Anderson
138




VOLUME X_________________________________________________________________ November 2020
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Article

Trust, Ethnicity, and Political Approval in 21st Century South Africa
Alecia Anderson and Jonathan Bruce Santo
5

Review Essays

Aspects of Counterterrorism
Kenneth Christie
32
One Interpretation of the Current Pandemic Emphasizing Political Economy and Culture
Edward Sankowski and Betty Harris
40

Book Reviews

Sophia Firgau The Emancipatory Potential of Performance Art
Gwyneth Cliver
54
Sophia Firgau Das Emanzipatorische Potenzila der Performance Art
Gwyneth Cliver
58
Thomas Gricoski Being Unfolded: Edith Stein on the Meaning of Being
Robert McNamara
62
Rachel Kleinfeld A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Thomas Manig
65
Chantal Mouffe For a Left Populism
Emma Murphy
69
Matthew Restall When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True History of the Meetings that Changed History
Maria Arbelaez
75
Jessica Whyte The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
Shane Darcy
80





VOLUME XI_________________________________________________________________ November 2021
Contents
Notes From the Editor

Articles

Forbearance, Endogenous Development, and Aid Work
Selina L. Haynes and Mark S. Williams
4
Do Politics Repel Truth? Hannah Arendt on Political Controverseries in Dialogues with Plato
Marie-Josée Lavallée
33

Review Essay

The Pandemic, Environmentalism, and Re-Thinking Social and Political Philosophy
Edward Sankowski and Betty Harris
60

Book Review

Ofer Israeli Complex Effects of International Relations: Intended
and Unintended Consequences of Human Actions in Middle East Conflicts
Kenneth Christie
75

Perspective

Fleeing from War or Pandemic, and Returning Home
Rory J. Conces
78




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