International Affairs – Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020

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Front Matter

Contributors
Abstracts

Engaging religions and religious studies in international affairs
Introduction: engaging religions and religious studies in international affairs
Katherine E Brown

Religious violence, gender and post-secular counterterrorism
Katherine E Brown

Unpacking the role of religion in political transnationalism: the case of the Shi’a Iraqi diaspora since 2003
Oula Kadhum

Global aid and faith actors: the case for an actor-orientated approach to the ‘turn to religion’
Emma Tomalin

Mapping the field of religious environmental politics
Jeremy Kidwell

The politics of hope: privilege, despair and political theology
Caron E Gentry

Original Articles
Immature leadership: Donald Trump and the American presidency
Daniel W Drezner

Wartime paradigms and the future of western military power
Olivier Schmitt

The great Chinese surprise: the rupture with the United States is real and is happening
Xiangfeng Yang

Children ‘born of war’: a role for fathers?
Camile Oliveira, Erin Baines

Civil society perspectives on sexual violence in conflict: patriarchy and war strategy in Colombia
Anne-Kathrin Kreft

The Security Council’s peacekeeping trilemma
Paul D Williams

Influencing the social impact of financial systems: alternative strategies
Lee-Anne Sim

Book reviews
International Relations theory
Revisiting gendered states: feminist imaginings of the state in international relations
Rebecca Sanders

Anatomies of revolution
Horia M Dijmarescu

International history
Historiographical investigations in International Relations
Biao Zhang

The great cauldron: a history of southeastern Europe
Bogdan C Iacob

Governance, law and ethics
The prevention of torture: an ecological approach
Sonya Sceats

Computational propaganda: political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media
Emily Bienvenue

Cyber espionage and international law
David Bentley

Conflict, security and defence
The commander’s dilemma: violence and restraint in war
Abbey Steele

The handbook of European defence policies and armed forces
Janne Haaland Matlary

No go world: how fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics
Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Political economy, economics and development
Resurgent Asia: diversity in development
Ramesh Thakur

Europe
The Jungle: Calais’s camps and migrants
Kelsey Norman

Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII: Britain and the revolutions in eastern Europe, 1989
Kristina Spohr

A history of Yugoslavia
Spyros Economides

Race and the undeserving poor: from abolition to Brexit
Leah de Haan

Russia and Eurasia
The lands in between: Russia vs. the West and the new politics of hybrid war
Tracey German

The Russian understanding of war: blurring the lines between war and peace
John A Pennell

Middle East and North Africa
Hezbollah: mobilisation and power
Filippo Dionigi

Sub-Saharan Africa
African dominion: A new history of empire in early and medieval west Africa; African kings and black slaves: sovereignty and dispossession in the early modern Atlantic; Caravans of gold, fragments in time: art, culture, and exchange across medieval Saharan Africa
Herman T Salton

South Asia
Many rivers, one sea: Bangladesh and the challenge of Islamist militancy
Avinash Paliwal

East Asia and Pacific
Common enemies: crime, policy, and politics in Australia–Indonesia relations
Maryanne Kelton

Rebel politics: a political sociology of armed struggle in Myanmar’s borderlands
Anna Plunkett

Asymmetrical neighbors: borderland state building between China and southeast Asia
Junyan Chen

North America
Representation, recognition and respect in world politics: the case of Iran–US relations
Claire Yorke

Planning to fail: the US wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; Why America loses wars: limited war and US strategy from the Korean War to the present
Andrew Payne

Latin America and the Caribbean
Borderland battles: violence, crime, and governance at the edges of Colombia’s war
Tom Long

End Matter
Books reviewed March 2020