Andrew Moravcsik

Civil Society   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Ctrl-Alt-Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

Baldwin argues that digital technology has changed how people manipulate and understand politics, and he shows how deep-seated the problem is.

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Globalization   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Governing Europe in a Globalizing World: Neoliberalism and Its Alternatives Following the 1973 Oil Crisis

Warlouzet retraces how and why European governments harmonized regulations, promoted financial and monetary integration, and suppressed traditional industrial policies.

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EU   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance

Schneider turns conventional wisdom on its head by arguing that the EU responds to the democratic demands of its citizens. 

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Ideology   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

The Enlightenment’s French and Scottish roots are well-known, but Reinert points to the important role played by a group of Italian thinkers.

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Human Rights   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War

Morgan offers perhaps the most richly documented account of the Helsinki negotiations.

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Human Rights   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle Over Freedom and Security

Farrell and Newman examine recent transatlantic disputes over coordinating flows of information about airline passengers, bank accounts, and commercial transactions.

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Ideology   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network

This book contains an ethnographic study of al Muhajiroun, an outlawed radical jihadist group in London. 

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Ideology   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

The End of the French Intellectual

This book argues that in recent decades, although the social status of French intellectuals has remained largely intact, the quality of their thought has ebbed. 

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Politics & Society   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

For the French, their cuisine is a prime source of national pride, but as Hénaut and Mitchell’s lively vignettes show, few French delicacies are indigenous.

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United Kingdom   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

English Nationalism: A Short History

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Politics & Society   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

Arnold, a popular historian, has assembled the most terrifying eyewitness testimony to the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago. 

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Terrorism & Counterterrorism   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

Islamist Terrorism in Europe

Nesser shows that although their basic goals are constant, Islamist terrorists adapt their tactics with the times. 

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Foreign Policy   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth

Murphy, the director of the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies, argues that the Commonwealth of Nations does not exist.

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Foreign Policy   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

Europeans were rarely in a position to dominate the world solely by means of their military might. Instead, they subtly co-opted foreign elites by trading with them,...

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Germany   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

Berlin

Jason Lutes, a legendary artist, devoted two decades to this magisterial graphic novel about Berlin under the Weimar Republic. 

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United Kingdom   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

Plugging In the British: Completing the Circuit

This study on Brexit argues that sober negotiations could preserve most current cooperation under another name—but that the changes that must occur will generally...

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Europe   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

Fryderyk Chopin’s music is one of Europe’s great cultural legacies.

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Europe   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire

This graceful account of Habsburg diplomacy from 1700 to the outbreak of World War I explains how the empire survived so long: its diplomats dampened threats through...

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Ideology   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion

In this erudite and engaging book, Elliott, one of the most distinguished historians of early modern Spain, explores the similarities and differences between Scottish...

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Brexit   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

Complexity’s Embrace: The International Law Implications of Brexit

In this book, a group of European legal specialists examine the practical issues the British are up against, covering topics as varied as what regional electrical...

Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik

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