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

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

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Book reviewed in this article: Human rights and ethics Inventing human rights: a history. By Lynn Hunt. Ethics in action: the ethical challenges of international human rights non‐govermental organizations. Edited by Daniel A. Bell and Jean‐Marc Coicaud. International law and organization Humanitarian intervention: ideas in action. Thomas G. Weiss. The United Nations, peace and security: from collective security to the responsibility to protect. By Ramesh Thakur. The handbook of reparations. Edited by Pablo De Greiff. Foreign policy Congress and the US—China relationship, 1949–1979. By Guangqiu Xu. Conflict, security and armed forces International organizations and peace enforcement: the politics of international legitimacy. By Katharina P. Coleman. Politics, democracy and social affairs Patrons, clients and policies: patterns of democratic accountability and political competition. Edited by Herbert Kitschelt and Steven I. Wilkinson. Communism and the emergence of democracy. By Harald Wydra. The Orange Order: a contemporary Northern Irish history. By Eric P. Kaufmann. Ethnicity and cultural politics Migration and its enemies: global capital, migrant labour and the nation‐state. By Robin Cohen. Political conflict and development in East Asia and Latin America. Edited by Richard Boyd, Galjart Benno and Tak‐Wing Ngo. Poverty traps. Edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf and Karla Hoff. Immigrants: your country needs them. By Philippe Legrain. Energy and environment Keeping the lights on: towards sustainable electricity. By Walt Patterson. History George Kennan: a study of character. By John Lukacs. From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble. Conflict and stability in the German Democratic Republic. By Andrew I. Port. Europe The uniting of nations: an essay on global governance. By John McClintock. War and change in the Balkans: nationalism, conflict and cooperation. Edited by Brad K. Blitz. Russia and Eurasia The birth of Tajikistan: national identity and the origins of the republic. By Paul Bergne. Middle East and North Africa Building a new Afghanistan. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Barriers to democracy: the other side of social capital in Palestine and the Arab world. By Amaney A. Jamal. Iran and the bomb: the abdication of international responsibility. By Thérèse Delpech. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine. By Ilan Pappé. The future for Palestinian refugees: toward equity and peace. By Michael Dumper. Ruling but not governing: the military and political development in Egypt, Algeria and Turkey. By Steven A. Cook. Sub‐Saharan Africa Poisoned wells: the dirty politics of African oil. By Nicholas Shaxson. Globalization, negotiation and the failure of transformation in South Africa: revolution at a bargain? By Michael H. Allen. Untapped: the scramble for Africa's oil. By John Ghazvinian. Opposing voices: liberalism and opposition in South Africa today. Edited by Milton Shain. Asia and Pacific China's rise and the balance of influence in Asia. Edited by William W. Keller and Thomas G. Rawski. How China grows: investment, finance and reform. By James Riedel, Jing Jin and Jian Gao. North America Security first: for a muscular, moral foreign policy. By Amitai Etzioni. Regime change: US strategy through the prism of 9/11. By Robert Litwak. The American ascendancy: how the United States gained and wielded global dominance. By Michael H. Hunt. Latin America and Caribbean From Pinochet to the ‘third way’: neoliberalism and social transformation in Chile. By Marcus Taylor. The Chávez code: cracking US intervention in Venezuela. By Eva Golinger.     

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

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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 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 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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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory British international thinkers from Hobbes to Namier. Edited by Ian Hall and Lisa Hill. International law, human rights and ethics After Abu Ghraib: exploring human rights in America and the Middle East. By Shadi Mokhtari. Globalizing justice: the ethics of poverty and power. By Richard W. Miller. International organization and foreign policy The contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment 1965–2009. Edited by James Mayall. The Commonwealth and international affairs: the Round Table centennial selection. Edited by Alex May. International security in practice: the politics of NATO—Russia diplomacy. By Vincent Pouliot. Conflict, security and defence Securing the state. By David Omand. Why intelligence fails: lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War. By Robert Jervis. Preventing catastrophe: the use and misuse of intelligence efforts to halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. By Thomas Graham Jr and Keith Hansen. Intelligence for an age of terror. By Gregory Treverton. Liberal peace transitions: between statebuilding and peacebuilding. By Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks. Aftermath: the Omagh bombing and the families' pursuit of justice. By Ruth Dudley Edwards. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The Muslim revolt: a journey through political Islam. By Roger Hardy. The borders of Islam: exploring Samuel Huntington's faultlines from Al‐Andalus to virtual Ummah. Edited by Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesøy and Tuncay Kardas. Global Salafism: Islam's new religious movement. Edited by Roel Meijer. Political Islam observed. By Frédéric Volpi. Political economy, economics and development High financier: the lives and time of Siegmund Warburg. By Niall Ferguson. Too big to fail: inside the battle to save Wall Street. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Capitalism 4.0: the birth of a new economy. By Anatole Kaletsky. This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly. By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. Crisis: cause, containment, and cure. By Thomas F. Huertas. The end of influence: what happens when other countries have the money. By Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong. Energy, resources and environment Global politics of health. By Sara E. Davies. History America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War. By David Milne. The Atlantic and its enemies: a personal history of the Cold War. By Norman Stone. The Cold War and national assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962. By Matthew Foley. Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. By Ang Cheng Guan. Europe The European Union as a small power: after the post‐Cold War. By Asle Toje. The paradoxical republic: Austria, 1945–2005. By Oliver Rathkolb. Russia and Eurasia Turkmenistan's foreign policy: positive neutrality and the consolidation of the Turkmen regime. By Luca Anceschi. Middle East and North Africa The United States and Iraq since 1979: hegemony, oil and war. By Steven Hurst. The Iraq effect: the Middle East after the Iraq war. By Frederic Wehrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Jessica Watkins, Jeffrey Martini and Robert A. Guffey. Crisis of authority: Iran's 2009 presidential election. By Ali M. Ansari. Abu Dhabi: oil and beyond. By Christopher M. Davidson. Regime and periphery in northern Yemen: the Huthi phenomenon. By Barak A. Salmoni, Bryce Loidolt and Madeleine Wells. Sub‐Saharan Africa Somaliland: an African struggle for nationhood and international recognition. By Iqbal D. Jhazbhay. Zimbabwe: years of hope and despair. By Philip Barclay. Milk and peace, drought and war: Somali culture, society and politics: essays in honour of I. M. Lewis. Edited by Markus V. Hoehne and Virginia Luling. The curse of Berlin: Africa after the Cold War. By Adekeye Adebajo. South Asia My life with the Taliban. By Abdul Salam Zaeef. Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. India and Pakistan: continued conflict or cooperation? By Stanley Wolpert. Toughing it out in Afghanistan. By Michael O'Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan. Empires of mud: wars and warlords in Afghanistan. By Antonio Giustozzi. Inside nuclear South Asia. Edited by Scott D. Sagan. East Asia and Pacific Mao's great famine: the history of China's most devastating catastrophe. By Frank Dikötter. North America Obama's wars: the inside story. By Bob Woodward. The bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick. The promise: President Obama, year one. By Jonathan Alter. Reading Obama: dreams, hope, and the American political tradition. By James T. Kloppenberg. Soft power and US foreign policy: theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives. Edited by Inderjeet Parmar and Michael Cox. Dominion from sea to sea: Pacific ascendancy and American power. By Bruce Cumings. American foreign policy. By Paul R. Viotti. Latin America and Caribbean 1959: the year that inflamed the Caribbean. By Bernard Diederich. Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution: populism and democracy in a globalised age. By Barry Cannon. Venezuela's Chavismo and populism in comparative perspective. By Kirk A. Hawkins. Electing Chávez: the business of anti‐neoliberal politics in Venezuela. By Leslie Gates. Revolutionary social change in Colombia: the origin and direction of the FARC‐EP. By James J. Brittain. Blood and capital: the paramilitarization of Colombia. By Jasmin Hristov. Portrait of a nation: culture and progress in Ecuador. By Osvaldo Hurtado.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Political evil in a global age: Hannah Arendt and international theory. By Patrick Hayden. International law, human rights and ethics Means to an end: U.S. interest in the International Criminal Court. By Lee Feinstein and Tod Lindberg. International organization and foreign policy Regional leadership in the global system: ideas, interests and strategies of regional powers. Edited by Daniel Flemes. New powers: how to become one and how to manage them. By Amrita Narlikar. Conflict, security and defence * * See also Priyanjali Malik, India's nuclear debate: exceptionalism and the bomb, pp. 504–5.
The worst‐kept secret: Israel's bargain with the bomb. By Avner Cohen. A skeptic's case for nuclear disarmament. By Michael O'Hanlon. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The globalization of surveillance. By Armand Mattelart. Diaspora and transnationalism: concepts, theories and methods. Edited by Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist. Political economy, economics and development Just give money to the poor: the development revolution from the global South. By Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. Energy, resources and environment Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change. By Bryan Lovell. The biofuel delusion. By Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi. Food versus fuel: an informed introduction to biofuels. Edited by Frank Rosillo‐Calle and Francis X. Johnson. Global energy governance in a multipolar world. By Dries Lesage, Thijs Van de Graaf and Kristen Westphal. History The Kaiser's holocaust: Germany's forgotten genocide and the colonial roots of Nazism. By David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen. A century of revolution: insurgent and counterinsurgent violence during Latin America's long Cold War. Edited by Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph. Latin America's Cold War. By Hal Brands. America's Cold War: the politics of insecurity. By Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall. Europe A community of Europeans? Transnational identities and public spheres. By Thomas Risse. The EU presence in international organizations. Edited by Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis. Russia and Eurasia Lonely power: why Russia has failed to become the West and the West is weary of Russia. By Lilya Shevtsova. The Black Sea region and EU policy: the challenge of divergent agendas. Edited by Karen Henderson and Carol Weaver. Key players and regional dynamics in Eurasia: the return of the ‘Great Game’. Edited by Maria Raquel Freire and Roger E. Kanet. Middle East and North Africa Egypt on the brink: from Nasser to Mubarak. By Tarek Osman. War and memory in Lebanon. By Sune Haugbolle. Beirut. By Samir Kassir. Palestine betrayed. By Efraim Karsh. Encyclopaedia of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, vols I–III. Edited by Cheryl A. Rubenberg. Sub‐Saharan Africa My Nigeria: five decades of independence. By Peter Cunliffe‐Jones. Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa: risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. By Lauren M. MacLean. South Asia India's nuclear debate: exceptionalism and the bomb. By Priyanjali Malik. The other war: winning and losing in Afghanistan. By Ronald E. Neumann. Afghanistan: a cultural and political history. By Thomas Barfield. East Asia and Pacific Accepting authoritarianism: state‐society relations in China's reform era. By Teresa Wright. Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth‐century world: a concise history. By Rebecca E. Karl. China today, China tomorrow: domestic politics, economy and society. Edited by Joseph Fewsmith. China and India in the age of globalization. By Shalendra D. Sharma. Friends and enemies: the past, present and future of the Communist Party of China. By Kerry Brown. North America The myth of American exceptionalism. By Godfrey Hodgson. Neoconservatism and the new American century. By Maria Ryan. The irony of manifest destiny: the tragedy of America's foreign policy. By William Pfaff. Latin America and Caribbean The Bachelet government: conflict and consensus in post‐Pinochet Chile. Edited by Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks. What if Latin America ruled the world? How the South will take the North into the 22nd century. By Oscar Guardiola‐Rivera.     

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

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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 article: International Relations theory Just wars: from Cicero to Iraq. By Alex J. Bellamy. Human rights and ethics What is genocide? By Martin Shaw. Human rights in the Arab world: independent voices. Edited by Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy. Reading humanitarian intervention: human rights and the use of force in international law. By Anne Orford. International law and organization The best intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American power. By James Traub. The United Nations in the twenty‐first century: management and reform processes in a troubled organization. By Marcus Franda. Foreign policy Independent diplomat: dispatches from an unaccountable elite. By Carne Ross. Empire and superempire: Britain, America and the world. By Bernard Porter. Conflict, security and armed forces Britain's bomb: what next? Edited by Brian Wicker and Hugh Beach. Before the next attack: preserving civil liberties in an age of terrorism. By Bruce Ackerman. War in human civilization. By Azar Gat. Nuclear first strike: consequences of a broken taboo. By George H. Quester. Politics, democracy and social Affairs Migration, citizenship, ethnos. Edited by Y. Michael Bodemann and Gokce Yurdakul. Political economy, economics and development John Maynard Keynes and international relations. By Donald Markwell. The United Nations Development Programme: a better way. By Craig N. Murphy. Globalization and its enemies. By Daniel Cohen. Translated by Jessica B. Baker. Trade and investment rule‐making: the role of regional and bilateral agreements. Edited by Stephen Woolcock. Capitalism with derivatives: a political economy of financial derivatives, capital and class. By Dick Bryan and Mike Rafferty. History Mao's last revolution. By Roderick MacFarquar and Michael Schoenhals. The Jewish enemy: Nazi propaganda during World War II and the holocaust. By Jeffrey Herf. Europe Armed forces and society in Europe. By Anthony Forster. Divided West: European security and the transatlantic relationship. By Tuomas Forsberg and Graeme Herd. Design for a new Europe. By John Gillingham. Russia and Eurasia Boris Yeltsin and Russia's democratic transformation. By Herbert J. Ellison. Middle East and North Africa Negotiating change: the new politics of the Middle East. By Jeremy Jones. The Shi'a revival: how conflicts within Islam will shape the future. By Vali Nasr. The Iraq war: causes and consequences. By Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch. Iraq in fragments: the occupation and its legacy. By Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala. The end of Iraq: how American incompetence created a war without end. By Peter W. Galbraith. Voices of the new Arab republic: Iraq, Al‐Jazeera, and Middle East politics today. By Marc Lynch. Hamas: politics, charity, and terrorism in the service of jihad. By Matthew Levitt. Sub‐Saharan Africa Violence, political culture and development in Africa. Edited by Preben Kaarsholm. Ethnic federalism: the Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective. Edited by David Turton. Reconstructing the nation in Africa: the politics of nationalism in Ghana. By Michael Amoah. North America Hard power: the new politics of national security. By Kurt M. Campbell and Michael E. O'Hanlon. A moment of crisis: Jimmy Carter, the power of a peacemaker, and North Korea's nuclear ambitions. By Marion Creekmore Jr. With an introduction by Jimmy Carter. The Reagan imprint: ideas in American foreign policy from the collapse of communism to the war on terror. By John Arquilla. At the borderline of Armageddon: how American presidents managed the atomic bomb. By James E. Goodby. Latin America and Caribbean Global capitalism, democracy, and civil‐military relations in Colombia. By William Avilés. Argentina and the United States: an alliance contained. By David M. K. Sheinin.     

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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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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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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.     

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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 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: International Relations theory Neo‐liberalism as exception: mutations in citizenship and sovereignty. By Aihwa Ong. Foreign policy China and Iran: ancient partners in a post‐imperial world. By John W. Garver. Conflict, security and armed forces Countering terrorism. By Michael Chandler and Rohan Gunaratna. The ideological War on Terror: worldwide strategies for counterterrorism. Edited by Anne Aldis and Graeme Herd. Pre‐emption: a knife that cuts both ways. By Alan Dershowitz. Insurgents, terrorists and militias: the warriors of contemporary combat. By Richard H. Shultz Jr and Andrea J. Dew. Root causes of suicide terrorism: the globalization of martyrdom. Edited by Ami Pedahzur. Politics, democracy and social affairs Politics without sovereignty: a critique of contemporary international relations. Edited by Christopher J. Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe and Alexander Gourevitch. Political economy, economics and development The WTO in the twenty‐first century: dispute settlement, negotiations and regionalism in Asia. Edited by Yasuhei Taniguchi, Alan Yanovich and Jan Bohanes. Global issues for global citizens: an introduction to key development challenges. Edited by Vinay Bhargava. Emergent economies, divergent paths: economic organization and international trade in South Korea and Taiwan. By Robert C. Feenstra and Gary G. Hamilton. Ethnicity and cultural politics Peacemakers in action: profiles of religion in conflict resolution. Edited by David Little. Energy and environment Oil wars. Edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said. Fairness in adaptation to climate change. Edited by W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Haq and M. J. Mace. Global environmental institutions. By Elizabeth R. DeSombre. History Dean Acheson: a life in the Cold War. By Robert L. Beisner. War plans and alliances in the Cold War: threat perceptions in the east and west. Edited by Vojtech Mastny, Sven G. Holtsmark and Andreas Wenger. Europe Testimony. By Nicolas Sarkozy. Translated by Robert Harneis. Maintenant: 200 mots pour changer la France. By Ségolène Royal and Marie‐Françoise Colombani. Europe in the global age. By Anthony Giddens. Five Germanys I have known. By Fritz Stern. Zuneuen Ufern? Die deutsche Sicherheits‐ und Verteidigungspolitik in einer Welt des Wandels 1990–2000. By Franz‐Josef Meiers. The European economy since 1945: coordinated capitalism and beyond. By Barry Eichengreen. Russia and Eurasia Russia's oil barons and metal magnates: oligarchs and the state in transition. By Stephen Fortescue. Russia in the Middle East: friend or foe? By Andrej Kreutz. The Kremlin and the high command: presidential impact on the Russian military from Gorbachev to Putin. By Dale R. Herspring. Russia transformed: developing popular support for a new regime. By Richard Rose, William Mishler and Neil Munro. Resisting the state: reform and retrenchment in post‐Soviet Russia. By Kathryn Stoner‐Weiss. Russia's Islamic threat. By Gordon M. Hahn. Middle East and North Africa Iraq: people, history, politics. By Gareth Stansfi eld. Iran's nuclear ambitions. By Shahram Chubin. Hidden Iran: paradox and power in the Islamic republic. By Ray Takeyh. Analysing Middle East foreign policies: the relationship with Europe. Edited by Gerd Nonneman. Sub‐Saharan Africa Mandela: a critical life. By Tom Lodge. A culture of corruption: everyday deception and popular discontent in Nigeria. By Daniel Jordan Smith. Darfur: the long road to disaster. By J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins. Asia and Pacific Frontline Pakistan: the struggle with militant Islam. By Zahid Hussain. Kashmir: new voices, new approaches. Edited by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Bushra Asif and Cyrus Samii. The writing on the wall: China and the West in the twenty‐first century. By Will Hutton. The coming China wars: where they will be fought and how they can be won. By Peter Navarro. A troubled peace: US policy and the two Koreas. By Chae‐Jin Lee. North America Containment: rebuilding a strategy against global terror. By Ian Shapiro. American fascists: the Christian right and the war on America. By Christopher Hedges. Second chance: three presidents and the crisis of American superpower. By Zbigniew Brzezinski. Liberal order and imperial ambition: essays on American power and world politics. By G. John Ikenberry. Latin America and the Caribbean Anti‐Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Alan McPherson.