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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Realism and world politics. Edited by Ken Booth. Worlds in transition: evolving governance across a stressed planet. By Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk. International law, human rights and ethics The handbook of the international law of military operations. Edited by Terry D. Gill and Dieter Fleck. International organization and foreign policy Latin America facing China: South–South relations beyond the Washington Consensus. Edited by Alex E. Fernández Jilberto and Barbara Hogenboom. Conflict, security and defence Why nations fight: past and future motives for war. By Richard Ned Lebow. On art and war and terror. By Alex Danchev. The insurgent archipelago: from Mao to Bin Laden. By John Mackinlay. Counterinsurgency. By David J. Kilcullen. Morality and war: can war be just in the twenty‐first century? By David Fisher. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Children of Abraham at war: the clash of Messianic militarisms. By Talmiz Ahmad. Political economy, economics and development Losing control: the emerging threats to western prosperity. By Stephen D. King. How big banks fail and what to do about it. By Darrell Duffie. Energy, resources and environment Oil, dollars, debt and crises: the global curse of black gold. By Mahmoud A. El‐Gamal and Amy Myers Jaffe. History The generalissimo: Chiang Kai‐shek and the struggle for modern China. By Jay Taylor. After Hiroshima: the United States, race and nuclear weapons in Asia, 1945–1965. By Matthew Jones. Afgantsy: the Russians in Afghanistan 1979–89. By Rodric Braithwaite. Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the challenge of African decolonization, 1950–1980. By Jerry Dávila. The last Ottomans: the Muslim minority of Greece, 1940–1949. By Kevin Featherstone, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Argyris Mamarelis and Georgios Niarchos. Europe The European Union and human security: external interventions and missions. Edited by Mary Martin and Mary Kaldor. Russia and Eurasia The Caucasus: an introduction. By Thomas de Waal. Let our fame be great: journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus. By Oliver Bullough. Oil is not a curse: ownership structure and institutions in Soviet successor states. By Pauline Jones Luong and Erika Weinthal. Resource curse and post‐Soviet Eurasia: oil, gas, and modernization. Edited by Vladimir Gel'man and Otar Marganiya. Middle East and North Africa A history of the Egyptian Intelligence Service: a history of the mukhabarat, 1910–2009. By Owen L. Sirrs. Power and policy in Syria: intelligence services, foreign relations and democracy in the modern Middle East. By Radwan Ziadeh. The Kurdish policy imperative. Edited by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield. Sub‐Saharan Africa Sortir de la grande nuit: essai sur l'Afrique décolonisée. By Achille Mbembe. South Asia Deadly embrace: Pakistan, America and the future of global jihad. By Bruce Riedel. The scorpion's tail: the relentless rise of Islamic militants in Pakistan—and how it threatens America. By Zahid Hussain. East Asia and Pacific East Asia before the West: five centuries of trade and tribute. By David C. Kang. Myanmar/Burma: inside challenges, outside interests. Edited by Lex Rieffel. Inside the red box: North Korea's post‐totalitarian politics. By Patrick McEachern. Witness to transformation: refugee insights into North Korea. By Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland. Chinese strategic thought toward Asia. By Gilbert Rozman. North America The great American mission: modernization and the construction of an American world order. By David Ekbladh. Latin America and Caribbean Cheddi Jagan and the politics of power: British Guiana's struggle for independence. By Colin A. Palmer. Toledo's Peru: vision and reality. By Ronald Bruce St John.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Theory of world security. By Ken Booth. The powers to lead. By Joseph S. Nye Jr. Human rights and ethics Just politics: human rights and the foreign policy of Great Powers. By C. William Walldorf, Jr. The responsibility to protect: ending mass atrocity crimes once and for all. By Gareth Evans. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): the politics and practice of refugee protection in the twenty‐first century. By Gil Loescher, Alexander Betts and James Milner. International law and organization New world disorder: the UN after the Cold War: an insider's view. By David Hannay. The United Nations Security Council and war: the evolution of thought and practice since 1945. Edited by Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum. McMafia: crime without frontiers. By Misha Glenny. Conflict, security and armed forces The five front war: the better way to fight global jihad. By Daniel Byman. Analyzing intelligence: origins, obstacles, and innovations. Edited by Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce. Politics, democracy and social affairs Alpha dogs: how political spin became a global business. By James Harding. International democracy assistance for peacebuilding: Cambodia and beyond. By Sorpong Peou. Political economy, economics and development International political economy: an intellectual history. By Benjamin J. Cohen. Unravelling Gramsci: hegemony and passive revolution in the global political economy. By Adam David Morton. Too poor for peace? Global poverty, conflict, and security in the 21st century. Edited by Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet. Orderly change: international monetary relations since Bretton Woods. Edited by David M. Andrews. Ethnicity and cultural politics The many faces of political Islam: religion and politics in the Muslim world. By Mohammed Ayoob. Islam in Europe: diversity, identity and influence. Edited by Aziz Al‐Azmeh and Effie Fokas. Energy and environment The crisis of global environmental governance: towards a new political economy of sustain‐ability. Edited by Jacob Park, Ken Conca and Matthias Finger. History Thinking beyond the unthinkable: harnessing doom from the Cold War to the age of terror. By Jonathan Stevenson. The Cuban missile crisis and the threat of nuclear war: lessons from history. By Len Scott. One day that shook the communist world: the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy. By Paul Lendvai. Europe The European Union and border conflicts: the power of integration and association. Edited by Thomas Diez, Mathias Albert and Stephan Stetter. What's wrong with the European Union and how to fix it. By Simon Hix. The Albanian question: reshaping the Balkans. By James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers. Middle East and North Africa Beyond the façade: political reform in the Arab world. Edited by Marina Ottaway and Julia Choucair‐Vizoso. The Arab center: the promise of moderation. By Marwan Muasher. Muqtada al‐Sadr and the fall of Iraq. By Patrick Cockburn. Sub‐Saharan Africa When things fell apart: state failure in late‐century Africa. By Robert H. Bates. African counterterrorism cooperation: assessing regional and subregional initiatives. Edited by Andre Le Sage. Gender and genocide in Burundi: the search for spaces of peace in the Great Lakes Region. By Patricia O. Daley. Asia and Pacific Contemporary debates in Indian foreign and security policy: India negotiates its rise in the international system. By Harsh V. Pant. China's struggle for status: the realignment of international relations. By Yong Deng. China's ascent: power, security and the future of international politics. Edited by Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng. Strong borders, secure nation: cooperation and conflict in China's territorial disputes. By M. Taylor Fravel. India: the rise of an Asian giant. By Dietmar Rothermund. North America Undeclared war and the future of US foreign policy. By Kenneth Moss. What happened: inside the Bush White House and Washington's culture of deception. By Scott McClellan. Latin America and Caribbean Ecuador and the United States: useful strangers. By Ronn Pineo. Fidel's ethics of violence: the moral dimension of the political thought of Fidel Castro. By Dayan Jayatilleka.     

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Book reviewed in this issue: International Relations theory Critical International Relations theory after 25 years. Edited by Nicholas Rengger and Ben Thirkell‐White. The political economy of global security: war, future crises and changes in global governance. By Heikki Patomäki. Foreword by Richard Falk. National interest and international solidarity: particular and universal ethics in international life. Edited by Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler. Human rights and ethics Torture and the twilight of empire: from Algiers to Baghdad. By Marnia Lazreg. International law and organization The prohibition of propaganda for war in international law. By Michael G. Kearney. United Nations sanctions and the rule of law. By Jeremy Matam Farrall. Foreign policy Progressive foreign policy. Edited by David Held and David Mepham. China—Europe relations: perceptions, policies and prospects. Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider and Zhou Hong. Honor in foreign policy: a history and discussion. By Michael Donelan. Conflict, security and armed forces Why we are losing the war on terror. By Paul Rogers. Worst‐case scenarios. By Cass R. Sunstein. On nuclear terrorism. By Michael Levi. Cabinets and the bomb. By Peter Hennessy. Politics, democracy and social affairs Worst of the worst: dealing with repressive and rogue nations. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. The construction of democracy: lessons from practice and research. Edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Anthony Jones. Diplomacy with a difference: the Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006. By Lorna Lloyd. Political economy, economics and development Billions of entrepreneurs: how China and India are reshaping their futures and yours. By Tarun Khanna. Russia's capitalist revolution: why market reform succeeded and democracy failed. By Anders Åslund. Creating a world without poverty: social business and the future of capitalism. By Muhammad Yunus. One economics many recipes: globalization, institutions and economic growth. By Dani Rodrik. Business, power and conflict in international environmental politics. By Robert Falkner. Ethnicity and cultural politics The Kurds in Iran: the past, present and future. By Kerim Yildiz and Tanyel B. Taysi. Energy and environment Nuclear power is not the answer. By Helen Caldicott. Bioviolence: preventing biological terror and crime. By Barry Kellman. Integrated transboundary water management in theory and practice: experiences from the new EU eastern borders. Edited by Geoffrey Gooch and Per Stålnacke. History Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy years. By David Talbot. Europe The European superpower. By John McCormick. The European Union and conflict resolution: promoting peace in the backyard. By Nathalie Tocci. Russia and Eurasia Putin: Russia's choice (second edition). By Richard Sakwa. Chechnya: Russia's ‘war on terror’. By John Russell. Russia—lost in translation: the Yeltsin and Putin legacies. By Lilia Shevtsova. The new Cold War: how the Kremlin menaces both Russia and the West. By Edward Lucas. How Russia really works: the informal practices that shaped post‐Soviet politics and business. By Alena V. Ledeneva. Middle East and North Africa Contesting the Saudi state: Islamic voices from a new generation. By Madawi al‐Rasheed. Making Israel. Edited by Benny Morris. A possible peace between Israel and Palestine: an insider's account of the Geneva initiative. By Menachem Klein. Translated by Haim Watzman. Israël, Palestine. Vérités sur un conflit. By Alain Gresh. Iran and its place among nations. By Alidad Mafinezam and Aria Mehrabi. Sub‐Saharan Africa Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: the story of UNAMSIL. By‘Funmi Olonisakin. Cyril Ramaphosa. By Anthony Butler. Asia and Pacific Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy. By Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott‐Clark. The dragon looks south: China and Southeast Asia in the new century. By Bronson Percival. Charm offensive: how China's soft power is transforming the world. By Joshua Kurlantzick. China rising: peace, power and order in East Asia. By David Kang. Contemporary Hong Kong politics: governance in the post‐1997 era. Edited by Lam Wai‐man, Percy Luen‐tim Lui, Wilson Wong and Ian Holliday. North America American power after the Berlin Wall. By Thomas H. Henriksen. The paradox of a global USA. Edited by Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda and Kenneth Weisbrode. Latin America and Caribbean Highland Indians and the state in modern Ecuador. Edited by A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker. Forgotten continent: the battle for Latin America's soul. By Michael Reid.     

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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory The vulnerable in international society. By Ian Clark. Liberty abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations. By Georgios Varouxakis. Wronged by empire: post‐imperial ideology and foreign policy in India and China. By Manjari Chatterjee Miller. Interpreting international politics. By Cecelia Lynch. International organization, law and ethics The Routledge companion to alternative organization. Edited by Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier and Chris Land. Conflict, security and defence The gamble of war: is it possible to justify preventive war? By Ariel Colonomos. NATO in Afghanistan: fighting together, fighting alone. David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman. Just war: authority, tradition, and practice. Edited by Anthony F. Lang Jr, Cian O'Driscoll and John Williams. Counterinsurgency in crisis: Britain and the challenges of modern warfare. By David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell. Arguments that count: physics, computing, and missile defense, 1949–2012. By Rebecca Slayton. The discourse trap and the US military: from the war on terror to the surge. Jeffrey H. Michaels. Political economy, economics and development The dollar trap. By Eswar Prasad. Austerity: the history of a dangerous idea. By Mark Blyth. Development aid confronts politics: the almost revolution. By Thomas Carothers and Diane de Gramont. Energy, environment and global health The future is not what it used to be: climate change and energy security. By Jörg Friedrichs. The politics and institutions of global energy governance. Thijs van de Graaf. International history The new Cambridge history of American foreign relations, vol. 4: challenges to American primacy, 1945 to the present. By Warren I. Cohen. The Holocaust, fascism, and memory: essays in the history of ideas. By Dan Stone. Europe Britain in global politics, volume 1: from Gladstone to Churchill. Edited by Christopher Baxter, Michael L. Dockrill and Keith Hamilton. Britain in global politics, volume 2: from Churchill to Blair. Edited by John W. Young, Effie G. H. Pedaliu and Michael D. Kandiah. Transitional justice in post‐communist Romania: the politics of memory. By Lavinia Stan. Europe's deadlock: how the euro crisis could be solved—and why it won't happen. By David Marsh. The struggle for EU legitimacy. Public contestation, 1950–2005. Claudia Schrag Sternberg. Russia and Eurasia Russia 2025. Scenarios for the Russian future. Edited by Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov. Middle East and North Africa Toppling Qaddafi: Libya and the limits of liberal intervention. Christopher Chivvis. The Syria dilemma. Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. Party politics and the prospects for democracy in North Africa. By Lise Storm. Sub‐Saharan Africa A poisonous thorn in our hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's bitter and incomplete divorce. By James Copnall. Liberation movements in power: party and state in southern Africa. By Roger Southall. South Asia Magnificent delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an epic history of misunderstanding. By Hussain Haqqani. No exit from Pakistan: America's tortured relationship with Islamabad. By Daniel Markey. The warrior state: Pakistan in the contemporary world. By T. V. Paul. East Asia and Pacific Contestation and adaptation: the politics of national identity in China. By Enze Han. North Korea in transition: politics, economy, and society. Edited by Kyung‐ae Park and Scott Snyder. North America The Kennan diaries. Edited by Frank Costigliola. The empire trap: the rise and fall of U.S. intervention to protect American property overseas, 1893–2013. By Noel Maurer. What changed when everything changed: 9/11 and the making of national identity. By Joseph Margulies. Latin America and Caribbean Democratic Chile: the politics and policies of a historic coalition, 1990–2010. Edited by Kirsten Sehnbruch and Peter M. Siavelis. Política externa e democracia no Brasil: ensaio de interpretação histórica. By Dawisson Belém Lopes. In search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States and the nature of a region. By Seth Garfield.     

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Book reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Weltordnungspolitik. By Rüdiger Voigt. Human rights and ethics Studying human rights. By Todd Landman. International law and organization Staying together: the G8 summit confronts the 21st century. By Nicholas Bayne. NATO renewed: the power and purpose of transatlantic cooperation. By Sten Rynning. Foreign policy The secret history of al‐Qa'ida. By Abdel Bari Atwan. Zarqawi: the new face of Al‐Qaeda. By Jean‐Charles Brisard. Diplomacy and developing nations: post‐Cold War foreign policy‐making structures and processes. Edited by Justin Robertson and Maurice A. East. The Atlantic alliance under stress: US–European relations after Iraq. Edited by David M. Andrews. Conflict, security and armed forces Knowing the enemy: jihadist ideology and the war on terror. By Mary Habeck. Liberalism and war: the victors and the vanquished. By Andrew Williams. The psychology of nuclear proliferation: identity, emotions and foreign policy. By Jacques E. C. Hymans. Al Qaeda in Europe: the new battleground of international jihad. By Lorenzo Vidino. Politics, democracy and social affairs The rise of political lying. By Peter Oborne. A better globalization: legitimacy, governance and reform. By Kemal Dervi? with Ceren özer. The politics of good intentions: history, fear and hypocrisy in the new world order. By David Runciman. Independence from America: global integration and inequality. By Jon V. Kofas. Ethnicity and cultural politics Citizens abroad: emigration and the state in the Middle East and North Africa. By Laurie A. Brand. Culture troubles: politics and the interpretation of meaning. By Patrick Chabal and Jean Pascal Daloz. Energy and environment Paths to a green world: the political economy of the global environment. By Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne. The state and the global ecological crisis. Edited by John Barry and Robyn Eckersley. Governing water: contentious transnational politics and global institution building. By Ken Conca. History Blind oracles: intellectuals and war from Kennan to Kissinger. By Bruce Kuklick. The road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews. By Benny Morris. Jordanian Jerusalem: holy places and national spaces. By Kimberly Katz. The failure of American and British propaganda in the Arab Middle East 1945–1957: unconquerable minds. By James R. Vaughan. Victims of Stalin and Hitler: the exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain. By Thomas Lane. Europe Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited. Edited by Simon Green and William E. Paterson. Oltre il declino. By Tito Boeri, Riccardo Faini, Andrea Ichino, Giuseppe Pisauro and Carlo Scarpa. Russia and Eurasia Russia and NATO since 1991: from Cold War through cold peace to partnership? By Martin A. Smith. Middle East and North Africa The‘great Satan'vs. the‘mad mullah’: how the United States and Iran demonize each other. By William O. Beeman. Tehran rising: Iran's challenge to the United States. By Ilan Berman. Saudi Arabia in the balance: political economy, society, foreign affairs. Edited by Paul Aarts and Gerd Nonneman. A framework for a Palestinian national security doctrine. By Hussein Agha and Ahmed S. Khalidi. Reaching for power: the Shi'a in the modern Arab world. By Yitzhak Nakash. The Kurds of Syria: an existence denied. By Harriet Montgomery. Sub‐Saharan Africa Conflict and collusion in Sierra Leone. By David Keen. Dangers of co‐deployment: UN co‐operative peacekeeping in Africa. By David J. Francis, Mohammed Faal, John Kabia and Alex Ramsbotham. Asia and Pacifi c Power shift: China and Asia's new dynamics. Edited by David Shambaugh. State growth and social exclusion in Tibet: challenges of recent economic growth. By Andrew Martin Fischer. ASEAN and East Asian international relations: regional delusions. By David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith. Latin America and Caribbean Crafting civilian control of the military in Venezuela: a comparative perspective. By Harold Trinkunas. From movements to parties in Latin America: the evolution of ethnic politics. By Donna Lee Van Cott.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory On global order: power, values and the constitution of international society. By Andrew Hurrell. Between war and politics: international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt. By Patricia Owens. William E. Connolly: democracy, pluralism and political theory. Edited by Samuel Chambers and Terrell Carver. The realist tradition and contemporary international relations. Edited by W. David Clinton. Nations, states and violence. By David D. Laitin. Human rights and ethics Killing civilians: method, madness and morality in war. By Hugo Slim. Purify and destroy: the political uses of massacre and genocide. By Jaques Semelin. Human rights and the WTO: the case of patents and access to medicines. By Holger Hestermeyer. International law and organization The Oxford handbook on the United Nations. Edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws. Defending the society of states: why America opposes the International Criminal Court and its vision of world society. By Jason Ralph. Reparations for indigenous peoples: international and comparative perspectives. Edited by Federico Lenzerini. The international judge: an introduction to the men and women who decide the world's cases. By Daniel Terris, Cesare P. R. Romano and Leigh Swigard. Foreign policy China—India relations: contemporary dynamics. By Amardeep Athwal. Conflict, security and armed forces Culture in chaos: an anthropology of the social condition in war. By Stephen C. Lubkemann. UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo: operational and legal issues in practice. By Ray Murphy. Biosecurity in the global age: biological weapons, public health and the rule of law. By David P. Fidler and Lawrence O. Gostin. Uniting against terror: cooperative nonmilitary responses to the global terrorist threat. Edited by David Cortright and George A. Lopez. War on terror, inc.: corporate profiteering from the politics of fear. By Solomon Hughes. Politics, democracy and social affairs What democracy is for: on freedom and moral government. By Stein Ringen. Political economy, economics and development Escape from empire: the developing world's journey through heaven and hell. By Alice H. Amsden. Everyday politics of the world economy. Edited by John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke. Global governance reform: breaking the stalemate. Edited by Colin I. Bradford, Jr and Johannes F. Linn. Ethnicity and cultural politics The politics of Englishness. By Arthur Aughey. Cultural contestation in ethnic conflict. By Marc Howard Ross. Energy and environment Peace parks: conservation and conflict resolution. Edited by Saleem H. Ali. Greening Brazil: environmental activism in state and society. By Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. History The Reagan diaries. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. From bloodshed to hope in Burundi: our embassy years during genocide. By Ambassador Robert Krueger and Kathleen Tobin Krueger. Europe Europe's global role: external policies of the European Union. Edited by Jan Orbie. Democratic politics in the European Parliament. By Simon Hix, Abdul G. Noury and Gérard Roland. Middle East and North Africa Der unerklärte Weltkrieg: Akteure und Interessen in nah und Mittelost. By Bahman Nirumand. Sub‐Saharan Africa Big African states. Edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills. After the party: a personal and political journey inside the ANC. By Andrew Feinstein. One hundred days of silence: America and the Rwanda genocide. By Jared Cohen. Asia and Pacific Reconciliation: Islam, democracy and the West. By Benazir Bhutto. Dancing in shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge and the United Nations in Cambodia. By Benny Widyono. Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade. By Bill Emmott. The battle for China's past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. By Mobo Gao . China rising: peace, power and order in East Asia. By David C. Kang. Reluctant restraint: the evolution of China's nonproliferation policies and practices, 1980‐2004. By Evan S. Medeiros. Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo‐Afghan borderland. By Sana Haroon. North America The long war: a new history of US national security policy since World War II. Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich. The mighty Wurlitzer: how the CIA played America. By High Wilford. Latin America and Caribbean Panama lost? US hegemony, democracy, and the canal. By Peter M. Sánchez. Warfare in Latin America. Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by Miguel A. Centeno.     

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International Relations theory Handbook of political theory. Edited by Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas. What is political theory? Edited by Stephen K. White and J. Donald Moon. International ethics In the shadow of ‘just wars’. Edited by Fabrice Weissman. Foreign relations Parting ways: the crisis in German–American relations. By Stephen F. Szabo. Engaging India: diplomacy, democracy, and the bomb. By Strobe Talbott. Conflict, security and armed forces Men, militarism and UN peacekeeping: a gendered analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Politics, democracy and social affairs Out of evil: new international politics and old doctrines of war. By Stephen Chan. The United States and the Great Powers: world politics in the twenty‐first century. By Barry Buzan. World cities beyond the West: globalization, development and inequality. Edited by Josef Gugler. Ethnicity and cultural politics The ethics of identity. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. International and national political economy, economics and development World trade governance and developing countries: the GATT/WTO code committee system. By Kofi Oteng Kufuor. Energy and environment The international climate change regime: a guide to rules, institutions and procedures. By Farhana Yamin and Joanna Depledge. History Caught in the Middle East: US policy toward the Arab–Israeli conflict, 1945–61. By Peter L. Hahn. Support any friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the making of the US–Israeli alliance. By Warren Bass. Armies without nations: public violence and state formation in Central America 1821–1960. By Robert H. Holden. Europe Reinvigorating European elections: the implications of electing the European Commission. By Julie Smith. Himself alone: David Trimble and the ordeal of unionism. By Dean Godson. David Trimble: the price of peace. By Frank Millar. The myth of ethnic war: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. By V. P. Gagnon, Jr. Cyprus: the search for a solution. By David Hannay. The Turks today. By Andrew Mango. Russia and the former Soviet republics Russia's engagement with the West: transformation and integration in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Alexander J. Motyl, Blair A. Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova. The Russian military: power and policy. By Steven E. Miller and Dmitri Trenin. Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post‐Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Edited by Neil Robinson. Middle East and North Africa Cradle of Islam: the Hijaz and the quest for an Arabian identity. By Mai Yamani. Checkpoint syndrome. By Liran Ron Furer. Sub‐Saharan Africa Africa unchained: the blueprint for Africa's future. By George Ayittey. Durable peace: challenges for peacebuilding in Africa. Edited by Tasier M. Ali and Robert O. Matthews. The political economy of AIDS in Africa. Edited by Nana K. Poku and Alan Whiteside. Africa in international politics: external involvement on the continent. Edited by Ian Taylor and Paul Williams. Africa at the crossroads: between regionalism and globalization. Edited by John Mukum Mbaku and Suresh Chandra Saxena. Designing West Africa: prelude to 21st century calamity. By Peter Schwab. Islamism and its enemies in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Alex de Waal. Rethinking the rise and fall of apartheid. By Adrian Guelke. Engaging Africa: Washington and the fall of Portugal's colonial empire. By Witney W. Schneidman. Asia and Pacific Modern Afghanistan: a history of struggle and survival. By Amin Saikal. The idea of Pakistan. By Stephen Philip Cohen. Pakistan's drift into extremism: Allah, the army, and America's war on terror. By Hassan Abbas. State and society in 21st‐century China: crisis, contention, and legitimation. Edited by Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen. China's new order: society, politics, and economy in transition. By Wang Hui. The river runs black: the environmental challenge to China's future. By Elizabeth C. Economy. North America America right or wrong: an anatomy of American nationalism. By Anatol Lieven. American power in the 21st century. Edited by David Held and Matthias Koenig‐Archibugi. The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the republic. By Chalmers Johnson. Latin America and Caribbean Cuba: a new history. By Richard Gott. Mercosur: between integration and democracy. Edited by Francisco Domínguez and Marcos Guedes de Oliveira.     

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Classical and modern thought in International Relations: from anarchy to cosmopolis. By Robert Jackson Human rights and ethics A new deal for the world: America's vision for human rights. By Elizabeth Borgwardt Planetary politics: human rights, terror and global society. Edited by Stephen Eric Bronner Protecting human rights: a comparative study. By Todd Landman The right war? The conservative debate on Iraq. Edited by Gary Rosen International law and organization The ‘war on terror’ and the framework of international law. By Helen Duffy The humanitarians: the International Committee of the Red Cross. By David P. Forsythe Irrelevant or indispensable? The United Nations in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff Denial of justice in international law. By Jan Paulsson Law in the service of human dignity: essays in honour of Florentino Feliciano. Edited by Steve Charnovitz, Debra P. Steger and Peter Van den Bossche Foreign policy British foreign policy under New Labour, 1997—2005. By Paul D. Williams Conflict, security and armed forces The utility of force: the art of war in the modern world. By General Sir Rupert Smith Electing to fight: why emerging democracies go to war. By Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder Al‐Qaeda now: understanding today's terrorists. Edited by Karen J. Greenberg Politics, democracy and social affairs Modernization, cultural change and democracy: the human development sequence. By Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel Globalization, governmentality and global politics: regulation for the rest of us? By Ronnie D. Lipschutz with James K. Rowe The coming democracy: new rules for running a new world. By Ann Florini Political economy, economics and development Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner History The global Cold War: Third World interventions and the making of our times. By Odd Arne Westad History The Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis British documents on the end of empire: Central Africa (parts I and II). Part I: Closer association, 1945–1958. Part II: Crisis and dissolution, 1959–1965. Edited by Philip Murphy Europe The Balkans in the new millennium: in the shadow of war and peace. By Tom Gallagher War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. By Ian Oliver Perspectives on European development cooperation: policy and performance of individual donor countries and the EU. Edited by Paul Hoebink and Olav Stokke La politique étrangère de l'Union Européenne. By Romain Yakemtchouk Russia and Eurasia Russia's empires: their rise and fall from prehistory to Putin. By Philip Longworth Ukraine's Orange Revolution. By Andrew Wilson Middle East and North Africa Jordan: living in the crossfire. By Alan George Sub‐Saharan Africa Why Botswana prospered. By J. Clark Leith Season of hope: economic reform under Mandela and Mbeki. By Alan Hirsch Rethinking the labour movement in the ‘new South Africa’. Edited by Thomas Bramble and Franco Barchiesi State of the nation: South Africa 2005—2006. Edited by Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall and Jessica Lutchman A dirty war in West Africa: the RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone. By Lansana Gberie Asia and Pacific The changing face of China: from Mao to market. By John Gittings Emerging democracy in Indonesia. By Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Leo Suryadinata The India—Pakistan conflict: an enduring rivalry. Edited by T. V. Paul Power shift: China and Asia's new dynamics. Edited by David Shambaugh North America Taming American power: the global response to US primacy. By Stephen M. Walt Quest for identity: America since 1945. By Randall Bennett Woods Latin America and Caribbean The judicialization of politics in Latin America. Edited by Alan Angell, Rachel Sieder and Line Schjolden US intervention in British Guiana: a Cold War story. By Stephen G. Rabe Transforming Latin America: the international and domestic origins of change. By Craig Arceneaux and David Pion‐Berlin     

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Book reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Bounding power: republican security theory from the polis to the global village. By Daniel Deudney. The price of peace: just war in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Charles Reed and David Ryall. The sovereignty paradox: the norms and politics of international statebuilding. By Dominik Zaum. Human rights and ethics Bitter chocolate: investigating the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet. By Carol Off. International law and organization Global justice: the politics of war crimes trials. By Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu. Human security and the UN: a critical history. By S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong. From Pablo to Osama: trafficking and terrorist networks, government bureaucracies and competitive adaptation. By Michael Kenney. Foreign policy Between ally and partner: Korea‐China relations and the United States. By Jae Ho Chung. Conflict, security and armed forces Peacekeeping and the international system. By Norrie MacQueen. International organizations and peace enforcement: the politics of international legitimacy. By Katharina P. Coleman. The risk society at war: terror, technology and strategy in the twenty‐first century. By Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen. Asymmetric warfare: threat and response in the twenty‐first century. By Rod Thornton. Political economy, economics and development The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it. By Paul Collier. Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies and the threat to the developing world. By Ha‐Joon Chang. All politics is global: explaining international regulatory regimes. By Daniel W. Drezner. Does foreign aid really work? By Roger C. Riddell. Energy and environment The international politics of genetically modified food: diplomacy, trade and law. Edited by Robert Falkner. History Dark side of the moon: the magnifi cent madness of the American lunar quest. By Gerard DeGroot. Europe The foundations of Europe: European integration ideas in France, Germany and Britain in the 1950s. By Thomas Hörber. Russia and Eurasia Russian foreign policy in the twenty‐first century and the shadow of the past. Edited by Robert Legvold. Chechnya: the case for independence. By Tony Wood. Middle East and North Africa Hizbullah: a short history. By Augustus Richard Norton. Failing peace: Gaza and the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. By Sara Roy. The Iraq crisis and world order: structural, institutional and normative challenges. Edited by Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu. Hamas: unwritten chapters. By Azzam Tamimi. Everyday jihad: the rise of militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon. By Bernard Rougier. Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Sub‐Saharan Africa You must set forth at dawn: a memoir. By Wole Soyinka. Asia and Pacific Fortifying Pakistan: the role of US internal security assistance. By C. Christine Fair and Peter Chalk. Perfect hostage: a life of Aung San Suu Kyi. By Justin Wintle. Rising star: China's new security diplomacy. By Bates Gill. China's security interests in the twenty‐first century. By Russell Ong. The minimum means of reprisal: China's search for security in the nuclear age. By Jeffrey Lewis. North America Imperial life in the emerald city. By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Rumsfeld: an American disaster. By Andrew Cockburn. Seeing the elephant: the US role in global security. By Hans Binnendijk and Richard L. Kugler. Latin America and Caribbean Democracy after Pinochet: politics, parties and elections in Chile. By Alan Angell.     

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Taming the sovereigns: institutional change in international politics. By K. J. Holsti. International ethics Glimmer of a new leviathan: total war in the realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz. By Campbell Craig. International law and organization The politics of international law. Edited by Christian Reus‐Smit. International justice and the International Criminal Court: between sovereignty and the rule of law. By Bruce Broomhall. Enemy aliens: double standards and constitutional freedoms in the war on terrorism. By David Cole. The UN Security Council from the Cold War to the 21st century. Edited by David M. Malone. Foreign relations An alliance at risk: the United States and Europe since September II. By Laurent Cohen‐Tanugi. Friendly fire: the near‐death of the transatlantic alliance. By Elizabeth Pond. The Middle East's relations with Asia and Russia. Edited by Hannah Carter and Anou‐shiravan Ehteshami. A dictionary of diplomacy. 2nd edn. By G. R. Berridge and Alan James. Conflict, security and armed forces Allies: the US, Britain, Europe, and the war in Iraq. By William Shawcross. Politics, democracy and social affairs Revolutionary and dissident movements of the world. 4th edn. Edited by Bogdan Szajkowski. Ethnicity and cultural politics The search for Arab democracy: discourses and counter‐discourses. By Larbi Sadiki. International and national political economy, economics and development Transatlantic economic disputes: the EU, the US, and the WTO. Edited by Ernst‐Ulrich Petersmann and Mark A. Pollack. Behind the scenes at the WTO: the real world of international trade negotiations. By Fatoumata Jawara and Eileen Kwa. In defense of globalization. By Jagdish N. Bhagwati. La mondialisation et ses ennemis. By Daniel Cohen. History Britain and Europe since 1945: historiographical perspectives on integration. By Oliver J. Daddow. Democracy and US policy in Latin America during the Truman years. By Steven Schwartzberg. Europe Toward a European army: a military power in the making? By Trevor C. Salmon and Alistair J. K. Shepherd. Inescapable questions: autobiographical notes. By Alija Izetbegovic. The demise of Yugoslavia: a political memoir. By Stipe Mesic. The future of Turkish foreign policy. Edited by Lenore G. Martin and Dimitris Keridis. Russia and the former Soviet republics Russia in search of itself. By James H. Billington. Russland und der postsowjetische Raum. Edited by Olga Alexandrova, Roland Götz and Uwe Halbach. Russian foreign policy and the CIS: theories, debates and actions. By Nicole J. Jackson. Middle East and North Africa Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf: power politics in transition. By Faisal bin Salman al‐Saud. Sub‐Saharan Africa Accounting for horror: post‐genocide debates in Rwanda. By Nigel Eltringham. Politics in South Africa: from Mandela to Mbeki. By Tom Lodge. Beyond the miracle: inside the new South Africa. By Allister Sparks. Asia and Pacific Le voile et la bannière: l'avant‐garde féministe au Pakistan. By Christèle Dedebant. China's techno‐warriors: national security and strategic competition from the nuclear to the information age. By Evan A. Feigenbaum. Kim Jong‐Il: North Korea's Dear Leader. By Michael Breen. North Korea: another country. By Bruce Cumings. Latin America and Caribbean Latin American and Caribbean foreign policy. Edited by Frank O. Mora and Jeanne A. K. Hey.     

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Book reviewed in this articles: International Relations theory Constructing global civil society: morality and power in international relations. By David Chandler. International ethics The ethics and politics of asylum: liberal democracy and the response to refugees. By Matthew J. Gibney. Bait and switch? Human rights and American foreign policy. By Julie A. Mertus. International law and organization The United States and the rule of law in international affairs. By John F. Murphy. Conflict, security and armed forces Arguing about war. By Michael Walzer. Border and territorial disputes of the world. 4th edn. Edited by Peter Calvert. Politics, democracy and social affairs British foreign secretaries since 1974. Edited by Kevin Theakston. The new mandarins: how British foreign policy works. By John Dickie. Silvio Berlusconi: television, power and patrimony. By Paul Ginsborg. Thaksin: the business of politics in Thailand. By Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker. Ethnicity and cultural politics Globalised Islam: the search for a new ummah. By Olivier Roy. International and national political economy, economics and development The economics of innocent fraud: truth for our time. By J. K. Galbraith. Why globalization works: the case for the global market. By Martin Wolf. Global production networking and technological change in East Asia. Edited by Shahid Yusuf, M. Anjum Altaf and Kaoru Nabeshima. Locating global advantage: industry dynamics in the international economy. Edited by Martin Kenney with Richard Florida. Energy and environment The green state: rethinking democracy and sovereignty. By Robyn Eckersley. History Think tanks and power in foreign policy: a comparative study of the role and influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939–1945. By Inderjeet Parmar. A ‘special relationship’? Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson and Anglo‐American relations ‘at the summit’, 1964–68. By Jonathan Colman. The flawed architect: Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy. By Jussi Hanhimäki. The first domino: international decision making during the Hungarian Crisis of 1956. By Johanna Granville. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War: imperial defence, colonial security and decolonisation. By David Percox. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 coup in Iran. Edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne. Britain and the confrontation with Indonesia, 1960–1966. By David Easter. Europe Easier fatherland: Germany and the twenty‐first century. By Steve Crawshaw. The European dream: how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream. By Jeremy Rifkin. EU development cooperation: from model to symbol. Edited by Karin Arts and Anna K. Dickson. Russia and the former Soviet republics Vladimir Putin and the new world order: looking east, looking west? By J. L. Black. Russian crossroads: toward the new millennium. By Yevgeny Primakov. Middle East and North Africa What we owe Iraq: war and the ethics of nation building. By Noah Feldman. The missing peace: the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace. By Dennis Ross. The war for Muslim minds: Islam and the West. By Gilles Kepel. Contending visions of the Middle East: the history and politics of orientalism. By Zachary Lockman. Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution. By Nikki R. Keddie. Inventing Iraq: the failure of nation building and a history denied. By Toby Dodge. Asia and Pacific The international relations of Northeast Asia. Edited by Samuel S. Kim. Holding China together: diversity and national integration in the post‐Deng era. Edited by Barry J. Naughton and Dali L. Yang. Japan's security agenda: military, economic, and environmental dimensions. By Christopher W. Hughes. North America More equal than others: America from Nixon to the new century. By Godfrey Hodgson. Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance. By Noam Chomsky. The decline of American power: the US in a chaotic world. By Immanuel Wallerstein. Latin America and Caribbean Reforming Brazil. Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Anthony Peter Spanakos. The last colonial massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. By Greg Grandin.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg. By Christopher Coker . Visions of world community. By Jens Bartelson . Rethinking world politics: a theory of transnational neopluralism. By Philip G. Cerny . Intenational law, human rights and ethics The limits of ethics in International Relations: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition. By David Boucher . The fog of law: pragmatism, security and international law. By Michael J. Glennon . Just war on terror? A Christian and Muslim response. Edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker . International organization and foreign policy Deadlocks in multilateral negotiations: causes and solutions. Edited by Amrita Narlikar . A history of diplomacy. By Jeremy Black . The secret state: preparing for the worst, 1945–2010. By Peter Hennessy . The ultimate weapon is no weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace. By Shannon D. Beebe and Mary Kaldor . The problem of force: grappling with the global battlefield. By Simon W. Murden . Governance, civil society and cultural politics Apart: alienated and engaged Muslims in the West. By Justin Gest . Political economy, economics and development Capital ideas: the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization. By Jeffrey M. Chwieroth . History M16: the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–1949. By Keith Jeffery . Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. David Killingray with Martin Plaut . Red plenty: inside the fifties’ Soviet dream. By Francis Spufford . Peru and the United States, 1960–1975: how their ambassadors managed foreign relations in a turbulent era. By Richard J. Walter . Europe In search of the Balkan recovery: the political and economic reemergence of SouthEastern Europe. By Christopher Cviic and Peter Sanfey . Russia and Eurasia Nationalist imaginings on the Russian past: Anatolii Fomenko and the rise of alternative history in post‐communist Russia. By Konstantin Sheiko with Stephen Brown . The new nobility: the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB. By Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan . Persian dreams: Moscow and Tehran since the fall of the Shah. By John W. Parker . Middle East and North Africa Meccanomics: the march of the new Muslim middle class. By Vali Nasr . Invisible war: the United States and the Iraq sanctions. By Joy Gordon . Islam and peacemaking in the Middle East. By Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said . Sub‐Saharan Africa Blood on the stone: greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade. By Ian Smillie . From blood diamonds to the Kimberley Process: how NGOs cleaned up the global diamond industry. By Franziska Bieri . Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid. By Peter Gill . The Ethiopian Revolution: war in the Horn of Africa. By Gebru Tareke . Zimbabwe's exodus: crisis, migration, survival. Edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera . Ending apartheid. By J. E. Spence and David Welsh . South Asia The most dangerous place: Pakistan's lawless frontier. By Imtiaz Gul . The Afghanistan‐Pakistan theater: militant Islam, security and stability. Edited by Daveed Gartenstein‐Ross and Clifford May . Seeds of terror: how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters . Opium: uncovering the politics of the poppy. By Pierre‐Arnaud Chouvy . North America Washington rules: America's path to permanent war. By Andrew J. Bacevich . Advancing democracy abroad: why we should and how we can. By Michael McFaul . The survival and the success of liberty: a democracy agenda for U.S. foreign policy. By Morton H. Halperin and Michael Hochman Fuchs . Latin America and Caribbean Evo Morales: the extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. By Martin Sivak . Amexica: war along the borderline. By Ed Vulliamy . Mexico: narco‐violence and a failed state? By George W. Grayson . Cuba: what everyone needs to know. By Julia E. Sweig .     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory International society and the Middle East: English School theory at the regional level. Edited by Barry Buzan and Ana Gonzalez‐Pelaez. Antagonistics: capitalism and power in an age of war. By Gopal Balakrishnan. Human rights and ethics On human rights. By James Griffin. International law and organization International criminal law practitioner library, volume I: forms of responsibility in international criminal law. By Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff and Natalie L. Reid. International criminal law practitioner library, volume II: elements of crimes under international law. By Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff and Natalie L. Reid. Foreign policy Power rules: how common sense can rescue American foreign policy. By Leslie H. Gelb. How to get out of Iraq with integrity. By Brendan O'Leary. Political economy, economics and development Banking on Basel: the future of international financial regulation. By Daniel K. Tarullo. Ethnicity and cultural politics Reflections on the revolution in Europe. By Christopher Caldwell. Energy and environment Starved for science: how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa. By Robert Paarlberg. Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. By Mike Hulme. Security and environmental change. By Simon Dalby. The new energy crisis: climate, economics and geopolitics. Edited by Jean‐Marie Chevalier. Governing sustainability. Edited by W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan. History Foreign relations of the United States, 1969–1976, volume XL: Germany and Berlin, 1969–1972. Edited by David C. Geyer. The uses and abuses of history. By Margaret MacMillan. Europe The history of the European Union—origins of the trans‐ and supranational polity 1950–72. Edited by Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht and Morten Rasmussen. Russia and Eurasia The quality of freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos affair. By Richard Sakwa. Revolution 1989: the fall of the Soviet empire. By Victor Sebestyen. Russian energy power and foreign relations: implications for conflict and cooperation. Edited by Jeronim Perovic, Robert W. Orttung and Andreas Wenger. Expanding Eurasia: Russia's European ambitions. By Janusz Bugajski. Middle East and North Africa The Ayatollah begs to differ: the paradox of modern Iran. By Hooman Majd. The gamble: General Petraeus and the untold story of the American surge in Iraq, 2006–2008. By Thomas E. Ricks. Syria's Kurds: history, politics and society. By Jordi Tejel. The new Turkish republic: Turkey as a pivotal state in the Muslim world. By Graham E. Fuller. Arab–Israeli military forces in an era of asymmetric wars. By Anthony H. Cordesman. The Persian night: Iran under the Khomeinist revolution. By Amir Taheri. Sub‐Saharan Africa A swamp full of dollars: pipelines and paramilitaries at Nigeria's oil frontier. By Michael Peel. Angola/Portugal: des identités coloniales équivoques. Historicité des représentations de soi et d'autrui. By Arlindo Barbeitos. Saviors and survivors: Darfur, politics and the war on terror. By Mahmood Mamdani. Africa: the politics of suffering and smiling. By Patrick Chabal. From genocide to continental war: the ‘Congolese’ conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa. By Gerard Prunier. Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: culture, history, society. By Ioan Lewis. Asia and Pacific Asia, America, and the transformation of geopolitics. By William H. Overholt. When China rules the world: the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world. By Martin Jacques. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi. North America Follies of power: America's unipolar fantasy. By David P. Calleo. From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776. By George C. Herring. What the world should be: Woodrow Wilson and the crafting of a faith‐based foreign policy. By Malcolm D. Magee. Religion and American foreign policy, 1945–1960: the soul of containment. By William Inboden. Latin America and Caribbean Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. involvement in the 1973 coup in Chile. By Lubna Z. Qureshi. Brazilian foreign policy after the Cold War. By Sean W. Burges. Latin America's struggle for democracy. Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Diego Abente Brun. Contemporary Mexican politics. By Emily Edmonds‐Poli and David A. Shirk.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory On compromise and rotten compromises. By Avishai Margalit. The globalization of security: state power, security provision and legitimacy. By Bryan Mabee. Carl Schmitt's international thought: order and orientation. By William Hooker. International law, human rights and ethics Social justice in the global age. Edited by Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond. The human right to a green future: environmental rights and intergenerational justice. By Richard P. Hiskes. Habeas corpus: from England to empire. By Paul D. Halliday. International organization and foreign policy The South in world politics. By Chris Alden, Sally Morphet and Marco Antonio Vieira. Conflict, security and defence War games: the story of aid and war in modern times. By Linda Polman. GCHQ: the uncensored story of Britain's most secret intelligence agency. By Richard J. Aldrich. Corporate security responsibility? Corporate governance contributions to peace and security in zones of conflict. Edited by Nicole Deitelhoff and Klaus Dieter Wolf. Reputation and civil war: why separatist conflicts are so violent. By Barbara F. Walter. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The sociology of elite distinction: from theoretical to comparative perspectives. By Jean‐Pascal Daloz. Political economy, economics and development Crisis economics: a crash course in the future of finance. By Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm. 13 bankers: the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown. By Simon Johnson and James Kwak. The crisis of capitalist democracy. By Richard A. Posner. Culture and consensus in European varieties of capitalism: a ‘common sense’ analysis. By Ian Bruff. Energy, resources and environment Climate change justice. By Eric A. Posner and David Weisbach. Europas fragile Energiesicherheit: Versorgungskrisen und ihre Bedeutung für die europäische Energiepolitik. By Kristina Kurze. History Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: European and global responses. Edited by Carol Fink and Bernd Schaefer. Nuclear illusion, nuclear reality: Britain, the United States and nuclear weapons, 1958–64. By Richard Moore. Europe Europe's promise: why the European way is the best hope in an insecure age. By Steven Hill. Europe as the would‐be world power: the EU at fifty. By Giandomenico Majone. Rethinking Germany and Europe: democracy and diplomacy in a semi‐sovereign state. Edited by Simon Bulmer, Charlie Jeffery and Stephen Padgett. Russia and Eurasia Soviet fates and lost alternatives: from Stalinism to the new Cold War. By Stephen F. Cohen. Middle East and North Africa Britain and the Middle East in the 9/11 era. By Rosemary Hollis. The Arab Gulf states: beyond oil and Islam. By Sean Foley. The new authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. By Stephen J. King. Sub‐Saharan Africa Borders and borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Dereje Feyissa and Markus Hoehne. The international relations of sub‐Saharan Africa. By Ian Taylor. Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria. By Kate Meagher. South Asia Beyond crisis: re‐evaluating Pakistan. Edited by Naveeda Khan. India, Pakistan, and the bomb: debating nuclear stability in South Asia. By ?umit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur. East Asia and Pacific Growing pains: tensions and opportunity in China's transformation. Edited by Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle and Xueguang Zhou. The Party: the secret world of China's communist rulers. By Richard McGregor. Latin America and Caribbean The politics of cocaine: how US foreign policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America. By William L. Marcy. Dirty secrets, dirty war: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976–1983: the exile of editor Robert J. Cox. By David Cox. Perceptions of Cuba: Canadian and American policies in comparative perspective. By Lana Wylie.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Guide to the English School in international studies. Edited by Cornelia Navari and Daniel M. Green. The triumph of democracy and the eclipse of the West. By Ewan Harrison and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. Empires without imperialism: Anglo‐American decline and the politics of deflection. By Jeanne Morefield. Bringing sociology to International Relations: world politics as differentiation theory. Edited by Mathias Albert, Barry Buzan and Michael Zürn. International organization, law and ethics Sovereignty and the responsibility to protect: a new history. By Luke Glanville. The endtimes of human rights. By Stephen Hopgood. Conflict, security and defence Men at war: what fiction tells us about conflict, from the Iliad to Catch‐22. Christopher Coker. Nuclear weapons counterproliferation: a new grand bargain. By Jack I. Garvey. The fog of peace: the human face of conflict resolution. By Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco. Clausewitz's timeless trinity: a framework for modern war. By Colin M. Fleming. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The national interest in question: foreign policy in multicultural societies. By Christopher Hill. Women of the world: the rise of the female diplomat. By Helen McCarthy. Racisms: from the crusades to the twentieth century. By Francisco Bethencourt. International history The US, the UN and the Korean war: communism in the Far East and the American struggle for hegemony in the Cold War. By Robert Barnes. Britain's Korean war: Cold War diplomacy, strategy and security 1950–53. By Thomas Hennessey. British diplomacy and US hegemony in Cuba, 1898–1964. By Christopher Hull. Europe The uncertain legacy of crisis: European foreign policy faces the future. By Richard Youngs. EU foreign policy and crisis management operations: power, purpose and domestic politics. By Benjamin Pohl. Unhappy union: how the euro crisis—and Europe—can be fixed. By John Peet and Anton la Guardia. Politics in contemporary Portugal: democracy evolving. By José M. Magone. Is the EU doomed? By Jan Zielonka. Inside Greek terrorism. By George Kassimeris. Russia and Eurasia Presidential decrees in Russia: a comparative perspective. By Thomas F. Remington. Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991: a history. By Orlando Figes. State erosion: unlootable resources and unruly elites in Central Asia. By Lawrence P. Markowitz. Fear, weakness and power in the post‐Soviet South Caucasus. By Kevork Oskanian. Middle East and North Africa Libya: history and revolution. By Richard A. Lobban, Jr and Christopher H. Dalton. Sub‐Saharan Africa Civic agency in Africa: arts of resistance in the 21st century. Edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wendy Willems. Routledge handbook of Africa's international relations. Edited by Tim Murithi. Colonialism and violence in Zimbabwe: a history of suffering. By Heike I. Schmidt. South Asia The wrong enemy: America in Afghanistan 2001–2014. By Carlotta Gall. Military adaptation in Afghanistan. Edited by Theo Farrell, Frans Osinga and James A. Russell. East Asia and Pacific By all means necessary: how China's resource quest is changing the world. By Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi. Spoiling Tibet: China and resource nationalism on the roof of the world. By Gabriel Lafitte. North Korea: state of paranoia. By Paul French. North America The end of the American world order. By Amitav Acharya. Oxford encyclopedia of American military and diplomatic history. Edited by Paul S. Boyer, Timothy J. Lynch, David Milne, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Danielle M. Holtz. Latin America and Caribbean Brazil: the troubled rise of a global power. By Michael Reid. Suriname in the long twentieth century: domination, contestation, globalization. By Rosemarijn Hoefte.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Realist strategies of republican peace: Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and the politics of patriotic dissent. By Vibeke Schou Tjalve. Critique, security and power: the political limits to emancipatory approaches. By Tara McCormack. International law, human rights and ethics * * See also Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse than war: genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity, pp. 551–2; Amartya Sen, The idea of justice, and Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel, eds, Against injustice: the new economics of Amartya Sen, pp. 560–1.
The perils of global legalism. By Eric A. Posner. The torture memos: rationalizing the unthinkable. Edited by David Cole. The Guantanamo effect: exposing the consequences of US detention and interrogation practices. By Laurel E. Fletcher and Eric Stover. Beyond corporate social responsibility: oil multinationals and social challenges. By Jedrzej George Frynas. Civilising globalisation: human rights and the global economy. By David Kinley. International organization and foreign policy When empire meets nationalism: power politics in the US and Russia. By Didier Chaudet, Florent Parmentier and Benoît Pélopidas. Conflict, security and defence Worse than war: genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. The defence of the realm: the authorized history of MI5. By Christopher Andrew. The accidental guerrilla: fighting small wars in the midst of a big one. By David Kilcullen. First do no harm: humanitarian intervention and the destruction of Yugoslavia. By David N. Gibbs. How wars end. By Dan Reiter. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The life and death of democracy. By John Keane. Democracy kills: what's so good about the vote?. By Humphrey Hawksley. Political economy, economics and development The idea of justice. By Amartya Sen. Against injustice: the new economics of Amartya Sen. Edited by Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel. The politics of global regulation. Edited by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods. The creation and destruction of value: the globalization cycle. By Harold James. Misadventures of the most favored nations: clashing egos, inflated ambitions, and the great shambles of the world trade system. By Paul Blustein. Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty. Edited by Dan Banik. Energy, resources and environment Energy and climate change: Europe at the crossroads. By David Buchan. History German unification, 1989–1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas, series III, volume VII. Edited by Patrick Salmon, Keith Hamilton and Stephen Twigge. Europe * * See also David Buchan, Energy and climate change: Europe at the crossroads, pp. 566–7.
What's so eastern about Eastern Europe? By Leon Marc. The new old world. By Perry Anderson. Russia and Eurasia Russia and the challengers: Russian alignment with China, Iran and Iraq in the unipolar era. By Helen Belopolsky. Russia as an aspiring Great Power in East Asia: perceptions and policies from Yeltsin to Putin. By Paradorn Rangsimaporn. Middle East and North Africa Saving Iraq: rebuilding a broken nation. By Nemir Kirdar. Khatami's Iran: the Islamic Republic and the turbulent path to reform. By Ghoncheh Tazmini. The Middle East: a beginner's guide. By Philip Robins. Sub‐Saharan Africa Eritrea's external relations: understanding its regional role and foreign policy. Edited by Richard Reid. Africa: unity, sovereignty and sorrow. By Pierre Englebert. After Mandela: the battle for the soul of South Africa. By Alec Russell. South Africa's brave new world: the beloved country since the end of apartheid. By R. W. Johnson. Asia and Pacific Making sense of Pakistan. By Farzana Shaikh. Inside Central Asia: a political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran. By Dilip Hiro. Speaking like a state: language and nationalism in Pakistan. By Alyssa Ayres. To live or to perish forever: two tumultuous years in Pakistan. By Nicholas Schmidle. The limits of influence: America's role in Kashmir. By Howard B. Schaffer. China from the inside out: fitting the People's Republic into the world. By Ronald C. Keith. China's international behavior: activism, opportunism, and diversification. By Evan S. Medeiros. North America * * See also David Cole, ed., The torture memos: rationalizing the unthinkable, and Laurel E. Fletcher and Eric Stover, The Guantanamo effect: exposing the consequences of US detention and interrogation practices, pp. 546–8.
The limits of power: the end of American exceptionalism. By Andrew Bacevich. American foreign policy and the politics of fear: threat inflation since 9/11. Edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer. By his own rules: the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld. By Bradley Graham. Latin America and Caribbean Death squads or self‐defense forces? How paramilitary groups emerge and challenge demo cracy in Latin America. By Julie Mazzei. Beyond neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and politics at the crossroads. Edited by John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn and Kenneth M. Roberts. Our place in the sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro era. Edited by Robert Wright and Lana Wylie.     

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Book reviewed in this articles. International Relations theory Sovereignty: evolution of an idea. By Robert Jackson. International legitimacy and world society. By Ian Clark. Human rights and ethics American torture: from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond. By Michael Otterman. International law and organization Law, war and crime: war crimes trials and the reinvention of international law. By Gerry Simpson. Foreign policy The Israel lobby and US foreign policy. By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Koizumi diplomacy: Japan's Kantei approach to foreign and defense affairs. By Tomohito Shinoda. Conflict, security and armed forces Nuclear logics: contrasting paths in East Asia and the Middle East. By Etel Solingen. Who should keep the peace? Providing security for twenty‐first‐century peace operations. By William J. Durch and Tobias C. Berkman. Terrorism and global disorder: political violence in the contemporary world. By Adrian Guelke. Endless war? Hidden functions of the ‘war on terror’. By David Keen. After mass crime: rebuilding states and communities. Edited by Béatrice Pouligny, Simon Chesterman and Albrecht Schnabel. The looming tower: Al‐Qaeda's road to 9/11. By Lawrence Wright. Chechnya: from nationalism to jihad. By James Hughes. Politics, democracy and social affairs The myth of the rational voter: why democracies choose bad policies. By Bryan Caplan. All politics is global: explaining international regulatory regimes. By Daniel Drezner. The international politics of space. By Michael Sheehan. After Hitler: recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995. By Konrad H. Jarausch. Political economy, economics and development Making aid work. By Abhijit V. Banerjee. Business power in global governance. By Doris Fuchs. Rational extremism: the political economy of radicalism. By Ronald Wintrobe. Ethnicity and cultural politics Changing white attitudes toward black political leadership. By Zoltan L. Hajnal. Uncouth nation: why Europe dislikes America. By Andrei S. Markovits. History The Cold War and after: capitalism, revolution, and superpower politics. By Richard Saull. Tales from Spandau: Nazi criminals and the Cold War. By Norman J. W. Goda. Iraq and the lessons of Vietnam: or how not to learn from the past. Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young. Spy satellites and other intelligence technologies that changed history. By Thomas Graham Jr and Keith A. Hansen. Europe Democracy in Europe: The EU and national polities. By Vivien A. Schmidt. Russia and Eurasia Getting Russia right. By Dmitri V. Trenin. Middle East and North Africa The Islamic Republic and the world: global dimensions of the Iranian revolution. By Maryam Panah. Inside Lebanon: a journey to a shattered land with Noam and Carol Chomsky. Edited by Assaf Khoury. Sub‐Saharan Africa US foreign policy and the Horn of Africa. By Peter Woodward. Asia and Pacifc Military inc: inside Pakistan's military economy. By Ayesha Siddiqa. The deadly embrace: religion, politics and violence in India and Pakistan 1947‐2002. Edited by Ian Talbot. Islam, oil and geopolitics: Central Asia after September 11. Edited by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis and Rouben Azizian. North America The crisis of American foreign policy: the effects of a divided America. By Howard J. Wiarda, with the assistance of Esther M. Skelley. The J curve: a new way to understand why nations rise and fall. By Ian Bremmer. Latin America and Caribbean The Pinochet regime. By Carlos Huneeus.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The balance of power in international relations: metaphors, myths and models. By Richard Little. Empires: the logic of world domination from Ancient Rome to the United States. By Herfried Münkler. Human rights and ethics Human security: reflections on globalization and intervention. By Mary Kaldor. International law and organization The UN Security Council and the politics of international authority. Edited by Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd. Conflict, security and armed forces Leashing the dogs of war: conflict management in a divided world. Edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall. Striking first: preemption and prevention in international conflict. By Michael W. Doyle. Edited and introduced by Stephen Macedo. Politics, democracy and social affairs Democracy's good name: the rise and risks of the world's most popular form of government. By Michael Mandelbaum. The architecture of government: rethinking political decentralization. By Daniel Treisman. Why we hate politics. By Colin Hay. Political economy, economics and development The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: threat or opportunity? Edited by Karl P. Sauvant. World trade politics: power, principles and leadership. By David A. Deese. Regulating capital: setting standards for the international financial system. By David Andrew Singer. Ethnicity and cultural politics Secularism confronts Islam. By Olivier Roy. Energy and environment Break through: from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility. By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Das Energiedilemma: Warum wir über Atomkraft neu nachdenken müssen. [The energy dilemma: why we need to think again about nuclear power.] By Jeanne Rubner. Climate change: what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren. Edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman. History Katyn: a crime without punishment. Edited by Anna M. Cienciala, Natalia S. Lebedeva and Wojciech Materski. Poland under communism: a Cold War history. By A. Kemp‐Welch. Indian summer: the secret history of the end of an empire. By Alex Von Tunzelmann. Europe Der europäische Raum: Die Konstruktion europäischer Grenzen. Edited by Petra Deger and Robert Hettlage. Russia and Eurasia Gorbachev's gamble: Soviet foreign policy and the end of the Cold War. By Andrei Grachev. NATO–Russia relations in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Aurel Braun. Russian energy policy and military power: Putin's quest for greatness. By Pavel K. Baev. Middle East and North Africa The vital triangle: China, the United States, and the Middle East. By Jon B. Alterman and John W. Carver. A police force without a state: a history of the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and Gaza. By Brynjar Lia. Building Arafat's police: the politics of international police assistance in the Palestinian territories after the Oslo agreement. By Brynjar Lia. The Palestinian military: between militias and armies. By Hillel Frisch. Sub‐Saharan Africa Guns and governance in the Rift Valley: pastoralist conflict and small arms. By Kennedy Agade Mkutu. Asia and Pacific China's changing political landscape: prospects for democracy. Edited by Cheng Li. North America World out of balance: international relations and the challenge of American primacy. By Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth. The Bush tragedy: the unmaking of a president. By Jacob Weisberg. Democracy incorporated: managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism. By Sheldon S. Wolin. Freedom's unsteady march: America's role in building Arab democracy. By Tamara Cofman Wittes. The strange death of Republican America: chronicles of a collapsing party. By Sidney Blumenthal. Latin America and Caribbean Paraguay and the United States: distant allies. By Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney.     

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Books reviewed in this article: International law and organization International organizations as law‐makers. By José E. Alvarez International human rights lexicon. By Susan Marks and Andrew Clapham America's failing empire: US foreign relations since the Cold War. By Warren I. Cohen Conflict, security and armed forces The new wars. By Herfried Münkler The new western way of war. By Martin Shaw Critical security studies and world politics. Edited by Ken Booth Politics, democracy and social affairs Gulliver unbound: America's imperial temptation and the war in Iraq. By Stanley Hoffman and Frédéric Bozo The limits of global governance. By Jim Whitman Une société internationale en mutation: quels acteurs pour une nouvelle gouvernance? Edited by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Rostane Mehdi First democracy: the challenge of an ancient idea. By Paul Woodruff The opportunity: America's moment to alter history's course. By Richard N. Haass Setting the people free: the story of democracy. By John Dunn Ethnicity and cultural politics Landscapes of the jihad: militancy, morality, modernity. By Faisal Devji Globalization and the Muslim world: culture, religion, and modernity. Edited by Birgit Schaebler and Leif Stenberg Foreign territory: the internationalization of EU asylum policy. By Oxfam Political economy, economics and development Local players in global games: the strategic constitution of a multinational corporation. By Peer Hull Kristensen and Jonathan Zeitlin Multinationals and global capitalism: from the nineteenth to the twenty‐first century Leviathans: multinational corporations and the new global history. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr and Bruce Mazlish The new masters of capital: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness. By Timothy J. Sinclair Labour in a global world: case studies from the white goods industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe. By Theo Nichols and Surhan Cam Energy and environment The new accountability: environmental responsibility across borders. By Michael R. Mason History Poisoned peace: 1945 the war that never ended. By Gregor Dallas Britain, the Six‐day War and its aftermath. By Frank Brenchley In the midst of events: the Foreign Office diaries and papers of Kenneth Younger, February 1950–October 1951. By Geoffrey Warner The Nixon administration and the death of Allende's Chile: a case of assisted suicide. By Jonathan Haslam Michael of Romania: the king and the country. By Ivor Porter Europe The enlargement of the European Union and NATO: ordering from the menu in Central Europe. By Wade Jacoby International relations and the European Union. Edited by Christopher Hill and Michael Smith The politics of exclusion: institutions and immigration policy in contemporary Germany. By Simon Green Europe and the recognition of new states in Yugoslavia. By Richard Caplan Russia and Eurasia Kazakhstan: power and the elite. By Sally N. Cummings Radical Islam in Central Asia: between pen and rifle. By Vitaly V. Naumkin Sub‐Saharan Africa Darfur: the ambiguous genocide. By Gérard Prunier Darfur: a short history of a long war. By Julie Flint and Alex de Waal Institutions and ethnic politics in Africa. By Daniel Posner Civil militia: Africa's intractable security menace? Edited by David J. Francis The African Union: pan‐Africanism, peacebuilding and development. By Timothy Murithi Politics in francophone Africa. By Victor T. Le Vine Asia and Pacific America's miracle man in Vietnam. By Seth Jacobs North America Addicted to oil: America's relentless drive for energy security. By Ian Rutledge America: sovereign defender or cowboy nation? Edited by Vladimir Shlapentokh, Joshua Woods and Eric Shiraev Devastating society: the neo‐conservative assault on democracy and justice. Edited by Bernd Hamm Latin America and Caribbean The third wave of Latin American democratization: advances and setbacks. Edited by Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring Institutional reforms: the case of Colombia. Edited by Alberto Alesina Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution. By Richard Gott