Social science

Gregory Kent explores the affective consequences of war

Laura Frost on a portrayal of abstinence not as an absence of sex, but as an organisation of pleasure

Search differently, says Sarah Ison

Violence, accident and luck have all made this young federal union, says Donald MacRaild

The ‘nation brand’ phenomenon is unsustainable, says Rula Al-Abdulrazak

Angelia Wilson hopes for a turn against therapy and towards political engagement in the US

Omar Malik concurs with the considered advice on decision-making but seeks more understanding about the process

Finola Kerrigan is not convinced by a proposed new way of doing business

Philip Hoare on the global market’s manifest destiny

Tara Brabazon on postgraduate career guidance that applies to an elite world that is shrinking

Robert Mayhew on the vision, dignity and achievement of two centuries of armchair travellers

Richard Bosworth on an exploration of Pound’s activism before and during the Second World War

The death of an academic-cum-Liberal’s parliamentary career was really not so strange, argues Lynn McDonald

Alison Oram on changing attitudes to sexual perversions

Shahidha Bari would like more light and shade in this personal account

A. W. Purdue on the risky belief that participatory government can always muddle through any crisis

Chris Knight on an analysis of crisis as a narrative device

Michael Patrick Cullinane on the military-academic complex

Sarah Sarzynski on an analysis of student activism during Brazil’s military dictatorship

Barbara Graziosi on female adherents to an ancient philosophy

Les Gofton on ‘world families’ and globalisation

June Purvis discusses conservative contributions to gender equality

Julia Droeber is humbled by the courage of everyday resistance

Robert Mayhew on the human need to travel to extreme environments that nourish the spirit

Stina Lyon ponders life’s many shades of grey

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

Dick Hobbs finds low-life tales of illegal entrepreneurs in abundance, but not so scholarly rigour

Marian Duggan takes a tour of the US LGBT liberation movement

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

The convictions of those involved in efforts to ‘rescue’ women from religion will be unsettled by this work, says Madawi Al-Rasheed

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

Geraldine Van Bueren lauds a plea to put our passions to work in building a more just society

Kitty Stewart finds wisdom in a study of progress and disparity between nations and people

Peter Messent on why upper-class men felt at home on the frontier

Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam

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

An evaluation of US tertiary education prompts Mary Stuart to reflect on how the UK is changing

Gwendolyn Beetham on what we can learn from observations of society’s dismissal of women

Helen Fulton looks at social attitudes to women’s monthly cycle in the 16th to 18th centuries

Philip Murphy on an analysis of addictions, to both legal and illegal substances, with respect to the role of power

Joanna Bourke on a meticulous analysis of the responses of civil rights movements to sexual violence against women and girls

Sandra Leaton Gray on healthier options for e-junkies

Pat Thane on a book that provides important insights into the experience of female immigrants

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

Focusing on top scholars’ practices gives an incomplete picture, says Huw Morris

Angelia R. Wilson on welfare, women and unresolved political tension

Donna Drucker on the relationship between intelligence and sex

Barbara Graziosi evaluates a crash course in classical myth

Ivor Gaber on how broadcasters report stories in which the status quo is under threat

Small towns were often accommodating to those without a straight sensibility, finds Sally R. Munt

Arne Hintz welcomes a timely contribution to the post-Leveson debate

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

Cheryl Buckley considers our changing relationships with clothes and fashion as we grow older

Margaret Weitekamp on a woman who helped get the US space programme off the ground

Vicky Conway on the corrosive effect of unchecked power

Religious belief is alive and well on campus, observes Gerald Pillay

Victoria Bateman counts the costs when there’s not enough to go around

The academy is turning a blind eye to plagiarism, an anonymous professor warns

Stina Lyon on the personal and emotional costs of a global marketplace where everything’s for sale

Lucy Wooding reviews an analysis of the culture of early modern England