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Books reviewed in this issue. Why Concepts Matter : Translating Social and Political Thought . Edited by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter. The Historical Novel in Nineteenth ‐Century Europe : Representations of Reality in History and Fiction . By Brian Hamnett. Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause : A Journey from Language to Experience . By Peter Icke. Making History : The Historian and Uses of the Past . By Jorma Kalela. The Reformation of Feeling : Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany . By Susan C. Karant‐Nunn. History in the Plural : An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck . By Niklas Olsen. Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece . By Charles Stewart. The Holocaust and Historical Methodology . Edited by Dan Stone.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. History and Psyche : Culture , Psychoanalysis , and the Past . Edited by Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor. Turning Traditions Upside Down : Rethinking Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment . Edited by Anne Eusterschulte and Henning Hufnagel. Baroque Science . By Ofer Gal and Raz Chen‐Morris. Presence : Philosophy , History , and Cultural Theory for the Twenty ‐First Century . Edited by Ranjan Ghosh and Ethan Kleinberg. Made in the Margins : Latina/o Constructions of US Religious History . By Hjamil A. Martínez‐Vázquez. On Historical Distance . By Mark Salber Phillips. Dasein Disclosed : John Haugeland's Heidegger . Edited by Joseph Rouse. Memory and History : Understanding Memory as Source and Subject . Edited by Joan Tumblety.     

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International Relations theory Book reviewed in this articles: The realist tradition and the limits of International Relations. By Michael C. Williams. Ordering international politics: identity, crisis, and representational force. By Janice Bially Mattern. The nature of political theory. By Andrew Vincent. International ethics For all peoples and all nations: Christian churches and human rights. By John Nurser. International law and organization Lawless world: America and the making and breaking of global rules. By Philippe Sands. War law: international law and armed conflict. By Michael Byers. International crimes and the ad hoc tribunals. By Guénaël Mettraux. Foreign relations Russia and the European Union: prospects for a new relationship. By Oksana Antonenko and Kathryn Pinnick. Conflict, security and armed forces The future of war: the re‐enchantment of war in the twenty‐first century. By Christopher Coker. The turbulent decade: confronting the refugee crises of the 1990s. By Sadako Ogata. The UN's role in nation‐building: from the Congo to Iraq. Edited by James Dobbins, Keith Crane, Seth G. Jones, Andrew Rathmell, Brett Steele and Richard Teltschik. The politics of peacekeeping in the post‐Cold War era. Edited by David S. Sorenson and Pia Christina Wood. Energy and environment A world environment organization: solution or threat for effective international environmental governance? Edited by Frank Biermann and Steffen Bauer. History The United States and Germany in the era of the Cold War, 1945‐1968: a handbook, volume I. Edited by Detlef Junker. The United States and Germany in the era of the Cold War, 1968‐1990: a handbook, volume II. Edited by Detlef Junker. The Eden‐Eisenhower correspondence, 1955‐1957. Edited by Peter G. Boyle. Europe Why Europe will run the 21st century. By Mark Leonard. The EU and Turkey: a glittering prize or a millstone? Edited by Michael Lake. The European Union in the wake of eastern enlargement: institutional and policymaking challenges. Edited by Amy C. Verdun and Osvaldo Croci. Republik ohne Kompass: Anmerkungen zur deutschen Aussenpolitik. By Hans‐Peter Schwarz. Germany and the use of force: the evolution of German security policy 1990‐2003. By Kerry Longhurst. Russia and Eurasia Tribal nation: the making of Soviet Turkmenistan. By Adrienne Lynn Edgar. Middle East and North Africa Israel and the Palestinians: Israeli policy options. Edited by Mark A. Heller and Rosemary Hollis. Water, power and politics in the Middle East: the other Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. By Jan Selby. Inheriting Syria: Bashar's trial by fire. By Flynt Leverett. Sub‐Saharan Africa The African state and the AIDS crisis. Edited by Amy S. Patterson. Asia and Pacific Confronting environmental change in East and Southeast Asia: eco‐politics, foreign policy, and sustainable development. Edited by Paul G. Harris. North America What's the matter with Kansas? How conservatives won the heart of America. By Thomas Frank. Latin America and Caribbean And the money kept rolling in (and out): Wall Street, the IMF and the bankrupting of Argentina. By Paul Blustein. Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch policies in a comparative perspective. By Gert Oostindie and Inge Klinkers.     

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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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International Relations theory Legitimacy in international society. By Ian Clark. International society and its critics. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy. Negotiated revolutions: the Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile. By George Lawson. International law and organization The impact of international law on international cooperation: theoretical perspectives. Edited by Eyal Benvenisti and Moshe Hirsch. Foreign relations Strategic partners: Russian‐Chinese relations in the post‐Soviet era. By Jeanne L. Wilson. Conflict, security and armed forces International governance of war‐torn territories: rule and reconstruction. By Richard Caplan. Enforcing the peace: learning from the imperial past. By Kimberly Zisk Marten. Politics, democracy and social affairs War and the American presidency. By Arthur M. Schlesinger. The accidental American: Tony Blair and the presidency. By James Naughtie. Al‐Jazeera: how Arab TV news challenged the world. By Hugh Miles. History Constructing the U.S. rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: from red menace to tacit ally. By Evelyn Goh. Histories of the hanged: Britain's dirty war in Kenya and the end of the empire. By David Anderson. The lion and the springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. By Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw. Hindu rulers, Muslim subjects: Islam, rights and the history of Kashmir. By Mridu Rai. British documents on the end of empire. East of Suez and the Commonwealth, 1964–1971. Part I: East of Suez. Edited by S. R. Ashton and Wm. Roger Louis. British documents on the end of empire. East of Suez and the Commonwealth, 1964–1971. Part II: Europe, Rhodesia, Commonwealth. Edited by S. R. Ashton and Wm. Roger Louis. British documents on the end of empire. East of Suez and the Commonwealth, 1964–1971. Part III: Dependent territories, Africa, economics, race. Edited by S. R. Ashton and Wm. Roger Louis. Europe The EU, NATO and the integration of Europe: rules and rhetoric. By Frank Schimmelfennig. Theft of a nation: Romania since communism. By Tom Gallagher. Russia and the former Soviet republics Russia in the 21st century: the prodigal superpower. By Steven Rosefielde. Russian military reform: 1992–2002. Edited by Anne C. Aldis and Roger N. McDermott. Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora. Edited by Touraj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale. Middle East and North Africa International relations of the Middle East. Edited by Louise Fawcett. Iran, Iraq, and the legacies of war. Edited by Lawrence G. Potter and Gary G. Sick. Asia and Pacific Exit the dragon? Privatization and state control in China. Edited by Stephen Green and Guy S. Liu. North America The new American empire: a 21st‐century teach‐in on US foreign policy. Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young. Latin America and Caribbean Bananas and business: the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. By Marcelo Bucheli. The strategic dynamics of Latin American trade. Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal, Ralph H. Espach and Joseph S. Tulchin. America's other war: terrorizing Colombia. By Doug Stokes.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Historians and Nationalism : East ‐Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century . By Monika Báar. French Historians 1900–2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth ‐Century France . Edited by Philip Daileader and Philip Whalen. A Passion for History : Conversations with Denis Crouzet . By Natalie Zemon Davis. Work in a Modern Society : The German Historical Experiences in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Jürgen Kocka. Pasados en conflicto : Representación, mito y memoria . Edited by María Inés Mudrovcic. Writing Ancient History : An Introduction to Classical Historiography . By Luke Pitcher. History , Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America : From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan . By Reba N. Soffer. Performing the Past : Memory , History, and Identity in Modern Europe . Edited by Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree, and Jay M. Winter.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Historiographie de l'antiquité et transferts culturels : Les histoires anciennes dans l 'Europe des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles . Edited by Chryssanthi Avlami and Jaime Alvar. What Is Migration History ? By Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder. Historical Reenactment : From Realism to the Affective Turn . Edited by Iain McCalman and Paul A. Pickering. When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology . By Hermann Rebel . Virginia Woolf , Modernity and History : Constellations with Walter Benjamin . By Angeliki Spiropoulou. Public Forgetting : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again . By Bradford Vivian. Constructing the Past : Writing Irish History , 1600–1800. Edited By Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest.     

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Edited by Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse Justice beyond borders: a global political theory. By Simon Caney Challenging America's global preeminence: Russia's quest for multipolarity. By Thomas Ambrosio Martin Wight: four seminal thinkers in international thought, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and Mazzini. Edited by Gabriele Wight and Brian Porter Human rights and ethics The democracy makers: human rights and the politics of global order. By Nicolas Guilhot International law and organization American exceptionalism and human rights. Edited by Michael Ignatieff International organizations and their exercise of sovereign powers. By Danesh Sarooshi Conflict, security and armed forces My year in Iraq: the struggle to build a future of hope. By L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell The far enemy: why jihad went global. By Fawaz Gerges The norms of war: cultural beliefs and modern conflict. By Theo Farrell The West's last chance: will we win the clash of civilizations? By Tony Blankley The killing trap: genocide in the twentieth century. By Manus I. Midlarsky Politics, democracy and social affairs Politik der Götter: Europa und der neue Fundamentalismus. By Gret Haller Ethnicity and cultural politics The dark side of democracy: explaining ethnic cleansing. By Michael Mann Understanding anti‐Americanism: its origins and impact at home and abroad. Edited by Paul Hollander Multiculturalism in Asia. Edited by Will Kymlicka and Baogang He Political economy, economics and development Capitalism: as if the world matters. By Jonathon Porritt World development report 2006: equity and development. By the World Bank The rise of Spanish multinationals: European business in the global economy. By Mauro F. Guillén Globalizing international political economy. Edited by Nicola Phillips History US internal security assistance to South Vietnam: insurgency, subversion and public order. By William Rosenau Europe Alcide De Gasperi: un percorso europeo. Edited by Eckart Conze, Gustavo Corni and Paolo Pombeni Making the world autonomous: a global role for the European Union. By Anthony Clunies‐Ross Universities and the Europe of knowledge: ideas, institutions and policy entrepreneurship in European Union higher education policy. By Anne Corbett The dynamics of European integration: why and when EU institutions matter. By Derek Beach Constructing the path to eastern enlargement: the uneven policy impact of EU identity. By Ulrich Sedelmeier The geopolitics of Euro‐Atlantic integration. Edited by Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel Russia and Eurasia Central Asia's second chance. By Martha Brill Olcott Democracy derailed in Russia: the failure of open politics. By M. Steven Fish Middle East and North Africa Iran's strategic weapons programmes: a net assessment. Edited by Gary Samore Israeli democracy at the crossroads. Edited by Raphael Cohen‐Almagor Israeli institutions at the crossroads. Edited by Raphael Cohen‐Almagor Sub‐Saharan Africa Kupilikula: governance and the invisible realm in Mozambique. By Harry G. West Apartheid South Africa and African states: from pariah to middle power, 1961–1994. By Roger Pfister Politics in southern Africa: state and society in transition. By Gretchen Bauer and Scott D. Taylor Central Africa: crises, reform and reconstruction. Edited by E. S. D. Formin and John W. Forje Asia and Pacific Untying the knot: making peace in the Taiwan Strait. By Richard C. Bush Dangerous Strait: the US‐Taiwan‐China crisis. Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker The Thaksinization of Thailand. By Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand North America The 50% American: immigration and national identity in an age of terror. By Stanley A. Renshon The American era: power and strategy for the 21st century. By Robert J. Lieber Latin America and Caribbean Democracy in Latin America: political change in comparative perspective Gendered paradoxes: women's movements, state restructuring and global development in Ecuador. By Amy Lind Cuba, the United States, and the post‐Cold War world: the international dimensions of the Washington‐Havana relationship. Edited by Morris Morley and Chris McGillion Rethinking development in Latin America. Edited by Charles H. Wood and Bryan R. Roberts     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Isaiah Berlin : The Journey of a Jewish Liberal . By Arie Dubnov. Remembering Katyn . By Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, et al. Thucydides and Herodotus . Edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner. Tolstoy on War : Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace .” Edited by Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin. The Oxford History of Historical Writing , Vol . 3: 1400–1800. Edited by Jose Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf. Courtly Encounters : Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia . By Sanjay Subrahmanyam. British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History . Edited by Donald A. Yerxa. Jews : The Making of a Diaspora People . By Irving M. Zeitlin.     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Narratives Unbound : Historical Studies in Post ‐Communist Eastern Europe. Edited by Sorin Antohi, Balázs Trencsényi, and Péter Apor. Disputed Histories : Imagining New Zealand's Past. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney. Creative Pasts : Historical Memory and Identity in Western India , 1700–1960. By Prachi Deshpande. Lost Worlds : The Emergence of French Social History , 1815–1970. By Jonathan Dewald. Memory Against Culture : Arguments and Reminders. By Johannes Fabian. Ethnography as Commentary : Writing from the Virtual Archive. By Johannes Fabian. Viêt Nam : Borderless Histories. Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid. Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West. Edited by E. M. Tyler and R. Balzaretti. Les songes de Clio: fiction et histoire sous l'ancien régime. Compiled and edited by Sabrina Vervacke, Éric Van der Schueren, and Thierry Belleguic.     

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Sublime Historical Experience . By Frank Ankersmit La Escritura De La Memoria : De Los Positivismos A Los Postmodernismos . By Jaume Aurell The Tragedy of Finitude : Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life . By Jos de Mul The Invention of The Eyewitness : Witnessing & Testimony in Early Modern France . By Andrea Frisch Looking Backward and Looking Forward : Perspectives on Social Science History . Edited by Harvey J. Graff, Leslie Page Moch, and Philip McMichael The Strangeness of Gods : Historical Perspectives on The Interpretation of Athenian Religion . By S. C. Humphreys La Storia : Teoria E Metodi . By Marcello Mustè The Philosophy of History: A re ‐Examination . Edited by William Sweet     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory A cultural theory of International Relations. By Richard Ned Lebow. Peace in International Relations. By Oliver P. Richmond. Theorising international society: English School methods. Edited by Cornelia Navari. Political thought and international relations: variations on a realist theme. Edited by Duncan Bell. Human rights and ethics Contemporary human rights ideas. By Bertrand G. Ramcharan. Resentment's virtue: Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive. By Thomas Brudholm. Unsettling accounts: neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence. By Leigh A. Payne. International law and organization Chasing the flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world. By Samantha Power. Civil war and the rule of law: security, development, human rights. Edited by Agnès Hurwitz with Reyko Huang. Foreign policy The crisis of American foreign policy: Wilsonianism in the twenty‐first century. By G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne‐Marie Slaughter and Tony Smith. To lead the world: American strategy after the Bush doctrine. Edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro. The foreign policy of the European Union. By Stephan Keukeleire and Jennifer MacNaughtan. Conflict, security and armed forces The security dilemma: fear, cooperation and trust in world politics. By Ken Booth and Nicholas J. Wheeler. The politics of ethnic cleansing: nation‐state building and provision of in/security in twentieth‐century Balkans. By Klejda Mulaj. Thinking about nuclear weapons: principles, problems, prospects. By Michael Quinlan. Just and unjust warriors: the moral and legal status of soldiers. Edited by David Rodin and Henry Shue. Dimensions of counter‐insurgency: applying experience to practice. Edited by Tim Benbow and Rod Thornton. Counter‐insurgency in modern warfare. Edited by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian. The politics of space security: strategic restraint and the pursuit of national interests. By James Clay Moltz. Politics, democracy and social affairs The Al Jazeera effect: how the new global media are reshaping world politics. By Philip Seib. To keep or to change first past the post?: the politics of electoral reform. Edited by André Blais. Political economy, economics and development Dead aid: why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa. By Dambisa Moyo. The new global trading order: the evolving state and the future of trade. By Dennis Patterson and Ari Afilalo. Governing agrobiodiversity: plant genetics and developing countries. By Regine Andersen. Ethnicity and cultural politics The new frontiers of jihad: radical Islam in Europe. By Alison Pargeter. The politics of secularism in International Relations. By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. Pariah politics: understanding western radical Islamism and what should be done. By Shamit Saggar. Energy and environment Biosecurity interventions: global health and security in question. Edited by Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier. History Berlin in the Cold War, 1948–1990: documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume V. Edited by Keith Hamilton, Patrick Salmon and Stephen Twigge. Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. foreign policy making: the machinery of crisis. By Asaf Siniver. Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: revisiting the end of the Cold War. By Norman A. Graebner, Richard Dean Burns and Joseph M. Siracusa. Europe Europe: the state of the union. By Anand Menon. Europe's last frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union. Edited by Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk. Russia and Eurasia Russie: l'envers du pouvoir. By Marie Mendras. Russia and the Balkans: foreign policy from Yeltsin to Putin. By James Headley. Middle East and North Africa Saharan conflict: towards territorial autonomy as a right to democratic self‐determination. By Abdelhamid El Ouali. A choice of enemies: America confronts the Middle East. By Lawrence Freedman. Power and succession in Arab monarchies: a reference guide. By Joseph A. Kéchichian. Sub‐Saharan Africa Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique? By Joseph Hanlon and Teresa Smart. Asia and Pacific The clash within: democracy, religious violence, and India's future. By Martha C. Nussbaum. Partisans of Allah: jihad in South Asia. By Ayesha Jalal. Organizations at war in Afghanistan and beyond. By Abdulkader H. Sinno. ‘More than an ally’? Contemporary Australia–US relations. By Maryanne Kelton. The rise of China and international security: America and Asia respond. Edited by Kevin J. Cooney and Yoichiro Sato. North America American power and the prospects for international order. By Simon Bromley. Latin America and Caribbean The Cambridge history of Latin America: Volume IX, Brazil since 1930. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Radical democracy in the Andes. By Donna Lee van Cott. The United States and Latin America after the Cold War. By Russell C. Crandall.     

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Kenneth N. Waltz: Einführung in seine Theorie und Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Kritikern. By Carlo Masala. Politics and passion: toward a more egalitarian liberalism. By Michael Walzer. International ethics The ethics of peace and war: from state security to world community. By Iain Atack. Just war theory: a reappraisal. Edited by Mark Evans. International law and organization International law and the use of force: cases and materials. By Mary Ellen O'Connell. Foreign relations The foreign policy of George W. Bush: values, strategy, and loyalty. By Alexander Moens. Conflict, security and armed forces Dying to kill: the allure of suicide terror. By Mia Bloom. My life is a weapon: a modern history of suicide bombing. By Christoph Reuter. Defense strategy for the post‐Saddam era. By Michael E. O'Hanlon. Peace operations and global order. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams. Politics, democracy and social affairs Max Weber's politics of civil society. By Sung Ho Kim. NGOs and transnational networks: wild cards in world politics. By William E. DeMars. El imperio inviable: el orden internacional tras el conflicto de Irak. Edited by Caterina García Segura and Angel J. Rodrigo Hernández. NATO and the European Union: new worlds, new Europe, new threats. Edited by Hall Gardner. Ethnicity and cultural politics Selecting by origin: ethnic migration in the liberal state. By Christian Joppke. Itinera: paradigmi delle migrazioni italiane. Edited by Maddalena Tirabassi. International and national political economy, economics and development International economic and financial cooperation: new issues, new actors, new responses. Geneva Reports on the World Economy 6. By Peter B. Kenen, Jeffrey R. Shafer, Nigel L. Wicks and Charles Wyplosz. Local enterprises in the global economy: issues of governance and upgrading. Edited by Hubert Schmitz. Energy and environment High tide: how climate crisis is engulfing our planet. By Mark Lynas. History The United States and the nuclear dimension of European integration. By Gunnar Skogmar. What Stalin knew: the enigma of Barbarossa. By David E. Murphy. Assuming the burden: Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam. By Mark Atwood Lawrence. Europe Germany, Poland and Europe: conflict, cooperation and Europeanization. By Marcin Zaborowski. The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Frank Schimmel‐fennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier. Sinn Fein and the SDLP: from alienation to participation. By Gerard Murray and Jonathan Tonge. The Balkans in the new millennium: in the shadow of war and peace. By Tom Gallagher. An international relations debacle: the UN Secretary‐General's mission of good offices in Cyprus 1999—2004. By Claire Palley. Cyprus: a modern history. By William Mallinson. Russia and Eurasia Vladimir Putin and Central Asia: the shaping of Russian foreign policy. By Lena Jonson. Virtual politics: faking democracy in the post‐Soviet world. By Andrew Wilson. Russian governance in the twenty‐first century: geo‐strategy, geopolitics and governance. By Irina Isakova. Middle East and North Africa Aid, diplomacy and facts on the ground: the case of Palestine. Edited by Michael Keating, Anne Le More and Robert Lowe. The future of Iraq: dictatorship, democracy, or division? By Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield. Iraq's future: the aftermath of regime change. By Toby Dodge. Sub‐Saharan Africa Our common interest: an argument. By the Commission for Africa. The state of Africa: a history of fifty years of independence. By Martin Meredith. Public opinion, democracy, and market reform in Africa. By Michael Bratton, Robert Mattes and E. Gyimah‐Boadi. Human rights in Africa: from the OAU to the African Union. By Rachel Murray. Africa and the North: between globalization and marginalization. Edited by Ulf Engel and Gorm Rye Olsen. The African exception. Edited by Ulf Engel and Gorm Rye Olsen. Asia and Pacific Pakistan: between mosque and military. By Husain Haqqani. Modern Mongolia: from Khans to commissars to capitalists. By Morris Rossabi. China Inc. By Ted C. Fishman. The state of China atlas: mapping the world's fastest growing economy. 2nd edn. By Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Robert Benewick. Facing death in Cambodia. By Peter Maguire. The Japanese economy and the way forward. By Rameshwar Tandon. Planning Japan's economic future. By Kyoko Sheridan. North America Running the world: the inside story of the National Security Council and the architects of American power. By David Rothkopf. Latin America and Caribbean Courts under constraints: judges, generals, and presidents in Argentina. By Gretchen Helmke.     

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International Relations theory From international to world society? English School theory and the social structure of globalisation. By Barry Buzan. The West, civil society and the construction of peace. By Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen. International ethics Just intervention. Edited by Anthony F. Lang, Jr. The tragic vision of politics: ethics, interests and orders. By Richard Ned Lebow. International law and organization Great Powers and outlaw states: unequal sovereigns in the international legal order. By Gerry Simpson. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: an exercise in law, politics, and diplomacy. By Rachel Kerr. Foreign relations The choice: global domination or global leadership? By Zbigniew Brzezinski. Worse than Watergate: the secret presidency of George W. Bush. By John W. Dean. The bubble of American supremacy: correcting the misuse of American power. By George Soros. The new mandarins of American power: the Bush administration's plans for the world. By Alex Callinicos. The new imperialism. By David Harvey. Incoherent empire. By Michael Mann. Yankee no! Anti‐Americanism in US‐Latin American relations. By Alan McPherson. Conflict, security and armed forces State building: governance and world order in the twenty‐first century. By Francis Fukuyama. Nation‐building unraveled? Aid, peace and justice in Afghanistan. Edited by Antonio Donini, Norah Niland and Karen Wermester. Grand strategy in the war against terrorism. Edited by Thomas R. Mockaitis and Paul B. Rich. Politics, democracy and social affairs Soft power: the means to success in world politics. By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Political parties and terrorist groups. By Leonard Weinberg and Ami Pedahzur. International and national political economy, economics and development Free trade for the Americas? The United States' push for the FTAA agreement. Edited by Paulo Vizentini and Marianne Wiesebron. International trade and developing countries: bargaining coalitions in the GATT and WTO. By Amrita Narlikar. Energy and environment Man‐made global warming: unravelling a dogma. By Hans Labohm, Simon Rozendaal and Dick Thoenes. History Colossus: the rise and fall of the American empire. By Niall Ferguson. The Labour Party and the world, volume 1: the evolution of Labour's foreign policy 1900–51. By Rhiannon Vickers. The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: calling the tune? By Hugh Wilford. Europe Through the paper curtain: insiders and outsiders in the new Europe. Edited by Julie Smith and Charles Jenkins. Yugoslavia: when ideals collide. By Ann Lane. The Kosovo crisis and the evolution of post‐Cold War European security. By Paul Latawski and Martin A. Smith. Yugoslavia unravelled: sovereignty, self‐determination, intervention. Edited by Ragu G. C. Thomas. Russia and the former Soviet republics Inside Putin's Russia. By Andrew Jack. The law and politics of the Caspian Sea in the twenty‐first century: the positions and views of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, with special reference to Iran. By Bahman Aghai‐Diba. Middle East and North Africa A history of modern Palestine: one land, two peoples. By Ilan Pappe. Saudi Arabia enters the twenty‐first century: the political, foreign policy, economic, and energy dimensions. By Anthony H. Cordesman. Saudi Arabia enters the twenty‐first century: the military and international security dimensions. By Anthony H. Cordesman. Reformers and revolutionaries in modern Iran: new perspectives on the Iranian Left. Edited by Stephanie Cronin. Sub‐Saharan Africa Africa since independence. By Paul Nugent. The shackled continent: Africa's past, present and future. By Robert Guest. Worlds of power: religious thought and political practice in Africa. By Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar. A continent for the taking: the tragedy and hope of Africa. By Howard W. French. Asia and Pacific China's democratic future: how it will happen and where it will lead. By Bruce Gilley. North America America alone: the neo‐conservatives and the global order. By Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. Latin America and Caribbean The Southern Cone model: the political economy of regional capitalist development in Latin America. By Nicola Phillips. Constructing democratic governance in Latin America. 2nd edn. Edited by Jorge I. Dominguez and Michael Shifter. Opening Mexico: the making of a democracy. By Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Non‐western International Relations theory: perspectives on and beyond Asia. Edited by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan. Imperialism and global political economy. By Alex Callinicos. Forbidden fruit: counterfactuals and International Relations. By Richard Ned Lebow. Hans J. Morgenthau's theory of International Relations: disenchantment and re‐enchantment. By Mihaela Neacsu. International law, human rights and ethics Why not torture terrorists? Moral, practical and legal aspects of the ‘ticking bomb’ justification for torture. By Yuval Ginbar. International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation. By Victor Peskin. Mobilizing for human rights: international law in domestic politics. By Beth A. Simmons. International organization and foreign policy * * See also Robin Niblett, ed., America and a changed world: a question of leadership, pp. 1051–52.
How enemies become friends: the sources of stable peace. By Charles A. Kupchan. Conflict, security and defence Walking away from terrorism: accounts of disengagement from radical and extremist movements. By John Horgan. How terrorism ends: understanding the decline and demise of terrorist campaigns. By Audrey Kurth Cronin. Dictionary of terrorism. By David Wright‐Neville. Understanding violent radicalisation. Edited by Magnus Ranstorp. Complex emergencies. By David J. Keen. Mass atrocity response operations: a military planning handbook. By Sarah Sewall, Dwight Raymond and Sally Chin. NATO in search of a vision. Edited by Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca R. Moore. Freedom's battle: the origins of humanitarian intervention. By Gary J. Bass. War and peace in transition: changing roles of external actors. Edited by Karin Aggestam and Annika Björkdahl. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Is democracy exportable? Edited by Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser. Political economy, economics and development Fixing global finance: how to curb financial crises in the 21st century. By Martin Wolf. The future of money: how to get the most from the global economy. Edited by Oliver Chittenden. Energy, resources and environment Global energy governance: the new rules of the game. Edited by Andreas Goldthau and Jan Martin Witte. War and the health of nations. By Zaryab Iqbal. Globesity: a planet out of control?. By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth. History Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 generation and the Holocaust. By Hans Kundnani. Europe 1989: the struggle to create post‐Cold War Europe. By Mary Elise Sarotte. Mitterrand, the end of the Cold War and German unification. By Frédéric Bozo. Contested statehood: Kosovo's struggle for independence. By Marc Weller. Kosovo: the path to contested statehood in the Balkans. By James Ker‐Lindsey. The road to independence for Kosovo: a chronicle of the Ahtisaari Plan. By Henry H. Perritt, Jr. Russia and Eurasia Dagestan: Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus. By Robert Bruce Ware and Enver Kisriev. Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the tragedy of civilians in war. By Emma Gilligan. A little war that shook the world: Georgia, Russia, and the future of the West. By Ronald Asmus. Middle East and North Africa Israel and Palestine: reappraisals, revisions, refutations. By Avi Shlaim. Debating Arab authoritarianism: dynamics and durability in nondemocratic regimes. Edited by Oliver Schlumberger. Rethinking Arab democratization: elections without democracy. By Larbi Sadiki. What's really wrong with the Middle East. By Brian Whitaker. Eclipse of the Sunnis: power, exile, and upheaval in the Middle East. By Deborah Amos. Dubai: the vulnerability of success. By Christopher M. Davidson. Dubai: gilded cage. By Syed Ali. Sub‐Saharan Africa A history of modern Africa: 1800 to the present. By Richard Reid. Magic and warfare: appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond. By Nathalie Wlodarczyk. China and Africa: emerging patterns in globalization and development. Edited by Julia C. Strauss and Martha Saavedra. Africa's new peace and security architecture: promoting norms, institutionalizing solutions. Edited by Ulf Engel and joão Gomes Porto. Asia and Pacific China and India: prospects for peace. By Jonathan Holslag. Crouching dragon, hidden tiger: can China and India dominate the West?. By Prem Shankar Jha. Transforming faith: the story of Al‐Huda and Islamic revivalism among urban Pakistani women. By Sadaf Ahmad. China: the pessoptimist nation. By William A. Callahan. North America America and a changed world: a question of leadership. Edited by Robin Niblett. US foreign policy in context: national ideology from the founders to the Bush Doctrine. By Adam Quinn. American credo: the place of ideas in US politics. By Michael Foley. Latin America and Caribbean The Cuban revolution (1959—2009): relations with Spain, the European Union and the United States. By Joaquín Roy. Bolivia's radical tradition: permanent revolution in the Andes. By S. Sándor 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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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The evolution of International Security Studies. By Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen. International law and organization Escaping the self‐determination trap. By Marc Weller. Punishment, justice and international relations: ethics and order after the Cold War. By Anthony F. Lang Jr. Foreign policy Perceptions and policy in transatlantic relations: prospective visions from the US and Europe. Edited by Natividad Fernández Sola and Michael Smith. Avoiding trivia: the role of strategic planning in American foreign policy. Edited by Daniel W. Drezner. India and the United States in the 21st century: reinventing partnership. By Teresita C. Schaffer. Conflict, security and armed forces The new counterinsurgency era: transforming the US military for modern wars. By David H. Ucko. Under a mushroom cloud: Europe, Iran and the bomb. By Emanuele Ottolenghi. Old and new terrorism: late modernity, globalization and the transformation of political violence. By Peter R. Neumann. Terrorism: how to respond. By Richard English. The de‐radicalization of jihadists: transforming armed Islamist movements. By Omar Ashour. Crime, war and global trafficking: designing international cooperation. By Christine Jojarth. Security and the war on terror. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. Politics, democracy and social affairs Facts are subversive: political writings from a decade without a name. By Timothy Garton Ash. Political economy, economics and development A failure of capitalism: the crisis of ′08 and the descent into depression. By Richard A. Posner. The future of the dollar. Edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner. Discipline in the global economy? International finance and the end of liberalism. By Jakob Vestergaard. Ethnicity and cultural politics The crisis of Islamic civilization. By Ali A. Allawi. Islam and the secular state: negotiating the future of shari'a. By Abdullahi Ahmed an‐Na'im. The fall and rise of the Islamic state. By Noah Feldman. Energy and environment Emerging global scarcities and power shifts. Edited by Bernard Berendsen. China and the energy equation in Asia: the determinants of policy choice. By Jean A. Garrison. History The rise and fall of communism. By Archie Brown. The great Cold War: a journey through the hall of mirrors. By Gordon S. Barrass. Europe Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia. By Ray Taras. Farmers on welfare: the making of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy. By Ann‐Christina L. Knudsen. European security governance: the European Union in a Westphalian world. Edited by Charlotte Wagnsson, James A. Sperling and Jan Hallenberg. Russia and Eurasia Russian Eurasianism: an ideology of empire. By Marlène Laruelle. Russian nationalism and the national reassertion of Russia. Edited by Marlène Laruelle. Middle East and North Africa Defeat: why they lost Iraq. By Jonathan Steele. Guardians of the revolution: Iran and the world in the age of the Ayatollahs. By Ray Takeyh. Sub‐Saharan Africa China's new role in Africa. By Ian Taylor. China's African challenges. By Sarah Raines. Asia and Pacific Whose ideas matter? Agency and power in Asian regionalism. By Amitav Acharya. Challenges to Chinese foreign policy: diplomacy, globalisation and the next world power. Edited by Yufan Hao, C. X. George Wei and Lowell Dittmer. Chinese security policy: structure, power and politics. By Robert R. Ross. North America Renegade: the making of Barack Obama. By Richard Wolffe. Latin America and Caribbean Cuban medical internationalism: origins, evolution, and goals. By John M. Kirk and H. Michael Erisman. Brazil as an economic superpower? Understanding Brazil's changing role in the global economy. Edited by Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martinez‐Diaz.