Sharifullah Dorani The Lone Leopard S&M Publishing House, July 2022, ISBN: 978-1-7396069-0-9, 436 pp., £19.99 ̸ £10.99, hb. In The Lone Leopard – a well-researched, historical fiction that took Dr Sharifullah Dorani “12 years” (Dorani, 2022: 430) to write – we follow Ahmad, a deeply religious young man, through school in Kabul, then as the Russians leave…
The 24th issue of the rest: journal of politics and development is out now. Download the issue here… TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles Thinking through the Event: Alain Badiou versus Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri By Semra Akay Return and Recuperation Strategies on Returnees to Nigeria: The Libya Episode By A. J. Aluko & D. O….
Semra Akay, PhD * Faculty of Arts and Science, Gaziantep University, semraakay@gantep.edu.tr ABSTRACT This article offers how the concept of the event is approached by two opposing post-Marxist thinkers – Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri. Since the beginning of the modern era, many events, which could be significant or not, have occurred, such…
A. J. Aluko Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, ajaluko@pg-student.oauife.edu.ng D. O. Apeloko, PhD Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, doapeloko@oauife.edu.ng Bello M. Ayodele, PhD Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University ABSTRACT The paper examined the strategies put in place by the governmental agencies for the reintegration of returnees. Primary and secondary…
Sreemoyee Sarkar, PhD * Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Political Science and History, School of Social Sciences, Christ (Deemed to be) University, Bangalore, sreemoyee.sarkar@christuniversity.in ABSTRACT Geopolitical location places the seaborne piracy infested pelagic waters of South East Asia (SEA) astride a very different façade of international relations and maritime legal regime of the littoral…
Rahman Dag, PhD * Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Rahman.dag@beun.edu.tr ABSTRACT As a new but uncertain international system has been operating for decades that can be regarded as a transition from unipolarity to something resembling multipolarity. Therefore, established and possible future great powers have been determining their foreign…
I. William Zartman, PhD * Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus. The Johns Hopkins University-SAIS; former President, Middle East Studies Association Itimar Rabinovich & Carmit Valensi, Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and its Aftermath, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780691193311, 288 pp., £25.00 / $29.95) Noah Feldman, The Arab Winter: A Tragedy, (Princeton: Princeton Press…
Adam Goodman The Deportation Machine. America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780691182155, 323 pp., $29.95 / £25.00) The Deportation Machine is an analysis and discussion of the deportation regime developed in the United States of America (USA) in the nineteenth century. As Goodman explains, the book “reveals how public…
Rachel McCleary and Robert J Barro The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780691217109, 216 pp., $21.95 / £18.99) The Wealth of Religions is a comprehensive effort to analyze how religion matters in social sciences, specifically economics. The book focuses on the relation between religion and…