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

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Books reviewed in this 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 issue International Relations theory The vulnerable in international society. By Ian Clark. Liberty abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations. By Georgios Varouxakis. Wronged by empire: post‐imperial ideology and foreign policy in India and China. By Manjari Chatterjee Miller. Interpreting international politics. By Cecelia Lynch. International organization, law and ethics The Routledge companion to alternative organization. Edited by Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier and Chris Land. Conflict, security and defence The gamble of war: is it possible to justify preventive war? By Ariel Colonomos. NATO in Afghanistan: fighting together, fighting alone. David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman. Just war: authority, tradition, and practice. Edited by Anthony F. Lang Jr, Cian O'Driscoll and John Williams. Counterinsurgency in crisis: Britain and the challenges of modern warfare. By David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell. Arguments that count: physics, computing, and missile defense, 1949–2012. By Rebecca Slayton. The discourse trap and the US military: from the war on terror to the surge. Jeffrey H. Michaels. Political economy, economics and development The dollar trap. By Eswar Prasad. Austerity: the history of a dangerous idea. By Mark Blyth. Development aid confronts politics: the almost revolution. By Thomas Carothers and Diane de Gramont. Energy, environment and global health The future is not what it used to be: climate change and energy security. By Jörg Friedrichs. The politics and institutions of global energy governance. Thijs van de Graaf. International history The new Cambridge history of American foreign relations, vol. 4: challenges to American primacy, 1945 to the present. By Warren I. Cohen. The Holocaust, fascism, and memory: essays in the history of ideas. By Dan Stone. Europe Britain in global politics, volume 1: from Gladstone to Churchill. Edited by Christopher Baxter, Michael L. Dockrill and Keith Hamilton. Britain in global politics, volume 2: from Churchill to Blair. Edited by John W. Young, Effie G. H. Pedaliu and Michael D. Kandiah. Transitional justice in post‐communist Romania: the politics of memory. By Lavinia Stan. Europe's deadlock: how the euro crisis could be solved—and why it won't happen. By David Marsh. The struggle for EU legitimacy. Public contestation, 1950–2005. Claudia Schrag Sternberg. Russia and Eurasia Russia 2025. Scenarios for the Russian future. Edited by Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov. Middle East and North Africa Toppling Qaddafi: Libya and the limits of liberal intervention. Christopher Chivvis. The Syria dilemma. Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. Party politics and the prospects for democracy in North Africa. By Lise Storm. Sub‐Saharan Africa A poisonous thorn in our hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's bitter and incomplete divorce. By James Copnall. Liberation movements in power: party and state in southern Africa. By Roger Southall. South Asia Magnificent delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an epic history of misunderstanding. By Hussain Haqqani. No exit from Pakistan: America's tortured relationship with Islamabad. By Daniel Markey. The warrior state: Pakistan in the contemporary world. By T. V. Paul. East Asia and Pacific Contestation and adaptation: the politics of national identity in China. By Enze Han. North Korea in transition: politics, economy, and society. Edited by Kyung‐ae Park and Scott Snyder. North America The Kennan diaries. Edited by Frank Costigliola. The empire trap: the rise and fall of U.S. intervention to protect American property overseas, 1893–2013. By Noel Maurer. What changed when everything changed: 9/11 and the making of national identity. By Joseph Margulies. Latin America and Caribbean Democratic Chile: the politics and policies of a historic coalition, 1990–2010. Edited by Kirsten Sehnbruch and Peter M. Siavelis. Política externa e democracia no Brasil: ensaio de interpretação histórica. By Dawisson Belém Lopes. In search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States and the nature of a region. By Seth Garfield.     

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

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

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

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

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Books reviewed in this article: International law and organization International organizations as law‐makers. By José E. Alvarez International human rights lexicon. By Susan Marks and Andrew Clapham America's failing empire: US foreign relations since the Cold War. By Warren I. Cohen Conflict, security and armed forces The new wars. By Herfried Münkler The new western way of war. By Martin Shaw Critical security studies and world politics. Edited by Ken Booth Politics, democracy and social affairs Gulliver unbound: America's imperial temptation and the war in Iraq. By Stanley Hoffman and Frédéric Bozo The limits of global governance. By Jim Whitman Une société internationale en mutation: quels acteurs pour une nouvelle gouvernance? Edited by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Rostane Mehdi First democracy: the challenge of an ancient idea. By Paul Woodruff The opportunity: America's moment to alter history's course. By Richard N. Haass Setting the people free: the story of democracy. By John Dunn Ethnicity and cultural politics Landscapes of the jihad: militancy, morality, modernity. By Faisal Devji Globalization and the Muslim world: culture, religion, and modernity. Edited by Birgit Schaebler and Leif Stenberg Foreign territory: the internationalization of EU asylum policy. By Oxfam Political economy, economics and development Local players in global games: the strategic constitution of a multinational corporation. By Peer Hull Kristensen and Jonathan Zeitlin Multinationals and global capitalism: from the nineteenth to the twenty‐first century Leviathans: multinational corporations and the new global history. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr and Bruce Mazlish The new masters of capital: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness. By Timothy J. Sinclair Labour in a global world: case studies from the white goods industry in Africa, South America, East Asia and Europe. By Theo Nichols and Surhan Cam Energy and environment The new accountability: environmental responsibility across borders. By Michael R. Mason History Poisoned peace: 1945 the war that never ended. By Gregor Dallas Britain, the Six‐day War and its aftermath. By Frank Brenchley In the midst of events: the Foreign Office diaries and papers of Kenneth Younger, February 1950–October 1951. By Geoffrey Warner The Nixon administration and the death of Allende's Chile: a case of assisted suicide. By Jonathan Haslam Michael of Romania: the king and the country. By Ivor Porter Europe The enlargement of the European Union and NATO: ordering from the menu in Central Europe. By Wade Jacoby International relations and the European Union. Edited by Christopher Hill and Michael Smith The politics of exclusion: institutions and immigration policy in contemporary Germany. By Simon Green Europe and the recognition of new states in Yugoslavia. By Richard Caplan Russia and Eurasia Kazakhstan: power and the elite. By Sally N. Cummings Radical Islam in Central Asia: between pen and rifle. By Vitaly V. Naumkin Sub‐Saharan Africa Darfur: the ambiguous genocide. By Gérard Prunier Darfur: a short history of a long war. By Julie Flint and Alex de Waal Institutions and ethnic politics in Africa. By Daniel Posner Civil militia: Africa's intractable security menace? Edited by David J. Francis The African Union: pan‐Africanism, peacebuilding and development. By Timothy Murithi Politics in francophone Africa. By Victor T. Le Vine Asia and Pacific America's miracle man in Vietnam. By Seth Jacobs North America Addicted to oil: America's relentless drive for energy security. By Ian Rutledge America: sovereign defender or cowboy nation? Edited by Vladimir Shlapentokh, Joshua Woods and Eric Shiraev Devastating society: the neo‐conservative assault on democracy and justice. Edited by Bernd Hamm Latin America and Caribbean The third wave of Latin American democratization: advances and setbacks. Edited by Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring Institutional reforms: the case of Colombia. Edited by Alberto Alesina Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution. By Richard Gott     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history. By Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast. Rethinking Realism in International Relations: between tradition and innovation. Edited by Annette Freyberg‐Inan, Ewan Harrison and Patrick James. International law, human rights and ethics Shaping foreign policy in times of crisis: the role of international law and the State Department Legal Adviser. By Michael P. Scharf and Paul R. Williams. The rule of law. By Tom Bingham. International organization and foreign policy * No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower. Contested states in world politics. By Deon Geldenhuys. Remaking global order: the evolution of Europe–China relations and its implications for East Asia and the United States. By Nicola Casarini. Conflict, security and defence Blair's successful war: British military intervention in Sierra Leone. By Andrew M. Dorman. NATO, security and risk management: from Kosovo to Kandahar. By Michael J. Williams. Why NATO endures. By Wallace J. Thies. Justifying ballistic missile defence: technology, security and culture. By Columba Peoples. Governance, civil society and cultural politics A lethal obsession: anti‐Semitism from antiquity to the global jihad. By Robert S. Wistrich. The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict. By William T. Cavanaugh. Islam's predicament with modernity: religious reform and cultural change. By Bassam Tibi. Communication power. By Manuel Castells. Political economy, economics and development Good capitalism, bad capitalism. By William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm. Currency and contest in East Asia: the Great Power politics of financial regionalism. By William W. Grimes. From Asian to global financial crisis: an Asian regulator's view of unfettered finance in the 1990s and 2000s. By Andrew Sheng. Energy, resources and environment Oil politics: a modern history of petroleum. By Francisco Parra. Crude world: the violent twilight of oil. By Peter Maass. Virus alert: security, governmentality, and the AIDS pandemic. By Stefan Elbe. History Constructing the monolith: the United States, Great Britain, and international communism, 1945–1950. By Marc J. Selverstone. Island of shame: the secret history of the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia. By David Vine. Two suns in the heavens: the Sino‐Soviet struggle for supremacy, 1962–1967. By Sergey Radchenko. Europe Romania and the European Union: how the weak vanquished the strong. By Tom Gallagher. Russia and Eurasia Change in Putin's Russia: power, money and people. By Simon Pirani. Russia and the Arabs: behind the scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present. By Yevgeny Primakov. Middle East and North Africa Cairo contested: governance, urban space, and global modernity. Edited by Diane Singerman. International relations of the Persian Gulf. By F. Gregory Gause III. Yemen: dancing on the heads of snakes. By Victoria Clarke. Getting out: historical perspectives on leaving Iraq. Edited by Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills. Withdrawing from Iraq: alternative schedules, associated risks, and mitigating strategies. By Walter L. Perry, Stuart E. Johnson, Keith Crane, David C. Gompert, John Gordon, Robert E. Hunter, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Terrence K. Kelly, Eric Peltz and Howard J. Shatz. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: violence and pan‐Islamism since 1979. By Thomas Hegghammer. Inside the kingdom: kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists and the struggle for Saudi Arabia. By Robert Lacey. The Israeli peace movement: a shattered dream. By Tamar S. Hermann. Sub‐Saharan Africa The dragon's gift: the real story of China in Africa. By Deborah Bräutigam. It's our turn to eat: the story of a Kenyan whistleblower. By Michela Wrong. Turning points in African democracy. Edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha and Lindsay Whitfield. War and the politics of identity in Ethiopia: the making of enemies and allies in the Horn of Africa. By Kjetil Tronvoll. Asia and Pacific In the graveyard of empires: America's war in Afghanistan. By Seth G. Jones. Afghanistan: aid, armies and empires. By Peter Marsden. The power of the internet in China: citizen activism online. By Guobin Yang. Engagement with North Korea: a viable alternative. Edited by Sung Chull Kim and David C. Kang. (Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: region, regionalism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. By Alice D. Ba. North America The leasing of Guantánamo Bay. By Michael J. Strauss. Latin America and Caribbean The priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the making of a nation. By Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Edgar Venerando Ruiz Díaz.     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The clash of ideas in world politics: transnational networks, states, and regime change, 1510–2010. By John M. Owen IV. Hierarchy in International Relations. By David A. Lake. British foreign policy, national identity, and neoclassical Realism. By Amelia Hadfield‐Amkhan. International law, human rights and ethics Laws, outlaws, and terrorists: lessons from the war on terrorism. By Gabriella Blum and Philip B. Heymann. International organization and foreign policy Liberal Leviathan: the origins, crisis, and transformation of the American world order. By G. John Ikenberry. Conflict, security and defence Governing the bomb: civilian control and democratic accountability of nuclear weapons. Edited by Hans Born, Bates Gill and Heiner Hänggi. Disarmament during deterrence: deep nuclear reductions and international security. By James Acton. Osama bin Laden. By Michael Scheuer. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Why leaders lie: the truth about lying in international politics. By John J. Mearsheimer. A metahistory of the clash of civilisations: us and them beyond Orientalism. By Arshin Adib‐Moghaddam. Political economy, economics and development Exorbitant privilege: the rise and fall of the dollar. By Barry Eichengreen. The future of global currency: the euro versus the dollar. By Benjamin J. Cohen. Global politics and financial governance. By Randall Germain. Fault lines: how hidden fractures still threaten the world economy. By Raghuram G. Rajan. Energy, resources and environment The new harvest: agricultural innovation in Africa. By Calestous Juma. Climate change in Africa. By Camilla Toulmin. History Stalin's genocides. By Norman M. Naimark. The victims return: survivors of the Gulag after Stalin. By Stephen F. Cohen. We cannot remain silent: opposition to the Brazilian military dictatorship in the United States. By James N. Green. Europe Europe's decline and fall: the struggle against global irrelevance. By Richard Youngs. European Union foreign policy: from effectiveness to functionality. By Christopher J. Bickerton. Extreme politics: nationalism, violence, and the end of Eastern Europe. By Charles King. Democracy's plight in the European neighbourhood: struggling transitions and proliferating dynasties. Edited by Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs. Russia and Eurasia The return: Russia's journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev. By Daniel Treisman. Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union. Edited by Galina Yemelianova. Russia and Islam: state, society and radicalism. Edited by Roland Dannreuther and Luke March. Middle East and North Africa Awakening Islam: the politics of religious dissent in contemporary Saudi Arabia. By Stéphane Lacroix. Hamas: the Islamic resistance movement. By Beverly Milton‐Edwards and Stephen Farrell. Kill Khalid: the failed Mossad assassination of Khalid Mishal and the rise of Hamas. By Paul McGeough. The sixth crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the rumors of war. By Dana H. Allin and Steven Simon. Beyond Islam: a new understanding of the Middle East. By Sami Zubaida. Voices from Iraq: a people's history, 2003–2009. By Mark Kukis. Sub‐Saharan Africa * 1 See also Calestous Juma, The new harvest: agricultural innovation in Africa, pp. 1005–1006; and Camilla Toulmin, Climate change in Africa, pp. 1006–1008.
Somalia: the new Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa. By Martin N. Murphy. The great African war: Congo and regional geopolitics, 1996–2006. By Filip Reyntjens. The trouble with the Congo: local violence and the failure of international peacekeeping. By Séverine Autesserre. Self and community in a changing world. By D. A. Masolo. South Asia Pakistan: a hard country. By Anatol Lieven. East Asia and Pacific On China. By Henry Kissinger. The perils of proximity: China–Japan security relations. By Richard C. Bush. China's emerging middle class: beyond economic transformation. Edited by Cheng Li. Overseas Chinese, ethnic minorities and nationalism: de‐centering China. By Elena Barabantseva. Latin America and Caribbean Dragon in the tropics: Hugo Chávez and the political economy of revolution in Venezuela. By Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold. Dismantling democracy in Venezuela: the Chávez authoritarian experiment. By Allan R. Brewer‐Carías. Brazil and the United States: convergence and divergence. By Joseph Smith. Paulo Freire and the Cold War politics of literacy. By Andrew J. Kirkendall.