Book reviews
The False Promise of Liberal Order
The false promise of liberal order and longing for a rules-based global framework are at the heart of the critique of Patrick Porter’s book of the same name.
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Small States on the World Map: A Majority in the Minority
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, Edward Elgar Publishing released the Handbook on the Politics of Small States.
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The Spell of Perishing Europe
Last year the Estonian translation of George Friedman’s1 2015 book Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe was published.
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A Treat for History Connoisseurs
Last year offered few Estonian translations of books on history, at least that of the 20th century.
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Retrospective on a military career
General Jim Mattis writes about the importance of relations with allies
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A Pertinent Insight into the Last 30 Years of Politics
I am part of a generation who can recollect the 1990s only through a few personal childhood memories.
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A Handbook on the Kremlin’s Useful Idiots
In 2017, the prestigious publishing house Routledge published a book by the currently Vienna-based Ukrainian author Anton Shekhovtsov.
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The Story of a Lone Wolf
What connects people like Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt, Beate Zschäpe, David Sonboly, William Atchison, Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Anders Breivik? We have barely heard most of these names and if we have, we have quickly forgotten them.
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The EU’s New Face
When writing about the new book by Luuk van Middelaar, a Dutch political scientist and speechwriter for the European Council’s former president Herman van Rompuy, one cannot escape the fact that its original Dutch title was simply De nieuwe politiek van Europa (Europe’s New Policy). In English, however, the title became sexier, adding drama. This is of course apt when we speak of the EU in recent years, which to date has been the epitome of boredom for journalists, at least.
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