Universities that use the book
It is pretty remarkable how the book has been picked up by teachers around the world, and used in their courses. I never expected this kind of a response. Courses that have had the book on the reading list include …
Preface to the paperback edition
Writing the preface to a new edition of a book that first appeared twelve years ago is like trying to introduce a very good, but long-lost, friend. You know the person really well but you are at the same time not quite sure what he or she has been up to lately. …
Out in paperback
Cambridge University Press just confirmed that Identity, Interest & Action, long available only in hard-back and ridiculously priced at some $130 US, now is out in paperback. It took 12 long years! …
The struggle for recognition
This is a new project I’m working on together with a friend, Thomas Lindemann in Bourdeaux. It’s on “the struggle for recognition in international relations.” It’s going to be an edited volume with us two as editors. …
Book news
You’ll find a picture of my Surviving Capitalism on page 33 of the most recent New York Review of Books! OK, it’s an ad which Anthem Press took out, but anyway. As far as I’m concerned the NYRB is the place to be seen. Read the book, or at least buy it. In the U.K. […]
Your PhD
The meeting went fine; your dissertation got two “very goods” and one “distinction” (Scott). I gave it very good, but that’s no criticism; it’s still one revision away from a distinction. …