Stephen Barber
Stephen Barber is Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, Senior Fellow of the Global Policy Institute (London Metropolitan University) and Book Review Editor of Social Europe Journal.
A Lasting Impression from the Man who would be European King?
Just two years after his departure from Downing Street comes this early attempt to assess Tony Blair’s legacy as British prime minister. And it arrives at a time when Blair was being considered for the new role of President of the European Council; an ambition he was unable to realise. Such renewed interest surely [...]
The Fragility of Democracy
John Keane, professor of politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, calls it ‘serendipity’. A decade in the writing and the first attempt at a full scale history of democracy in over a century, The Life and Death of Democracy hits the book shelves with the sort of timing that no-one [...]