International relations

Not everybody is impressed by a new “model” for conferences addressing controversial themes fashioned after outrage over an event about the Israel-Palestine conflict

University negotiates compromise deal over controversial conference

Research reveals surprising impact of overseas study, says Ellie Bothwell

Acknowledging aid workers’ motives does not diminish their extraordinary efforts, says Monika Krause

Course looking at ‘key security issue for East Asia’ part of major University of Central Lancashire investment in Korean studies

The British statesman had a surprising interest in the affairs of Muslims, says Charles Townshend

Vasilis Leontitsis weighs arguments for economic reform co-written by a scholar turned Syriza MP

John Barber on a powerful critique of Western policy

Joanna Lewis on the assassination of the nation’s first democratically elected leader

A German sociologist proposes that EU reform should be in the direction of revival, growth and social justice, explains Roger Morgan

Hester Vaizey on the political and religious divisions across a lesser known part of the Iron Curtain

Kristin M. Bakke on moving beyond standard intervention practice and involving local knowledge to end conflict

Farzana Shaikh on a retread of a historian’s former work on Pakistan

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on an intricate history of the role of America on the global stage

Jonathan Mirsky on the unfairness and exploitation rife in modern Chinese society

Vladimir Tismaneanu on a book that argues against the self-righteousness of neoliberalism

Christina Hellmich on an examination of the enduring nature of the Taliban

Conor Gearty on why the United Nations is successful at developing and promoting human rights but fails in protecting them

Farzana Shaikh on a study of a region that lies at the heart of a geopolitical storm

An examination of viewing habits illuminates the lives of Arabic people who have made their home in Europe, finds Zahera Harb

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on a shrewd analysis of the global order

Seven men rule the Middle Kingdom, but why them? Jonathan Mirsky on a study of Party potentates

Roger Morgan applauds a pioneering work offering a welcome introduction to a neglected set of issues

Farzana Shaikh finds persuasive arguments in an analysis of democracy and military rule in Pakistan

The Party is still at the root of everything, says Jonathan Mirsky

Marilyn Young on the development of human rights as an important issue in the US

Jonathan Mirsky on a merciless dissection of a seemingly unstoppable country

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on the give and take between the two superpowers since the Soviet collapse

Sally Feldman on an alternative interpretation of the media reporting and government responses to the Ethiopian famine in 1984

Conor Gearty on an impassioned attack on ‘imperialism disguised as moralism’

Caroline Osella on a page-turning survey of people and politics in a region once at the heart of global trade and imperial histories

Roger Morgan on a peer’s review of Brussels’ weaknesses

Christina Hellmich applauds the clear analysis that reveals a complex array of internal divisions, power struggles and conflicting ideological trends in the Brotherhood

Roza Tsagarousianou on an attempt to make sense of how the country has been subjected to international scrutiny

Dario Castiglione considers an informative reflection on the state of Europe and the political problems it faces

Roger Morgan welcomes a book that tackles ignorance, dispels confusion and inspires appreciation about the EU

Caroline Osella considers a slice of the subcontinent at the heart of the Gulf

Amanda Cahill-Ripley on a radical critique of counter-terrorism

Yongjin Zhang on the riddle at the heart of an Eastern paradox

Stefan Andreasson on an engaging but unbalanced view of a vital subject

Dries Lesage on a wake-up call for 21st-century bodies no longer fit for purpose

Roger Morgan on Germany’s economic domination of the European Union and the need for a sociological approach to redress the balance

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik on a study of the process of researching the Bosnian wars

Christina Hellmich on the complex dynamics reshaping the Arab world

Roger Morgan on the Franco-German alliance within the EU and its effect on decision-making in the union

Clémence Scalbert-Yucel on a worthy addition to the study of a state in flux

Vernon Bogdanor on Cabinet decision-making

Christina Hellmich on Al-Qaeda’s Arabian battles

John Brewer reviews a book that focuses on the spiritual motivations of peacemakers in the Middle East

Joanna Lewis on how cultures and circumstances skew our passions more than we may realise

Kathleen McNamara on the technocracy that created the EMU - and its current malaise