A new issue of the Journal of Liberty and International Affairs is out. Amitai Etzioni (George Washington): Spheres of Influence: A Reconceptualization. George Lawson (LSE): Revolutions and the International. Mark Raymond (Oklahoma) and Laura DeNardis (American): Multistakeholderism: Anatomy of an Inchoate Global Institution. Oliver P. Richmond (Manchester): Mediation in Post-Liberal International Relations. Cynthia Weber (Sussex): Why is there no Queer International Theory? E. K. Morris (Virginia Tech): You Can’t Spell Crisis Without ISIS: Comments on “The Return of Geopolitics?” Patrick Weir (Exeter): Radio Geopolitics. Samantha May (Aberdeen), Erin K. Wilson (Groningen), Claudia Baumgart-Ochse (PRIF), and Faiz Sheikh (Exeter): The Religious as Political and the Political as Religious: Globalisation, Post-Secularism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Sacred.
James Resnick interviews Richard Ned Lebow, author of Constructing Cause in International Relations. How geography shapes international politics: Colin Woodard reviews Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall. Roger Epp reviews Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line, ed. Alexander Anievas, Nivi Manchanda and Robbie Shilliam. After Waterloo: Marco d’Eramo on why the Restoration of 1815, sealed in Vienna by Emperor, Tsar and King, brought not the longed-for return to the past but the arrival of a novel form of inter-state relations — presaging the birth of the “international community”.
