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International Relations theory Handbook of political theory. Edited by Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas. What is political theory? Edited by Stephen K. White and J. Donald Moon. International ethics In the shadow of ‘just wars’. Edited by Fabrice Weissman. Foreign relations Parting ways: the crisis in German–American relations. By Stephen F. Szabo. Engaging India: diplomacy, democracy, and the bomb. By Strobe Talbott. Conflict, security and armed forces Men, militarism and UN peacekeeping: a gendered analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Politics, democracy and social affairs Out of evil: new international politics and old doctrines of war. By Stephen Chan. The United States and the Great Powers: world politics in the twenty‐first century. By Barry Buzan. World cities beyond the West: globalization, development and inequality. Edited by Josef Gugler. Ethnicity and cultural politics The ethics of identity. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. International and national political economy, economics and development World trade governance and developing countries: the GATT/WTO code committee system. By Kofi Oteng Kufuor. Energy and environment The international climate change regime: a guide to rules, institutions and procedures. By Farhana Yamin and Joanna Depledge. History Caught in the Middle East: US policy toward the Arab–Israeli conflict, 1945–61. By Peter L. Hahn. Support any friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the making of the US–Israeli alliance. By Warren Bass. Armies without nations: public violence and state formation in Central America 1821–1960. By Robert H. Holden. Europe Reinvigorating European elections: the implications of electing the European Commission. By Julie Smith. Himself alone: David Trimble and the ordeal of unionism. By Dean Godson. David Trimble: the price of peace. By Frank Millar. The myth of ethnic war: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. By V. P. Gagnon, Jr. Cyprus: the search for a solution. By David Hannay. The Turks today. By Andrew Mango. Russia and the former Soviet republics Russia's engagement with the West: transformation and integration in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Alexander J. Motyl, Blair A. Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova. The Russian military: power and policy. By Steven E. Miller and Dmitri Trenin. Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post‐Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Edited by Neil Robinson. Middle East and North Africa Cradle of Islam: the Hijaz and the quest for an Arabian identity. By Mai Yamani. Checkpoint syndrome. By Liran Ron Furer. Sub‐Saharan Africa Africa unchained: the blueprint for Africa's future. By George Ayittey. Durable peace: challenges for peacebuilding in Africa. Edited by Tasier M. Ali and Robert O. Matthews. The political economy of AIDS in Africa. Edited by Nana K. Poku and Alan Whiteside. Africa in international politics: external involvement on the continent. Edited by Ian Taylor and Paul Williams. Africa at the crossroads: between regionalism and globalization. Edited by John Mukum Mbaku and Suresh Chandra Saxena. Designing West Africa: prelude to 21st century calamity. By Peter Schwab. Islamism and its enemies in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Alex de Waal. Rethinking the rise and fall of apartheid. By Adrian Guelke. Engaging Africa: Washington and the fall of Portugal's colonial empire. By Witney W. Schneidman. Asia and Pacific Modern Afghanistan: a history of struggle and survival. By Amin Saikal. The idea of Pakistan. By Stephen Philip Cohen. Pakistan's drift into extremism: Allah, the army, and America's war on terror. By Hassan Abbas. State and society in 21st‐century China: crisis, contention, and legitimation. Edited by Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen. China's new order: society, politics, and economy in transition. By Wang Hui. The river runs black: the environmental challenge to China's future. By Elizabeth C. Economy. North America America right or wrong: an anatomy of American nationalism. By Anatol Lieven. American power in the 21st century. Edited by David Held and Matthias Koenig‐Archibugi. The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the republic. By Chalmers Johnson. Latin America and Caribbean Cuba: a new history. By Richard Gott. Mercosur: between integration and democracy. Edited by Francisco Domínguez and Marcos Guedes de Oliveira.     

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

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Book reviewed in this 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 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 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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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 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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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 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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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory International society and the Middle East: English School theory at the regional level. Edited by Barry Buzan and Ana Gonzalez‐Pelaez. Antagonistics: capitalism and power in an age of war. By Gopal Balakrishnan. Human rights and ethics On human rights. By James Griffin. International law and organization International criminal law practitioner library, volume I: forms of responsibility in international criminal law. By Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff and Natalie L. Reid. International criminal law practitioner library, volume II: elements of crimes under international law. By Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff and Natalie L. Reid. Foreign policy Power rules: how common sense can rescue American foreign policy. By Leslie H. Gelb. How to get out of Iraq with integrity. By Brendan O'Leary. Political economy, economics and development Banking on Basel: the future of international financial regulation. By Daniel K. Tarullo. Ethnicity and cultural politics Reflections on the revolution in Europe. By Christopher Caldwell. Energy and environment Starved for science: how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa. By Robert Paarlberg. Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. By Mike Hulme. Security and environmental change. By Simon Dalby. The new energy crisis: climate, economics and geopolitics. Edited by Jean‐Marie Chevalier. Governing sustainability. Edited by W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan. History Foreign relations of the United States, 1969–1976, volume XL: Germany and Berlin, 1969–1972. Edited by David C. Geyer. The uses and abuses of history. By Margaret MacMillan. Europe The history of the European Union—origins of the trans‐ and supranational polity 1950–72. Edited by Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht and Morten Rasmussen. Russia and Eurasia The quality of freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos affair. By Richard Sakwa. Revolution 1989: the fall of the Soviet empire. By Victor Sebestyen. Russian energy power and foreign relations: implications for conflict and cooperation. Edited by Jeronim Perovic, Robert W. Orttung and Andreas Wenger. Expanding Eurasia: Russia's European ambitions. By Janusz Bugajski. Middle East and North Africa The Ayatollah begs to differ: the paradox of modern Iran. By Hooman Majd. The gamble: General Petraeus and the untold story of the American surge in Iraq, 2006–2008. By Thomas E. Ricks. Syria's Kurds: history, politics and society. By Jordi Tejel. The new Turkish republic: Turkey as a pivotal state in the Muslim world. By Graham E. Fuller. Arab–Israeli military forces in an era of asymmetric wars. By Anthony H. Cordesman. The Persian night: Iran under the Khomeinist revolution. By Amir Taheri. Sub‐Saharan Africa A swamp full of dollars: pipelines and paramilitaries at Nigeria's oil frontier. By Michael Peel. Angola/Portugal: des identités coloniales équivoques. Historicité des représentations de soi et d'autrui. By Arlindo Barbeitos. Saviors and survivors: Darfur, politics and the war on terror. By Mahmood Mamdani. Africa: the politics of suffering and smiling. By Patrick Chabal. From genocide to continental war: the ‘Congolese’ conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa. By Gerard Prunier. Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: culture, history, society. By Ioan Lewis. Asia and Pacific Asia, America, and the transformation of geopolitics. By William H. Overholt. When China rules the world: the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world. By Martin Jacques. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi. North America Follies of power: America's unipolar fantasy. By David P. Calleo. From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776. By George C. Herring. What the world should be: Woodrow Wilson and the crafting of a faith‐based foreign policy. By Malcolm D. Magee. Religion and American foreign policy, 1945–1960: the soul of containment. By William Inboden. Latin America and Caribbean Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. involvement in the 1973 coup in Chile. By Lubna Z. Qureshi. Brazilian foreign policy after the Cold War. By Sean W. Burges. Latin America's struggle for democracy. Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Diego Abente Brun. Contemporary Mexican politics. By Emily Edmonds‐Poli and David A. Shirk.     

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

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

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Book reviews in this article: Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies. By Jeffrey Herf. China: Understanding Its Past. By Eileen H. Tamura, Linda K. Menton, Noren W. Lush, Francis K. C. Tsui, and Warren Cohen. The Oxford History of the British Empire in Five Volumes : The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Nicholas Canny. The Eighteenth Century. Edited by P. J. Marshall. The Nineteenth Century Edited by Andrew Porter. The Twentieth Century Edited by Judith M. Brown and William Roger Louis. Historiography Edited by Robin W. Winks. Africa and the Middle East : The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. By Joel Beinin. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold‐Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility & Containment, 1915–1946. Edited by Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace, and Wolfram Hartmann. Weathered By Miracles. By Thomas A. Idinopulos. War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I. By Donald M. McKale. Slavery arid Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. By Ehud R. Toledano. The Americas : Argentina, the United States, and the Anti‐Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984. By Ariel Armony. The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. By Carl Benn. Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American‐Israeli Alliance. By Abraham Ben‐Zvi. Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. By Mary Warner Blanchard. The Shape of the River: Long‐Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. By William G. Bowen and Derek Bok. Peronism arid Argentina. Edited by James P. Brennan. Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. By Thomas J. Brown. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches. By James Tunstead Burtchaell. The Roosevelt Women. By Betty Boyd Caroli. Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750–1830. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute. Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the Modern World. By James Chace. Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. By Campbell Craig. The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780–1833. By Peter S. Field. Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890–1930. By Patrick Frank. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. By Gary W. Gallagher. Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth‐Century America. By Nan Goodman. Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. By Paul Goodman. Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth‐Century City. By Amy S. Greenberg. The Upset that Wasn't: Harry S. Truman and the Crucial Election of 1948. By Harold I. Gullan. Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861–1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. The Rood to Appomattox. By Robert Hendrickson A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Hogan. Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. Contested Cornmunities, Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's EI Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–19.51. By Thomas Miller Klubock. The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount. By Buckner F. Melton Jr. The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. By John T. Noonan Jr. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870–1920. By Madelon Powers. George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman. By Thomas J. Rowland. Race arid Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angela Suburb. By Leland T. Saito. The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth‐Century American Culture. By Susan Scheckel. The Reconstruction Presidents. By Brooks D. Simpson. Asia and the Pacific: “Gone Native” in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. By I. C. Campbell. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. By Edward J. Drea. Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. By Michael N. Pearson. Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th‐Century Tosa. By Luke S. Roberts. Europe: War and Faith: The Religious Imagination in France, 1914–1930. By Annette Becker. Translated from French by Helen McPhail. Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. By David Alan Brown. Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena. By William Caferro. My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin By Peter Gay. From Polrziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. By Peter Godman. Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West. Edited by Guy Halsall. Making Saints: Religion arid the Public Image of the British Army, 1809–1885. By Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. By Lindsey Hughes. Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture and Literature in Nineteenth‐Century England. By Joss Marsh. Freud arid the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Uniori. By Martin Mdler. Bordering Russia: Theory and Prospects for Europe's Baltic Rim. Edited by Hans Mouritzen. Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past. By Anton Pelinka. Herodotus. By James Romm. In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945–1948. By Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Ghosts iri the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society. By Jean‐Claude Schmitt. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers De Doliances of 1789. By Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, with contributions by Timothy Tackett and Philip Dawson. Foreword by Charles Tilly. White, Mutiny: British Military Culture in India. By Peter Stanley. The Invention of the Crusades. By Christopher Tyerman. Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime. By Dmitri Volkogonov. Edited and translated by Harold Shukman. Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. By Robert G. L. Waite. General, Comparative, Historiographical: The Columbia History of the 20th Century. Edited by Richard W. Bulliet. The History of Diplomatic Immunity. By Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. By Daniel T. Rodgers. Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World. By Michael R. Rose.     

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

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Edited by Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse Justice beyond borders: a global political theory. By Simon Caney Challenging America's global preeminence: Russia's quest for multipolarity. By Thomas Ambrosio Martin Wight: four seminal thinkers in international thought, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and Mazzini. Edited by Gabriele Wight and Brian Porter Human rights and ethics The democracy makers: human rights and the politics of global order. By Nicolas Guilhot International law and organization American exceptionalism and human rights. Edited by Michael Ignatieff International organizations and their exercise of sovereign powers. By Danesh Sarooshi Conflict, security and armed forces My year in Iraq: the struggle to build a future of hope. By L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell The far enemy: why jihad went global. By Fawaz Gerges The norms of war: cultural beliefs and modern conflict. By Theo Farrell The West's last chance: will we win the clash of civilizations? By Tony Blankley The killing trap: genocide in the twentieth century. By Manus I. Midlarsky Politics, democracy and social affairs Politik der Götter: Europa und der neue Fundamentalismus. By Gret Haller Ethnicity and cultural politics The dark side of democracy: explaining ethnic cleansing. By Michael Mann Understanding anti‐Americanism: its origins and impact at home and abroad. Edited by Paul Hollander Multiculturalism in Asia. Edited by Will Kymlicka and Baogang He Political economy, economics and development Capitalism: as if the world matters. By Jonathon Porritt World development report 2006: equity and development. By the World Bank The rise of Spanish multinationals: European business in the global economy. By Mauro F. Guillén Globalizing international political economy. Edited by Nicola Phillips History US internal security assistance to South Vietnam: insurgency, subversion and public order. By William Rosenau Europe Alcide De Gasperi: un percorso europeo. Edited by Eckart Conze, Gustavo Corni and Paolo Pombeni Making the world autonomous: a global role for the European Union. By Anthony Clunies‐Ross Universities and the Europe of knowledge: ideas, institutions and policy entrepreneurship in European Union higher education policy. By Anne Corbett The dynamics of European integration: why and when EU institutions matter. By Derek Beach Constructing the path to eastern enlargement: the uneven policy impact of EU identity. By Ulrich Sedelmeier The geopolitics of Euro‐Atlantic integration. Edited by Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel Russia and Eurasia Central Asia's second chance. By Martha Brill Olcott Democracy derailed in Russia: the failure of open politics. By M. Steven Fish Middle East and North Africa Iran's strategic weapons programmes: a net assessment. Edited by Gary Samore Israeli democracy at the crossroads. Edited by Raphael Cohen‐Almagor Israeli institutions at the crossroads. Edited by Raphael Cohen‐Almagor Sub‐Saharan Africa Kupilikula: governance and the invisible realm in Mozambique. By Harry G. West Apartheid South Africa and African states: from pariah to middle power, 1961–1994. By Roger Pfister Politics in southern Africa: state and society in transition. By Gretchen Bauer and Scott D. Taylor Central Africa: crises, reform and reconstruction. Edited by E. S. D. Formin and John W. Forje Asia and Pacific Untying the knot: making peace in the Taiwan Strait. By Richard C. Bush Dangerous Strait: the US‐Taiwan‐China crisis. Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker The Thaksinization of Thailand. By Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand North America The 50% American: immigration and national identity in an age of terror. By Stanley A. Renshon The American era: power and strategy for the 21st century. By Robert J. Lieber Latin America and Caribbean Democracy in Latin America: political change in comparative perspective Gendered paradoxes: women's movements, state restructuring and global development in Ecuador. By Amy Lind Cuba, the United States, and the post‐Cold War world: the international dimensions of the Washington‐Havana relationship. Edited by Morris Morley and Chris McGillion Rethinking development in Latin America. Edited by Charles H. Wood and Bryan R. Roberts     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory 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 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.