Henri Lefebvre’s “Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis” is noteworthy because it rearticulates various problems Lefebvre tackled in the decades before 1989. One of his last texts, the article certainly does, as David Wachsmuth and Neil Brenner point out, serve as an intriguing link to current debates on comparative urbanization. However, the article also reminds us how Lefebvre’s work is punctuated with missed opportunities.

Matthew Carr sets out to recount a personal adventure, describing his encounters with migrants and embellishing each chapter with scenic details of Europe’s different borderscapes. Fortress Europe is not an academic undertaking but a timely product of investigative journalism, rich in empirical material.

Elizabeth Povinelli speaks to her latest work on political theory and philosophy, anthropology, and cultural and legal studies with ethnographic encounters in Indigenous Australia and queer America.

As a political geographer, Yeh traces People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) state and nation building projects in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) during the past six decades, focusing on the Chinese state’s territorialisation of Tibet’s landscape and people, and the consequent changes in state/society and interethnic relations.

The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? is partly the product of panels at a series of conventions, including International Studies Association meetings and EU-funded workshops. The five chapters (plus introduction) by the editor offer a book within the book, developing an argument about the social basis of revivals of geopolitics in Europe.