Category Archives: Book Reviews

Responses to Cyber Terrorism

This article first appeared in the April – June 2009 edition of Terrorism and Political Violence and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading

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Who is Barack Obama?

“If Illinois isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, its certainly one hell of a competitor”, said FBI agent Robert Grant at a press conference this week (December 9, 2008.) He was talking about investigating Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s attempt to” sell “ Barack Obama’s Senate seat, a manoeuvre which vividly illustrates the political cesspit out of which the president — elect has come, though he apparently was not involved in this scandal. Continue reading

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Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

Formidable Threats Ahead for Market-States and their Citizens 
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The Return of History and the End of Dreams

The Return of History and the End of Dreams
By Robert Kagan
Atlantic Books London
£12.99
116 pages

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Hamas: More Unwritten Chapters

Hamas: More Unwritten Chapters

– a critique by Richard Whelen

A recent book by a Hamas-supporting activist offers new insights and information about the inner workings of the revolutionary organisation which now controls Gaza. Continue reading

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Intolerance Begets Intolerance

This review first appeared in the Spring 2008 edition of Studies and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading

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Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad

WAHHABI ISLAM
FROM REVIVAL AND REFORM TO GLOBAL JIHAD
NATANA J. DELONG-BAS
I.B. TAURIS LONDON
370 PAGES STG £14.99

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The Bottom Billion

THE BOTTOM BILLION
WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT
BY PAUL COLLIER
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 PAGES STG £16.99
Reviewed by Richard Whelan
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No, Prof. Chomsky, This Will Not Do

This book review first appeared in the The Sunday Business Post in April 2007 and is reproduced here with their kind permission. Continue reading

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