Suman Naz* & Muhammad Rizwan** * MS in International Relations from COMSATS University Islamabad | sumannaz90@gmail.com ** Corresponding author | Research Scholar of MS international Relations at COMSATS University Islamabad | Rizwan.malik444@yahoo.com 2021 | vol 11(1) | 44-51 Abstract The South China Sea is a contested region between China and different smaller states (Vietnam, the…
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (The Brookings Institution, Washington, 2014. 288 pages. $27.70. ISBN: 9780815721512.) The Metropolitan Revolution describes a new relationship between levels of government in the United States. It is essential to express a new dynamic in which…
Richard Pomfret The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road (Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-691-18221-6, 328 pp., $45.00 / £38.00) Central Asia is of strategic importance to many countries, in particular Russia and China. Russia has sought to maintain its influence in the region since the end of the…
Julian A. Zelizer The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780691160283, 368 pp., $ 21.05) The calendar showed 10th of December 2016 when a group of professors gathered at Princeton University for a 2-day lasting conference to put the presidential period of Barack Obama on…
Robert Irwin Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-691-17466-2, 267 pp., $ 29.95) Ibn Khaldun (Wali al-Din ‘Abd al-Raḥman Ibn Khaldun) who lived between 1332 and 1406 has been one of the greatest intellectuals in human history. He clearly deserves this reputation because his ideas, especially those in…
The 20th issue of the rest: journal of politics and development is out now. Download the issue here… TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles Three Ways to Explore the BRICS (Possible) Impact on the Future Global Order By Francesco Petrone The State at a Traffic Jam: Resource Endowment and the Challenges of National Development in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic…
Jason C Sharman Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order (Princeton University Press, 2019, 216 Pages, $26) This colourful work enjoys tackling the general acceptance of the “military revolution” and “fiscal-military” theses that claim European expansion over the 16th-19th century world came from military…
Michael George Hanchard The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2018, 280 Pages, Cloth $29.95) Hanchard’s book is a detailed discussion of the concept of race and its evolution, and how it underpins the debate on citizenship and democracy. In order to understand such a concept, the author starts from…
John C Hulsman To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk (Princeton University Press, 2019, xiv+ 323 Pages, $29.95) This discursive, interesting, insightful book draws on the claimed list of ten warnings underlying the Pythia’s (never quite clear whether she is singular or plural) wisdom as the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece….