My former PhD student, Carmen Chas’s forthcoming book. A groundbreaking study that combines International Law and Realist IR theory to excellent effect.

I’m enjoying this book but can’t help feeling it’s a bit long at just short of 500 pages; that said, there’s a lot going on in Machiavelli )and the sources he draws upon) and it’s difficult to see what she could have left out.

Don’t know whether to be disappointed or relieved that Foucault didn’t choose this picture to introduce The Order of Things.

I had the privilege of attending the graduation of not one but two of my (now former!) PhD students last Friday. Congratulations and well done to Carmen Chas and Dan Dunleavy!

Onwards and upwards!