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2003: 1
G.K. Bhambra D. Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference and G. Prakash, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India
Pinar Bilgin

C. Coker, Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-first Century: NATO and the Management of Risk

Tadzio Mueller

Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power

Lisa Watanabe 

S.Aronowitz and P. Bratsis (eds.), Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered

2002: 3
Mary Ann Tétreault Aziz al-Azmeh, Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities
Peter Waterman

Arthur B. Shostak (ed). The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology

Anastasia Nesvetailova D. Dasgupta, M. Uzan, D. Wilson (eds), Capital Flows without Crisis? Reconciling Capital Mobility and Economic Stability

Adam David Morton 

Jonathan Joseph, Hegemony: A Realist Analysis and From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics

Adrian Treacher I. Manners I. and R. Whitman (eds) The Foreign Policies of European Union Member States
2002: 2
Achin Vanaik Ashley Tellis, India's Emerging Nuclear Posture
Danilo Zolo Fred Halliday, The World at 2000
David Smith Arquilla, J. and Ronfeldt, D. (eds) Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy; Byman, D., Chalk, P., Hoffman, B., Rosenau, W., and Brannan, D., Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements

Adam David Morton 

J. Martin, Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers
Georgina Waylen Catherine Eschle, Global Democracy, Social Movements and Feminism
2002: 1

Sreeram Sundar Chaulia 

Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century. Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
Ipek Demir The Global Constitution of 'Failed States': The Consequences of a New Imperialism? (conference)

Adam David Morton

J. Migdal,, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another

Anna Reid

Amores Perros (film)
Stuart Shields G. Blazyca and R. Rapacki, (eds.) Poland into the New Millennium
2001: 4
Duncan S.A. Bell Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire
Nicholas Waddell Ludo De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba and Michela Wrong, In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz
Sean Sayers  Onora O’Neill, Bounds of Justice
Oliver Ramsbotham Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
Gerard Holden  Robert M.A. Crawford and Darryl S.L. Jarvis (eds), International Relations – Still an American Social Science?
2001: 3
Leo Panitch  Martin Shaw, Theory of the Global State: Globality as Unfinished Revolution
Will Leggett  Anthony Giddens, editor, The Global Third Way Debate
Beate Jahn  The Postnational Constellation. Political Essays by Jürgen Habermas
Christien van den Anker  Nussbaum, M.C., Women and Human Development. The Capabilities Approach
Kimberley Hutchings Global Society: Special Issue on Cosmopolitanism
2001: 2
João Marques de Almeida Beate Jahn, The Cultural Construction of International Relations: The Invention of the State of Nature
Danilo Zolo F. Halliday, The World at 2000 (in Italian)
Stephen Ryan M. Cox, A. Guelke and F. Stephen, A Farewell to Arms? From 'Long War' to Long Peace in Northern Ireland
Mark Rix Keith Suter, In Defence of Globalisation and Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill (eds.), The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance
Catherine Eschle H. Smith (ed.) Democracy and International Relations: Critical Theories/Problematic Practices
Alejandro Colás Ethics in Foreign Policy conference (Forum For European Philosophy, LSE, March 2001)
2001: 1
William I.  Robinson Alex Callinicos, Social Theory: A Historical Introduction
Mark Lacy

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity

Duncan S.A. Bell Richard Wyn Jones, ed. Critical Theory in World Politics
Beate Jahn

Kimberly Hutchings, International Political Theory; Mollie Cochran, Normative Theory in International Relations

Martin Shaw 

Teaching global sociology (review article) John Beynon and David Dunkerley (eds.) Globalization: The Reader; Robin Cohen and Paul Kennedy, Global Sociology; David Held (ed.) A Globalizing World? Culture, Politics, Economics

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