Andrew Moravcsik

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. 

Andrew Moravcsik

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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. 

Andrew Moravcsik

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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.

Andrew Moravcsik

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United Kingdom   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

English Nationalism: A Short History

Andrew Moravcsik

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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. 

Andrew Moravcsik

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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. 

Andrew Moravcsik

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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.

Andrew Moravcsik

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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,...

Andrew Moravcsik

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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. 

Andrew Moravcsik

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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...

Andrew Moravcsik

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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.

Andrew Moravcsik

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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...

Andrew Moravcsik

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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...

Andrew Moravcsik

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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...

Andrew Moravcsik

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Refugees & Migration   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe

This sober, well-documented book by an archivist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum advances a more nuanced view of the American response to the Holocaust. It...

Andrew Moravcsik

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Politics & Society   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

Journey Into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity

This sprawling book by a Pakistani diplomat and anthropologist examines why relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe are so contentious—and what might be...

Andrew Moravcsik

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Europe   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest, founded in 1956, is an annual televised pop extravaganza in which bands from dozens of countries compete before a live audience.

Andrew Moravcsik

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EU   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts

In this book, the best history of the recent eurozone crisis yet to appear, Mody argues that the euro is dysfunctional “because it defies the principles of economics.”

Andrew Moravcsik

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Law & Institutions   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia

Perry tells the tale of three women who turned on the ’Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia.

Andrew Moravcsik

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Politics & Society   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

The History of the European Migration Regime: Germany’s Strategic Hegemony; Migration and Refugee Policies in Germany: New European Limits of Control?

Germany has dominated Europe’s collective arrangements for governing migration for almost 70 years.

Andrew Moravcsik

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