Category: Book of the Week

In Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias, Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew investigate the history and politics of modern asymmetrical warfare. By focusing on four specific hotbeds of instability—Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq—Shultz and Dew conduct a careful analysis...

Jo Anne Schneider is associate research professor at the George Washington Institute for Public Policy and in the Anthropology Department at George Washington University. In this interview, she talks about her new book Social Capital and Welfare Reform. In a...

Character and Environment is the first book-length defense of a virtue-oriented approach to environmental ethics. Ronald Sandler brings together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics.nnQuestion: What does it mean for an environmental ethic to be...

The following is an interview with Jack Sanders and Katie Terezakis, coeditors of the new edition of György Lukács’s, Soul and Form.nnQ: Why publish a new edition of Lukács’s early essays now?nnJack Sanders and Katie Terezakis: Lukács first published the...

George Rupp is the president of the International Rescue Committee, an agency that provides assistance to refugees around the world. In Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community, George Rupp outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief...

In Globalized Islam, a brilliant exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, or “re-Islamization,” results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim...