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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. International Relations theory Thinking politically: essays in political theory. By Michael Walzer. Edited by David Miller. Human rights and ethics Human rights and structural adjustment. By M. Rodwan Abouharb and David Cingranelli. Ending slavery: how we free today's slaves. By Kevin Bales. International law and organization International territorial administration: how trusteeship and the civilizing mission never went away. By Ralph Wilde. Crafting cooperation: regional international institutions in comparative perspective. Edited by Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain Johnston. Foreign policy Shifting alliances: Europe, America and the future of Britain's global strategy. By Patrick Diamond. The European Union and the United States: competition and convergence in the global arena. By Steven McGuire and Michael Smith. Britain in Africa. By Tom Porteous. Europe—Asia relations: building multilateralisms. Edited by Richard Balme and Brian Bridges. Conflict, security and armed forces Critical approaches to international security. By Karin Fierke. War and the transformation of global politics. By Vivienne Jabri. Things fall apart: containing the spillover from an Iraqi civil war. By Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack. Architect of global jihad: the life of Al‐Qaeda strategist Abu Mus'ab Al‐Suri. By Brynjar Lia. Combating terrorism: strategies and approaches. By William C. Banks, Renée de Nevers and Mitchel B. Wallerstein. Politics, democracy and social affairs Defending identity: its indispensable role in protecting democracy. By Natan Sharansky. Political economy, economics and development Regional monetary integration. By Peter B. Kenen and Ellen E. Meade. Authority in the global political economy. Edited by Volker Rittberger and Martin Nettesheim. Ethnicity and cultural politics God's continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's religious crisis. By Philip Jenkins. Energy and environment The political economy of power sector reform: the experiences of five major developing countries. By David G. Victor and Thomas C. Heller. History Piercing the bamboo curtain: tentative bridge‐building to China during the Johnson years. By Michael Lumbers. Croatia through history: the making of a European state. By Branka Maga?. The Sino‐Soviet split: Cold War in the communist world. By Lorenz M. Lüthi. Russia and Eurasia Yeltsin: a life. By Timothy J. Colton. Middle East and North Africa International assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo: political guilt, wasted money. By Ann Le More. Mirror of the Arab world: Lebanon in conflict. By Sandra Mackey. Sub‐Saharan Africa Angola: the weight of history. Edited by Patrick Chabal and Nuno Vidal. Darfur's sorrow: a history of destruction and genocide. By M. W. Daly. The translator. By Daoud Hari. Southern Africa. By Jonathan Farley. Asia and Pacific China's new Confucianism: politics and everyday life in a changing society. By Daniel A. Bell. The three faces of Chinese power: might, money and minds. By David M. Lampton. China's Communist Party: atrophy and adaptation. By David Shambaugh. Assessing the threat: the Chinese military and Taiwan's security. Edited by Michael D. Swaine, Andrew N. D. Yang and Evan S. Medeiros with Oriana Skylar Mastro. North America Enemies of intelligence: knowledge and power in American national security. By Richard K. Betts. Foreign affairs strategy: logic for American statecraft. By Terry L. Deibel. The terror presidency: law and judgment inside the Bush administration. By Jack Goldsmith. Bill Clinton: mastering the presidency. By Nigel Hamilton. Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA. By Tim Weiner. Latin America and Caribbean Rethinking Venezuelan politics: class, conflict and the Chávez phenomenon. By Steve Ellner. Crossroads of intervention: insurgency and counterinsurgency lessons from Central America. By Todd Greentree. Presidential impeachment and the new political instability in Latin America. By Aníbal Pérez‐Liñán.     

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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 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 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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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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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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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Africa and International Relations in the 21st century. Edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru and Timothy M. Shaw. International organization, law and ethics Promoting democracy abroad: policy and performance. By Peter Burnell. Conceptual politics of democracy promotion. Edited by Christopher Hobson and Milja Kurki. All the missing souls: a personal history of the war crimes tribunals. By David Scheffer. Conflict, security and defence * 1 See also Anthony King, The transformation of Europe's armed forces: from the Rhine to Afghanistan, pp. 424–25; Adekeye Adebajo, UN peacekeeping in Africa: from the Suez crisis to the Sudan conflicts, pp. 436–37; and William Reno, Warfare in independent Africa, pp. 438–40.
NATO: the power of partnerships. Edited by Håkan Edström, Janne Haaland Matlary and Magnus Petersson. The shadow world: inside the global arms trade. By Andrew Feinstein. Small arms, crime and conflict: global governance and the threat of armed violence. Edited by Owen Greene and Nicholas Marsh. The rise and fall of Al‐Qaeda. By Fawaz A. Gerges. The 9/11 wars. By Jason Burke. Losing small wars: British military failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Frank Ledwidge. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and western worlds. By Kai Hafez. The leaderless revolution: how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st century. By Carne Ross. Why it's kicking off everywhere: the new global revolutions. By Paul Mason. Political economy, economics and development The price of civilization: economics and ethics after the fall. By Jeffrey Sachs. Crises and opportunities: the shaping of modern finance. By Youssef Cassis. World 3.0: global prosperity and how to achieve it. By Pankaj Ghemawat. Private ratings, public regulations: credit rating agencies and global financial governance. By Andreas Kruck. Energy, resources and environment Food. By Jennifer Clapp. International history Spies and commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West. By Robert Service. Symbols and legitimacy in Soviet politics. By Graeme Gill. The shock of the global: the 1970s in perspective. Edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargent. Britain's empire: resistance, repression and revolt. By Richard Gott. America, Hitler and the UN: how the Allies won World War II and forged a peace. By Dan Plesch. Allende's Chile and the inter‐American Cold War. By Tanya Harmer. Europe The transformation of Europe's armed forces: from the Rhine to Afghanistan. By Anthony King. The coalition and the constitution. By Vernon Bogdanor. Peace, reform and liberation: a history of liberal politics in Britain 1679–2011. By Robert Ingham and Duncan Brack. Russia and Eurasia * 2 See also Robert Service, Spies and commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West, pp. 416–17; and Graeme Gill, Symbols and legitimacy in Soviet politics, pp. 417–18.
Eastern partnership: a new opportunity for the neighbours? Edited By Elena Korosteleva. Vladimir Putin and Russian statecraft. By Allen C. Lynch. Belarus: the last European dictatorship. By Andrew Wilson. Constructing grievance: ethnic nationalism in Russia's republics. By Elise Giuliano. Middle East and North Africa Insecure Gulf: the end of certainty and the transition to the post‐oil era. By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. The new post‐oil Arab Gulf: managing people and wealth. Edited by Nabil A. Sultan, David Weir and Zeinab Karake‐Shalhoub. Salafism in Yemen: transnationalism and religious identity. By Laurent Bonnefoy. Sub‐Saharan Africa * 3 See also Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru and Timothy M. Shaw, eds, Africa and International Relations in the 21st century, pp. 393–94.
Citizen of Zimbabwe: conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai. By Stephen Chan. Southern Africa: old treacheries and new deceits. By Stephen Chan. UN peacekeeping in Africa: from the Suez crisis to the Sudan conflicts. By Adekeye Adebajo. Obasanjo, Nigeria and the world. By John Iliffe. Warfare in independent Africa. By William Reno. South Asia An enemy we created: the myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda merger in Afghanistan, 1970–2010. By Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. The wars of Afghanistan: Messianic terrorism, tribal conflicts, and the failures of Great Powers. By Peter Tomsen. In the shadow of shari'ah: Islam, Islamic law and democracy in Pakistan. By Matthew J. Nelson. East Asia and Pacific Beyond North Korea: future challenges to South Korea's security. Edited by Byung Kwan Kim, Gi‐Wook Shin and David Straub. Korea 2010: politics, economy and society. Edited by Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares. Korea's foreign policy dilemmas: defining state security and the goal of national unification. By Sung‐Hack Kang. Southeast Asia and the rise of China: the search for security. By Ian Storey. Worse than a monolith: alliance politics and problems of coercive diplomacy in Asia. By Thomas J. Christensen. North America Liberty's surest guardian: American nation‐building from the founders to Obama. By Jeremi Suri. The decline and fall of the American republic. By Bruce Ackerman. Latin America and Caribbean * 4 See also Tanya Harmer, Allende's Chile and the inter‐American Cold War, pp. 422–23.
Leftist governments in Latin America: successes and shortcomings. Edited by Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid and Wendy Hunter. The resurgence of the Latin American left. Edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The triumph of politics: the return of the left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. By George Philip and Francisco Panizza. Right‐wing politics in the new Latin America: reaction and revolt. Edited by Francisco Dominguez, Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlam.     

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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 issue. International Relations theory The global 1989: continuity and change in world politics. Edited by George Lawson, Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox. International Relations and non‐western thought: imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity. Edited by Robbie Shilliam. International organization and foreign policy China, the United States, and global order. By Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter. The Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia: from indifference to interdependence. By Christopher Davidson. Vortex of conflict: U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. By Dan Caldwell. Coalitions of convenience: United States military interventions after the Cold War. By Sarah E. Kreps. The practice of public diplomacy: confronting challenges abroad. Edited by William A. Rugh. Conflict, security and defence Terror in our time. By Ken Booth and Tim Dunne. The gun: the AK‐47 and the evolution of war. By Christopher John Chivers. The scientific way of warfare: order and chaos on the battlefields of modernity. By Antoine J. Bousquet. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Jihad in the West: the rise of militant Salafism. By Frazer Egerton. Political economy, economics and development Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. The economics of enough: how to run the economy as if the future matters. By Diane Coyle. The illusion of free markets: punishment and the myth of natural order. By Bernard E. Harcourt. Energy, resources and environment The governance of climate change: science, politics and ethics. Edited by David Held, Angus Fane‐Hervey and Marika Theros. History Empire for liberty: a history of American imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz. By Richard H. Immerman. The other cold war. By Heonik Kwon. Europe Europe 2030. Edited by Daniel Benjamin. Russia and Eurasia Russia as a network state: what works in Russia when state institutions do not? Edited by Vadim Kononenko and Arkady Moshes. Putin's oil: the Yukos affair and the struggle for Russia. By Martin Sixsmith. Russian energy security and foreign policy. Edited by Adrian Dellecker and Thomas Gomart. The crisis of Russian democracy: the dual state, factionalism and the Medvedev succession. By Richard Sakwa. Tretii put' … k rabstvu. By Andrei Piontkovsky. Voyennaya kontrrazvedka: istorya, sobytiya, lyudi. Edited by V. S. Khristoforov, S. A. Korenkov, A. Bondarenko et al. Middle East and North Africa Fuel on the fire: oil and politics in occupied Iraq. By Greg Muttitt. Hizbullah's identity construction. By Joseph Alagha. Islamist terrorism and democracy in the Middle East. By Katerina Dalacoura. Sub‐Saharan Africa The Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality. Edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot. Dancing in the glory of monsters: the collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa. By Jason Stearns. South Asia Cables from Kabul: the inside story of the West's Afghanistan campaign. By Sherard Cowper‐Coles. Tinderbox: the past and future of Pakistan. By M. J. Akbar. Pakistan: from the rhetoric of democracy to the rise of militancy. Edited by Ravi Kalia. Afghanistan: how the West lost its way. By Tim Bird and Alex Marshall. East Asia and Pacific Ballot box China: grassroots democracy in the final major one‐party state. By Kerry Brown. North America Superpower illusions: how myths and false ideologies led America astray—and how to return to reality. By Jack F. Matlock Jr. US policy towards Cuba since the Cold War. By Jessica F. Gibbs. Latin America and Caribbean ¡Pachakutik! Indigenous movements and electoral politics in Ecuador. By Marc Becker. Pachakutik and the rise and decline of the Ecuadorian indigenous movement. By Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck.     

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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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European conquest and the rights of indigenous peoples: the moral backwardness of international society. By Paul Keal. The just war revisited. By Oliver O'Donovan. One world: the ethics of globalization. By Peter Singer. Rethinking human rights: critical approaches to international politics. Edited by David Chandler. Europe, America, Bush: transatlantic relations in the twenty‐first century. Edited by John Peterson and Mark A. Pollack. Between Europe and America: the future of British politics. By Andrew Gamble. NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic community: the transatlantic bargain reconsidered. By Stanley R. Sloan. Washington et le monde. By Pierre Hassner and Justin Vaïsse. Sino‐American relations: mutual paranoia. By Radha Sinha. Beyond Tiananmen: the politics of US–China relations 1989–2000. By Robert L. Suettinger. The Iraq war: strategy, tactics, and military lessons. By Anthony H. Cordesman. America's role in nation‐building: from Germany to Iraq. By James Dobbins et al. The politics of collective violence. By Charles Tilly. Negotiation analysis: the science and art of collaborative decision making. By Howard Raiffa with John Richardson and David Metcalfe. Breakthrough international negotiation: how great negotiators transformed the world's toughest post‐Cold War conflicts. By Michael Watkins and Susan Rosencrant. The state of the world atlas. By Dan Smith. The challenge of hegemony: grand strategy, trade, and domestic politics. By Steven E. Lobell. Democracy after communism. Edited by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner. After jihad: America and the struggle for Islamic democracy. By Noah Feldman. The new politics of Islam: pan‐Islamic foreign policy in a world of states. By Naveed S. Sheikh. Forging peace: intervention, human rights and the management of media space. Edited by Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson. World investment report 2003: FDI policies for development. National and international perspectives. Edited by Karl Sauvant. Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance. Edited by David Held and Anthony McGrew. Women reinventing globalisation. Edited by Joanna Kerr and Caroline Sweetman. Making global trade work for people. By United Nations Development Programme, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation & Wallace Global Fund. International trade and political conflict: commerce, coalition, and mobility. By Michael J. Hiscox. Civil society: the American model and Third World development. By Howard J. Wiarda. Gender justice, development, and rights. Edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi. The 2030 spike: countdown to global catastrophe. By Colin Mason. Window on freedom: race, civil rights and foreign affairs, 1945–1988. Edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer. Anglo‐American relations and Cold War oil. By Steve Marsh. Making war, thinking history: Munich, Vietnam, and presidential uses of force from Korea to Kosovo. By Jeffrey Record. The Serbian project and its adversaries: a strategy of war crimes. By James Gow. Greece in the twentieth century. Edited by Theodore A. Couloumbis, Theodore Kariotis, and Fotini Bellou. Turkish foreign policy and Turkish identity: a constructivist approach. By Yücel Bozdaǧlioǧlu. A small corner of hell: dispatches from Chechnya. By Anna Politkovskaya. The Chechen wars: will Russia go the way of the Soviet Union? By Matthew Evangelista. Russian foreign policy in the post‐Soviet era: reality, illusion and mythmaking. By Bobo Lo. Russia between east and west: Russian foreign policy on the threshold of the twentyfirst century. Edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky. Sowing the wind: the seeds of conflict in the Middle East. By John Keay. Women of Jordan: Islam, labor, and the law. By Amira El‐Azhary Sonbol. A survey of Arab–Israeli relations 1947–2001. By David Lea. Israel and Palestine: why they fight and can they stop. By Bernard Wasserstein. Israel: challenges to identity, democracy and the state. By Clive Jones and Emma C. Murphy. Sticking together: the Israeli experiment in pluralism. By Yaakov Kop and Robert E. Litan. The paradoxical kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the momentum of reform. By Daryl Champion. The United States, South Africa and Africa. Of grand foreign policy aims and modest means. By Brian J. Hesse. The African stakes in the Congo war. Edited by John F. Clark. Angola: anatomy of an oil state. By Tony Hodges. Pakistan: at the crosscurrent of history. By Lawrence Ziring. Contemporary Pakistan: political processes, conflicts and crises. By Veena Kukreja. A history of Pakistan and its origins. Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot. China: competing in the global economy. Edited by Wanda Tseng and Markus Rodlauer. Fault lines in China's economic terrain. By Charles Wolf et al. The China dream: the quest for the last great untapped market on earth. By Joe Studwell. China's stockmarket: a guide to it progress, players and prospects. By Stephen Green. China's industrial state‐owned enterprises: between profitability and bankruptcy. By Carsten A. Holz. Voice of America: a history. By Alan L. Heil, Jr. After the Washington Consensus: restarting growth and reform in Latin America. Edited by Pedro‐Pablo Kucynski and John Williamson. Democracy in Latin America: (re)constructing political society. Edited by Manuel Antonio Garretón M. and Edward Newman. Indians, oil, and politics: a recent history of Ecuador. By Allen Gerlach. From peasant struggles to Indian resistance. By Amalia Pallares.     

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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 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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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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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history. By Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast. Rethinking Realism in International Relations: between tradition and innovation. Edited by Annette Freyberg‐Inan, Ewan Harrison and Patrick James. International law, human rights and ethics Shaping foreign policy in times of crisis: the role of international law and the State Department Legal Adviser. By Michael P. Scharf and Paul R. Williams. The rule of law. By Tom Bingham. International organization and foreign policy * No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower. Contested states in world politics. By Deon Geldenhuys. Remaking global order: the evolution of Europe–China relations and its implications for East Asia and the United States. By Nicola Casarini. Conflict, security and defence Blair's successful war: British military intervention in Sierra Leone. By Andrew M. Dorman. NATO, security and risk management: from Kosovo to Kandahar. By Michael J. Williams. Why NATO endures. By Wallace J. Thies. Justifying ballistic missile defence: technology, security and culture. By Columba Peoples. Governance, civil society and cultural politics A lethal obsession: anti‐Semitism from antiquity to the global jihad. By Robert S. Wistrich. The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict. By William T. Cavanaugh. Islam's predicament with modernity: religious reform and cultural change. By Bassam Tibi. Communication power. By Manuel Castells. Political economy, economics and development Good capitalism, bad capitalism. By William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm. Currency and contest in East Asia: the Great Power politics of financial regionalism. By William W. Grimes. From Asian to global financial crisis: an Asian regulator's view of unfettered finance in the 1990s and 2000s. By Andrew Sheng. Energy, resources and environment Oil politics: a modern history of petroleum. By Francisco Parra. Crude world: the violent twilight of oil. By Peter Maass. Virus alert: security, governmentality, and the AIDS pandemic. By Stefan Elbe. History Constructing the monolith: the United States, Great Britain, and international communism, 1945–1950. By Marc J. Selverstone. Island of shame: the secret history of the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia. By David Vine. Two suns in the heavens: the Sino‐Soviet struggle for supremacy, 1962–1967. By Sergey Radchenko. Europe Romania and the European Union: how the weak vanquished the strong. By Tom Gallagher. Russia and Eurasia Change in Putin's Russia: power, money and people. By Simon Pirani. Russia and the Arabs: behind the scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present. By Yevgeny Primakov. Middle East and North Africa Cairo contested: governance, urban space, and global modernity. Edited by Diane Singerman. International relations of the Persian Gulf. By F. Gregory Gause III. Yemen: dancing on the heads of snakes. By Victoria Clarke. Getting out: historical perspectives on leaving Iraq. Edited by Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills. Withdrawing from Iraq: alternative schedules, associated risks, and mitigating strategies. By Walter L. Perry, Stuart E. Johnson, Keith Crane, David C. Gompert, John Gordon, Robert E. Hunter, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Terrence K. Kelly, Eric Peltz and Howard J. Shatz. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: violence and pan‐Islamism since 1979. By Thomas Hegghammer. Inside the kingdom: kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists and the struggle for Saudi Arabia. By Robert Lacey. The Israeli peace movement: a shattered dream. By Tamar S. Hermann. Sub‐Saharan Africa The dragon's gift: the real story of China in Africa. By Deborah Bräutigam. It's our turn to eat: the story of a Kenyan whistleblower. By Michela Wrong. Turning points in African democracy. Edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha and Lindsay Whitfield. War and the politics of identity in Ethiopia: the making of enemies and allies in the Horn of Africa. By Kjetil Tronvoll. Asia and Pacific In the graveyard of empires: America's war in Afghanistan. By Seth G. Jones. Afghanistan: aid, armies and empires. By Peter Marsden. The power of the internet in China: citizen activism online. By Guobin Yang. Engagement with North Korea: a viable alternative. Edited by Sung Chull Kim and David C. Kang. (Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: region, regionalism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. By Alice D. Ba. North America The leasing of Guantánamo Bay. By Michael J. Strauss. Latin America and Caribbean The priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the making of a nation. By Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Edgar Venerando Ruiz Díaz.     

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Book reviews in this article: International Relations theory The logic of violence in civil war. By Stathis N. Kalyvas . The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Charles H. Tilly . The Oxford handbook of political theory. Edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips . International law and organization Terrorism and the state: rethinking the rules of state responsibility. By Tal Becker . Humanitarian intervention. Edited by Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams . Managing the challenges of WTO participation: 45 case studies. Edited by Peter Gallagher, Patrick Low and Andrew L. Stoler . Between peril and promise: the politics of international law. By J. Martin Rochester . Promoting the rule of law abroad: in search of knowledge. Edited by Thomas Carothers . Foreign policy Deterring America: rogue states and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. By Derek Smith . Bush and Asia: America's evolving relations with East Asia. Edited by Mark Beeson . Old Europe, new Europe and the US: renegotiating transatlantic security in the post 9/11 era. Edited by Tom Lansford and Blagovest Tashev . Conflict, security and armed forces Cobra II: the inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. By Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor . Fiasco: the American military adventure in Iraq. By Thomas E. Ricks . Preventive attack and weapons of mass destruction: a comparative historical analysis. By Lyle J. Goldstein . In the name of terrorism: presidents on political violence in the post‐World War II era. By Carol K. Winkler . Politics, democracy and social affairs Corruption: anthropological perspectives. Edited by Dieter Haller and Cris Shore . Cambiare regime. La sinistra e gli ultimi 45 dittatori. By Christian Rocca . Political economy, economics and development How we compete: what companies around the world are doing to make it in today's global economy. By Suzanne Berger. Ethnicity and cultural politics Islamic imperialism: a history. By Efraim Karsh . The Kurds in Turkey: EU accession and human rights. By Kerim Yildiz . History The ends of British imperialism: the scramble for empire, Suez and decolonization. By Wm Roger Louis . Among the dead cities: was the Allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime? By A. C. Grayling . Total Cold War: Eisenhower's secret propaganda battle at home and abroad. By Kenneth Osgood . Congress and the Cold War. By Robert David Johnson . Europe The will to survive: a history of Hungary. By Bryan Cartledge . Russia and Eurasia Revolution in orange: the origins of Ukraine's democratic breakthrough. Edited by Anders Åslund and Michael McFaul . Middle East and North Africa Confronting Iran. By Ali M. Ansari . Syria and Iran: diplomatic alliance and power politics in the Middle East. By Jubin Goodarzi . Islam, democracy and the state in Algeria: lessons for the Western Mediterranean and beyond. Edited by Michael Bonner, Megan Reif and Mark Tessler . Sub‐Saharan Africa Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the sould of the ANC. By William Mervin Gumede . The other side of history: an anecdotal reflection on political transition in South Africa. By Frederik van Zyl Slabbert . Asia and Pacific Bangladesh: the next Afghanistan? By Hiranmay Karlekar . North America State of war: the secret history of the CIA and the Bush administration. By James Risen . The United States and right‐wing dictatorships. By David F. Schmitz . Latin America and Caribbean When states kill: Latin America, the US and technologies of terror. Edited by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez . Contesting citizenship in Latin America: the rise of indigenous movements and the postliberal challenge. By Deborah J. Yashar .     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Human rights and ethics Syndromes of corruption: wealth, power and democracy. By Michael Johnston. Gambling on humanitarian intervention: moral hazard, rebellion and civil war. Edited by Timothy W. Crawford and Alan J. Kuperman. Global corruption report 2006: corruption and health. By Transparency International. Child labour and human rights: making children matter. Edited by Burns H. Weston. International law and organization The future of the United Nations: understanding the past to chart a way forward. By Joshua Muravchik. Foreign policy Security strategy and transatlantic relations. Edited by Roland Dannreuther and John Peterson. Conflict, security and armed forces Deadly connections: states that sponsor terrorism. By Daniel Byman. Peace operations seen from below: UN missions and local people. By Béatrice Pouligny. The next attack: the failure of the war on terror and a strategy for getting it right. By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon. Curbing the spread of nuclear weapons. By Ian Bellany. Annual review of global peace operations 2006. By the Center for International Cooperation. Politics, democracy and social affairs The Blair effect 2001–2005. Edited by Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh. Ethnicity and cultural politics The illusion of cultural identity. By Jean‐François Bayart. Anti‐Americanism in the Islamic world. Edited by Sigrid Faath. Political economy, economics and development China shakes the world: the rise of a hungry nation. By James Kynge. The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. By William Easterly. Energy and environment Oil titans: national oil companies in the Middle East. By Valérie Marcel. Half gone: oil, gas, hot air and the global energy crisis. By Jeremy Leggett. The final energy crisis. Edited by Andrew McKillop and Sheila Newman. History Churchill and war. By Geoffrey Best. The war council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam. By Andrew Preston. The triumph of military Zionism: nationalism and the origins of the Israeli right. By Colin Shindler. The almost impossible ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. By Peter Mangold. Europe Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement. By Anja‐Dalgaard Nielsen. Europe as empire: the nature of the enlarged European Union. By Jan Zielonka. Middle East and North Africa The international politics of the Persian Gulf: a cultural genealogy. By Arshin Adib‐Moghaddam. Saudi Arabia: power, legitimacy and survival. By Timothy Niblock. Losing Arab hearts and minds: the coalition, Al‐Jazeera and Muslim public opinion. By Steve Tatham. Palestinian refugee repatriation: global perspectives. Edited by Michael Dumper. Sub‐Saharan Africa African politics in comparative perspective. By Göran Hydén. Africa: a modern history. By Guy Arnold. AIDS in Africa: how the poor are dying. By Nana K. Poku. Asia and Pacific US—Pakistan relationship: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. By A. Z. Hilali. India—Pakistan negotiations: is past still prologue? By Dennis Kux. New directions in the study of China's foreign policy. Edited by Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross. China the balance sheet: what the world needs to know now about the emerging superpower. By C. Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy and Derek Mitchell. Beyond Japan: the dynamics of East Asian regionalism. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi. South Korean engagement policies and North Korea: identities, norms and the Sunshine Policy. By Son Key‐young. North America The case for Goliath: how America acts as the world's government in the 21st century. By Michael Mandelbaum. After the neo‐cons: America at the crossroads. By Francis Fukuyama. Restless giant: the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. By James T. Patterson. US intervention policy and army innovation: from Vietnam to Iraq. By Richard Lock‐Pullan. The peace of illusions: American grand strategy from 1940 to the present. By Christopher Layne. The Republican war on science. By Chris Mooney. Latin America and Caribbean Mixed signals: US human rights policy and Latin America. By Kathryn Sikkink. Latin America's political economy of the possible: beyond good revolutionaries and freemarketeers. By Javier Santiso.     

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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.