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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The evolution of International Security Studies. By Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen. International law and organization Escaping the self‐determination trap. By Marc Weller. Punishment, justice and international relations: ethics and order after the Cold War. By Anthony F. Lang Jr. Foreign policy Perceptions and policy in transatlantic relations: prospective visions from the US and Europe. Edited by Natividad Fernández Sola and Michael Smith. Avoiding trivia: the role of strategic planning in American foreign policy. Edited by Daniel W. Drezner. India and the United States in the 21st century: reinventing partnership. By Teresita C. Schaffer. Conflict, security and armed forces The new counterinsurgency era: transforming the US military for modern wars. By David H. Ucko. Under a mushroom cloud: Europe, Iran and the bomb. By Emanuele Ottolenghi. Old and new terrorism: late modernity, globalization and the transformation of political violence. By Peter R. Neumann. Terrorism: how to respond. By Richard English. The de‐radicalization of jihadists: transforming armed Islamist movements. By Omar Ashour. Crime, war and global trafficking: designing international cooperation. By Christine Jojarth. Security and the war on terror. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. Politics, democracy and social affairs Facts are subversive: political writings from a decade without a name. By Timothy Garton Ash. Political economy, economics and development A failure of capitalism: the crisis of ′08 and the descent into depression. By Richard A. Posner. The future of the dollar. Edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner. Discipline in the global economy? International finance and the end of liberalism. By Jakob Vestergaard. Ethnicity and cultural politics The crisis of Islamic civilization. By Ali A. Allawi. Islam and the secular state: negotiating the future of shari'a. By Abdullahi Ahmed an‐Na'im. The fall and rise of the Islamic state. By Noah Feldman. Energy and environment Emerging global scarcities and power shifts. Edited by Bernard Berendsen. China and the energy equation in Asia: the determinants of policy choice. By Jean A. Garrison. History The rise and fall of communism. By Archie Brown. The great Cold War: a journey through the hall of mirrors. By Gordon S. Barrass. Europe Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia. By Ray Taras. Farmers on welfare: the making of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy. By Ann‐Christina L. Knudsen. European security governance: the European Union in a Westphalian world. Edited by Charlotte Wagnsson, James A. Sperling and Jan Hallenberg. Russia and Eurasia Russian Eurasianism: an ideology of empire. By Marlène Laruelle. Russian nationalism and the national reassertion of Russia. Edited by Marlène Laruelle. Middle East and North Africa Defeat: why they lost Iraq. By Jonathan Steele. Guardians of the revolution: Iran and the world in the age of the Ayatollahs. By Ray Takeyh. Sub‐Saharan Africa China's new role in Africa. By Ian Taylor. China's African challenges. By Sarah Raines. Asia and Pacific Whose ideas matter? Agency and power in Asian regionalism. By Amitav Acharya. Challenges to Chinese foreign policy: diplomacy, globalisation and the next world power. Edited by Yufan Hao, C. X. George Wei and Lowell Dittmer. Chinese security policy: structure, power and politics. By Robert R. Ross. North America Renegade: the making of Barack Obama. By Richard Wolffe. Latin America and Caribbean Cuban medical internationalism: origins, evolution, and goals. By John M. Kirk and H. Michael Erisman. Brazil as an economic superpower? Understanding Brazil's changing role in the global economy. Edited by Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martinez‐Diaz.     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Ethical reasoning in international affairs: arguments from the middle ground. Edited by Cornelia Navari. Interpreting global security. Edited by Mark Bevir, Oliver Daddow and Ian Hall. After liberalism? The future of liberalism in International Relations. Edited by Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian and Ramon Pacheco Pardo. The end of conceit: western rationality after postcolonialism. By Patrick Chabal. Back to basics: state power in a contemporary world. Edited by Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein. International organization, law and ethics Justice among nations: a history of international law. By Stephen C. Neff. International responsibility and grave humanitarian crises: collective provision for human security. By Hannes Peltonen. Global justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect: a provisional duty. By Heather M. Roff. Liberty and security. By Conor Gearty. Conflict, security and defence 1 See also Hannes Peltonen, International responsibility and grave humanitarian crises: collective provision for human security; and Heather M. Roff, Global justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect: a provisional duty, both pp. 705–6.
Just and unjust military intervention: European thinkers from Vitoria to Mill. Edited by Stefano Recchia and Jennifer M. Welsh. Genocide and International Relations: changing patterns in the transitions of the late modern world. By Martin Shaw. Governance, civil society and cultural politics A history of Jewish‐Muslim relations: from the origins to the present day. Edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora. Acts of union and disunion: what has held the UK together—and what is dividing it?. By Linda Colley. The confidence trap: a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present. By David Runciman. Political economy, economics and development Wrong: nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them. By Richard S. Grossman. Energy, environment and global health What's wrong with climate politics and how to fix it. By Paul G. Harris. A journey in the future of water. By Terje Tvedt. International history The bombing war: Europe 1939–1945. By Richard Overy. Europe The EU and military operations: a comparative analysis. By Katarina Engberg. Britain and Germany imagining the future of Europe: national identity, mass media and the public sphere. By Leonard Novy. Russia and Eurasia The readers of Novyi Mir: coming to terms with the Stalinist past. By Denis Kozlov. Believing in Russia: religious policy after communism. By Geraldine Fagan. Fragile empire: how Russia fell in and out of love with Vladimir Putin. By Ben Judah. Middle East and North Africa Armies and state‐building in the modern Middle East: politics, nationalism and military reform. By Stephanie Cronin. The wisdom of Syria's waiting game: foreign policy under the Assads. By Bente Scheller. South Asia Aspiration and ambivalence: strategies and realities of counterinsurgency and state building in Afghanistan. By Vanda Felbab‐Brown. Afghan lessons: culture, diplomacy, and counterinsurgency. By Fernando Gentilini. Translated by Angela Arnone. Remapping India: new states and their political origins. By Louise Tillin. East Asia and Pacific The struggle for order: hegemony, hierarchy, and transition in post‐Cold War East Asia. By Evelyn Goh. Transition scenarios: China and the United States in the twenty‐first century. By David P. Rapkin and William R. Thompson. Tyranny of the weak: North Korea and the world, 1950–1992. By Charles K. Armstrong. Tibet: an unfinished story. By Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper. North America Understanding American power: the changing world of US foreign policy. By Bryan Mabee. America's war on terror: the state of the 9/11 exception from Bush to Obama. By Jason Ralph. Latin America and Caribbean Cuba in a global context: international relations, internationalism, and transnationalism. Edited by Catherine Krull.     

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Book Reviewed in this articles. International Relations theory Security as practice: discourse analysis and the Bosnian war. By Lene Hansen. Informal coalitions: mastering the hidden dynamics of organizational change. By Chris Rodgers. The anarchical society in a globalized world. Edited by Richard Little and John Williams. Human rights and ethics Guantánamo and the abuse of presidential power. By Joseph Margulies. Complicity with evil: the United Nations in the age of modern genocide. By Adam LeBor. International law and organization Max Planck commentaries on world trade law: world economic order, world trade law. Edited by Peter‐Tobias Stoll and Frank Schorkopf. Max Planck commentaries on world trade law: institutions and dispute settlement. Edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter‐Tobias Stoll and Karen Kaiser. Key issues in WTO dispute settlement: the first ten years. Edited by Rufus Yerxa and Bruce Wilson. Crimes against humanity. By Geoffrey Robertson. Laws of fear: beyond the precautionary principle. By Cass R. Sunstein. Democracy, minorities and international law. By Steven Wheatley. Foreign policy Seize the hour: when Nixon met Mao. By Margaret MacMillan. Conflict, security and armed forces Nation‐building: beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. Edited by Francis Fukuyama. Kosovo between war and peace: nationalism, peacebuilding and international trusteeship. Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen and Carsten Bagge Laustsen. Empire in denial: the politics of state‐building. By David Chandler. The age of war: the United States confronts the world. By Gabriel Kolko. Terror on the internet: the new arena, the new challenges. By Gabriel Weimann. Political economy, economics and development The World Economic Forum: a multi‐stakeholder approach to global governance. By Geoffrey Allen Pigman. Mapping the markets: a guide to stockmarket analysis. By Deborah Owen and Robin Griffiths. Ethnicity and cultural politics Islam and global dialogue: religious pluralism and the pursuit of peace. Edited by Roger Boase. Energy and environment Field notes from a catastrophe: climate change: is time running out? By Elizabeth Kolbert. History Stalin's wars: from world war to Cold War, 1939–53. By Geoffrey Roberts. Suez 1956: the inside story of the first oil war. By Barry Turner. Keith Kyle died on 21 February 2007. He will be much missed by all at Chatham House and particularly by the editors of International Affairs, not least for his authoritative articles and reviews, and generous advice. Twelve days: revolution 1956. By Victor Sebestyen Churchill's man of mystery: Desmond Morton and the world of intelligence. By Gill Bennett. The battle for Spain: the Spanish civil war 1936‐1939. By Antony Beevor. Europe The new Atlanticist: Poland's foreign and security policy priorities. By Kerry Longhurst and Marcin Zaborowski. Endgame in the Balkans: regime change European style. By Elizabeth Pond. Europeanization, varieties of capitalism and economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe. By Lucian Cernat. Democracy in the new Europe. By Christopher Lord and Erika Harris. Russia and Eurasia Putin's Russia and the enlarged Europe. By Roy Allison, Margot Light and Stephen White. Dependent on oil and gas: Russia's integration into the world economy. Edited by Shinichiro Tabata. Middle East and North Africa Killing Mr Lebanon: the assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the Middle East. By Nicholas Blanford. Sub‐Saharan Africa The new multilateralism in South African diplomacy. Edited by Donna Lee, Ian Taylor and Paul D. Williams. Peace without power: Ghana's foreign policy 1957‐66. By Kwesi Armah. Asia and Pacific The king never smiles: a biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej. By Paul M. Handley. China's trapped transition: the limits of developmental autocracy. By Minxin Pei. China: a guide to economic and political developments. By Ian Jeffries. Regionalism and globalization in East Asia: politics, security and economic development. By Mark Beeson. North America The silence of the rational center: why American foreign policy is failing. By Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. Ethical realism: a vision for America's role in the world. By Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman. Is Iraq another Vietnam? By Robert K. Brigham. Überpower: the imperial temptation of America. By Josef Joffe. Latin America and Caribbean Hugo Chávez: oil, politics and the emerging threat to the US. By Nikolas Kozloff. Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism. By Greg Grandin.     

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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Just war and international order: the uncivil condition in world politics. By Nicholas Rengger. Dilemmas of decline: British intellectuals and world politics, 1945–1975. By Ian Hall. Thucydides and the modern world: reception, reinterpretation and influence from the Renaissance to the present. Edited by Katherine Harloe and Neville Morley. The silence of animals: on progress and other modern myths. By John Gray. International organization, law and ethics Exit strategies and state building. Edited by Richard Caplan. Statebuilding. By Timothy Sisk. Conflict, security and defence In defence of war. By Nigel Biggar. British generals in Blair's wars. Edited by Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan. The strategy bridge: theory for practice. By Colin S. Gray. Perspectives on strategy. By Colin S. Gray. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The Oxford Handbook of the history of nationalism. Edited by John Breuilly. The naked communist: Cold War modernism and the politics of popular culture. By Roland Végsö. Political economy, economics and development The global economic crisis: a chronology. By Larry Allen. Constructing capitalisms: transforming business systems in Central and Eastern Europe. By Roderick Martin. The rise of the People's Bank of China: the politics of institutional change in China's monetary and financial system. By Stephen Bell and Hui Feng. Energy, environment and global health South African AIDS activism and global health politics. By Mandisa Mbali. International history 1 1 See also Michael Brett, Approaching African history, pp. 1524–25.
Europe: the struggle for supremacy, 1453 to the present. By Brendan Simms. Unfinished empire: the global expansion of Britain. By John Darwin. China's war with Japan, 1937–1945: the struggle for survival. By Rana Mitter. The Punjab bloodied, partitioned and cleansed: unravelling the 1947 tragedy through secret British reports and first‐person accounts. By Ishtiaq Ahmed. From Lenin to Castro, 1917–1959: early encounters between Moscow and Havana. By Mervyn J. Bain. Europe The passage to Europe: how a continent became a union. By Luuk van Middelaar. Translated by Liz Waters. Why Europe matters: the case for the European Union. By John McCormick. Europe, strategy and armed forces: the making of a distinctive power. By Sven Biscop and Jo Coelmont. NATO's European allies: military capability and political will. Edited by Janne Haaland Matlary and Magnus Petersson. Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: geopolitical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts. By Tomas Kavaliauskas. Democratic institutions and authoritarian rule in Southeast Europe. By Danijela Dolenec. Russia and Eurasia Hard diplomacy and soft coercion: Russia's influence abroad. By James Sherr. Russia, the West, and military intervention. By Roy Allison. Sovereignty after empire: comparing the Middle East and Central Asia. Edited by Sally N. Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch. Middle East and North Africa 2 2 See also Sally Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch, eds, Sovereignty after empire: comparing the Middle East and Central Asia, pp. 1515–16.
The power and the people: paths of resistance in the Middle East. By Charles Tripp. Israel has moved. By Diana Pinto. Identity and nation in Iraq. By Sherko Kirmanj. Sub‐Saharan Africa Business, politics, and the state in Africa: challenging the orthodoxies on growth and transformation. By Tim Kelsall and others. Al‐Shabaab in Somalia: the history and ideology of a militant Islamist group, 2005–2012. By Stig Jarle Hansen. Approaching African history. By Michael Brett. Routledge handbook of African politics. Edited by Nic Cheeseman, David M. Anderson and Andrea Scheibler. African agency in international politics. Edited by William Brown and Sophie Harman. South Asia 3 3 See also Ishtiaq Ahmed, The Punjab bloodied, partitioned and cleansed: unravelling the 1947 tragedy through secret British reports and first‐person accounts, pp. 1504–05.
Shooting for a century: the India‐Pakistan conundrum. By Stephen Cohen. Righteous republic: the political foundations of modern India. By Ananya Vajpeyi. Why growth matters: how economic growth in India reduced poverty and the lessons for other developing countries. By Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya. An uncertain glory: India and its contradictions. By Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen. East Asia and Pacific Will this be China's century? A skeptic's view. By Mel Gurtov. China goes global: the partial power. By David Shambaugh. The China choice: why we should share power. By Hugh White. Shooting star: China's military machine in the 21st century. By Mikhail Barabanov, Vasiliy Kashin and Konstantin Makienko. North America Empire of ideas: the origins of public diplomacy and the transformation of U.S. foreign policy. By Justin Hart. Confront and conceal: Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power. By David E. Sanger. Latin America and Caribbean Enabling peace in Guatemala: the story of MINUGUA. By William Stanley. Breves narrativas diplomáticas. By Celso Amorim.     

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

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The global commonwealth of citizens: toward cosmopolitan democracy. By Daniele Archibugi. Order, conflict, and violence. Edited by Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud. Human rights and ethics Torture and democracy. By Darius Rejali. Sexual enslavement of girls and women worldwide. By Andrea Parrot and Nina Cummings. International law and organization International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation. By Victor A. Peskin. Humanitarian intervention after Kosovo: Iraq, Darfur and the record of global civil society. By Aidan Hehir. Foreign policy America and the world: conversations on the future of American foreign policy. By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft and David Ignatius. Conflict, security and armed forces Does peacekeeping work? Shaping belligerents’ choices after civil war. By Virginia Page Fortna. Fighting terror: ethical dilemmas. By Alex J. Bellamy. Twilight war: the folly of US space dominance. By Mike Moore. Global non‐proliferation and counter‐terrorism: the impact of UNSCR 1540. Edited by Olivia Bosch and Peter van Ham. National missile defense and the politics of US identity: a postcultural critique. By Natalie Bormann. The way of the world: a story of truth and hope in an age of extremism. By Ron Suskind. Political economy, economics and development The shape of the world to come: charting the geopolitics of a new century. By Laurent Cohen‐Tanugi. Globalization, regionalization and business: conflict, convergence and influence. By Marc Schelhase. Energy and environment The end of food. By Paul Roberts. History Great Britain and the creation of Yugoslavia: negotiating Balkan nationality and identity. By James Evans. The voices of the dead: Stalin's great terror in the 1930s. By Hiroaki Kuromiya. Europe Explaining institutional change in Europe. By Adrienne Héritier. European defence policy: beyond the nation state. By Frédéric Mérand. Turkish accession to the EU: satisfying the Copenhagen criteria. By Eric Faucompret and Jozef Konings. Serbia in the shadow of Milo?evi?: the legacy of conflict in the Balkans. By Janine N. Clark. Spanish politics: democracy after dictatorship. By Omar G. Encarnación. Russia and Eurasia Oilopoly: Putin, power and the new Russia. By Marshall Goldman. Russian civil–military relations: Putin's legacy. By Thomas Gomart. Axis of convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the new geopolitics. By Bobo Lo. Middle East and North Africa Harmonizing foreign policy: Turkey, the EU and the Middle East. By Mesut Özcan. Sub‐Saharan Africa Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles. By Richard Dowden. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon?: Africa and China. Edited by Kweku Ampiah and Sanusha Naidu. China returns to Africa: a rising power and a continent embrace. Edited by Chris Alden, Daniel Large and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. China into Africa: trade, aid and influence. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Gulliver's troubles: Nigeria's foreign policy after the Cold War. Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Abdul Raufu Mustapha. Becoming Somaliland. By Mark Bradbury. Crude continent: the struggle for Africa's oil prize. By Duncan Clarke. Asia and Pacific Descent into chaos: how the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. By Ahmed Rashid. Korea. By Christoph Bluth. Butcher and bolt. By David Loyn. North America The American civilizing process. By Stephen Mennell. Latin America and Caribbean US presidents and Latin American interventions: pursuing regime change in the Cold War. By Michael Grow.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Moral limit and possibility in world politics. Edited by Richard M. Price. A history of political thought. By Bruce Haddock. Human rights and ethics Protracted refugee situations: political, human rights and security implications. Edited by Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman and Gary Troeller. The liberal project and human rights: the theory and practice of a new world order. By John Charvet and Elisa Kaczynska‐Nay. Ethics in an era of globalization. Edited by M. S. Ronald Conimers, Wim Vandekerckhove and An Verlinden. International law and organization What's wrong with the United Nations and how to fix it. By Thomas G. Weiss. Foreign policy Alliance curse: how America lost the Third World. By Hilton L. Root. The future of European foreign policy. Edited by Erik Jones and Saskia van Genugten. Conflict, security and armed forces Terror and consent: the wars for the twenty‐first century. By Philip Bobbitt. Beyond terror and martyrdom: the future of the Middle East. By Gilles Kepel. Building states to build peace. Edited by Charles T. Call with Vanessa Wyeth. Politics, democracy and social affairs A view from the foothills: the diaries of Chris Mullin. By Chris Mullin, edited by Ruth Winstone. Political economy, economics and development The storm: the world economic crisis and what it means. By Vince Cable. The global diffusion of markets and democracy. Edited by Beth A. Simmons, Frank Dobbin and Geoffrey Garrett. Money, markets, and sovereignty. By Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds. The OECD and transnational governance. Edited by Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride. The fat tail: the power of political knowledge for strategic investing. By Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat. The Gulf region: a new hub of global financial power. Edited by John Nugée and Paola Subacchi. Ethnicity and cultural politics Resistance: the essence of the Islamist revolution. By Alastair Crooke. Energy and environment A blueprint for a safer planet: how to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity. By Nicholas Stern. Climate change and forests: emerging policy and market opportunities. Edited by Charlotte Streck, Robert O'Sullivan, Toby Janson‐Smith and Richard Tarasofsky. History Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the shaping of the modern world. By Sean Greenwood. The Bay of Pigs. By Howard Jones. Where have all the soldiers gone? The transformation of modern Europe. By James J. Sheehan. America, empire of liberty: a new history. By David Reynolds. The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War. By Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko. Europe Norms over force: the enigma of European power. By Zaki Laïdi. European Union security dynamics: in the new national interest. By Janne Haaland Matlary. Middle East and North Africa Hide and seek: the search for truth in Iraq. By Charles Duelfer. Sexual politics in modern Iran. By Janet Afary. Khomeini's ghost. By Con Coughlin. Sub‐Saharan Africa The challenge for Africa: a new vision. By Wangari Maathai. The roots of African conflicts: the causes and costs. Edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. The resolution of African conflicts: the management of conflict resolution and post‐conflict reconstruction. Edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Asia and Pacific China's military modernization: building for regional and global reach. By Richard D. Fisher. ‘The Chinese century’? The challenge to global order. By David Scott. East Asian multilateralism: prospects for regional stability. Edited by Kent E. Calder and Francis Fukuyama. A rising China and security in East Asia: identity construction and security discourse. By Rex Li. North America To see ourselves as others see us: how publics abroad view the United States after 9/11. By Ole R. Holsti. The post‐American world and the rise of the rest. By Fareed Zakaria. Latin America and Caribbean Mexico since 1980. By Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer and Kevin J. Middlebrook.     

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

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

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

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