Author Archives: stuartelden

Swati Srivastava, Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics – Cambridge University Press, March 2024 The idea of ‘hybrid sovereignty’ describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as contractors fighting international wars, corporations regulating … Continue reading →

David Beer, Why do writers write? (via his Half Thoughts blog) For some reason, I’ve written a little piece about George Orwell’s four motives for writing. The reason why writers write is mostly mysterious, even to the writers themselves. When occasionally … Continue reading →

Oz Hassan, Why the European Union Failed in Afghanistan: Transatlantic Relations and the Return of the Taliban – Bristol University Press, September 2024 In August 2021, the US-led coalition withdrew from Afghanistan. The Taliban quickly returned to power leaving many … Continue reading →

Gideon Baker, Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy – Edinburgh University Press, paperback February 2024

Mark Maguire and Setha Low, Trapped: Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It – Stanford University Press, March 2024 Exploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. Calls to defund the police or … Continue reading →

Paul Allen Miller (ed.), Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis – Bloomsbury, May 2024 The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient … Continue reading →