Books reviewed
Inclusivity in Mediation and Peacebuilding
UN, Neighboring States, and Global Powers
By Daisaku Higashi, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2022, 173pp., £78 (hardback, also available as an ebook), ISBN 9781800880511Read the review in Taylor and Francis
From Edward Elgar Publishing:
This cutting-edge book illuminates the key characteristics of inclusivity in mediation during armed conflicts and post-conflict peacebuilding. Daisaku Higashi illustrates the importance of mediators taking flexible approaches to inclusivity in arbitration during armed conflicts, highlighting the crucial balance between the need to select conflicting parties to make an agreement feasible and the need to include a multiplicity of parties to make the peace sustainable. Higashi also emphasizes the importance of inclusive processes in the phase of post-conflict peacebuilding.
Citizenship in Transnational Perspective
Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand
Jatinder Mann (Editor), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 339pp. eBook. £95.50. ISBN: 978-3-0313-4358-2.Read the review from the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN)
— available via The journal directly here
Continuing from the success of the first edition is a welcome, second edition of Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand. This edition offers a balanced combination of the first edition, revised and new chapters, and provides value through expert and critical scholarship giving us new perspectives. The collection is an updated, in-depth analysis of the changes and challenges to conventional understandings of citizenship, which express ‘a definitive alignment between identities, citizenship rights, and territorial boundaries’ (p. 3) and ‘the idea of a shared identity rooted in universal rights and obligations’ (p. 3). Through diverse case studies from Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, the collection makes several important contributions that enhance the understanding of citizenship today.
A Narrative of Denial
Australia and the Indonesian Violation of East TimorLearn how the Australian government used the guise of national interest to forge a false account of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
— available via Melbourne University Press
I would like to thank Peter Job, Clinton Fernandes and the impressive people at the University of British Columbia and the Pacific Affairs journal for the opportunity for review this important contribution to our understanding.