Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2244273
Maria Holt
What is to become of Yemen? Prospects for a peaceful resolution to the conflict do not look promising. But if ever the war does end, how will it be able to reconstitute itself? In this very useful edited volume, a number of experts on Yemeni politics, economics, development and society consider the country’s future and offer detailed recommendations about how best to address the many challenges of reconstruction. It is a welcome addition to the literature on this complex country.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2239682
Hooky Walker
Colonel Brian Musson Lees LVO OBE, who died on 12 June 2023 at the age of 91, served on the Council of the Society from 2005 to 2011. In the 1930s, Council, to cite a quotation in Hugh Leach’s Strolling About on the Roof of the World, was described as “looking like a page from the Army List”. In more recent times there has been a clear preponderance of civilian members, and Brian, though not officially designated as such, was known to colleagues as “the military representative on Council”.
Brian Musson Lees LVO OBE上校于2023年6月12日去世，享年91岁，曾于2005年至2011年在协会理事会任职。20世纪30年代，引用休·利奇（Hugh Leach）的《在世界屋脊上漫步》（Strolling About on the Roof of the World）中的一句话，理事会被描述为“看起来像军队名单上的一页”。最近，文职成员明显占多数，布莱恩虽然没有被正式指定为文职成员，但被同事们称为“安理会军事代表”。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2253057
Nishkala Suntharalingam
Moyukh Chatterjee was an eyewitness to the aftermath of the 2002 riots in the west Indian state of Gujarat; three days of communal violence during which Hindu mobs attacked Muslims, their businesses and homes, leaving over a thousand people dead. This book focuses on how and why, in multi-ethnic, democratic states like India, targeted violence and anti-minority politics persist. In doing so, the author suggests an alternate approach to understanding violence against minorities while raising disquieting questions about the formation of modern states and the ways that ideas of “minorities” and “majorities” are produced and reproduced.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2233827
Trevor Mostyn
In 2011, the “Arab Spring” prompted protests in Oman and some of the participants made reference to the earlier revolutionary period, a further demonstration of the importance of recalling recent history. The book also provides a comparative discussion with the “afterlives” of other movements throughout the world, giving it broader scope. “Afterlives of Revolution” is therefore an important contribution which may be an inspiration to younger readers from the region who dream of alternatives to the current visions of state and social order dominated by neo-liberalism. It also provides many useful details both about the period of the struggle itself and the current daily routines of the Dhufari people themselves.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2244802
Helen Lackner
question of why it keeps happening. There are several answers: poverty, inequality, a lack of accountability, poor governance, widespread corruption and extreme water scarcity (painstakingly detailed by Helen Lackner in Chapter 9). Although, in Charles Schmitz’s words, “the largest challenge Yemen faces is not scarce natural resources or population but cultivating the social contract necessary to focus on long-term economic development” (p. 122).
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2256111
Glyn Ford
The West has frightened itself by staring into a mirror. All the worst traits of Western culture and imperial ambition are seen reflected in Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China (CPC). In the mirror, China wants to build a global Empire, sending out missionaries to convert (and subvert) the West and the rest with a variant set of universal values incommensurable with those proselytised by Washington and Brussels. This threat to faith is intolerable and must not be allowed to proceed unchallenged.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2230782
L. Odgaard
The article traces concerns about entrapment in Chinese thinking about foreign relations and how these concerns have resulted in a general rejection of alliances. The People’s Republic of China was born with entrapment dilemmas vis-à-vis the Soviet Union that became real when Beijing was drawn into the Korean War at a time that did not suit Beijing’s strategic interests. During the post-Cold War era, China’s dialogue and coordination with NATO has given its leadership greater knowledge of the alliance’s strengths and weaknesses and confirmed Beijing in its scepticism towards formal alliances. Instead, China has set out to build more flexible partnerships, particularly with Russia, that allow both sides of the arrangement to avoid entrapment in each other’s different geopolitical security agendas. In an era of strategic competition with the United States, Beijing’s partnership with Moscow has become the cornerstone of Chinese efforts to protect its global power and influence. At the same time, China’s leadership has sought to avoid new entrapments by expanding its security engagement with countries in the “Global South”. Besides commitments to limited cooperation such as joint exercises and training, protection of Chinese overseas interests in arms sales, in countering Western strategic aims, and in establishing a strategic military presence are at the centre of such engagements. Far-reaching commitments to protect the security interests of other countries and close integration of Chinese and foreign military forces are not on the cards. Such agreements would come at the cost of flexible partnerships and Beijing’s freedom of action.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2229210
Catherine Jones
It can hardly be said that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) has lacked academic attention, yet this book identifies a clear gap in our understanding of the challenges that beset the hermit kingdom. From the outset it offers a distinctive approach that enables the exploration of the “co-constitutive” (p. 3) relationship between development and geopolitics. This is a much-needed new analysis of the development situation in North Korea, one that incorporates historical experiences, colonial legacies, socio-cultural insights, and current geopolitical trends, and has the potential to open policy options that have hitherto been unidentified.
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