Thomas Hale’s book Long Problems skilfully unpacks the issue of time that prevents humans to adequately formulate and implement responses. He provides a range of options to overcome this challenge, using climate change as the prime example.

Amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty and tumult, Paul Tucker draws on International Relations theory, political economy, tangible examples and his own rich experience to provide a much-needed set of concrete prescriptions that could help liberal democracies weather the maelstrom successfully.

Based on in-depth analysis of opinion polls available for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the book discusses the political quietism prevailing in the major oil exporters of the Gulf. It introduces the concept of "hydrocarbon citizens” to characterise and explain this prevailing attitude. 

Evan Mawdsley’s Supremacy at Sea is an engaging and fast moving account of the opening moves of the U.S. Navy's Central Pacific offensive during the first half of 1944 and that offensive's driving force, Task Force 58.

Examining the Chinese Communist Party’s century-long trajectory, this volume analyses its resilience, ideological governance, and modernisation strategies. While offering rich empirical studies, its broad scope and lack of thematic cohesion make it an ambitious yet somewhat fragmented exploration of the CCP’s evolution.

Hansbury’s book examines Belarus’s 2020 uprising, Lukashenka’s survival strategies, and the West’s response. While insightful and engaging, it overlooks key diplomatic efforts and naively suggests Russia could mediate change. Despite its flaws, it remains essential reading on Belarus’s political crisis.

Mixed Fortunes by Paul Tilley delves into our past successes – which are few and far between – and failures in the process of tax policymaking to understand what lessons can be garnered for future tax reform. Critically, tax reform is not simply ‘tinkering’ we often see debated about managing bracket creep, changes to the total level of taxation or the provision of tax breaks. Tilley looks to genuine reform and the underpinning review process.

Ahead of the Filipino general election, Reinventing Marcos: From Dictator to Hero by Keith Dalton offers a historical lens on Ferdinand E. Marcos’s authoritarian regime and examines the enduring influence of political dynasties.

Hawai‘i’s Chinese community has played a pivotal yet often overlooked role in the islands’ history, shaping its social and economic landscape while navigating complex racial dynamics. Nancy E. Riley’s Place, Race, and Politics in Chinatown attempts to critique this history through a settler-colonial framework but ultimately oversimplifies the nuanced experiences of Chinese Hawaiians, reducing their agency to a narrative of complicity in whiteness.

Climate change is an existential threat for pacific nations and Australia, according to the authors of Climate politics in Oceania: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World, is dragging its feet when it comes to leadership and engagement in climate policy in the pacific.