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Category Archives: Global Politics
Apr 24 2013
Five minutes with Michael Mann: “Globalisation has never been a singular process; it’s always been a multiple one”
Leave a commentTweet How do we conceptualise processes of globalisation, and what impact does European integration have on nation states? As part of our on-going ‘Thinkers on Europe’ series, the LSE EUROPP blog spoke to Michael Mann about his view of globalisation, the effect … Continue reading
Posted by: April 24, 2013
Tagged with: globalisation, michael mann
Apr 24 2013
Declining pension adequacy may result in increased poverty concerns in many EU countries
Leave a commentTweet Since the 1990s, the public pensions landscape in the EU has changed drastically, with reforms changing both the nature of provision and the level of generosity. Aaron George Grech, looking at the changes made in ten EU countries, finds … Continue reading
Posted by: April 24, 2013
Tagged with: contributions, Pensions, Retirement
Apr 21 2013
Book Review: Defending the Realm? The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945
Leave a commentTweet Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. In Defending … Continue reading
Posted by: April 21, 2013
Tagged with: Aaron Edwards, Defending the Realm
Mar 31 2013
Book Review: Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror
Leave a commentTweet In Trading Secrets, former Financial Times security correspondent Mark Huband aims to provide a unique and controversial assessment of the ability of the major intelligence agencies to combat the threat of twenty-first century terrorism. With access to intelligence officers from Rome to Kabul … Continue reading
Posted by: March 31, 2013
Tagged with: anti-terrorism, intelligence, security, terrorism
Mar 17 2013
Book Review: Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Leave a commentTweet Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, the contributors to Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and review the political transformations experienced since the end of the Cold War. Through a combination of theoretical approaches and detailed, … Continue reading
Posted by: March 17, 2013
Tagged with: Post-Soviet
Mar 10 2013
Book Review: Intelligent Governance For The 21st Century
Leave a commentTweet For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self–evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must … Continue reading
Posted by: March 10, 2013
Tagged with: global governance, globalisation, governance
Mar 3 2013
Book Review: Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control
Leave a commentTweet Immigration detention centres have been subject to criticism from a number of academics, with the majority of those detained within them having committed no crime nor received any trial. Alexandra Hall conducted a year long ethnography within such a detention centre, … Continue reading
Posted by: March 3, 2013
Tagged with: borders, detention, immigration, Migration
Feb 10 2013
Book Review: Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World
1 CommentTweet Although Al Jazeera English has yet to receive to receive the attention accorded to its Arabic-language elder sibling, it is in many ways the more interesting of the two. It seeks to redefine global news coverage by focusing on … Continue reading
Posted by: February 10, 2013
Tagged with: Al Jazeera English, Global News, Philip Seib
