Book Reviews

Books reviewed: John J. Mearsheimer The tragedy of great power politics. Fred Halliday Two hours that shook the world. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey Democracy, liberalism, and war: rethinking the democratic peace debate. Morten Kelstrup and Michael C. Williams International relations theory and the politics of European integration: power, security and community. Ward Thomas The ethics of destruction: norms and force in international relations. Ken Booth The Kosovo tragedy: the human rights dimensions. Europa The international who's who 2002 book and cd‐rom. Mark Duffield Global governance and the new wars: the merging of development and security. Andrew Duncan and Michel Opatowski Trouble spots: the world atlas of strategic information. H. W. Brands The use of force after the Cold War. Victor S. Papacosma, Sean Kay and Mark R. Rubin NATO after fifty years. Ted Galen Carpenter NATO enters the twenty‐first century. Benjamin S. Lambeth NATO's air war over Kosovo: a strategic and operational assessment. Michael E. O'Hanlon Defense policy options for the Bush administration 2001–5. Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani Civil society: history and possibilities. Joel Migdal State in society: studying how states and societies transform and constitute one another. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer Globalization unmasked: imperialism in the twenty‐first century. Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman Citizenship in diverse societies. Will Kymlicka Politics in the vernacular: nationalism, multiculturalism, and citizenship. Montserrat Guiberneau and John Hutchinson Understanding nationalism. Peter Andreas and Timothy Snyder The wall around the West: state borders and immigration controls in North America and Europe. David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh The British general election of 2001. Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan and IIan Peleg Negotiating culture and human rights. Peter Wilkin The political economy of global communication: an introduction. Spyros Economides and Peter Wilson The economic factor in international relations: a brief introduction. Manfred B. Steger Globalism: the new market ideology. Steven Weber Globalization and the European political economy. John J. Kirton and George M. von Furstenberg New directions in global economic governance: managing globalisation in the twenty‐first century. Leslie Elliott Armijo Financial globalization and democracy in emerging markets. Heikki Patomäki Democratising globalisation: the leverage of the Tobin tax. Roger Charlton and Roddy McKinnon Pensions in development. David Henderson Misguided virtue: false notions of corporate social responsibility. Dag Harald Claes The politics of oil‐producer cooperation. Eileen Claussen Climate change: science, strategies, and solutions. Paul G. Harris The environment, international relations and US foreign policy. William Chandler Energy and environment in the transition economies. Helen Wallace Interlocking dimensions of European integration. Neil Winn and Christopher Lord EU foreign policy beyond the nation‐state: joint actions and institutional analysis of the Common and Foreign Security Policy. Christopher Brewin The European Union and Cyprus. Stephen Saxonberg The fall: a comparative study of the end of communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland. Alan Smith The return to Europe: the reintegration of eastern Europe into the European economy. Elizabeth De Boer‐Ashworth The global political economy and post‐1989 change: the place of the Central European transition. Alex Pravda and Jan Zielonka Democratic consolidation in eastern Europe volume 2: international and transnational factors. Mitchell A. Orenstein Out of the red: building capitalism and democracy in postcommunist Europe. Michael McFaul Russia's unfinished revolution: political change from Gorbachev to Putin. Jerry F. Hough The logic of economic reform in Russia. Robert Ebel and Rajan Menon Energy and conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Gary K. Bertsch, Cassady Craft, Scott A. Jones, and Michael Beck Crossroads and conflict: security and foreign policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Anthony Shadid Legacy of the prophet: despots, democrats, and the new politics of Islam. Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman Between the state and Islam. As'ad Ghanem The Palestinian regime: a ‘partial democracy’. Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East. Joel S. Migdal. Through the lens of Israel: explorations in state and society. Dilip Hiro Neighbors, not friends: Iraq and Iran after the Gulf Wars. Vanessa Martin Creating an Islamic state: Khomeini and the making of a new Iran. Ali Mirsepassi Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization: negotiating modernity in Iran. Eliz Sanasarian Religious minorities in Iran. Roland Jacquard Au nom d'Oussama ben Laden. Nicolas van de Walle African economies and the politics of permanent crisis, 1979–1999. Paul J. Magnarella Justice in Africa: Rwanda's genocide, its courts, and the UN criminal tribunal. Eric S. Margolis War at the top of the world: the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet. Kyung‐Ae Park and Dalchoong Kim Korean security dynamics in transition. Samuel S. Kim Korea's globalization. Joseph Fewsmith China since Tiananmen: the politics of transition. Ming Wan Human rights in Chinese foreign relations: defining and defending national interests. Roland Challis Shadow of a revolution: Indonesia and the generals. Gregory F. Treverton Reshaping national intelligence for an age of information. Wilson Dizard, Jr. Westport Digital diplomacy: US foreign policy in the information age. Richard Sobel The impact of public opinion on US foreign policy since Vietnam: constraining the colossus. David Pion‐Berlin Civil—military relations in Latin America: new analytical perspectives.     

Book reviews

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.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: G. John Ikenberry, After victory: institutions, strategic restraint, and the rebuilding of order after major wars James Mayall, World politics: progress and its limits Mathias Albert, David Jacobson, and Yosef Lapid (ed.), Identities, borders, orders: rethinking International Relations theory J. Ann Tickner, Gendering world politics: issues and approaches in the post‐Cold War era James L. Richardson, Contending liberalisms in world politics: ideology and power William A. Schabas, Genocide in international law Humanitarian Studies Unit, Transnational Institute (ed.), Reflections on humanitarian action: principles, ethics and contradictions Alan J. Kuperman, The limits of humanitarian intervention: genocide in Rwanda Indar Jit Rikhye, The politics and practice of United Nations peacekeeping: past, present and future Mark Webber (ed.), Russia and Europe: conflict or cooperation? Morton Abramowitz (ed.), Turkey’s transformation and American policy Wesley Clark, Waging modern war Richard Wyn Jones, Security, strategy, and critical theory Clive Jones and Caroline Kennedy‐Pipe ((ed.)), International security in a global age: securing the twenty‐first century Simon Chesterman (ed.), Civilians in war Mary Kaldor (ed.), Global insecurity Andrew Rigby, Justice and reconciliation: after the violence Colin Knox and Padraic Quirk, Peace building in Northern Ireland, Israel and South Africa: transition, transformation and reconciliation Gustav Schmidt (ed.), A history of NATO: the first fifty years Pierre Martin and Mark R. Brawley (ed.), Alliance politics, Kosovo, and NATO’s war: allied force or forced allies? Martin A. Smith, NATO in the first decade after the Cold War Anthony Seldon (ed.), The Blair effect: the Blair government, 1997‐2001 Christopher Pierson, Hard choices: social democracy in the twenty‐first century Craig Warkentin, Reshaping world politics: NGOs, the Internet, and global civil society Michael Th. Greven and Louis W. Pauly (ed.), Democracy beyond the state? The European dilemma and the emerging global order Jeremy Lester, The dialogue of negation: debates on hegemony in Russia and the West Richard Falk, Religion and humane global governance Mukulika Banerjee, The Pathan unarmed: opposition and memory in the North West Frontier Christopher Arup, The new World Trade Organization agreements: globalizing law through services and intellectual property Alan Russell and John Vogler (ed.), The international politics of biotechnology: investigating global futures Hernando de Soto, The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else Susan Ariel Aaronson, Taking trade to the streets: the lost history of public efforts to shape globalization Peter Stalker, Workers without frontiers: the impact of globalization on international migration Wendy Dobson and Gary Clyde Hufbauer, World capital markets: challenge to the G‐10 Werner Bonefeld and Kosmas Psychopedis (ed.), The politics of change: globalization, ideology and critique Jon Barnett, The meaning of environmental security: ecological politics and policy in the new security era Paul F. Diehl and Nils Petter Gleditsch (ed.), Environmental conflict Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek, Justice, posterity and the environment Neil E. Harrison, Constructing sustainable development Charles S. Pearson, Economics and the global environment Stephen C. Young (ed.), The emergence of ecological modernisation: integrating the environment and the economy? Georges‐Henri Soutou, La guerre de cinquante ans: les relations Est‐Ouest 1943‐1900 Volker R. Berghahn, America and the intellectual cold wars in Europe Jonathan Hollowell (ed.), Twentieth‐century Anglo‐American relations Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States and the Algerian war Hubert Védrine with Dominique Moïsi. Translated by Philip H. Gordon, France in an age of globalization Wolf‐Dieter Eberwein and Karl Kaiser (ed.), Germany’s new foreign policy: decision‐making in an interdependent world Volker Rittberger (ed.), German foreign policy since unification: theories and case studies Sebastian Harnisch and Hans W. Maull (ed.), Germany as a civilian power? The foreign policy of the Berlin Republic Klaus Schubert and Gisela Müller‐Brandeck‐Bocquet (ed.), Die Europäische Union als Akteur der Weltpolitik Geoffrey Hosking, Russia and the Russians Anatoly S. Chernyaev, My six years with Gorbachev: notes from a diary Yaacov Ro’i, Islam in the CIS: a threat to stability? Barry Rubin and Kemal Kirisci (ed.), Turkey in world politics: an emerging multiregional power Daniel Brumberg, Reinventing Khomeini: the struggle for reform in Iran Joseph Kechichian, Succession in Saudi Arabia Paul Rivlin, Economic policy and performance in the Arab world Benjamin Stora, Algeria 1830‐2000: a short history Yoweri K. Museveni, What is Africa’s problem? Gilbert Khadiagala and Terrence Lyons (ed.), African foreign policies: power and process Robert Pinkney, The international politics of East Africa John L. Hirsch, Sierra Leone: diamonds and the struggle for democracy Merle L. Bowen, The state against the peasantry: rural struggles in colonial and postcolonial Mozambique Frances Christie and Joseph Hanlon, Mozambique and the great flood of 2000 Richard A. Wilson, The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa: legitimising the post‐apartheid state Wilmot James and Linda van de Vijver (ed.), After the TRC: reflections on truth and reconciliation in South Africa Peter Vale, Larry A. Satuk and Bertil Oden (ed.), Theory, change and Southern Africa’s future Robert B. Horwitz, Communication and democratic reform in South Africa Amitav Acharya, Constructing a security community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the problem of regional order Michael Leifer, Singapore’s foreign policy: coping with vulnerability Amita Shastri and A. Jeyaratnam Wilson (ed.), The post‐colonial states of South Asia: democracy, identity, development and security Cheng Li, China’s leaders: the new generation Joseph Fewsmith, Elite politics in contemporary China Shelley Rigger, From opposition to power:Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party David Martin Jones and Mike Lawrence Smith, Reinventing realism: Australia’s foreign and defence policy at the millennium Henry Kissinger, Does America need a foreign policy? Toward a diplomacy for the 21st century Paul R. Pillar, Terrorism and US foreign policy Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn, with Emilio Zebadúa, Mexico: the struggle for democratic development Joseph S.Tulchin and Ralph H. Espach (ed.), Security in the Caribbean Basin: the challenge of regional cooperation Lincoln Gordon, Brazil’s second chance: en route towards the First World Barry Ames, The deadlock of democracy in Brazil     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The morality of defensive war. By Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar. Risk and hierarchy in international society: liberal interventionism in the post‐Cold War era. By William Clapton. New constitutionalism and world order. Edited by Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler. International organization, law and ethics 1 See also Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar, The morality of defensive war, pp. 1453–4, and David Sloggett, The anarchic sea: maritime security in the 21^st century, pp. 1464–5.
Peace diplomacy, global justice and international agency: rethinking human security and ethics in the spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld. Edited by Carsten Stahn and Henning Melber. We the peoples: a UN for the 21st century. By Kofi Annan and edited by Edward Mortimer. Cyber operations and the use of force in international law. By Marco Roscini. NATO's balancing act. By David S. Yost. Conflict, security and defence The rise and fall of intelligence: an international security history. By Michael Warner. The anarchic sea: maritime security in the 21^st century. By David Sloggett. International maritime security law. By James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo. Gender, war and conflict. By Laura Sjoberg. Democratic participation in armed conflict: military involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. By Patrick A. Mello. Governance, civil society and cultural politics 1 Stephen J. C. Andes, The Vatican and Catholic activism in Mexico and Chile: the politics of transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940, pp. 1508–510.
Do Muslim women need saving? By Lila Abu‐Lughod. The Russian Orthodox Church and human rights. By Kristina Stoeckl. Political economy, economics and development Capital in the twenty‐first century. By Thomas Piketty. The system worked: how the world stopped another Great Depression. By Daniel W. Drezner. The great escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality. By Angus Deaton. The great convergence: Asia, the West, and the logic of one world. By Kishore Mahbubani. Energy, environment and global health Global resources: conflict and cooperation. Edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski. Nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: social, political and environmental issues. Edited by Richard Hindmarsh. International history July crisis: the world's descent into war, summer 1914. By T. G. Otte. The Cold War in the Third World. Edited by Robert J. McMahon. Scars of partition: postcolonial legacies in French and British borderlands. By William F. S. Miles. Europe Post‐war statebuilding and constitutional reform: beyond Dayton in Bosnia. By Sofía Sebastián‐Aparicio. The rise of Turkey: the twenty‐first century's first Muslim power. By Soner Cagaptay. Britannia and the bear: the Anglo‐Russian intelligence wars 1917–1929. By Victor Madeira. Russia and Eurasia 1 See also Kristina Stoeckl, The Russian Orthodox Church and human rights, pp. 1469–70, and Victor Madeira, Britannia and the bear: the Anglo‐Russian intelligence wars 1917–1929, pp. 1485–7.
Brothers armed: military aspects of the crisis in Ukraine. Edited by Colby Howard and Ruslan Pukhov. US foreign policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: politics, energy and security. By Christoph Bluth. Middle East and North Africa Israel since the Six‐Day War: tears of joy, tears of sorrow. By Leslie Stein. U.S.—Iran misperceptions: a dialogue. Edited by Abbas Maleki and John Tirman. Sub‐Saharan Africa Eritrea at a crossroads: a narrative of triumph, betrayal and hope. By Andebrhan Welde Giorgis. Inside South Africa's foreign policy: diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki. By John Siko. South Asia Bargaining with a rising India: lessons from the Mahabharata. By Amrita Narlikar and Aruna Narlikar. The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a forgotten genocide. By Gary Bass. 1971: a global history of the creation of Bangladesh. By Srinath Raghavan. East Asia and Pacific 1 Richard Hindmarsh, Nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: social, political and environmental issues, pp. 1477–9.
South Korea's rise: economic development, power, and foreign relations. By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig. Annual report on China's national security studies (2014). Edited by Hui Liu. Following the leader: ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. By David M. Lampton. Will China dominate the 21^st century? By Jonathan Fenby. North America 1 See also Christoph Bluth, US foreign policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: politics, energy and security, pp. 1488–9, and Abbas Maleki and John Tirman, eds, U.S.—Iran misperceptions: a dialogue, pp. 1491–2.
US foreign policy and the Iranian Revolution: the Cold War dynamics of engagement and strategic alliance. By Christian Emery. A war that can't be won: binational perspectives on the war on drugs. Edited by Tony Payan, Kathleen Staudt and Z. Anthony Kruszewski. Two nations indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the road ahead. By Shannon O'Neil. Why walls won't work: repairing the US–Mexico divide. By Michael Dear. Latin America and Caribbean Security in South America: the role of states and regional organizations. By Rodrigo Tavares. 18 dias: quando Lula e FHC se uniram para conquistar o apoio de Bush. By Matias Spektor. The Vatican and Catholic activism in Mexico and Chile: the politics of transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940. By Stephen J. C. Andes.     

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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: G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, International Relations theory and the Asia‐Pacific Mark B. Salter, Barbarians and civilisation in international relations Philip Allott, The health of nations: society and law beyond the state Morten Bøås and Desmond McNeill, Multilateral institutions: a critical introduction Vassilis K. Fouskas, Zones of conflict: US foreign policy in the Balkans and the greater Middle East Thomas L. Friedman, Longitudes and attitudes: exploring the world after September 11 John Pinder and Yuri Shishkov, The EU and Russia: the promise of partnership Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, Turbulent peace: the challenges of managing international conflict Tobias Debiel with Axel Klein, Fragile peace: state failure, violence and development in crisis regions Jolyon Howorth and John T.S. Keeler, Defending Europe: the EU, NATO and the quest for European autonomy Paul K. Huth and Todd L. Allee, The democratic peace and territorial conflict in the twentieth century Patrick M. Morgan, Deterrence now P. W. Singer, Corporate warriors: the rise of the privatized military industry Eytan Gilboa, Media and conflict: framing issues, making policy, shaping opinion Walter Lacqueur, No end to war: terrorism in the twenty‐first century Fareed Zakaria, The future of freedom: illiberal democracy at home and abroad Elizabeth Sleeman, International who's who 2004 Akbar S. Ahmed, Islam under siege: living dangerously in a post‐honor world Richard D. Lewis, The cultural imperative: global trends in the 21st century Amin Saikal, Islam and the West: conflict or cooperation? Sami Zubaida, Law and power in the Islamic world By. Graham Bird, The IMF and the future: issues and options facing the Fund Barry Eichengreen, Financial crises and what to do about them United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World investment report 2002: transnational corporations and export competitiveness Elizabeth R. DeSombre, The global environment and world politics: International Relations for the 21^st century Paul F. Steinberg, Environmental leadership in developing countries: transnational relations and biodiversity policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty, Greening the Americas: NAFTA's lessons for hemispheric trade Csaba Békés, Malcolm Byrne and János Rainer, The 1956 Hungarian revolution: a history in documents Christoph Bluth, The two Germanies and military security in Europe Philip E. Catton, Diem's final failure: prelude to America's war in Vietnam Tibor Frank, Discussing Hitler. Advisers of US diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934–1941 Anthony Glees, The Stasi files: East Germany's secret operations against Britain Keith Kyle, Suez: Britain's end of empire in the Middle East Julian Lewis, Changing direction: British military planning for post‐war strategic defence, 1942–1947 Richard Mayne, In victory, magnanimity: in peace, goodwill: a history of Wilton Park Robert McNamara, Britain, Nasser and the balance of power in the Middle East 1952–1967 Steven Merritt Miner, Stalin's holy war: religion, nationalism, and alliance politics, 1941–1945 Sophie Quinn‐Judge, Ho Chi Minh: the missing years (1911–1941) Gary Sheffield and Geoffrey Till, The challenges of high command: the British experience Florian Bieber and Zidas Daskalovski, Understanding the war in Kosovo Ali Çarko?lu and Barry Rubin, Turkey and the European Union: domestic politics, economic integration and international dynamics Alan J. Day, Roger East and Richard Thomas, A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe Tom Gallagher, The Balkans after the Cold War: from tyranny to tragedy Kemal Kurspahic, Prime time crime: Balkan media in war and peace David Bruce MacDonald, Balkan holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim‐centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia Sandra Lavenex and Emek M. Uçarer, Migration and the externalities of European integration Marko Lehti and David Smith, Post‐Cold War identity politics: northern and Baltic experiences Pami Aalto, Constructing post‐Soviet geopolitics in Estonia Anatol Lieven and Dmitri Trenin, Ambivalent neighbors: the EU, NATO and the price of membership J. H. H. Weiler, Iain Begg and John Peterson, Integration in an expanding European Union: reassessing the fundamentals Dale R. Herspring, Putin's Russia: past imperfect, future uncertain Ted Hopf, Social construction of international politics: identities and foreign policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 Necati Polat, Boundary issues in Central Asia Mark Downes, Iran's unresolved revolution Alan George, Syria. Neither bread nor freedom Tami Amanda Jacoby and Brent E. Sasley, Redefining security in the Middle East Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan: eye of the storm Christophe Jaffrelot, Pakistan: nationalism without nation Rajat Ganguly and Ian MacDuff, Ethnic conflict and secessionism in South and Southeast Asia E. J. Dionne Jr. and William Kristol, Bush v. Gore. The court cases and the commentary Bruce Ackerman, Bush v. Gore. The question of legitimacy Ido Oren, Our enemies and US: America's rivalries and the making of political science Monica Herz and João Pontes Nogueira, Ecuador vs. Peru: peacemaking amid rivalry Frank Safford and Marco Palacios, Colombia: fragmented land, divided society     

System failure: the underlying causes of US policy‐making errors in Afghanistan

The United States intervention in Afghanistan since 2001 has brought progress in some areas, but the conflict has expanded, the Taliban remains powerful, and misgovernance and predation are widespread. Afghan national security forces—the linchpin of the coalition's exit strategy—offer no guarantee of future stability. Many accounts describe the mistakes that led to this predicament. This article attempts to explain why these mistakes were made by examining their underlying or structural causes. Based on 51 interviews with officials and experts, it identifies major US policy‐making errors with respect to state‐building, military activities and diplomacy. It argues that there are four principal underlying causes of such errors, relating to organizations, leadership and strategic thinking, psychology, and domestic politics. It finds that there were severe shortcomings in the acquisition and processing of information and a lack of institutional self‐evaluation; civilian and military leaders made major strategic misjudgements in mistaking the strategy for the goal, overestimating the efficacy of military force or resources, and drawing false lessons from history or analogous cases such as Iraq; leaders were predisposed to overconfidence and oversimplification; and, at the highest level, policies were distorted by domestic politics. The article contends that the cumulative impact of these shortcomings was sufficient to seriously disrupt the functioning of the foreign policy‐making system. It argues that action is required to improve US information gathering and assessment, systematize institutional self‐evaluation, build regional expertise, establish mechanisms to understand the motivations and perceptions of other actors, and increase awareness of decision‐makers’ cognitive flaws and biases.     

Book reviews

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.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Robert O. Keohane, Power and governance in a partially globalized world Michael Cox, Tim Dunne and Ken Booth, Empires, systems and states: great transformations in international politics Edward Keene, Beyond the anarchical society: Grotius, colonialism and order in world politics Antonio Franceschet, Kant and liberal internationalism: sovereignty, justice and international reform Bruno Coppieters and Nick Fotion, Moral constraints on war: principles and cases J. L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane, Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal and political dilemmas Martha Minow, Breaking the cycles of hatred: memory, law, and repair Stephen Zunes, Tinderbox: US Middle East policy and the roots of terrorism Douglas Little, American orientalism: the United States and the Middle East since 1945 Princeton N. Lyman, Partner to history: the US role in South Africa's transition to democracy Gwyn Prins, The heart of war: on power, conflict and obligation in the twenty‐first century Barnett R. Rubin, Blood on the doorstep Philip Windsor. Edited by Mats Berdal and Spyros Economides, Strategic thinking: an introduction and farewell Colin S. Gray, Strategy for chaos: revolutions in military affairs and the evidence of history Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild and Elizabeth M Cousens, Ending civil wars: the implementation of peace agreements Diana Francis, People, peace and power: conflict transformation in action Yonah Alexander, Combating terrorism: strategies of ten countries Alan Dershowitz, Why terrorism works: understanding the threat, responding to the challenge Caleb Carr, The lessons of terror: a history of warfare against civilians—why it has always failed, and why it will fail again Robert Mandel, Armies without states: the privatization of security Dana H. Allin, NATO's Balkan interventions Jane Chanaa, Security sector reform: issues, challenges and prospects Noam Chomsky, Power and terror: post 9–11 talks and interviews Roger Scruton, The West and the rest: globalization and the terrorist threat Philippe Legrain, Open world: the truth about globalisation Gerrie Ter Haar and James Busuttil, The freedom to do God's will: religious fundamentalism and social change Heather Rae, State identities and the homogenisation of peoples Roger Tooze and Christopher May, Authority and markets: Susan Strange's writings on international political economy M. J. Manohar Rao and Raj Nallari, Macroeconomic stabilization and adjustment Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang, Corporate responsibility and labour rights: codes of conduct in the global economy Jon Burchell, The evolution of Green politics: development and change within European Green parties Charles O. Holliday, Stephan Schmidheiny and Philip Watts, Walking the talk: the business case for sustainable development William Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War: a new diplomatic and strategic history Jonathan Pearson, Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez crisis: reluctant gamble Nigel J. Ashton, Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: the irony of interdependence Elena A. Iankova, Eastern European capitalism in the making Stephanie Schwandner‐Sievers and Bernd J. Fischer, Albanian identities: myth and history Vadim Volkov, Violent entrepreneurs: the use of force in the making of Russian capitalism Lilia Shevtsova, Putin's Russia George W. Breslauer, Gorbachev and Yeltsin as leaders Madawi Al‐Rasheed, A history of Saudi Arabia Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing anthropology: fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge in Central Africa Jamie Frueh, Political identity and social change: the remaking of the South African social order state Su Dongwei, Chinese stock markets: a research handbook Andrei Lankov, From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: the formation of North Korea 1945–60 Evan Gottesman, Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge: inside the politics of nation building Bob Woodward, Bush at war Richard Crockatt, America embattled: September 11, anti‐Americanism and the global order Karen Kampwirth, Women and guerrilla movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba Ilja A. Luciak, After the revolution: gender and democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala Sue Branford and Jan Rocha, Cutting the wire: the story of the landless movement in Brazil     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Paul, Wapner and Lester Edwin J., Ruiz (eds) Principled world politics: the challenge of normative international relations Kimberly, Hutchings International political theory: rethinking ethics in a global era Daniel, Philpott Revolutions in sovereignty: how ideas shaped modern international relations Harald, Kleinschmidt The nemesis of power: a history of international relations theories Christine, Gray International law and the use of force Christine, Bell Peace agreements and human rights Asbjørn, Eide; Helge Ole, Bergesen and Pia Rudolfson, Goyer (eds) Human rights and the oil industry Dinah, Shelton (ed.) Commitment and compliance: the role of non‐binding norms in the international legal system Fred, Halliday The world at 2000 James P., Sewell (ed.) Multilateralism in multinational perspective: viewpoints from different languages and literatures Rosemary, Foot Rights beyond borders: the global community and the struggle over human rights in China Ivo H., Daalder Getting to Dayton: the making of America's Bosnia policy Robert G., Sutter Chinese policy priorities and their implications for the United States Paul, Rogers Losing control: global security in the twenty‐first century David, Mutimer The weapons state: proliferation and the framing of security T. V., Paul Power versus prudence: why nations forgo nuclear weapons Jerome M., Conley Indo‐Russian military and nuclear cooperation: lessons and options for US policy in South Asia Raju G. C., Thomas and Amit, Gupta (eds) India's nuclear security Marianne, van Leeuwen Crying wolf? Assessing unconventional terrorism Patrick, Mileham and Lee, Willett (eds) Military ethics for the expeditionary era Malcolm, Chalmers Sharing security: the political economy of burdensharing R. E., Utley The French defence debate: consensus and continuity in the Mitterrand era Shaun, Gregory French defence policy into the twenty‐first century Gwyn, Prins and Hylke, Tromp (eds) The future of war Richard, Holmes (ed.) The Oxford companion to military history Marina, Ottaway and Thomas, Carothers (eds) Funding virtue: civil society aid and democracy promotion Ann M., Florini (ed.) The third force: the rise of transnational civil society Robin, Cohen and Shirin M., Rai (eds). Global social movements T. Alexander, Aleinikoff and Douglas, Klusmeyer (eds) From migrants to citizens: membership in a changing world Kjell, Goldmann; Ulf, Hannerz and Charles, Westin (eds) Nationalism and internationalism in the post‐Cold War era L. R., Melvern A people betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda's genocide Howard, Adelman and Astri, Suhrke (eds) The path of a genocide: the Rwanda crisis from Uganda to Zaire Adamantia, Pollis and Peter, Schwab (eds) Human rights: new perspectives, new realities W. Lance, Bennett and Robert M., Entman (eds) Mediated politics: communication in the future of democracy Thomas C., Lawton; James N., Rosenau and Amy C., Verdun (eds) Strange power: shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy Kenichi, Ohmae The invisible continent: four strategic imperatives of the new economy Joseph S., Nye and John D., Donahue (eds) Governance in a globalizing world Nancy, Birdsall and Carol, Graham (eds) New markets, new opportunities? Economic and social mobility in a changing world Albert, Fishlow and Karen, Parker (eds) Growing apart: the causes and consequences of global wage inequality Linsu, Kim and Richard R., Nelson (eds) Technology, learning, and innovation: experiences of newly industrializing countries Tim, O'Riordan (ed.) Globalism, localism and identity: fresh perspectives on the transition to sustainability Tim, Jackson; Katie, Begg and Stuart, Parkinson Flexibility in climate policy: making the Kyoto mechanisms work Suke, Wolton Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the politics of race and empire in the Second World War: the loss of white prestige Michael E., Latham Modernization as ideology: American social science and ‘nation building’ in the Kennedy era Frédéric, Bozo (transl. by Susan Emanuel.) Two strategies for Europe: de Gaulle, the United States and the Atlantic Alliance Adrian, Hyde‐Price Germany and European order: enlarging NATO and the EU Lisbeth, Aggestam and Adrian, Hyde‐Price (eds) Security and identity in Europe: exploring the new agenda Christoph, Bluth Germany and the future of European security Robin, Niblett and William, Wallace (eds) Rethinking European order: West European responses, 1989–97 Ann L., Phillips Power and influence after the Cold War: Germany in east‐central Europe Simon, Bulmer; Charlie, Jeffery and William E., Paterson Germany's European diplomacy: shaping the regional milieu Philippe, Schmitter How to democratize the European Union and why bother? Alasdair R., Young and Helen, Wallace Regulatory politics in the enlarging European Union: weighing civic and producer interests C. Randall, Henning and Pier Carlo, Padoan Transatlantic perspectives on the euro Bodo, Hombach The politics of the new centre Christer, Jönsson; Sven, Tägil and Gunnar, Törnqvist Organizing European space Volker, Bornschier (ed.) State‐building in Europe: the revitalization of Western European integration Joanne, van Selm (ed.) Kosovo's refugees in the European Union Michael, Kraus and Allison, Stanger (eds) Irreconcilable differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's dissolution Andrew C., Janos East‐central Europe in the modern world: the politics of the borderlands from pre‐ to post‐communism Jan Herman, Brinks Children of a new fatherland: Germany's post‐war right‐wing politics Regional surveys of the world: Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia Regional surveys of the world: Central and South‐Eastern Europe Roy, Medvedev (ed. and transl. by George Shriver) Post‐Soviet Russia: a journey through the Yeltsin era Pål, Kølsto Political construction sites: nation‐building in Russia and the post‐Soviet states Marcia A., Weigle Russia's liberal project: state–society relations in the transition from communism Sally N., Cummings Kazakhstan: centre–periphery relations Eugene L., Rogan and Avi, Shlaim (eds) The war for Palestine: rewriting the history of 1948 Bernard, Wasserstein Divided Jerusalem: the struggle for the holy city Jerome M., Segal; Shlomit, Levy; Nadar, Izzat Sa'id and Elihu, Katz Negotiating Jerusalem Shaul, Mishal and Avraham, Sela The Palestinian Hamas: vision, violence and coexistence Nur, Masalha Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: the politics of expansion Suad, Joseph (ed.) Gender and citizenship in the Middle East Rita, Abrahamsen Disciplining democracy: development discourse and good governance in Africa Hussein, Solomon and Ian, Liebenberg (eds) Consolidation of democracy in Africa: a view from the South Alex, Boraine A country unmasked: inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Tony, Hodges Angola from Afro‐Stalinism to petro‐diamond capitalism Tekeste, Negash and Kjetil, Tronvoll Brothers at war: making sense of the Eritrean–Ethiopian war Xiaobo, LüCadres and corruption: the organizational involution of the Chinese Communist Party Solomon M., Karmel China and the People's Liberation Army: great power or struggling developing state? Han, Sung‐Joo (ed.) Changing values in Asia: their impact on governance and development Kenneth, Christie and Denny, Roy The politics of human rights in East Asia Tat Yan, Kong The politics of economic reform in South Korea: a fragile miracle Larry, Diamond and Byung‐Kook, Kim (eds) Consolidating democracy in South Korea Sunhyuk, Kim The politics of democratization in Korea: the role of civil society Hasan‐Askari, Rizvi Military, state and society in Pakistan Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Frontline diplomacy: the US foreign affairs oral history collection Paul G., Harris (ed.) Climate change and American foreign policy Joaquín, Roy Cuba, the United States, and the Helms‐Burton doctrine: international reactions Leigh A., Payne Uncivil movements: the armed right wing and democracy in Latin America Kevin J., Middlebrook (ed.) Conservative parties, the right, and democracy in Latin America Roger, Burbach Globalization and postmodern politics: from Zapatistas to high‐tech robber barons Sidney, Weintraub Development and democracy in the Southern Cone: imperatives for US policy in South America Clint E., Smith Inevitable partnership: understanding Mexico–US relations     

CANADIAN NOVELS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND HISTORIANS

Most discussions about the impact of Afghanistan on the future of NATO focus on transatlantic relations between the United States and the European Union. But for Canada, which is one of the few NATO allies that voluntarily deployed into the south, facing heavy resistance and fighting from Taliban insurgents, the Afghanistan operations have become the most salient dimension of its continued involvement in the Atlantic Alliance. While this may seem surprising, given the cutbacks in Canadian defense spending in the 1990s and the withdrawal of Canada's standing forces from Germany, it should not. For during that so-called dark decade, Canada continued to make major contributions to NATO and European security. This essay argues that Ottawa's multi-faceted military and political support of the “new” NATO of the post–Cold War era continued when the alliance undertook its involvement in Afghanistan. Indeed, in its efforts in support of NATO's mission in Afghanistan, Canada has demonstrated a dedication to the alliance that seems stronger than NATO's collective commitment to itself.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Stephen Krasner, Sovereignty: organized hypocrisy Mark R. Amstutz, International ethics: concepts, theories and cases in global politics Fred Halliday, Revolution and world politics: the rise and fall of the sixth great power Jan Jindy, Kathleen Pettman, Jones and Gillian Youngs, International Feminist Journal of Politics: volume 1; nos 1, 2, 3 Bruce W. Jentleson, Opportunities missed, opportunities siezed: preventive diplomacy in the post‐Cold War world Marc Weller, The crisis in Kosovo 1989–1999: from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to Rambouillet and the outbreak of hostilities Tim Judah, Kosovo: war and revenge Richard N. Haass, Transatlantic tensions: the United States, Europe and problem countries Robert G. Sutter, US policy toward China: an introduction to the role of interest groups Tong Whan Park, The US and the two Koreas: a new triangle Pierre Allan and Dieter Kläy, Zwischen Bürokratie und Ideologie: Entscheidungsprozesse in Moskaus Afghanistan–konflikt The Europa directory of international organizations Thomas G. Weiss, Military–civilian interactions: intervening in humanitarian crises Kimberly A. Maynard, Healing communities in conflict: international assistance in complex emergencies Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, The power of human rights: international norms and domestic change Frances Nicholson, Refugee rights and realities: evolving international concepts and regimes Max Travers, The British immigration courts: a study of law and politics Alison Des Forges, Leave none to tell the story: genocide in Rwanda Monique Mas, Paris–Kigali 1990–1994: lunettes colonials, politique du sabre et onction humanitaire pour un genocide en Afrique Diana Woodhouse, The Pinochet case: a legal and constitutional analysis John Collier and Vaughan Lowe, The settlement of disputes in international law: institutions and procedures Stuart Croft and Terry Terriff, Critical reflections on security and change Bill McSweeny, Security, identity and interests: a sociology of international relations Janne E. Nolan, An elusive consensus: nuclear weapons and American security after the Cold War Harold A. Feiveson, The nuclear turning point: a blueprint for deep cuts and de‐alerting of nuclear weapons George Perkovich, India's nuclear bomb: the impact on global proliferation Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare, Light weapons and civil conflict: controlling the tools of violence Ian Davis, An independent audit of the first UK Annual report on strategic export controls Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, The political economy of NATO: past, present, and into the 21st century J. L. Black, Russia faces NATO expansion: bearing gifts or bearing arms? Michael Ignatieff, Virtual war: Kosovo and beyond Peter Dorey, The Major premiership: politics and policies under John Major 1990–97 Nicholas N. Kittrie, Rebels with a cause: the minds and morality of political offenders Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere, Globalization and identity: dialectics of flow and closure Israel W. Charny, Encyclopedia of genocide: volumes 1 and 2 Susie Jacobs, Ruth Jacobson and Jennifer Marchbank, States of conflict: gender, violence and resistance Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti and Marta Mercado, Women and power: fighting patriarchies and poverty Heike Behrend and Ute Luig, Spirit possession: modernity and power in Africa Heike Behrend, Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: war in northern Uganda 1986–97 Susan L. Carruthers, The media at war Philip M. Taylor, British propaganda in the twentieth century: selling democracy Nicholas Bayne, Hanging in there: the G7 and G8 summit in maturity and renewal Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, Chaos and governance in the modern world system James H. Mittelman, The globalization syndrome: transformation and resistance Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, Nation‐states and money: the past, present and future of national currencies Edward J. Lincoln, Troubled times: US–Japan trade relations in the 1990s Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod, The global environment: institutions, law and policy United Nations Environment Programme, Global environmental outlook 2000 Sander V. Meijerink, Conflict and cooperation on the Scheldt river basin Sean Greenwood, Britain and the Cold War 1945–91 Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr., Truman and Korea: the political culture of the early Cold War Jean A. Garrison, Games advisors play: foreign policy in the Nixon and Carter administrations Henry Kissinger, Years of renewal: the concluding volume of his memoirs Ben Rosamond, Theories of European integration David Broughton and Mark Donovan, Changing party systems in western Europe Marie‐Thérèse Bitsch, Wilfried Loth and Raymond Poidevin, Institutions européennes et identitéseuropéennes Reiner Martin, The regional dimension in European public policy: convergence or divergence? Alice Bloch and Carl Levy, Refugees, citizenship and social policy in Europe Marjorie Lister, New perspectives on European Union development cooperation Simon Duke, The elusive quest for European security: from EDC to CFSP James Sperling, Two tiers or two speeds? The European security order and the enlargement of the European Union and NATO Julius W. Friend, The long presidency: France in the Mitterrand years, 1981–1995 András Körösényi, Government and politics in Hungary Christopher Lord, Central Europe: core or periphery? Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, Rebellious civil society: popular protest and democratic consolidation in Poland, 1989–1993 Magarditsch Hatschikjan and Stefan Troebst, Südosteuropa: ein Handbuch: Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur Leon Aron, Boris Yeltsin: a revolutionary life Sharon L. Wolchik and Volodymyr Zviglyanich, Ukraine: the search for a national identity Martha Brill, Olcott Anders Åslund and Sherman W. Garnett, Getting it wrong: regional cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States Fred Halliday, Nation and religion in the Middle East Graham E., Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke, The Arab Shi'a: the forgotten Muslims Graham Usher, Dispatches from Palestine: the rise and fall of the Oslo Peace Process Christopher Parker, Resignation or revolt? Socio‐political development and the challenges of peace in Palestine Kathleen Christison, Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on US Middle East policy Adnan Abu‐Odeh, Jordanians, Palestinians and the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East peace process Ali A. Mazrui, General history of Africa, volume 8: Africa since 1935 David Birmingham, Portugal and Africa David M. Anderson and Vigdis Broch‐Due, The poor are not us: poverty and pastoralism Sherbaz Khan Mazari, A journey to disillusionment Nasim Ahmad Jawed, Islam's political culture: religion and politics in predivided Pakistan Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Islam, oil and the new Great Game in Central Asia H.W. Arndt and Hal Hill, Southeast Asia's economic crisis: origins, lessons, and the way forward François Godement, The downsizing of Asia T. J. Pempel, The politics of the Asian economic crisis Scott Snyder, Negotiating on the edge: North Korean negotiating behaviour Michael G. MacKinnon, The evolution of US peacekeeping policy under Clinton: a fairweather friend? Gordon Mace and Louis Bélanger, The Americas in transition: the contours of regionalism Luigi Manzetti, Privatization South American style F. Constant and J. Daniel, Politique et développement dans les Caraïbes     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Barry Buzan and Richard Little, International systems in world history: remaking the study of International Relations N. J. Rengger, International Relations, political theory and the problem of order: beyond International Relations theory? Kai Alderson and Andrew Hurrell, Hedley Bull on international society Michael Cox, Tim Dunne and Ken Booth The interregnum: controversies in world politics 1989–1999 Vivienne Jabri and Eleanor O'Gorman, Women, culture and International Relations K. R. Dark, Religion and international relations Albert J. Paolini, Anthony Elliott and Anthony Moran, Navigating modernity: postcolonialism, identity and International Relations D. S. L. Jarvis, International Relations and the challenge of postmodernism: defending the discipline Sarah Owen Vanderslius, The state and identity construction in International Relations David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro, Moral spaces: rethinking ethics and world politics Andrew Valls, Ethics in international affairs: theories and cases Mathias Albert, Lothar Brock and Klaus Dieter Wolf, Civilizing world politics: society and community beyond the state Gregory H. Fox and Brad R. Roth, Democratic governance and international law Marco Sassòli and Antoine A. Bouvier, How does law protect in war? Cases, documents and teaching materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law Philip Alston and James Crawford, The future of UN human rights treaty monitoring Stephen Ryan, The United Nations and international politics Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams Contesting global governance: multilateral institutions and global social movements Geoff Simons, Imposing economic sanctions: legal remedy or genocidal tool? Daniel W., Drezner, The sanctions paradox: economic statecraft and international relations David, Cortwright and George A. Lopez, The sanctions decade: assessing UN strategies in the 1990s Jack Snyder, From voting to violence: democratization and nationalist conflict Michael D. Swaine and Ashley J. Tellis, Interpreting China's grand strategy: past, present and future Brigid Starkey, Mark A. Boyer and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Negotiating a complex world: an introduction to international negotiation Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, Herding cats: multiparty mediation in a complex world Christopher Mitchell, Gestures of conciliation: factors contributing to successful olive branches Colin Gray, Modern strategy Pierre Pascallon, L'Alliance Atlantique et l'OTAN, 1949–1999: un demi‐siècle de succès Anand Menon, France, NATO and the limits of independence, 1981–97: the politics of ambivalence Ivo H. Daalder and Michael E. O'Hanlon, Winning ugly: NATO's war to save Kosovo Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik, New nukes: India, Pakistan and global nuclear disarmament Anthony Giddens, The Third Way and its critics Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright, The new social democracy Joel Krieger, British politics in the global age: can social democracy survive? Alexander J. Motyl, Revolutions, nations, empires: conceptual limits and theoretical possibilities Martin van Creveld, The rise and decline of the state Christian Joppke, Immigration and the nation‐state: the United States, Germany and Great Britain David Beetham, Democracy and human rights Marc F. Plattner and Joao Carlos Espada, The democratic invention Julie A. Mertus, Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war Aili Mari Tripp, Women and politics in Uganda Alan Rugman, The end of globalization: a new and radical analysis of globalization and what it means for business Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: a critical introduction Randall D. Germain, Globalization and its critics: perspectives from political economy Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Global futures: shaping globalization Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods, Inequality, globalization and world politics Martin Shaw, Politics and globalisation: knowledge, ethics and agency Farhang Rajaee, Globalization on trial: the human condition and the information civilization Graham Dunkley, The free trade adventure: the WTO, the Uruguay Round and globalism: a critique Paul Krugman, The return of depression economics David Pearce and Edward B. Barbier, Blueprint for a sustainable economy Steinar Andresen, Tora Skodvin, Arild Underdal and Jorgen Wettestad Science and politics in international environmental regimes: between integrity and involvement Alexander Carius and Kurt M. Lietzmann, Environmental change and security: a European perspective Jon Hutton and Barnabas Dickson, Endangered species, threatened convention: the past, present and future of CITES Graham Dutfield, Intellectual property rights, trade and biodiversity Mohamed Suliman, Ecology, politics and violent conflict William Walker, Nuclear entrapment: THORP and the politics of commitment Jonathan Krueger, International trade and the Basel Convention Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy: reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator Jean Lacouture, Mitterrand: une histoire de Français. Tome 1: Les risques de l'escalade Jean Lacouture, Mitterrand: une histoire de Français. Tome 2: Les vertiges du sommet Michael Cox, E. H. Carr: a critical appraisal Larry Siedentop, Democracy in Europe Mehmet Ugur, The European Union and Turkey: an anchor/credibility dilemma Henry McDonald, Trimble Peter H. Merkl, The Federal Republic of Germany at fifty: the end of a century of turmoil Klaus Larres and Elizabeth Meehan, Uneasy allies: British–German relations and European integration since 1945 Anton Pelinka and Sieglinde Rosenberger, Österreichische Politik: Grundlagen, Strukturen, Trends Peter Pelinka, Österreichs Kanzler: Von Leopold Figl bis Wolfgang Schüssel Nebojsa Popov, The road to war in Serbia: trauma and catharsis Joseph Gibbs, Gorbachev's glasnost: the Soviet media in the first phase of perestroika Dov Lynch, Russian peacekeeping strategies in the CIS: the cases of Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan Nikolai Sokov, Russian strategic modernization: past and future Marta Dyczok, Ukraine: movement without change, change without movement Taras Kuzio, Robert Kravchuk and Paul D'Anieri, State and institution building in Ukraine Paul D'Anieri, Robert Kravchuk and Taras Kuzio, Politics and society in Ukraine Sherman W. Garnett and Robert Legvold, Belarus at the crossroads Yelena Kalyuzhnova and Dov Lynch, The Euro‐Asian World: a period of transition Benny Morris, Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist–Arab Conflict 1881–1999 Aharon Klieman, Compromising Palestine: a guide to final status negotiations Nasser M. Kalawoun, The struggle for Lebanon: a modern history of Lebanese–Egyptian relations Patrick Bond, Elite transition: from apartheid to neoliberalism in South Africa Martin, Meredith, Coming to terms: South Africa's search for truth Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg and Dennis Kux, India and Pakistan: the first fifty years Kris Olds, Peter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong and Henry Wai‐chung Yeung Globalisation and the Asia‐Pacific: contested territories Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong's embattled democracy: a societal analysis Steven Kull and I. M. Destler, Misreading the public: the myth of a new isolationism Michael Janeway, Republic of denial: press, politics, and public life Marcelo Pollack, The new right in Chile, 1973–97 Peter M. Siavelis, The President and Congress in postauthoritarian Chile: institutional constraints to democratic consolidation Mark Ensalaco, Chile under Pinochet: recovering the truth Cynthia J. Arnson, Comparative peace processes in Latin America Peter R. Kingstone, Crafting coalitions for reform: business preferences, political institutions, and neoliberal reform in Brazil     

Book reviews

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.     

NATO expansion: ‘a policy error of historic importance’

European security depends on the effective collaboration of the five major powers; it will be undermined by the extension of NATO, a policy driven by US domestic politics. The main threats to security are: the breakdown of political and economic stability; unintended nuclear proliferation and/or failure of the START process; Russia's evolving political and territorial aspirations. All three will remain marginal as long as Russia is constructively engaged with the West. NATO expansion threatens that engagement. It is seen by all strands of Russian opinion as violating the bargain struck in 1990 and will likely lead to the withdrawal of cooperation. Invitations to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic cannot be rescinded, but the consequences can be mitigated by refraining from integrating them into NATO's military structure, by ceasing to insist that NATO membership is open to all, and by perpetuating the de facto nuclear‐weapons‐free zone that presently exists in Central and Eastern Europe. Britain's stance could be pivotal.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Jenny, Edkins, Nalini, Persram and Veronique, Pin‐Fat, (ed.) Sovereignty and subjectivity Robert M. A., Crawford, Idealism and realism in International Relations: beyond the discipline Hazel, Smith, (ed.) Democracy and International Relations: critical theories/problematic practices Ian, Clark, Globalization and International Relations theory Nicholas J., Wheeler, Saving strangers: humanitarian intervention in international society Robert, Jackson, The global covenant: human conduct in a world of states Michael, Byers, (ed.) The role of law in international politics: essays in international relations and international law Rein, Müllerson, Ordering anarchy: international law in international society Thomas D., Grant, The recognition of states: law and practice in debate and evolution Boutros, Boutros‐Ghali, Unvanquished: a US–UN saga Edward, McWhinney, The United Nations and a new world order for a new millennium: self‐determination, state succession, and humanitarian intervention Sherman W., Garnett, (ed.) Rapprochement or rivalry? Russia–China relations in a changing Asia Maria do, Ceu Pinto, Political Islam and the United States: a study of US policy towards Islamist movements in the Middle East Fawaz A., Gerges, America and political Islam: clash of cultures or clash of interests? Michael, Cox, Adrian, Guelke and Fiona, Stephen, (ed.) A farewell to arms? From ‘long peace’ to long war in Northern Ireland John, Darby and Roger Mac, Ginty, (ed.) The management of peace processes Barbara F., Walter and Jack, Snyder, (ed.) Civil wars, insecurity and intervention David P., Auerswald, Disarmed democracies: domestic institutions and the use of force Robert, O'Neill and John, Baylis, (ed.) Alternative nuclear futures: the role of nuclear weapons in the post‐Cold War world Lisa A., Baglione, To agree or not to agree: leadership, bargaining and arms controls Andrew, Rojecki, Silencing the opposition: antinuclear movements and the media in the Cold War Christian, Joppke and Steven, Lukes, (ed.) Multicultural questions Robert K., Schaeffer, Severed states: dilemmas of democracy in a divided world James F., Hollifield and Calvin, Jillson, (ed.) Pathways to democracy: the political economy of democratic transitions Graeme, Gill, The dynamics of democratization: elites, civil society and the transition process Ted Robert, Gurr, People versus states: minorities at risk in the new century Karen, Armstrong, The battle for God: fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Mark, Juergensmeyer, Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence John L., Esposito and Michael, Watson, (ed.) Religion and global order Ger, Duijzings, Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo Mahmoud, Sadri and Ahmad, Sadri, (ed. and transl.) Reason, freedom, and democracy in Islam: essential writings of Abdolkarim Soroush Gary P., Sampson, Trade, environment and the WTO: the post‐Seattle agenda Gary P., Sampson and W. Bradnee, Chambers, (ed.) Trade, environment and the millennium Robert, Gilpin, The challenge of global capitalism: the world economy in the 21^st century Ngaire, Woods, (ed.) The political economy of globalization Thomas, Friedman, The Lexus and the olive tree R. J. Barry, Jones, The world turned upside down? Globalization and the future of the state Morris, Goldstein, Graciela L., Kaminsky and Carmen M., Reinhart, Assessing financial vulnerability: an early warning system for emerging markets Christopher L., Gilbert and David, Vines, (ed.) The World Bank: structure and policies Catherine L., Mann, Sue E., Eckert and Sarah Cleeland, Knight, Global electronic commerce: a policy primer Stephen G., Cecchetti, Hans, Genberg, John, Lipsky and Sushil, Wadhwani, Asset prices and central bank policy Ulrich, Bartsch and Benito, Müller with Asbjørn, Aaheim, Fossil fuels in a changing climate: impacts of the Kyoto Protocol and developing country participation Axel, Michaelowa and Michael, Dutschke, (ed.) Climate policy and development: flexible instruments and developing countries Matthew, Paterson, Understanding global environmental politics: domination, accumulation, resistance Martin H., Folly, Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940–1945 Saul, Kelly and Anthony, Gorst, (ed.) Whitehall and the Suez crisis Scott, Lucas, Freedom's war: the US crusade against the Soviet Union 1945–56 Sergei N., Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the creation of a superpower Stephen, Twigge and Len, Scott, Planning Armageddon: Britain, the United States and the command of Western nuclear forces 1945–1964 Qiang, Zhai, China and the Vietnam wars, 1950–1975 Wolfgang, Wessels, Die Oeffnung des Staates: Modelle und Wirklichkeit grenzueberschreitender Verwaltungspraxis 1960–1995 Jonathan P. G., Bach, Between sovereignty and integration: German foreign policy and national identity after 1989 Emil J., Kirchner, (ed.) Decentralization and transition in the Visegrad: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia Heinz, Kramer, A changing Turkey: the challenge to Europe and the United States Gráinne de, Búrca and Joanne, Scott, (ed.) Constitutional change in the EU: from uniformity to flexibility? Colin, Crouch, (ed.) After the euro: shaping institutions for governance in the wake of European Monetary Union Paul, Kubicek, Unbroken ties: the state, interest associations, and corporatism in post‐Soviet Ukraine Gordon B., Smith, (ed.) State‐building in Russia: the Yeltsin legacy and the challenge of the future Andrei, Shleifer and Daniel, Treisman, Without a map: political tactics and economic reform in Russia Greg, Austin and Alexey D., Muraviev, The armed forces of Russia in Asia Avi, Shlaim, The iron wall: Israel and the Arab world Mai, Yamani, Changed identities: the challenge of the new generation in Saudi Arabia Hilal, Khashan, Arabs at the crossroads: political identity and nationalism Neil, Quilliam, Syria and the New World Order Michael M., Gunter, The Kurdish predicament in Iraq: a political analysis Julian, May, (ed.) Poverty and inequality in South Africa: meeting the challenge Susan Collin, Marks, Watching the wind: conflict resolution during South Africa's transition to democracy Larry, Diamond and Mark F., Plattner, (ed.) Democratization in Africa Michela, Wrong, In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in the Congo Roger, Tangri, The politics of patronage in Africa: parastatals, privatization and private enterprise Fátima Moura, Roque, Building peace in Angola: a political and economic vision Janet, MacGaffey and Rémy, Bazenguissa‐Ganga, Congo–Paris: transnational traders on the margins of the law Reinhard, Drifte, Japan's quest for a permanent Security Council seat: a matter of pride or justice? Gerald L., Curtis, The logic of Japanese politics: leaders, institutions and the limits of change Fred I., Greenstein, The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Clinton Rebecca K. C., Hersman, Friends and foes: how Congress and the President really make foreign policy Bill, Weinberg, Homage to Chiapas: the new indigenous struggles in Mexico Alison, Brysk, From tribal village to global village: Indian rights and international relations in Latin America Carmelo, Mesa‐Lago, with Alberto Arenas, de Mesa, Ivan, Brenes, Verónica, Montecinos and Mark, Samara, Market, socialist, and mixed economies: comparative policy and performance: Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Bruce Russett and John R. Oneal, Triangulating peace: democracy, interdependence, and international organizations Robert M. A. Crawford and Darryl S. L. Jarvis, (eds.) International Relations: still an American social science? Toward diversity in international Thought Charlotte Hooper, Manly states: masculinities, International Relations, and gender politics Richard A. Falk, Human rights horizons: the pursuit of justice in a globalizing world Simon Caney and Peter Jones, (eds.) Human rights and global diversity Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Daniel Warner, (eds.) Ethics and international affairs: extent and limits Elazar Barkan, The guilt of nations: restitution and negotiating historical injustices Richard Little and Mark Wickham‐Jones, (eds.) New Labour's foreign policy: a new moral crusade? Robert L. Maddex, International encyclopedia of human rights: freedoms, abuses, and reform W. Andy Knight, (ed.) Adapting the United Nations to a post‐modern era: lessons learned Malcolm Dando, The new biological weapons: threat, proliferation, and control J. Cirincione, (ed.) Repairing the regime: preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction Avery Goldstein, Deterrence and security in the twenty‐first century: China, Britain, France and the enduring legacy of the nuclear revolution I. William Zartman, (ed.) Preventive negotiation: avoiding conflict escalation Leon V. Sigal, Hang separately: cooperative security between the United States and Russia 1985‐1994 Cecilia Albin, Justice and fairness in international negotiation G. R. Berridge and Alan James, A dictionary of diplomacy Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock, (eds.) The progressive century: the future of the centre‐left in Britain John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister Bertrand Badie, The imported state: the Westernization of the political order Justin Lewis, Constructing public opinion: how political elites do what they like and why we seem to go along with it Catherine Eschle, Global democracy, social movements and feminism Catharin E. Dalpino, Deferring democracy: promoting openness in authoritarian regimes James G. McGann and R. Kent Weaver, Think‐tanks and civil societies Jim MacLaughlin, Reimagining the nation‐state: the contested terrains of nation‐building Justin Rosenberg, The follies of globalisation theory: polemical essays Allen J. Scott, Global city‐regions: trends, theory, policy Robert Gilpin, Global political economy: understanding the international economic order Rorden Wilkinson, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organization: the architecture and extension of international trade regulation Edward M. Graham., Fighting the wrong enemy: antiglobal activists and multinational enterprises John J. Kirton, Joseph P. Daniels and Andreas Freytag., (eds.) Guiding global order: Ggovernance in the twenty‐first century Mauro F. Guillén, The limits of convergence: globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain Neil Middleton and Phil O'Keefe, Redefining sustainable development Adrian Leftwich, States of development: on the primacy of politics in development Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, (eds.) War diaries 1939‐1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the making of modern Japan Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy's wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam Rolf Steininger, Der Mauberbau: die Westmåchte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958‐1963 Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss, Empire and revolution: the United States and the Third World since 1945 Bo Stråth, (ed.) Europe and the other and Europe as the other Paul Gillespie, (ed.) Blair's Britain, England's Europe: a view from Ireland Rory O'Donnell, Europe: the Irish experience Gerald Schneider and Mark Aspinwall, (eds.) The rules of integration: institutionalist approaches to the study of Europe Marcus Höreth, Die Europäische Union im Legitimationstrilemma: Zur Rechtfertigung des Regierensjenseits der Staatlichkeit Robert J. Guttman, (ed.) Europe in the new century: visions of an emerging superpower Hans Arnold, Europa neu Denken:Warum und Wie Weiter Einigung? Miron Rezun, Europe's nightmare: the struggle for Kosovo Archie Brown, (ed.) Contemporary Russian politics: a reader Alena Ledeneva, Unwritten rules: how Russia really works Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the politics of culture Roy Allison and Lena Jonson, (eds.) Central Asian security: the new international context Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser, Israel and the politics of Jewish identity: the secular‐religious impasse Eyal Zisser, Asad's legacy: Syria in transition Ali M.Ansari, Iran, Islam and democracy: the politics of managing change David Menashri, Post‐revolutionary politics in Iran: religion, society and power Tim Niblock, ‘Pariah states’ and sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya and Sudan Carl Brown, (ed.) Diplomacy in the Middle East: the international relations of regional and outside Powers Volker Perthes, Vom Krieg zur Konkurrenz: regionale Politik und die Suche nach einer neuen arabisch‐nahöstlichen Ordnung Jeffrey Herbst, States and power in Africa: comparative lessons in authority and control Nana Poku, (ed.) Security and development in Southern Africa Achille Mbembe, De la postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine Michael Leifer, (ed.) Asian nationalism Marcus Noland, Avoiding the apocalypse: the future of the two Koreas Carl E.Walter and Fraser J. T. Howie, ‘To get rich is glorious!’ China's stock markets in the 1980s and 1990s Mayumi Itoh, Globalization of Japan: Japanese sakoku mentality and US efforts to open Japan Mya Than and Carolyn L. Gates, (eds.) ASEAN enlargement: impacts and implications Siobhán McEvoy‐Levy, American exceptionalism and US foreign policy: public diplomacy at the end of the Cold War H. Michael Erisman, Cuba's foreign relations in a post‐Soviet world Merilee S. Grindle, Audacious reforms: institutional invention and democracy in Latin Americ Gary H. Gossen, Telling Maya tales: Tzotzil identities in modern Mexico Howard J. Wiarda, The soul of Latin America: political and cultural tradition     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Jacinta O’Hagan, Conceptualizing the West in International Relations: from Spengler to Said Richard Shapcott, Justice, community and dialogue in International Relations Alejandro Colas, International civil society: social movements in world politics International Development Research Centre, Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty: the responsibility to protect E. Wayne Nafziger and Raimo Väyrynen (eds.),.The prevention of humanitarian emergencies Oliver P. Richmond, Maintaining order, making peace Richard Connaughton, Military intervention and peacekeeping: the reality David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: human rights and intervention Marrack Goulding, Peacemonger S. R. Ashton, G. Bennett and K. A. Hamilton (eds.), Documents on British policy overseas. Series I, volume VIII: Britain and China, 1945–1950 Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin (eds.), Re–examining the Cold War: US–China diplomacy, 1954–1973 Michael Ignatieff, Human rights as politics and idolatry John Authers and Richard Wolffe, The victim’s fortune: inside the epic battle over the debts of the Holocaust C. Edwin Baker, Media, markets, and democracy Anthony Forster, Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour parties since 1945 Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth, Northern Ireland after the Good Friday agreement: victims, grievance and blame Stjepan Malovi? and Gary W. Selnow, The people, press and politics of Croatia Victor Roudometof, Nationalism, globalization, and orthodoxy: the social origins of ethnic conflict in the Balkans Robert D. Dean, Imperial brotherhood: gender and the making of Cold War foreign policy Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Cold War fantasies: film, fiction, and foreign policy Douglas A. Irwin, Free trade under fire Duane Swank, Global capital, political institutions, and policy change in developed welfare states Michael McWilliam, The development business: a history of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz (eds.), International Relations and global climate change Robert G. Darst, Smokestack diplomacy: cooperation and conflict in East–West environmental politics Antony Beevor, Berlin: the downfall 1945 Richard J. Aldrich, The hidden hand: Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence Lawrence Douglas, The memory of judgment: making law and history in the trials of the Holocaust Mario Telò, European Union and new regionalism: regional actors and global governance in a post–hegemonic era Roy H. Ginsberg, The European Union in international politics: baptism by fire David McKay, Designing Europe: comparative lessons from the federal experience Lene Hansen and Ole Waever (eds.), European integration and national identity: the challenge of the Nordic states Hans–Dieter Lucas (ed.), Genscher, Deutschland und Europa Elizabeth M. Cousens and Charles K. Cater, Toward peace in Bosnia: implementing the Dayton Accords Norman Cigar and Paul Williams, Indictment at the Hague: the Milosevic regime and the crimes of the Balkan Wars Paul Ginsborg, Italy and its discontents: family, civil society, state: 1980–2001 George Kassimeris, Europe’s last red terrorists: the revolutionary organization 17 November Archie Brown and Lilia Shevtsova (eds.), Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin: political leadership in Russia’s transition Boris Kargalitsky, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: neo–liberal autocracy James Hughes and Gwendolyn Sasse (eds.), Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict Levon Chorbajian (ed.), The making of Nagorno–Karabagh: from secession to republic John Esposito (ed.), The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world Toby Dodge and Richard Higgott (eds.), Globalization and the Middle East: Islam, economy, society and politics Samir Khalaf, Civil and uncivil violence in Lebanon Carole H. Dagher, Bring down the walls: Lebanon’s post–war challenge Francis Deng and I. William Zartman, A strategic vision for Africa: the Kampala movement Graham Harrison, Issues in the contemporary politics of sub–Saharan Africa: the dynamics of struggle and resistance Adekeye Adebajo, Building peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea–Bissau David Robinson, Paths of accommodation: Muslim societies and French colonial authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920 Tor Sellström, Sweden and national liberation in southern Africa. Volume II: Solidarity and Assistance 1970–1994 Patrick Bond, Against global apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and international finance Rajen Dabee and David Greenaway (eds.), The Mauritian economy: a reader William T. Tow, Asia–Pacific strategic relations: seeking convergent security Roger Buckley, The United States in the Asia–Pacific since 1945 R. E. Elson, Suharto: a political biography Robert W. Hefner Civil Islam: Muslims and democratization in Indonesia John Mason Hart, Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Enrique Cárdenas, José Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp (eds.), An economic history of twentieth–century Latin America. Volume 3: Industrialization and the state in Latin America: the postwar years Judith A. Teichman, The politics of freeing markets in Latin America—Chile, Argentina, and Mexico     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Quentin Skinner, Visions of politics: volumes I–III Chris Brown, Sovereignty, rights and justice: international political theory today Errol A. Henderson, Democracy and war: the end of an illusion? Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam, Democracies at war Maja Zehfuss, Constructivism in international relations: the politics of reality Erich Reiter and Heinz Gärtner, Small states and alliances Priscilla B. Hayner, Unspeakable truths: facing the challenge of truth commissions Daniel L. Byman, Keeping the peace: lasting solutions to ethnic conflicts Arthur C. Helton, The price of indifference: refugees and humanitarian action in the new century Janne Haaland Matlary, Intervention for human rights in Europe Brian S. Lepard, Rethinking humanitarian intervention: a fresh legal approach based on fundamental ethical principles in international law and world religions Jean–Marc Coicaud and Veijo Heiskanen, The legitimacy of international organizations Joseph Cirincione, Jon B. Wolfsthal and Miriam Rrajkumar, Deadly arsenals: tracking weapons of mass destruction Ashley J. Tellis, C. Christine Fair and Jamison Jo Medby, Limited conflicts under the nuclear umbrella: Indian and Pakistani lessons from the Kargil Crisis Anthony H. Cordesman, Strategic threats and national missile defenses: defending the US homeland Roger Handberg, Ballistic missile defense and the future of American security: agendas, perceptions, technology, and policy Michael Mandelbaum, The ideas that conquered the world: peace, democracy and free markets in the twenty–first century Philip P. Everts, Democracy and military force Francis P. Sempa, Geopolitics: from the Cold War to the 21st century Sylvia Chan, Liberalism, democracy and development Christian P. Scherrer, Structural prevention of ethnic conflict Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The future of Islam Laure Paquette, Strategy and ethnic conflict: a method, theory and case–study Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its discontents Randall W. Stone, Lending credibility: the International Monetary Fund and the post–communist transition Paul Blustein, The chastening: inside the crisis that rocked the global financial system and humbled the IMF Benn Steil, David G. Victor and Richard R. Nelson, Technology innovation and economic performance Peter Ehlers, Elisabeth Mann–Borgese and Rüdiger Wolfrum, Marine issues: from a scientific, political and legal perspective Joachim Blatter and Helen Ingram, Reflections on water: new approaches to transboundary conflicts and cooperation Klaus Larres, Churchill's Cold War: the politics of personal diplomacy John Bierman and Colin Smith, Alamein: war without hate Sumantra Bose, Bosnia after Dayton: nationalist partition and international intervention Rory Keane, Reconstituting sovereignty: post–Dayton Bosnia uncovered Sieglinde Gstöhl, Reluctant Europeans: Norway, Sweden and Switzerland in the process of integration Anna M. Grzymala–Busse, Redeeming the communist past: the regeneration of communist parties in East Central Europe Rodric Braithwaite, Across the Moscow River: the world turned upside down Peter J. S. Duncan, Russian messianism: third Rome, revolution, communism and after Ann Lewis, The EU and Ukraine: neighbours, friends, partners? Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami, The foreign policies of Middle East states Barry Rubin and Thomas A. Keaney, Armed forces in the Middle East: politics and strategy Saki Dockrill, Britain's retreat from east of Suez William Roger Louis and Roger Owen, A revolutionary year: the Middle East in 1958 Michael B. Oren, Six days of war: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East Deutsch, Peter Probst and Heike Schmidt, African modernities: entangled meanings in current debate Alex de Waal, Demilitarizing the mind: African agendas for peace and security Marie Soderberg, Chinese–Japanese relations in the twenty–first century: complementarity and conflict Kellee S. Tsai, Back–alley banking: private entrepreneurs in China Henry R. Nau, At home abroad: identity and power in American foreign policy Rhodri Jeffreys–Jones, Cloak and dollar: a history of American secret intelligence Michael Beschloss, Reaching for glory: Lyndon Johnson's secret White House tapes, 1964–5     

Afghanistan: ‘spoilers’ in the regional security context

The ongoing international military withdrawal from Afghanistan has set the stage for energising the activities of Afghanistan's external stakeholders to re-evaluate their activities. The possible return of the Taliban in some form could compel Afghanistan's current external partners—Iran, India and Russia—to turn into limited spoilers. The absence of an international guarantor in Afghanistan from December 2014 is likely to encourage Pakistan—a greedy spoiler—to intensify its meddling as a means to reposition the Taliban—a total spoiler—at the helm of Afghan affairs. The combination of limited, greedy and total spoilers threatens to undermine security and state-building processes.