Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020015
Valérie Rosoux
{"title":"Bjorn Krondorfer, Unsettling empathy. Working with groups in conflict (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)","authors":"Valérie Rosoux","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116711462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020007
J. Joana
{"title":"Delphine Deschaux-Dutard (ed.), Research Methods in Defence Studies. A Multidisciplinary Overview (London: Routledge, 2020)","authors":"J. Joana","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128868978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020005
O. Frahm
{"title":"Carina Book, Nikolai Huke, Norma Tiedemann and Olaf Tietje (eds), Autoritärer Populismus (Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2020)","authors":"O. Frahm","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128626188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020002
Ariel Colonomos
{"title":"Gaïdz Minassian, Les Sentiers de la victoire. Peut-on encore gagner une guerre? [The paths of victory. Can we still win a war?] (Paris: Passés Composés, 2020)","authors":"Ariel Colonomos","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115487177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020014
A. Williams
{"title":"Bertrand Badie, Inter-socialités: Le monde n’est plus géopolitique [Inter-socialities: The world is no longer geopolitical] (Paris: CNRS editions, 2020)","authors":"A. Williams","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123594632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020003
Brice Didier
This article discusses the European Union (EU)’s strategic adaptation to the relative decline of the United States (US)-led Western world order by introducing the concept of hedging: a strategy of concomitant engagement with the system leader and its competitors aiming to minimise the risks of confrontation with either of them. To grasp the EU’s shift towards strategic hedging, the article analyses the subsequent 2003 Security Strategy, 2008 Implementation Report, 2015 Strategic Review and ongoing 2016 Global Strategy, and then puts the latter’s core concepts of ‘principled pragmatism’ and ‘strategic autonomy’ into perspective vis-à-vis international developments since 2016, related to ‘America First’ and the Sino-American rivalry. The article ultimately argues that, confronted with global power diffusion but constrained by the preponderance of transatlanticism, hedging has become a primary strategic option for the EU to emancipate from the US without alienating it and to compensate for the waning of the Western world order.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020008
Soeren Keil
{"title":"Samer N. Abboud, Syria (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018)","authors":"Soeren Keil","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133988791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020011
Julien Pomarède
{"title":"Samuel B. H. Faure, Avec ou sans l’Europe: Le dilemme de la politique française d’armement [With or without Europe: The dilemma of French armament policy] (Bruxelles: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2020)","authors":"Julien Pomarède","doi":"10.1163/21967415-08020011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-08020011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126941522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020004
Klaus Dingwerth
In 2013, Thomas Hale, the late David Held and Kevin Young published Gridlock. Their book made sense of a widely shared perception. The edifice of global governance, this perception suggested, had begun to crumble under a range of pressures. The empirical evidence that lay beneath this perception was puzzling not only in a normative, but also in an analytical sense. It did not seem to match the demand for international institutions, which was the most central factor scholars pointed to when they had to explain the emergence, changes and effects of international institutions. The subtitle of Hale, Held and Young’s neatly summarised what was at stake. What had to be explained was ‘why global cooperation is failing when we need it most’. The three titles reviewed in this essay challenge this view. They suggest that many international organisations continue to do their everyday work (Dolowitz et al.), that many informal global governance institutions have been added (Roger), and that various forms of ‘ebb and flow’ have been a constant in global governance since 1850 (Grigorescu).
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Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/21967415-08020013
W. Whitworth
This paper tracks the reactions of British and U.S. officials to a wave of anti-rearmament protests in West Germany in the early 1950s. The conversations that these protests encouraged were significant in that they represented the beginning of a gradual change in the reputation of the German people – whereas in 1945 the Germans were widely considered a militaristic and aggressive people, by the end of the Cold War they were seen as largely pacifist. This change speaks to the power of social movements to drive new trends in international relations.
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