NEW✨ To achieve peace, international law must prioritise women’s rights. Gendered Peace through International Law by @larimatsu.bsky.social and Christine Chinkin @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social reviewed by Leo Todd. Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... Image: Shutterstock.

NEW✨ What captured the attention of LSE Review of Books readers in 2025?📚👀 Read our countdown of the 12 most popular posts published during the year, covering topics from inequality and new forms of capitalism to the ascendance of AI.

NEW READING LIST✨📚 Inspired by a six-part discussion series at LSE, Universities in the age of polarisation, Kevin Wilson @lselibrary.bsky.social picks six books that explore #polarisation – from debates on academic freedom to the impacts of social media – and offer ideas for bridging divides.

NEW✨ How German banks embraced financialisation and reinforced US dollar dominance 🇩🇪💵 Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on US Dollar Debt by Mareike Beck @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org reviewed by Juvaria Jafri @politicsuea.bsky.social 👇

NEW✨ Why are India’s elite emigrating? 🇮🇳 Secession of the Successful: The Flight Out of New India by Sanjaya Baru @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #Review by Rahul Gupta.

NEW✨ Is there an alternative to Big Tech’s control of the #SocialMedia space? The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? by @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social reviewed by Dawa Tshering @edithcowanuni.bsky.social.

What has shaped war and political change in #Syria? As the nation marks one year since the fall of the #Assad regime, Burak Elmalı reviews War in Syria and the Middle East: A Political and Economic History by Federico Manfredi Firmian @utexaspress.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

NEW✨ As #Syria marks one year since the historic fall of the #Assad regime, Burak Elmalı ( TRT World Research Centre, Istanbul) reviews a new book, War in Syria and the Middle East: A Political and Economic History by Federico Manfredi Firmian @sciencespo.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social.

NEW✨ Contradictions of wokeness and privilege in the new elite We Have Never Been Woke by @musaalgharbi.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social. #Review by Suraj Beri 👇

NEW✨ The cycle of making & upgrading products through global value chains (GVCs) is pitched as a positive thing for development. But what if it isn't? Benjamin Selwyn @sussex.ac.uk co-author of Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics on the big lie about GVCs.

Our social care systems are failing the most vulnerable. @arlenejackson.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social reviews Care Poverty and Unmet Needs ed. Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe @cpeclse.bsky.social, Ricardo Rodrigues & @profkirstein.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social #UKDHM

A real honour to have contributed to @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social on the important and prescient issue of the social care crisis via this review. #DisabilityHistoryMonth #disability #chronicillness #socialcare

Can a new vision for growth drive climate action? 🪴 Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social Read in full here: 🖇️ bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @gsos-lse.bsky.social

NEW✨ Our social care systems are failing the most vulnerable. @arlenejackson.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social reviews Care Poverty and Unmet Needs ed. Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe @cpeclse.bsky.social, Ricardo Rodrigues and @profkirstein.bsky.social #DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM

How do we combat hate in a polarised age? 🤼 Our latest newsletter explores this question, and shares analysis of the UK budget, Trump and the US midterms, GenAI's challenge for researchers, and more. Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/lse/lse-blog... Subscribe 👉 eepurl.com/iwXSu-/

NEW✨ In the latest edition of our global #BookshopGuide series, Egor Bronnikov and Jannes Vleming take us on a tour of their top spots for book lovers in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱📚🌷

NEW✨ Beliefism: How to Stop Hating the People We Disagree With @profpauldolan @lsepbs.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social #Review by Nauman Asghar @liverpooluni.bsky.social #Psychology #Polarisation #Politics

NEW✨ Organic Finance: Building a New Sustainable and Inclusive Framework from the Ground Up by Atul K. Shah @bayesbschool.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social #Review by Ismail Ertürk @manchester.ac.uk 👇

Seeking reading material? For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

NEW✨ Why Propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy Dogwhistles and Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul @oxunipress.bsky.social and Safe Havens for Hate by @tmitts.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social – a double review by Chris Featherman @mit.edu

NEW✨ For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people #UKDHM #DisabilityHistoryMonth 👇📚

💡New! UK Budget 2025 – growth first, the rest will follow blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

NEW✨ Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands by Jiani He @pku1898.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social #Review by Ron Po @routledgebooks.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social #History #Language #Asia #China

NEW✨ Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands by Jiani He @pku1898.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social #Review by Ron Po @routledgebooks.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social #History #Language #Asia #China

NEW✨ Whose ideas, in whose interests? A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms by @giampaoloconte.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social, reviewed by @larsdoepking.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social

💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” ✍️ Madiha Tariq #AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship

Today's LSE blogs newsletter is a #COP30 special exploring a holistic vision for growth to drive climate action, how the private sector can fund climate adaptation & how to persuade the public to back climate policy. Plus, research on Mamdani's election, the BBC scandal & more. 👉 ow.ly/Gjbq50XrGbv

Can a new vision for growth drive climate action? Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social. Read in full here: 🖇️ https://bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @gsos-lse.bsky.social

NEW✨ Why Propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy Dogwhistles and Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul @oxunipress.bsky.social and Safe Havens for Hate by @tmitts.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social – a double review by Chris Featherman @mit.edu

Three key lessons from a climate diplomat going into COP30 – Alejandra Padín Dujon reviews The Climate Diplomat: A Personal History of the COP Conferences by Peter Betts @profilebooks.bsky.social on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

A new book by Nicholas Stern @granthamlse.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social puts forward a vision for sustainable growth to drive climate action. Gregory Casey reviews it for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Five books on the struggle for climate justice 📚 A reading list by Eoin Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

#COP30 is underway in Belém, & as the climate crisis worsens, pressure is on states to make progress in negotiations. Below, read a thread of research-led commentary on what's at stake🧵🌏👇 First, Manjana Milkoreit @sthlmresilience.bsky.social on climate tipping points for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

NEW✨ Eoin Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social recommends five illuminating books on the roots and realities of the struggle for #ClimateJustice. #COP30 #ReadingList

Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social Read in full here: 🖇️ https://bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @granthamlse.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Is there a better way to organise the global economy? Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How we fix it by Cahal Moran @lsepbs.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social reviewed by Vamika Goel @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social.

NEW✨ Can a new vision for #growth drive real #ClimateAction? The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by #NickStern @granthamlse.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social, reviewed by Gregory Casey @williamseconomics.bsky.social #COP30 @gsos-lse.bsky.social

NEW✨ Three lessons from a climate diplomat going into #COP30 in Brazil. Alejandra Padín-Dujon @carbonpulse.bsky.social reviews The Climate Diplomat: A Personal History of the COP Conferences by Peter Betts @profilebooks.bsky.social. Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... Image: Shutterstock

NEW✨ Is there a better way to organise the global economy? Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How we fix it by Cahal Moran @lsepbs.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social reviewed by Vamika Goel.

Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale. A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach. Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️ 🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw Read the review 👇 buff.ly/geSIAGY

Truly grateful for this generous and insightful review of “Reimagining the more-than-human city” by Andrew Karvonen, freshly out at LSE review of books!!

NEW✨ Novelist Chloe Michelle Howarth discusses her new book, Heap Earth Upon It and its social context: love, shame and invisible queerness in 1960s Ireland. Howarth will speak at a Q&A with LSE's LGBTQIA+ staff network, Spectrum at 12pm on Wednesday 19 November – details in post 👇

NEW✨ Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore by @drjamiew.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #Review by Andrew Karvonen @lund-university.bsky.social #UrbanStudies #Environment

NEW✨ Is neoliberalism being replaced by something even more capitalist? @brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World reviewed by Ivan Radanović. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

35 years after the Washington Consensus, is a new economic paradigm emerging? A new book The London Consensus @lsepress.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social considers this question, launching at a public event this evening at LSE. Details below www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...

In our latest bookshop guide, @jsmaje.bsky.social (LSE Geography) takes us on a tour of the best bookshops in #Dhaka, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

How has the meaning of #revolution changed over time? The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein @princetonupress.bsky.social. #Review by @edoardovaccari.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

35 years after the Washington Consensus, is a new economic paradigm emerging? Read a new interview with Irene Bucelli, Tim Besley and Andrés Velasco, editors of The London Consensus @lsepress.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social

#BlackHistoryMonth celebrates the contributions of Black people to British society and globally. For BHM 2025, we've compiled a list of recommended books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, chosen by LSE staff 🔽 @blackhistorymonth.org.uk