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Books reviewed: La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles). By Pierre Bauduin. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen. 2004. 462 pp. EUR 30.00. ISBN 2 84133 145 8. Das monastische Experiment: die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens. By Albrecht Diem. Vita Regularis 24. Münster: LIT Verlag. 2005. x + 465 pp. EUR 39.90. ISBN 3 8258 8556 9. Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. By W?adys?aw Duczko. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2004. xii + 290 pp. + 78 ill. (including maps). $184.00. ISBN 90 04 13874 9. Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age. By Paul Edward Dutton. The New Middle Ages. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 2005. xvi + 279 pp. + 34 b/w ill. £40. ISBN 1 4039 6223 5. Politics and History in the Tenth Century. The Work and World of Richer of Reims. By Jason Glenn. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series 60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xviii + 330 pp. + 10 plates. £50. ISBN 0 521 83487 2. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims 919–966. Edited and translated by Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 9. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. [2004]. xxxvi + 120 pp. £8.99. ISBN 1 55111 650 2. Liber Eliensis: The History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth. Translated by Janet Fairweather. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xliv + 575 pp. £30. ISBN 1 84383 015 9. La géographie du pouvoir dans l’Espagne Visigothique. By Céline Martin. La collection Temps, Espace et Société«Histoire et Civilisations». Lille: Press Universitaires du Septentrion. 2003. 408 pp. EUR 23.50. ISBN 2 85939 815 5. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry. Edited by Gale R. Owen‐Crocker. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2005. xii + 202 pp. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 84383 124 4. Die Inszenierung religiöser Konfrontationen. Theorie und Praxis der Missionspredigt im frühen Mittelalter. By Lutz E. von Padberg. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 51. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 2003. xii + 528 pp. EUR 184. ISBN 3 7772 0324 6. Power and Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia. By Alexandra Sanmark. Uppsala: Occasional Papers in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. 2004. 322 pp. ISBN 91 506 1739 7. Barbarians, Marauders and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare. By Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, and Cumnor Hill, Oxford: Westview. 2004. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0 8133 9153. Herrschaft und Repräsentation: Studien zur Hofkultur König Alfreds des Groβen. By Anton Scharer. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsband 36. Vienna and Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2000. 151 pp. DM 66 paperback. ISBN 3 7029 0445 X. Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas. By Michael P. Speidel. London and New York: Routledge. 2004. xiv + 313 pp. ISBN 0 415 31199 3. Charlemagne: Empire and Society. Edited by J. Story. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2005. xx + 330 pp. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 7190 7089 9. The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911–1154. By Nick Webber. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xi + 195 pp. £45. ISBN 1 84383 119 8.     

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

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

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“AFTERMATH” (FRANCE, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, JUGOSLAVIA, 1945 and 1946). By Francesca M. Wilson. 1947. (Penguin series).

CO‐OPERATIVE COMMUNITIES AT WORK. By Hendrick F. Infield. 1948. (Kegan Paul & Co., London, pp. 182).

THE CHINESE IN MALAYA. By Victor Purcell. 1948. (Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, London, pp. 327 + xvi).

THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THE ROLE OF THE DOMINIONS, 1919–1939. By Gwendolen Carter. Issued under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Ryerson Press, Toronto, pp. xx + 326).

OLD CHINA HANDS AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE. By Nathan A. Pelcovits. 1948. (King's Crown Press under the auspices of the American Institute of Pacific Relations, New York, pp. xiv + 349, one map).

POST‐WAR GOVERNMENTS OF THE FAR EAST. Edited by Taylor Cole and John H. Hallowell. 1947. (Reprinted from the Journal of Politics, ed. Taylor Cole, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 473–744).

THE BRITISH YEAR BOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 1946, Vol. XXIII —Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. (Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press).

RICHER BY ASIA. By Edmond Taylor. 1948. (Secker & Warburg Ltd., London, pp.432).     

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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.     

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Henryk Wisner: Zygmunt III Waza [Sigismund III Vasa], Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1991. ISBN 83–04–03693–2. 263 pp., paper, illustrated.

Rolf Tamnes, The United Stales and the Cold War in the High North (Dartmouth Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vermont, 1991), 384 pp. ISBN 1–85521–223–4.

Göran Göransson, Virtus Mililaris. Ojficersideal i Sverige 1560–1718 (Officer Ideal in Sweden 1560–1718). (Bibliotheca Histórica Lundensis 68, Lund, 1990), 200pp. ISBN 91–7966–127–0. English summary.     

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The United States and Iran: The Patterns of Influence. By R. K. Ramazani. New York: Praeger, 1982. 179 pp.

Iran, A Revolution in Turmoil. Edited by Haleh Afshar. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1985. xvi + 253 pp. + index.

War, Revolution & British Imperialism in Central Asia. By Frederick Stanwood. London: Ithaca Press, 1983. vi + 261 pp. £12.50.

The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi: A Literary Odyssey. By Donne Raffat. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1985. xi + 246 pp.; no index or bibliography.

From Iran East & West: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History. Edited by Juan R. Cole and Moojan Momen. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984. xiii + 205 pp.

Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. By Roy P. Mottahedeh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. xi + 209 pp.

The Women's Rights Movement in Iran; Mutiny, Appeasement and Repression from 1900 to Khomeini. By Eliz Sanasarian. New York: Praeger, 1982. 172 pp. + i‐xiii, including index and bibliography.     

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Katrien Polman. The central Moluccas: an annotated bibliography. XXVI, 324 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land en Volkenkunde. Bibliographical Series, 12.)

S. W. R. Mulyadi (ed.). Hikayat Indraputra: a Malay romance, vii, 315 pp., 6 plates. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. (Koninklijk Ihstituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde. Biblotheca Indonesica, 23.) Guilders 30.     

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The Siege of Mosul and Ottoman‐Persian Relations 1718–1743. By Robert W. Olson. Indiana University Publications: Uralic and Altaic Series, Volume 124, 1975. xviii + 237 pp. $16.

Mirror of the Invisible World: Tales from the Khamsah of Nizami. By Peter J. Chelkowski (with an Essay by Priscella P. Soucek). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. 117 pp. $15.00.

Politics and Petroleum: The Middle East and the United States. By James A. Bill and Robert W. Stookey. Brunswick: King's Court Communications, Inc., 1975. 190 pp.

Vis and Ramin. Translated from the Persian of Fakhr ud‐Din Gurgani by George Morrison. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1972. xix + 357 pp.     

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The Agguyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire. A Study in 15th/9th Century Turko‐Iranian Politics. By John E. Woods. (Studies in Middle Eastern History, No. 3), xv + 348 pp. Minneapolis and Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1976.

A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism. By Mary Boyce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. 284 pp. $19.95.

The Crowned Cannibals: Writings on Repression in Iran. By Reza Baraheni. With an introduction by E. L. Doctorow. New York: Random House/Vintage Books, 1977. 279 pp. $3.95.

Tarikh: Bulletin of the Department of History, Faculty of Letters and Humanities. Tehran: University of Tehran. Vol. 1, Nos. 1–2 (1976–77).

Middle East Economies in the 1970's: A Comparative Approach. By Hossein Askari and John Thomas Cummings. New York: Praeger Publishers (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development). 1976. xxxiii + 581pp.

The Caspian Circle: A Novel. By Donné Raffat. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. 350 pp. $10.

The Agricultural Development of Iran. By Oddvar Aresvik. New York: Praeger, 1976. 271 pp.

Dschalaluddin Rumi, Licht und Reigen: Gedichte aus dem Divan des grössten mystischen Dichters persischer Zunge. Selected, translated and explained by Johann Cristoph Burgel. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Masterpieces of Persian Literature Series, No. 26. Bern, Herbert Lang, and Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 1974. 191 pp.     

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Books reviewed:
Nigel Baker and Richard Holt, Urban Growth and the Medieval Church: Gloucester and Worcester.
Ann Christys, Christians in al-Andalus (711–1000).
Nicholas Everett, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568–774.
Guy Halsall, Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450–900.
Richard J. Kelly, The Blickling Homilies: Edition and Translation.
Penny MacGeorge, Late Roman Warlords.
Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art.