In just the last two decades, how did Turkey reverse so many democratic gains, engage in dozens of military interventions, and witness one party under one leader turn the one-hundred-year old nation into a one-man regime? Rimon Tanvir Hossain reviews Dimitar Bechev’s Turkey Under Erdoğan.
What does the decoupling of the Chinese and U.S. economies really mean? Brian Wong reviews James Fok’s Financial Cold War.
Scholars are still building a picture of life under the “caliphate“. Mathilde Becker Aarseth’s Mosul under ISIS adds to our understanding, writes Anjana Nair.
Annie Crabill reviews Stephen Macekura’s 2020 book The Mismeasure of Progress, a critical history of the growth paradigm in economics.
Brianda Romero Castelán reviews Joanne Meyerowitz’s A War on Global Poverty, a timely addition to the literature on gender and development.
By Annie Crabill
Book Review of China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978: Return to Power, by Nicholas Khoo (2020, Edward Elgar)
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By Rana Mitter
As China emerges out of its transitional decades, where does the country stand now? Historian Rana Mitter reviews Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi and Jonathan Chatwin’s Long Peace Street, two books giving colorful accounts of China’s shifting images of everyday life, view toward history, and relationship with the world.