bwaber@bookwyrm.social reviewed A World of Struggle by David Kennedy
A Book-Length Op Ed
3 stars
Kennedy lays out the philosophical issues with international policy making, focusing on the limits of the legal and economic fields and their default assumptions. This argument is fine, if often obscured by obtuse language, but Kennedy brings absolutely no data to the party, instead relying on case studies and reason. If this were an op-ed I'd have less of a problem with this approach, but when you write a book on the topic you really need to bring empirical proof to back up these claims. A lot of the points may be valid (there are also a lot that aren't), but unfortunately that backing is absent
Kennedy lays out the philosophical issues with international policy making, focusing on the limits of the legal and economic fields and their default assumptions. This argument is fine, if often obscured by obtuse language, but Kennedy brings absolutely no data to the party, instead relying on case studies and reason. If this were an op-ed I'd have less of a problem with this approach, but when you write a book on the topic you really need to bring empirical proof to back up these claims. A lot of the points may be valid (there are also a lot that aren't), but unfortunately that backing is absent