BOOKS

Ndabaningi Sithole: A Forgotten Founding Father
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, editor

Seismic shifts in Zimbabwe's politics since the 2017 demise of Robert Mugabe have generated renewed interest in Ndabaningi Sithole, the first president of the Zimbabwe African National    More >

Pentecostal Charismatic Women: Constructions of Femininity in Alexandra Township
Tumi Mampane

Drawing on her own experiences, Tumi Mampane provides deep insights into the daily lives of women in a South African Pentecostal community. Equally, she relates those insights to    More >

The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries
Amira Jadoon with Andrew Mines

The deadly attack on Kabul's airport in August 2021 shocked the world and brought concentrated attention to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISK). New questions quickly arose: How    More >

Countering China: US Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative
Edward Ashbee

By March 2022, a remarkable 144 countries had signed onto the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—China's massive investment and infrastructure development program—with    More >

Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges ... and the Need for Change
Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, editors

Why, given the enormous resources spent by the US and Europe on security assistance to Arab countries, has it led to so little success? Can anything be done to change the disheartening    More >

South African Foreign Policy Review: Volume 4, Ramaphosa and a New Dawn for South African Foreign Policy
Lesley Masters, Philani Mthembu, and Jo-Ansie van Wyk, editors

This latest volume of South African Foreign Policy Review assesses South Africa's foreign policy during the presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa. Focusing on such themes as foreign policy    More >

South Africa's Struggle for Independent Education: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and the History of the Wilberforce Institute
Vusumuzi Rodney Kumalo

At the start of the twentieth century, newly urbanized South Africans struggled with mainstream missionary education and its associated oppression, segregation, displacement, and not least,    More >

The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa
Narnia Bohler-Muller, Vasu Reddy, Gregory Houston, Maxi Schoeman, and Heather Thuynsma, editors

The Texture of Dissent presents concise political biographies of a myriad of prominent South African public intellectuals who were shaped by the contentious issues of their day. Showcasing    More >

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to China's Presence in the Baltic Sea Region
Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns, editors

China's growing presence in the strategically important Nordic-Baltic region has implications not only for the region itself, but also for general transatlantic relations. Within that    More >

Chasing Equality: Women's Rights and US Public Policy
Susan Gluck Mezey and Megan A. Sholar

Despite women's many gains in the political, economic, and social spheres, equality remains elusive—and in some areas, ground is being lost. Why? Why does the pay gap between women    More >

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