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

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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Thinking the twentieth century. By Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder. International Relations theory and the consequences of unipolarity. Edited by G. John Ikenberry, Michael Mastanduno and William C. Wohlforth. International organization, law and ethics Moral movements and foreign policy. By Joshua W. Busby. Ethics for enemies: terror, torture, and war. By F. M. Kamm. The politics of narcotic drugs: a survey. Edited by Julia Buxton. Conflict, security and defence * 1 See also Rob Johnson, The Afghan way of war: culture and pragmatism: a critical history, pp. 921–22.
A perpetual menace: nuclear weapons and international order. By William Walker. Modern warfare, intelligence and deterrence: the technologies that are transforming them. Edited by Benjamin Sutherland. Nuclear proliferation and international order: challenges to the non‐proliferation treaty. Edited by Olav Njølstad. Learning from the secret past: cases in British intelligence history. Edited by Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman. Germ gambits: the bioweapons dilemma, Iraq and beyond. By Amy E. Smithson. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The pseudo‐democrat's dilemma. By Susan D. Hyde. Religion and International Relations theory. Edited by Jack Snyder. Europe's angry Muslims. By Robert S. Leiken. Transnational competence: empowering professional curricula for horizon‐rising challenges. By Peter H. Koehn and James N. Rosenau. Political economy, economics and development Capitalising on change in a globalising world: a view from Hamburg. By Wolfgang Michalski. Treasure islands: tax havens and the men who stole the world. By Nicholas Shaxson. The money laundry: regulating criminal finance in the global economy. By J. C. Sharman. International history * 2 See also Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of modern China, pp. 924–25; and James Palmer, The death of Mao: the Tangshan earthquake and the birth of the new China, pp. 922–23.
The triumph of the dark: European international history 1933–1939. By Zara Steiner. It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway: Russia and the communist past. By David Satter. The Truman administration and Bolivia: making the world safe for liberal constitutional oligarchy. By Glenn J. Dorn. Europe The Delphic oracle on Europe: is there a future for the European Union? Edited by Loukas Tsoukalis and Janis A. Emmanouilidis. Russia and Eurasia * 3 See also David Satter, It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway: Russia and the communist past, pp. 904– 905.
Understanding Central Asia: politics and contested transformations. By Sally N. Cummings. Politics and oil in Kazakhstan. By Wojciech Ostrowski. Reassessing security in the South Caucasus: regional conflicts and transformation. Edited by Annie Jafalian. Russia's new army. Edited by Mikhail Barabanov. Middle East and North Africa Sectarianism in Iraq: antagonistic visions of unity. By Fanar Haddad. Sub‐Saharan Africa A season in hell: my 130 days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda. By Robert R. Fowler. South Asia Storming the world stage: the story of Lashkar‐e‐Taiba. By Stephen Tankel. When more is less: the international project in Afghanistan. By Astri Suhrke. The Afghan solution: the inside story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and how western hubris lost Afghanistan. By Lucy Morgan Edwards. The Pakistan cauldron: conspiracy, assassination and instability. By James P. Farwell. The Afghan way of war: culture and pragmatism: a critical history. By Rob Johnson. East Asia and Pacific The death of Mao: the Tangshan earthquake and the birth of the new China. By James Palmer. Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of modern China. By Ezra F. Vogel. North America Time to start thinking: America in the age of descent. By Edward Luce. American avatar: the United States in the global imagination. By Barry A. Sanders. Reagan on war: a reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980–1984. By Gail E. S. Yoshitani. Latin America and Caribbean * 4 See also Glenn J. Dorn, The Truman administration and Bolivia: making the world safe for liberal constitutional oligarchy, pp. 905–906.
The United States and Cuba: intimate enemies. By Marifeli Pérez‐Stable, with an essay by Ana Covarrubias. The Sandinistas and Nicaragua since 1979. Edited by David Close, Salvador Martí i Puig and Shelley A. McConnell. The General's slow retreat: Chile after Pinochet. By Mary Helen Spooner.     

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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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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 Hedley Bull and the accommodation of power. By Robert Ayson. The social evolution of international politics. By Shiping Tang. Is God happy? Selected essays. By Leszek Kolakowski. International organization, law and ethics * 1 See also Patricia Clavin, Securing the world economy: the reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946, pp. 1332–33.
‘Crimes against peace’ and international law. By Kirsten Sellars. The international human rights movement: a history. By Aryeh Neier. Life in crisis: the ethical journey of Doctors Without Borders. By Peter Redfield. The terror courts: rough justice at Guantanamo Bay. By Jess Bravin. The end of power: from boardrooms to battlefields and churches to states, why being in charge isn't what it used to be. By Moisés Naím. Conflict, security and defence * 2 See also Su Hoon Lee, ed., Nuclear North Korea: regional dynamics, failed policies, and ideas for ending a global stalemate, pp. 1355–56.
The thistle and the drone: how America's war on terror became a global war on tribal Islam. By Akbar Ahmed. Investment in blood: the real cost of Britain's Afghan war. By Frank Ledwidge. Confronting the bomb: Pakistani and Indian scientists speak out. Edited by Pervez Hoodbhoy. The opportunity: next steps in reducing nuclear arms. By Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon. Terrorism: a philosophical enquiry. By Anne Schwenkenbecher. The Routledge companion to UK counter‐terrorism. Edited by Andrew Staniforth and Fraser Sampson. Commercialising security in Europe: political consequences for peace operations. Edited by Anna Leander. Political economy, economics and development; The locust and the bee: predators and creators in capitalism's future. By Geoff Mulgan. Symbolic power in the World Trade Organization. By Matthew Eagleton‐Pierce. From miracle to maturity: the growth of the Korean economy. By Barry Eichengreen, Dwight H. Perkins and Kwanho Shin. Energy, environment and global health Land. By Derek Hall. International history The undivided past: history beyond our differences. By David Cannadine. The emergence of international society in the 1920s. By Daniel Gorman. Securing the world economy: the reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946. By Patricia Clavin. Stalin's curse: battling for communism in war and Cold War. By Robert Gellately. In search of power: African Americans in the era of decolonization, 1956–1974. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960–1965. By Lise Namikas. Europe Shaping Europe: France, Germany, and embedded bilateralism from the Elysée Treaty to twenty‐first century politics. By Ulrich Krotz and Joachim Schild. The lost continent: the BBC's Europe editor on Europe's darkest hour since World War Two. By Gavin Hewitt. Britain and the European Union. By Andrew Geddes. EU climate policy: industry, policy interaction and external environment. By Elin Lerum Boasson and Jørgen Wettestad. Russia and Eurasia * 3 See also Robert Gellately, Stalin's curse: battling for communism in war and Cold War, pp. 1333–35.
Bear traps on Russia's road to modernization. By Clifford G. Gaddy and Barry W. Ickes. Can Russia modernise?Sistema, power networks and informal governance. By Alena Ledeneva. Russia, the near abroad and the West: lessons from the Moldova‐Transdniestria conflict. By William H. Hill. Middle East and North Africa Of empires and citizens: pro‐American democracy or no democracy at all? By Amaney A. Jamal. The Six‐Day War and Israeli self‐defense: questioning the legal basis for preventive war. By John Quigley. Sub‐Saharan Africa * 4 See also Lise Namikas, Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960–1965, pp. 1336–37.
The dying Sahara: US imperialism and terror in Africa. By Jeremy Keenan. Mandela and Mbeki: the hero and the outsider. By Lucky Mathebe. South Asia * 5 See also Pervez Hoodbhoy, ed., Confronting the bomb: Pakistani and Indian scientists speak out, pp. 1316–17.
Pakistan: the garrison state: origins, evolution, consequences 1947–2011. By Ishtiaq Ahmed. Samudra manthan: Sino‐Indian rivalry in the Indo‐Pacific. By C. Raja Mohan. East Asia and Pacific Nuclear North Korea: regional dynamics, failed policies, and ideas for ending a global stalemate. Edited by Su Hoon Lee. 3.11: disaster and change in Japan. By Richard J. Samuels. North America * 6 See also Jess Bravin, The terror courts: rough justice at Guantanamo Bay, pp. 1311–12.
Presidential leadership and the creation of the American era. By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Latin America and Caribbean Criminal insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: the gangs and cartels wage war. Edited by Robert J. Bunker. Bolivia: processes of change. By John Crabtree and Ann Chaplin. Mobilizing Bolivia's displaced: indigenous politics and the struggle over land. By Nicole Fabricant. La cooperación Sur‐Sur y triangular en América Latina: políticas afirmativas y prácticas transformadas. Edited by Bruno Ayllón and Tahina Ojeda.     

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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Hugo Grotius on the law of war and peace: student edition. Edited and annotated by Stephen C. Neff. Thinking International Relations differently. Edited by Arlene Tickner and David L. Blaney. International organization, law and ethics Governing the world: the history of an idea. By Mark Mazower. The dictator's learning curve: inside the global battle for democracy. By William J. Dobson. The rise of global corporate social responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms. By Hevina S. Dashwood. Sacred aid: faith and humanitarianism. Edited by Michael Barnett and Janice Gross Stein. Global corruption: money, power and ethics in the modern world. By Laurence Cockcroft. Monitoring democracy: when international election observation works, and why it often fails. By Judith G. Kelley. Conflict, security and defence * 1 See also David Patrikarakos, Nuclear Iran: the birth of an atomic state, pp. 219–20.
The glorious art of peace: from the Iliad to Iraq. By John Gittings. The responsibility to protect: rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention. By Aidan Hehir. War from the ground up: twenty‐first‐century combat as politics. By Emile Simpson. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The net delusion: how not to liberate the world. By Evgeny Morozov. The age of social democracy: Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century. By Francis Sejersted. Radical: my journey from Islamist extremism to a democratic awakening. By Maajid Nawaz. Governance by indicators: global power through quantification and rankings. Edited by Kevin E. Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry. Political economy, economics and development Aftermath: the cultures of the economic crisis. Edited by Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso. Energy, environment and global health * 2 See also Hevina S. Dashwood, The rise of global corporate social responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms, pp. 187–8.
The oil road: journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London. By James Marriott and Mika Minio‐Paluello. Oil. By Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon. Economies of recycling: the global transformation of materials, values and social relations. Edited by Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno. Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. By Ben Goldacre. International history Belgium and the Congo 1885–1980. By Guy Vanthemsche. Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956. By Anne Applebaum. The Cold War and after: history, theory, and the logic of international politics. By Marc Trachtenberg. Europe * 3 See also Francis Sejersted, The age of social democracy: Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century, pp. 198–9; Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman, eds, The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro‐Europa, pp. 225–7.
Helmut Kohl: eine politische Biographie. By Hans‐Peter Schwarz. Good Italy, bad Italy: why Italy must conquer its demons to face the future. By Bill Emmott. Russia and Eurasia Russia and the cult of state security: the Chekist tradition, from Lenin to Putin. By Julie Fedor. The last dictatorship in Europe: Belarus under Lukashenko. By Brian Bennett. Middle East and North Africa Nuclear Iran: the birth of an atomic state. By David Patrikarakos. Everyday Arab identity: the daily reproduction of the Arab world. By Christopher Phillips. Qatar: a modern history. By Allen J. Fromherz. Exit Gaddafi: the hidden history of the Libyan revolution. By Ethan Chorin. The Arab uprising: the unfinished revolutions of the Middle East. By Marc Lynch. Sub‐Saharan Africa * 4 See also Guy Vanthemsche, Belgium and the Congo 1885–1980, pp. 210–11.
The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro‐Europa. Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman. Warfare in African history. Richard J. Reid. South Sudan: from revolution to independence. By Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold. South Asia Still counting the dead: survivors of Sri Lanka's hidden war. By Frances Harrison. East Asia and Pacific China's remarkable economic growth. By John Knight and Sai Ding. Is China buying the world? By Peter Nolan. North America Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations in the rise of American power. By Inderjeet Parmar. Sword of the spirit, shield of faith: religion in American war and diplomacy. By Andrew Preston. Latin America and Caribbean Raúl Castro and Cuba: a military life. By Hal Klepak. Mexico: democracy interrupted. By Jo Tuckman. Civil society and the state in left‐led Latin America: challenges and limitations to democratization. Edited by Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The social in the global: social theory, governmentality and global politics. By Jonathan Joseph . Power, Realism and constructivism. By Stefano Guzzini . International organization, law and ethics * 1 See also Alex J. Bellamy, Massacres and morality: mass atrocities in an age of civilian immunity, pp. 1029–30.
The law of targeting. By William H. Boothby. Just business: multinational corporations and human rights. By John Ruggie . Unimaginable atrocities: justice, politics, and rights at the war crimes tribunal. By William Schabas. No one's world: the West, the rising rest and the coming global turn. By Charles A. Kupchan. Conflict, security and defence The Cambridge history of war, volume IV: war in the modern world. Edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven. Invisible armies: an epic history of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present. By Max Boot . Massacres and morality: mass atrocities in an age of civilian immunity. By Alex J. Bellamy . After war ends: a philosophical perspective. By Larry May . Ballistic missile defence and US national security policy: normalisation and acceptance after the Cold War. By Andrew Futter . Privatizing war: private military and security companies under public international law. By Lindsey Cameron and Vincent Chetail . Governance, civil society and cultural politics Federal dynamics: continuity, change, and the varieties of federalism. Edited by Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek . Of virgins and martyrs: women and sexuality in global conflict. By David Jacobson . Political economy, economics and development New spirits of capitalism? Crises, justifications, and dynamics. Edited by Paul du Gay and Glenn Morgan . Masters of the universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the birth of neoliberal politics. By Daniel Stedman Jones . Governing guns, preventing plunder: international cooperation against illicit trade. By Asif Efrat . Energy, environment and global health China's environmental challenges. By Judith Shapiro. Green innovation in China: China's wind power industry and the global transition to a low‐carbon economy. By Joanna I. Lewis . The governance of energy in China: transition to a low‐carbon economy. By Philip Andrews‐Speed . Global health and International Relations. By Colin McInnes and Kelley Lee . International history The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914. By Christopher Clark . Lenin's terror: the ideological origins of early Soviet state violence. By James Ryan . Hitler's philosophers. By Yvonne Sherratt . Empire of secrets: British intelligence, the Cold War and the twilight of empire. By Calder Walton . Nasser's gamble: how intervention in Yemen caused the Six‐Day War and the decline of Egyptian power. By Jesse Ferris . The killing zone: the United States wages Cold War in Latin America. By Stephen G. Rabe . Visions of power in Cuba: revolution, redemption and resistance, 1959–1971. By Lillian Guerra . Europe European security: the roles of regional organisations. By Bjørn Møller . Six moments of crisis: inside British foreign policy. By Gill Bennett . Defending the realm? The politics of Britain's small wars since 1945. By Aaron Edwards . A special relationship? British foreign policy in the era of American hegemony. By Simon Tate . Britain's quest for a role: a diplomatic memoir from Europe to the UN. By David Hannay . Russia and Eurasia * 2 See also James Ryan, Lenin's terror: the ideological origins of early Soviet state violence, pp. 1046–7; and Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse, The Chinese question in Central Asia: domestic order, social change and the Chinese factor, pp. 1076–7.
Wheel of fortune: the battle for oil and power in Russia. By Thane Gustafson . Edge of empire: a history of Georgia. By Donald Rayfield . Georgia: a political history since independence. By Stephen Jones . Middle East and North Africa Revolutionary Iran: a history of the Islamic Republic. By Michael Axworthy . Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution. Edited by Are Knudsen and Michael Kerr . Dynamics of change in the Persian Gulf: political economy, war and revolution. By Anoushiravan Ehteshami . Sub‐Saharan Africa Multiethnic coalitions in Africa: business financing of opposition election campaigns. By Leonardo R. Arriola . Nigeria since independence: forever fragile? By J. N. C. Hill . Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa. Edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa . South Asia Policing Afghanistan. By Antonio Giustozzi and Mohammed Isaqzadeh . East Asia and Pacific * 3 See also Judith Shapiro, China's environmental challenges; Joanna I. Lewis, Green innovation in China: China's wind power industry and the global transition to a low‐carbon economy; and Philip Andrews‐Speed, The governance of energy in China: transition to a low‐carbon economy, pp. 1041–3.
The Chinese question in Central Asia: domestic order, social change and the Chinese factor. By Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse . China's search for energy security: domestic sources and international implications. Edited by Suisheng Zhao . North America Foreign policy begins at home: the case for putting America's house in order. By Richard N. Haass . US foreign policy and democracy promotion: from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Edited by Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet . The Secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the heart of American power. By Kim Ghattas . Latin America and Caribbean * 4 See also Stephen G. Rabe, The killing zone: the United States wages Cold War in Latin America, pp. 1052–3; and Lillian Guerra, Visions of power in Cuba: revolution, redemption and resistance, 1959–1971, pp. 1054–5.
The Mapuche in modern Chile: a cultural history. By Joanna Crow .     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory The Eurocentric conception of world politics: western international theory, 1760–2010. By John M. Hobson. The concept of the political. By Hans J. Morgenthau. Edited by Hartmut Behr and Felix Rösch. Mao's China and the Sino‐Soviet split: ideological dilemma. By Mingjiang Li. A dictionary of 20th‐century communism. Edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service. International organization, law and ethics Justice and the enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By William Shawcross. Hybrid and internationalised criminal tribunals: selected jurisdictional issues. By Sarah Williams. Sentencing in international criminal law: the approach of the two ad hoc tribunals and future perspectives for the international criminal court. By Silvia D'Ascoli. The new protectorates: international tutelage and the making of liberal states. Edited by James Mayall and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. Corruption and misuse of public office: second edition. By Colin Nicholls QC, Tim Daniel, Alan Bacarese and John Hatchard. Conflict, security and defence Manhunt: the ten‐year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad. By Peter Bergen. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Sex and world peace. By Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif‐Spanvill, Mary Caprioli and Chad F. Emmett. After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics. By Erin K. Wilson. Political economy, economics and development Finance and the good society. By Robert J. Shiller. Energy, resources and environment Global health governance. By Sophie Harman. Phake: the deadly world of falsified and substandard medicines. By Roger Bate. The European Union as a leader in international climate change politics. Edited by Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel and James Connelly. International history * 1 See also Silvio Pons and Robert Service, eds, A dictionary of 20th‐century communism, pp. 1117–19.
Documents on British policy overseas: series III, volume VIII: The invasion of Afghanistan and UK–Soviet relations, 1979–1982. Edited by Richard Smith, Patrick Salmon and Stephen Twigge. Marigold: the lost chance for peace in Vietnam. By James G. Hershberg. Ending empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and post‐war decolonization, 1945–1973. By Simon C. Smith. The sorrows of Belgium: liberation and political reconstruction, 1944–1947. By Martin Conway. The devil in history: communism, fascism, and some lessons of the twentieth century. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. Molotov: Stalin's cold warrior. By Geoffrey Roberts. Europe Hungary: between democracy and authoritarianism. By Paul Lendvai. Turkey: what everyone needs to know. By Andrew Finkel. National and European foreign policies: towards Europeanization. Edited by Reuben Wong and Christopher Hill. Russia and Eurasia * 2 See also Geoffrey Roberts, Molotov: Stalin's cold warrior, pp. 1142–4.
Deception: spies, lies and how Russia dupes the West. By Edward Lucas. Restavratsiya vmesto reformatsii: Dvadtsat' let, kotorye potryasli Rossiyu. By Vladimir Pastukhov. The political economy of Putin's Russia. By Pekka Sutela. Putin's United Russia party. By Sean P. Roberts. Russian politics: the paradox of weak state. By Marie Mendras. Roads to the temple: truth, memory, ideas, and ideals in the making of the Russian revolution, 1987–1991. By Leon Aron. Power games in the Caucasus: Azerbaijan's foreign and energy policy towards the West, Russia and the Middle East. By Nazrin Mehdiyeva. Middle East and North Africa Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: inside an authoritarian regime. By Joseph Sassoon. The Saddam tapes: the inner workings of a tyrant's regime, 1978–2001. By Kevin M. Woods, David D. Palkki and Mark E. Stout. The Syrian rebellion. By Fouad Ajami. The battle for the Arab Spring: revolution, counter‐revolution and the making of a new era. By Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren. Lebanon: the politics of a penetrated society. By Tom Najem. Lebanon adrift: from battleground to playground. By Samir Khalaf. Sub‐Saharan Africa Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe? By Richard Bourne. South Asia Pakistan on the brink: the future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West. By Ahmed Rashid. The future of Pakistan. By Stephen P. Cohen and others. Religion and conflict in modern South Asia. By William Gould. East Asia and Pacific Maonomics: why Chinese communists make better capitalists than we do. By Loretta Napoleoni. Korean unification: inevitable challenges. By Jacques L. Fuqua Jr. Escape from Camp 14: one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West. By Blaine Harden. Latin America and Caribbean Haiti: a shattered nation. By Elizabeth Abbott. Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and beyond. Edited by Jorge Heine and Andrew S. Thompson. Bolivia: refounding the nation. By Kepa Artaraz. The Amazon from an international law perspective. By Beatriz Garcia.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Political evil in a global age: Hannah Arendt and international theory. By Patrick Hayden. International law, human rights and ethics Means to an end: U.S. interest in the International Criminal Court. By Lee Feinstein and Tod Lindberg. International organization and foreign policy Regional leadership in the global system: ideas, interests and strategies of regional powers. Edited by Daniel Flemes. New powers: how to become one and how to manage them. By Amrita Narlikar. Conflict, security and defence * * See also Priyanjali Malik, India's nuclear debate: exceptionalism and the bomb, pp. 504–5.
The worst‐kept secret: Israel's bargain with the bomb. By Avner Cohen. A skeptic's case for nuclear disarmament. By Michael O'Hanlon. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The globalization of surveillance. By Armand Mattelart. Diaspora and transnationalism: concepts, theories and methods. Edited by Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist. Political economy, economics and development Just give money to the poor: the development revolution from the global South. By Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. Energy, resources and environment Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change. By Bryan Lovell. The biofuel delusion. By Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi. Food versus fuel: an informed introduction to biofuels. Edited by Frank Rosillo‐Calle and Francis X. Johnson. Global energy governance in a multipolar world. By Dries Lesage, Thijs Van de Graaf and Kristen Westphal. History The Kaiser's holocaust: Germany's forgotten genocide and the colonial roots of Nazism. By David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen. A century of revolution: insurgent and counterinsurgent violence during Latin America's long Cold War. Edited by Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph. Latin America's Cold War. By Hal Brands. America's Cold War: the politics of insecurity. By Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall. Europe A community of Europeans? Transnational identities and public spheres. By Thomas Risse. The EU presence in international organizations. Edited by Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis. Russia and Eurasia Lonely power: why Russia has failed to become the West and the West is weary of Russia. By Lilya Shevtsova. The Black Sea region and EU policy: the challenge of divergent agendas. Edited by Karen Henderson and Carol Weaver. Key players and regional dynamics in Eurasia: the return of the ‘Great Game’. Edited by Maria Raquel Freire and Roger E. Kanet. Middle East and North Africa Egypt on the brink: from Nasser to Mubarak. By Tarek Osman. War and memory in Lebanon. By Sune Haugbolle. Beirut. By Samir Kassir. Palestine betrayed. By Efraim Karsh. Encyclopaedia of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, vols I–III. Edited by Cheryl A. Rubenberg. Sub‐Saharan Africa My Nigeria: five decades of independence. By Peter Cunliffe‐Jones. Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa: risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. By Lauren M. MacLean. South Asia India's nuclear debate: exceptionalism and the bomb. By Priyanjali Malik. The other war: winning and losing in Afghanistan. By Ronald E. Neumann. Afghanistan: a cultural and political history. By Thomas Barfield. East Asia and Pacific Accepting authoritarianism: state‐society relations in China's reform era. By Teresa Wright. Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth‐century world: a concise history. By Rebecca E. Karl. China today, China tomorrow: domestic politics, economy and society. Edited by Joseph Fewsmith. China and India in the age of globalization. By Shalendra D. Sharma. Friends and enemies: the past, present and future of the Communist Party of China. By Kerry Brown. North America The myth of American exceptionalism. By Godfrey Hodgson. Neoconservatism and the new American century. By Maria Ryan. The irony of manifest destiny: the tragedy of America's foreign policy. By William Pfaff. Latin America and Caribbean The Bachelet government: conflict and consensus in post‐Pinochet Chile. Edited by Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks. What if Latin America ruled the world? How the South will take the North into the 22nd century. By Oscar Guardiola‐Rivera.     

Mormon History,Text, Colour,and Rites

Mormonism's growth from its 1830 inception to its 2005 near twelve million world membership, has not only initiated a debate over whether, perhaps, it is likely to become the next world‐religion after Islam, ¹ 1 Stark, Rodney , “The Rise of a New World Faith,” Review of Religious Research 26 (1984 ): 18 – 27 .
but has, in recent decades, also witnessed the publication of numerous books that help foster an interest in what is already becoming a distinctive field of study. Though none of the four books reviewed here constitutes an introductory overview, ² 2 For which see, Thomas O'Dea, The Mormons (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957); Jan Shipps, The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985); Douglas J. Davies, Introduction to Mormonism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
each introduces a set of major issues within contemporary Mormon studies and engages, respectively, with faith‐related attitudes to historical material, the Book of Mormon, the changing status of black males in the church, and Freemasonry's impact on Mormonism's origin.     

Book reviews

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

Book reviews

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.     

Book reviews

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.     

HOW DO BUILDINGS MEAN? SOME ISSUES OF INTERPRETATION IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE1

2 Juan Pablo Bonta, Architecture and Its Interpretation: A Study of Expressive Systems in Architecture (London: Lund Humphries, 1979), 232.
—Juan Pablo Bonta

3 Quoted in Andrew Ballantyne, “The Pillar and the Fire,” in What is Architecture?, ed. Andrew Ballantyne (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 7.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein

     

The Anthropoceneans

What does it mean for us to be citizens of the Anthropocene, both individually and collectively? This essay tries to answer that question in order to stimulate a wider conversation about how we should respond to and shape the socioecological transformations ahead of us. 1 1 Many of the ideas and arguments in this essay are explored in greater depth in my book (in preparation), Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re‐conceptualising Human‐Nature Relations (Routledge, UK). Questions of grief are also explored in Head, L. 2016 ‘Grief, loss and the cultural politics of climate change’, a chapter in H. Bulkeley, M. Paterson and J. Stripple (eds) Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Devices, Desires and Dissent.
     

The Robustness of Aboriginal Land Tenure Systems: Underlying and Proximate Customary Titles

While Aboriginal 1 1 I do not deal with Torres Strait Islander land relationships in this paper, although the arguments may well apply in that case. I have restricted myself to systems with which I am more familiar
land use patterns may have been fragile in the face of colonisation, and severe limits were consequently placed on Aboriginal people's capacity to physically enact local traditional entitlements on many lands, the basis and key content of traditional title to such lands is not fragile but has generally been maintained with considerable robustness. In this paper I suggest that this robustness arises in a critical sense from the pre-existing and widely continuing dual structure of traditional land tenure, which may be understood as consisting of an underlying title held within the relevant regional jural and cultural system, which underpins proximate entitlements enjoyed by small groups of individuals. There is scope within Australia's Native Title Act (1993) for the recognition of this system of customary law under the western legal concept of native title.     

Recent Studies in Jesuit History

The past two decades have witnessed an important shift in the historiography of the Society of Jesus. The older style of Jesuit history, flavoured with confessional polemics, and so often dependent on the work of Jesuit scholars isolated from the more secularly oriented academic community, had already ceased to dominate when John O'Malley's magisterial The First Jesuits appeared in 1993. ¹ 1 John W. O'Malley, The First Jesuits. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
Since then, the partnering of Jesuit and non‐Jesuit scholars has produced scholarship that is generally sympathetic to the Society's aims and methods while avoiding neither criticism of the Jesuits nor thorough, judicious use of archival materials. The significance of this trend is heightened by the declining numbers of Jesuits in North America and Europe, creating a situation where the advancement of Jesuit studies will, at least in these venues, increasingly become the responsibility of non‐Jesuits. With the passing of the Jesuit scholar of Jesuits, something is lost and gained; potentially greater objectivity towards the Society is offset by the loss of insight into the individual and corporate experience of being a Jesuit. The four books reviewed here illustrate in varying degrees these developments in the field.     

Anthropology and Aboriginal Tradition: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair and the Politics of Interpretation

Events that have become popularly known as ‘the Hindmarsh affair’ arose from conflict over a bridge development, and refer to an Aboriginal heritage issue that has had a significant impact on Australian society. 1 1 Justice Mathews (Commonwealth of Australia, 1996:1) begins her Commonwealth Hindmarsh Island Report with a similar assessment, noting how painful and divisive an affair it has been, and how enduring its legacies are likely to be.
The attendant controversy and dissension have ramified widely, beyond matters of Aboriginal heritage and its relationship to development, to include the status and role of anthropological research and reporting, past and present. A brief chronology of developments both prior to and following the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission (1995) is provided here as a backdrop for discussion of these matters. Other salient issues also examined include: the nature of culture in relation to the complexities of ‘tradition’ and the effects of change; the structural correlates of secrets; the politics of interpretation; and the legitimacy of innovative processes in Aboriginal cultural construction and representation. In conclusion, some implications of the Hindmarsh affair for the anthropology profession are considered.     

1. INTRODUCTION

Why were mid‐nineteenth‐century Hispanic populations so small in what is now the American Southwest, after centuries of colonization? A brilliant new literature provides a model of explanation in the authority of formidable indigenous polities, especially that great power that Pekka Hämäläinen reveals to us in his book The Comanche Empire. ¹ 1 Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Employing an exercise in cartographic history, centered on the Pecos River Valley, we can confirm a hypothesis drawn from that theoretical model: Comanche sway was so great that European mapmakers appear to have lost knowledge about that geographical region. This new historical model deserves close attention from scholars. In this forum, four leading historians, drawn from different fields, assess the contribution of The Comanche Empire.