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Book Review | Policing Patients
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient...
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Book Review | Vulture Capitalism
Grace Blakeley‘s Vulture Capitalism critiques the alliance of corporations, finance, and states underpinning the capitalist system that drives inequality, stifles democracy and enriches elites....
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Book Reviews | How the super-rich shape economies and societies
Are governments doing enough to address today’s widening inequalities, or are they pandering to the wealth elite? Max Steuer‘s Dangerous Guesswork in Economic Policy and Sarah Kerr‘s Wealth, Poverty...
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Book Review | Politicizing Political Liberalism
How should liberal democracies respond to the rise of right-wing populism? In this timely book, Politicizing Political Liberalism, Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti draw on and extend the influential...
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Book Review | Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
In Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie explore the transformative potential and existential dilemmas involved in AI’s rapid...
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Book Review | Homeland Insecurity: The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism...
Conor Gearty‘s Homeland Insecurity explores the global rise of anti-terrorism legislation in the 20th and 21st centuries. Gearty probes the historical contexts and political forces – from colonial...
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Book Review | Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money by Dariusz Wojcik and co-authors is a visual exploration of global finance, blending history, geography, economics and politics across a diverse...
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Book Review | The Open Society as an Enemy
J. McKenzie Alexander‘s The Open Society as an Enemy revisits Karl Popper’s foundational work on the concept of the “open society” in relation to contemporary threats to democratic values, from the...
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Book Review | The Abraham Accords
Elham Fakhro‘s The Abraham Accords examines Gulf-Israel relations leading up to and since the Abraham Accords, a set of bilateral diplomatic agreements between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE signed in the...
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Book Review | Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins
How much of our identity is shaped by genetics, and how much by society? In Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins, Shoumita Dasgupta examines how genetic science can be distorted by social biases in areas...
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