Book Notes
Since 1969, Journal of Peace Research has published short Book Notes in addition to longer Review Essays. As of 2014, the Book Notes are no longer published in the journal, but are made available on-line at PRIO’s website, with a link from the JPR page at our publisher’s site. Review Essays, which are published infrequently, will remain as published articles.
The rules for the Book Notes remain the same: The books should be of current interest, preferably published in the same year or the year before. The overall length, including the bibliographic reference, should be no more than 300 words.
The editor of the column is Nils Petter Gleditsch. Contributors may send their Book Notes to booknoteseditor@prio.org.
Book Notes
2017
- Review of Alexander Betts & Paul Collier (2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System, by Jørgen Carling. Published online 5 May 2017
- Review of Michael Stohl; Mark I Lichbach & Peter Nils Grabosky, eds, (2017) States and Peoples in Conflict: Transformations of Conflict Studies, by Jóhanna K Birnir. Published online 5 May 2017
- Review of Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind & Yuval Noah Harari (2016)
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 24 April 2017
- Review of Osamah F Khalil (2016) America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 24 April 2017
- Review of Elin Bjarnegård & Joakim Kreutz, eds, (2017) Debating the East Asian Peace, by Jiakun Jack Zhang. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Steve Pickering (2017) Understanding Geography and War, by Paul F Diehl. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Brandon Valeriano & Ryan C Maness (2015) Cyber War Versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System, by Hanne Eggen Røislien. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Joas Wagemakers (2016) Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community, by Petter Nesser. Published online 19 April 2017
- Review of Frank Dikötter (2016) The Cultural Revolution. A People's History 1962–1976, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 3 April 2017
- Review of Elieh Podeh (2015) Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 3 April 2017
- Review of Stein Tønnesson (2017) Explaining the East Asian Peace: A Research Story, by Steve Chan. Published online 3 April 2017
- Review of Maybritt Jill Alpes (2017)
Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at Any Cost, by Heidi Østbø Haugen. Published online 20 March 2017
- Review of Timo Kivimäki (2016) Paradigms of Peace: A Pragmatist Introduction to the Contribution to Peace of Paradigms of Social Science, by Judith Large. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann (2016)
State Food Crimes, by Ida Rudolfsen. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Shlomi Dinar & Ariel Dinar (2016) International Water Scarcity and Variability, by Andrea K Gerlak. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Dara Kay Cohen (2016) Rape During Civil War, by Christopher K. Butler. Published online 21 February 2017
- Review of Maria Koinova (2013) Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States: Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo, by Anna Batta. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Macartan Humphreys (2016) Political Games: Mathematical Insights on Fighting, Voting, Lying & Other Affairs of State, by Han Dorussen. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Emil J Kirchner; Thomas Christiansen & Han Dorussen, eds, (2016) Security Relations between China and the European Union, by Joakim Kreutz. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Nick Cheeseman & Nicholas Farrelly, eds, (2016)
Conflict in Myanmar: War, Politics, Religion, by Marte Nilsen. Published online 5 January 2017
- Review of Rajan Menon & Eugene Rumer (2015) Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 5 January 2017
2016
- Review of Salim Yaqub (2016)
Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and US-Middle East Relations in the 1970s, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 20 December 2016
- Review of Derek Chollet (2016) The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World, by Morten Bergsmo. Published online 17 October 2016
- Review of Karl DeRouen Jr (2015) An Introduction to Civil Wars, by Patrick M Regan. Published online 29 September 2016
- Review of Robert Legvold (2016) Return to Cold War, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 2 September 2016
- Review of Gary Goertz; Paul F Diehl & Alexandru Balas (2016)
The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System, by Stein Tønnesson. Published online 29 August 2016
- Review of David T Mason & Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, eds, (2016) What Do We Know about Civil Wars?, by Kristin M Bakke. Published online 24 August 2016
- Review of John Quigley (2016) The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 23 August 2016
- Review of Roy Behnke & Michael Mortimore (eds) (2016) The End of Desertification?, by Ole Magnus Theisen. Published online 22 August 2016
- Review of Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2016) Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change, by Thomas Bernauer. Published online 18 August 2016
- Review of David Shambaugh (2016) China's Future, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 25 July 2016
- Review of Kristin Bakke (2015) Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles: Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec, by Edward C Holland. Published online 20 July 2016
- Review of Richard Shirreff (2016) 2017 War with Russia: An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 20 July 2016
- Review of Ewan Harrison & Sara McLaughlin Mitchell (2014)
The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 7 June 2016
- Review of Piki Ish-Shalom (2013) Democratic Peace. A Political Biography, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 7 June 2016
- Review of Peter Wallensteen (2015) Understanding Conflict Resolution, by Charles Butcher. Published online 6 June 2016
- Review of Robert D Blackwill & Jennifer M Harris (2016) War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 18 May 2016
- Review of Mark Engler & Paul Engler (2016) This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century, by Pauline Moore. Published online 22 March 2016
- Review of Daniel Strieff (2015)
Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: The Politics of Presidential Diplomacy, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 18 February 2016
- Review of Andrea Carcano (2015) The Transformation of Occupied Territory in International Law, by Matthew Saul. Published online 17 February 2016
- Review of Anthony B Atkinson (2015) Inequality: What can be done?, by Gudrun Østby. Published online 16 February 2016
- Review of Colin Shindler (2015) The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 9 February 2016
- Review of Alex De Waal (2015) The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power, by Allard Duursma. Published online 9 February 2016
- Review of Ryan D Maness & Brandon Valeriano (2015) Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber, and Maritime Policy as New Sources of Power, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 4 January 2016
- Review of Carles Boix (2015) Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences for Human Welfare, by Carl Henrik Knutsen. Published online 4 January 2016
2015
- Review of Mark Salter (2015)
To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka, by Anne Julie Semb. Published online 10 December 2015
- Review of David Cadier & Margot Light (eds.) (2015)
Russia's Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations, by Pavel K Baev. Published online 26 November 2015
- Review of Frank Dikötter (2013) The Tragedy of Liberation. A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 29 October 2015
- Review of Louisa Lim (2014) The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, by Caitlin McCulloch. Published online 21 October 2015
- Review of April Carter; Howard Clark & Michael Randle (eds.) (2013, 2015) A Guide to Civil Resistance, by Brian Martin. Published online 21 October 2015
- Review of Chanaka Talpahewa (2015)
Peaceful Intervention in Intra-State Conflicts: Norwegian Involvement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process, by Indra de Soysa. Published online 25 September 2015
- Review of Harvey Starr (ed.) (2015)
Bruce M Russett: Pioneer in the Scientific and Normative Study of War, Peace and Policy, by Peter Wallensteen. Published online 31 July 2015
- Review of Brian Martin (2015)
Nonviolence Unbound, by Jonathan Pinckney. Published online 31 July 2015
- Review of Mary Elizabeth King (2015) Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India: The Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change, by April Carter. Published online 31 July 2015
- Review of Galia Golan (2015) Israeli Peacemaking since 1967: Factors behind the Breakthroughs and Failures, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 12 May 2015
- Review of Thomas Piketty (2013) Capital in the Twenty-first Century, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 30 April 2015
- Review of Michael P Colaresi (2014) Democracy Declassified: The Secrecy Dilemma in National Security, by Helga Hernes. Published online 29 April 2015
- Review of Daniel E Zoughbie (2014) Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 13 March 2015
- Review of Lars-Erik Cederman; Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Halvard Buhaug (2013) Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War, by Erin K Jenne. Published online 9 February 2015
- Review of Edward Newman (2014)
Understanding Civil Wars: Continuity and Change in Intrastate Conflict, by Meredith Reid Sarkees. Published online 5 January 2015
2014
- Review of Peou Sorpong (2014) Human Security Studies: Theories, Methods, and Themes, by Virak Prum. Published online 13 November 2014
- Review of John McHugo (2014) Syria: From the Great War to Civil War, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Joel S Migdal (2014) Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Ian Morris (2014)
War: What Is It Good For?, by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Keith Lowe (2012)
Savage Continent. Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, by Nils Petter Gleditsch. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of John B Judis (2014) Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 25 August 2014
- Review of Our Harsh Logic (2012) Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories 2000–2010, by Jørgen Jensehaugen. Published online 19 June 2014
- Review of Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv; Dawn R. Bazley, Marina Goloviznina & Andrew J. Tanentzap, eds (2014) Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic, by Pavel Baev. Published online 9 April 2014
- Review of Johan Galtung & Dietrich Fischer (2013) Johan Galtung, Pioneer of Peace Research, by Hans-Henrik Holm. Published online 9 April 2014
- Review of David Shambaugh (2013) China Goes Global: The Partial Power, by Timo Kivimäki. Published online 9 April 2014
- Review of Ping Yi (2013) Sensou to heiwa no aida [Between War and Peace], by Hitomi Takemura. Published online 9 April 2014
Books Received