Andrew Moravcsik

Environment   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

The Alps: An Environmental History

Jon Mathieu tells the exceptional story of the Alps, a mountain range that humans have inhabited for longer, more densely, and in more economically productive ways...

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Finance   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

In this engaging book, Straumann, a leading Swiss economic historian, examines the role of market forces in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.

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EU   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

James Meek’s book about British Euroskepticism belongs to a distinct genre of journalism in which a distinguished member of the chattering classes sallies out to...

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EU   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage

Luuk van Middelaar provides an incisive analysis of how the EU managed its recent crises over refugees, Ukraine, and the euro.

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Monetary Issues   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

How to Democratize Europe

Three legal academics and a celebrated economist charge that the eurozone’s technocratic obscurantism and self-defeating tendency toward austerity exacerbate...

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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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