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

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

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory 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 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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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Non‐western International Relations theory: perspectives on and beyond Asia. Edited by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan. Imperialism and global political economy. By Alex Callinicos. Forbidden fruit: counterfactuals and International Relations. By Richard Ned Lebow. Hans J. Morgenthau's theory of International Relations: disenchantment and re‐enchantment. By Mihaela Neacsu. International law, human rights and ethics Why not torture terrorists? Moral, practical and legal aspects of the ‘ticking bomb’ justification for torture. By Yuval Ginbar. International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation. By Victor Peskin. Mobilizing for human rights: international law in domestic politics. By Beth A. Simmons. International organization and foreign policy * * See also Robin Niblett, ed., America and a changed world: a question of leadership, pp. 1051–52.
How enemies become friends: the sources of stable peace. By Charles A. Kupchan. Conflict, security and defence Walking away from terrorism: accounts of disengagement from radical and extremist movements. By John Horgan. How terrorism ends: understanding the decline and demise of terrorist campaigns. By Audrey Kurth Cronin. Dictionary of terrorism. By David Wright‐Neville. Understanding violent radicalisation. Edited by Magnus Ranstorp. Complex emergencies. By David J. Keen. Mass atrocity response operations: a military planning handbook. By Sarah Sewall, Dwight Raymond and Sally Chin. NATO in search of a vision. Edited by Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca R. Moore. Freedom's battle: the origins of humanitarian intervention. By Gary J. Bass. War and peace in transition: changing roles of external actors. Edited by Karin Aggestam and Annika Björkdahl. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Is democracy exportable? Edited by Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser. Political economy, economics and development Fixing global finance: how to curb financial crises in the 21st century. By Martin Wolf. The future of money: how to get the most from the global economy. Edited by Oliver Chittenden. Energy, resources and environment Global energy governance: the new rules of the game. Edited by Andreas Goldthau and Jan Martin Witte. War and the health of nations. By Zaryab Iqbal. Globesity: a planet out of control?. By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth. History Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 generation and the Holocaust. By Hans Kundnani. Europe 1989: the struggle to create post‐Cold War Europe. By Mary Elise Sarotte. Mitterrand, the end of the Cold War and German unification. By Frédéric Bozo. Contested statehood: Kosovo's struggle for independence. By Marc Weller. Kosovo: the path to contested statehood in the Balkans. By James Ker‐Lindsey. The road to independence for Kosovo: a chronicle of the Ahtisaari Plan. By Henry H. Perritt, Jr. Russia and Eurasia Dagestan: Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus. By Robert Bruce Ware and Enver Kisriev. Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the tragedy of civilians in war. By Emma Gilligan. A little war that shook the world: Georgia, Russia, and the future of the West. By Ronald Asmus. Middle East and North Africa Israel and Palestine: reappraisals, revisions, refutations. By Avi Shlaim. Debating Arab authoritarianism: dynamics and durability in nondemocratic regimes. Edited by Oliver Schlumberger. Rethinking Arab democratization: elections without democracy. By Larbi Sadiki. What's really wrong with the Middle East. By Brian Whitaker. Eclipse of the Sunnis: power, exile, and upheaval in the Middle East. By Deborah Amos. Dubai: the vulnerability of success. By Christopher M. Davidson. Dubai: gilded cage. By Syed Ali. Sub‐Saharan Africa A history of modern Africa: 1800 to the present. By Richard Reid. Magic and warfare: appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond. By Nathalie Wlodarczyk. China and Africa: emerging patterns in globalization and development. Edited by Julia C. Strauss and Martha Saavedra. Africa's new peace and security architecture: promoting norms, institutionalizing solutions. Edited by Ulf Engel and joão Gomes Porto. Asia and Pacific China and India: prospects for peace. By Jonathan Holslag. Crouching dragon, hidden tiger: can China and India dominate the West?. By Prem Shankar Jha. Transforming faith: the story of Al‐Huda and Islamic revivalism among urban Pakistani women. By Sadaf Ahmad. China: the pessoptimist nation. By William A. Callahan. North America America and a changed world: a question of leadership. Edited by Robin Niblett. US foreign policy in context: national ideology from the founders to the Bush Doctrine. By Adam Quinn. American credo: the place of ideas in US politics. By Michael Foley. Latin America and Caribbean The Cuban revolution (1959—2009): relations with Spain, the European Union and the United States. By Joaquín Roy. Bolivia's radical tradition: permanent revolution in the Andes. By S. Sándor John.     

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

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Book reviewed in this issue: International Relations theory Critical International Relations theory after 25 years. Edited by Nicholas Rengger and Ben Thirkell‐White. The political economy of global security: war, future crises and changes in global governance. By Heikki Patomäki. Foreword by Richard Falk. National interest and international solidarity: particular and universal ethics in international life. Edited by Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler. Human rights and ethics Torture and the twilight of empire: from Algiers to Baghdad. By Marnia Lazreg. International law and organization The prohibition of propaganda for war in international law. By Michael G. Kearney. United Nations sanctions and the rule of law. By Jeremy Matam Farrall. Foreign policy Progressive foreign policy. Edited by David Held and David Mepham. China—Europe relations: perceptions, policies and prospects. Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider and Zhou Hong. Honor in foreign policy: a history and discussion. By Michael Donelan. Conflict, security and armed forces Why we are losing the war on terror. By Paul Rogers. Worst‐case scenarios. By Cass R. Sunstein. On nuclear terrorism. By Michael Levi. Cabinets and the bomb. By Peter Hennessy. Politics, democracy and social affairs Worst of the worst: dealing with repressive and rogue nations. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. The construction of democracy: lessons from practice and research. Edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Anthony Jones. Diplomacy with a difference: the Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006. By Lorna Lloyd. Political economy, economics and development Billions of entrepreneurs: how China and India are reshaping their futures and yours. By Tarun Khanna. Russia's capitalist revolution: why market reform succeeded and democracy failed. By Anders Åslund. Creating a world without poverty: social business and the future of capitalism. By Muhammad Yunus. One economics many recipes: globalization, institutions and economic growth. By Dani Rodrik. Business, power and conflict in international environmental politics. By Robert Falkner. Ethnicity and cultural politics The Kurds in Iran: the past, present and future. By Kerim Yildiz and Tanyel B. Taysi. Energy and environment Nuclear power is not the answer. By Helen Caldicott. Bioviolence: preventing biological terror and crime. By Barry Kellman. Integrated transboundary water management in theory and practice: experiences from the new EU eastern borders. Edited by Geoffrey Gooch and Per Stålnacke. History Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy years. By David Talbot. Europe The European superpower. By John McCormick. The European Union and conflict resolution: promoting peace in the backyard. By Nathalie Tocci. Russia and Eurasia Putin: Russia's choice (second edition). By Richard Sakwa. Chechnya: Russia's ‘war on terror’. By John Russell. Russia—lost in translation: the Yeltsin and Putin legacies. By Lilia Shevtsova. The new Cold War: how the Kremlin menaces both Russia and the West. By Edward Lucas. How Russia really works: the informal practices that shaped post‐Soviet politics and business. By Alena V. Ledeneva. Middle East and North Africa Contesting the Saudi state: Islamic voices from a new generation. By Madawi al‐Rasheed. Making Israel. Edited by Benny Morris. A possible peace between Israel and Palestine: an insider's account of the Geneva initiative. By Menachem Klein. Translated by Haim Watzman. Israël, Palestine. Vérités sur un conflit. By Alain Gresh. Iran and its place among nations. By Alidad Mafinezam and Aria Mehrabi. Sub‐Saharan Africa Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: the story of UNAMSIL. By‘Funmi Olonisakin. Cyril Ramaphosa. By Anthony Butler. Asia and Pacific Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy. By Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott‐Clark. The dragon looks south: China and Southeast Asia in the new century. By Bronson Percival. Charm offensive: how China's soft power is transforming the world. By Joshua Kurlantzick. China rising: peace, power and order in East Asia. By David Kang. Contemporary Hong Kong politics: governance in the post‐1997 era. Edited by Lam Wai‐man, Percy Luen‐tim Lui, Wilson Wong and Ian Holliday. North America American power after the Berlin Wall. By Thomas H. Henriksen. The paradox of a global USA. Edited by Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda and Kenneth Weisbrode. Latin America and Caribbean Highland Indians and the state in modern Ecuador. Edited by A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker. Forgotten continent: the battle for Latin America's soul. By Michael Reid.     

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

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

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory On global order: power, values and the constitution of international society. By Andrew Hurrell. Between war and politics: international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt. By Patricia Owens. William E. Connolly: democracy, pluralism and political theory. Edited by Samuel Chambers and Terrell Carver. The realist tradition and contemporary international relations. Edited by W. David Clinton. Nations, states and violence. By David D. Laitin. Human rights and ethics Killing civilians: method, madness and morality in war. By Hugo Slim. Purify and destroy: the political uses of massacre and genocide. By Jaques Semelin. Human rights and the WTO: the case of patents and access to medicines. By Holger Hestermeyer. International law and organization The Oxford handbook on the United Nations. Edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws. Defending the society of states: why America opposes the International Criminal Court and its vision of world society. By Jason Ralph. Reparations for indigenous peoples: international and comparative perspectives. Edited by Federico Lenzerini. The international judge: an introduction to the men and women who decide the world's cases. By Daniel Terris, Cesare P. R. Romano and Leigh Swigard. Foreign policy China—India relations: contemporary dynamics. By Amardeep Athwal. Conflict, security and armed forces Culture in chaos: an anthropology of the social condition in war. By Stephen C. Lubkemann. UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo: operational and legal issues in practice. By Ray Murphy. Biosecurity in the global age: biological weapons, public health and the rule of law. By David P. Fidler and Lawrence O. Gostin. Uniting against terror: cooperative nonmilitary responses to the global terrorist threat. Edited by David Cortright and George A. Lopez. War on terror, inc.: corporate profiteering from the politics of fear. By Solomon Hughes. Politics, democracy and social affairs What democracy is for: on freedom and moral government. By Stein Ringen. Political economy, economics and development Escape from empire: the developing world's journey through heaven and hell. By Alice H. Amsden. Everyday politics of the world economy. Edited by John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke. Global governance reform: breaking the stalemate. Edited by Colin I. Bradford, Jr and Johannes F. Linn. Ethnicity and cultural politics The politics of Englishness. By Arthur Aughey. Cultural contestation in ethnic conflict. By Marc Howard Ross. Energy and environment Peace parks: conservation and conflict resolution. Edited by Saleem H. Ali. Greening Brazil: environmental activism in state and society. By Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. History The Reagan diaries. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. From bloodshed to hope in Burundi: our embassy years during genocide. By Ambassador Robert Krueger and Kathleen Tobin Krueger. Europe Europe's global role: external policies of the European Union. Edited by Jan Orbie. Democratic politics in the European Parliament. By Simon Hix, Abdul G. Noury and Gérard Roland. Middle East and North Africa Der unerklärte Weltkrieg: Akteure und Interessen in nah und Mittelost. By Bahman Nirumand. Sub‐Saharan Africa Big African states. Edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills. After the party: a personal and political journey inside the ANC. By Andrew Feinstein. One hundred days of silence: America and the Rwanda genocide. By Jared Cohen. Asia and Pacific Reconciliation: Islam, democracy and the West. By Benazir Bhutto. Dancing in shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge and the United Nations in Cambodia. By Benny Widyono. Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade. By Bill Emmott. The battle for China's past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. By Mobo Gao . China rising: peace, power and order in East Asia. By David C. Kang. Reluctant restraint: the evolution of China's nonproliferation policies and practices, 1980‐2004. By Evan S. Medeiros. Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo‐Afghan borderland. By Sana Haroon. North America The long war: a new history of US national security policy since World War II. Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich. The mighty Wurlitzer: how the CIA played America. By High Wilford. Latin America and Caribbean Panama lost? US hegemony, democracy, and the canal. By Peter M. Sánchez. Warfare in Latin America. Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by Miguel A. Centeno.     

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

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Classical and modern thought in International Relations: from anarchy to cosmopolis. By Robert Jackson Human rights and ethics A new deal for the world: America's vision for human rights. By Elizabeth Borgwardt Planetary politics: human rights, terror and global society. Edited by Stephen Eric Bronner Protecting human rights: a comparative study. By Todd Landman The right war? The conservative debate on Iraq. Edited by Gary Rosen International law and organization The ‘war on terror’ and the framework of international law. By Helen Duffy The humanitarians: the International Committee of the Red Cross. By David P. Forsythe Irrelevant or indispensable? The United Nations in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff Denial of justice in international law. By Jan Paulsson Law in the service of human dignity: essays in honour of Florentino Feliciano. Edited by Steve Charnovitz, Debra P. Steger and Peter Van den Bossche Foreign policy British foreign policy under New Labour, 1997—2005. By Paul D. Williams Conflict, security and armed forces The utility of force: the art of war in the modern world. By General Sir Rupert Smith Electing to fight: why emerging democracies go to war. By Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder Al‐Qaeda now: understanding today's terrorists. Edited by Karen J. Greenberg Politics, democracy and social affairs Modernization, cultural change and democracy: the human development sequence. By Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel Globalization, governmentality and global politics: regulation for the rest of us? By Ronnie D. Lipschutz with James K. Rowe The coming democracy: new rules for running a new world. By Ann Florini Political economy, economics and development Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner History The global Cold War: Third World interventions and the making of our times. By Odd Arne Westad History The Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis British documents on the end of empire: Central Africa (parts I and II). Part I: Closer association, 1945–1958. Part II: Crisis and dissolution, 1959–1965. Edited by Philip Murphy Europe The Balkans in the new millennium: in the shadow of war and peace. By Tom Gallagher War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. By Ian Oliver Perspectives on European development cooperation: policy and performance of individual donor countries and the EU. Edited by Paul Hoebink and Olav Stokke La politique étrangère de l'Union Européenne. By Romain Yakemtchouk Russia and Eurasia Russia's empires: their rise and fall from prehistory to Putin. By Philip Longworth Ukraine's Orange Revolution. By Andrew Wilson Middle East and North Africa Jordan: living in the crossfire. By Alan George Sub‐Saharan Africa Why Botswana prospered. By J. Clark Leith Season of hope: economic reform under Mandela and Mbeki. By Alan Hirsch Rethinking the labour movement in the ‘new South Africa’. Edited by Thomas Bramble and Franco Barchiesi State of the nation: South Africa 2005—2006. Edited by Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall and Jessica Lutchman A dirty war in West Africa: the RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone. By Lansana Gberie Asia and Pacific The changing face of China: from Mao to market. By John Gittings Emerging democracy in Indonesia. By Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Leo Suryadinata The India—Pakistan conflict: an enduring rivalry. Edited by T. V. Paul Power shift: China and Asia's new dynamics. Edited by David Shambaugh North America Taming American power: the global response to US primacy. By Stephen M. Walt Quest for identity: America since 1945. By Randall Bennett Woods Latin America and Caribbean The judicialization of politics in Latin America. Edited by Alan Angell, Rachel Sieder and Line Schjolden US intervention in British Guiana: a Cold War story. By Stephen G. Rabe Transforming Latin America: the international and domestic origins of change. By Craig Arceneaux and David Pion‐Berlin     

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

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory 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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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 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.