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Book reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Weltordnungspolitik. By Rüdiger Voigt. Human rights and ethics Studying human rights. By Todd Landman. International law and organization Staying together: the G8 summit confronts the 21st century. By Nicholas Bayne. NATO renewed: the power and purpose of transatlantic cooperation. By Sten Rynning. Foreign policy The secret history of al‐Qa'ida. By Abdel Bari Atwan. Zarqawi: the new face of Al‐Qaeda. By Jean‐Charles Brisard. Diplomacy and developing nations: post‐Cold War foreign policy‐making structures and processes. Edited by Justin Robertson and Maurice A. East. The Atlantic alliance under stress: US–European relations after Iraq. Edited by David M. Andrews. Conflict, security and armed forces Knowing the enemy: jihadist ideology and the war on terror. By Mary Habeck. Liberalism and war: the victors and the vanquished. By Andrew Williams. The psychology of nuclear proliferation: identity, emotions and foreign policy. By Jacques E. C. Hymans. Al Qaeda in Europe: the new battleground of international jihad. By Lorenzo Vidino. Politics, democracy and social affairs The rise of political lying. By Peter Oborne. A better globalization: legitimacy, governance and reform. By Kemal Dervi? with Ceren özer. The politics of good intentions: history, fear and hypocrisy in the new world order. By David Runciman. Independence from America: global integration and inequality. By Jon V. Kofas. Ethnicity and cultural politics Citizens abroad: emigration and the state in the Middle East and North Africa. By Laurie A. Brand. Culture troubles: politics and the interpretation of meaning. By Patrick Chabal and Jean Pascal Daloz. Energy and environment Paths to a green world: the political economy of the global environment. By Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne. The state and the global ecological crisis. Edited by John Barry and Robyn Eckersley. Governing water: contentious transnational politics and global institution building. By Ken Conca. History Blind oracles: intellectuals and war from Kennan to Kissinger. By Bruce Kuklick. The road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews. By Benny Morris. Jordanian Jerusalem: holy places and national spaces. By Kimberly Katz. The failure of American and British propaganda in the Arab Middle East 1945–1957: unconquerable minds. By James R. Vaughan. Victims of Stalin and Hitler: the exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain. By Thomas Lane. Europe Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited. Edited by Simon Green and William E. Paterson. Oltre il declino. By Tito Boeri, Riccardo Faini, Andrea Ichino, Giuseppe Pisauro and Carlo Scarpa. Russia and Eurasia Russia and NATO since 1991: from Cold War through cold peace to partnership? By Martin A. Smith. Middle East and North Africa The‘great Satan'vs. the‘mad mullah’: how the United States and Iran demonize each other. By William O. Beeman. Tehran rising: Iran's challenge to the United States. By Ilan Berman. Saudi Arabia in the balance: political economy, society, foreign affairs. Edited by Paul Aarts and Gerd Nonneman. A framework for a Palestinian national security doctrine. By Hussein Agha and Ahmed S. Khalidi. Reaching for power: the Shi'a in the modern Arab world. By Yitzhak Nakash. The Kurds of Syria: an existence denied. By Harriet Montgomery. Sub‐Saharan Africa Conflict and collusion in Sierra Leone. By David Keen. Dangers of co‐deployment: UN co‐operative peacekeeping in Africa. By David J. Francis, Mohammed Faal, John Kabia and Alex Ramsbotham. Asia and Pacifi c Power shift: China and Asia's new dynamics. Edited by David Shambaugh. State growth and social exclusion in Tibet: challenges of recent economic growth. By Andrew Martin Fischer. ASEAN and East Asian international relations: regional delusions. By David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith. Latin America and Caribbean Crafting civilian control of the military in Venezuela: a comparative perspective. By Harold Trinkunas. From movements to parties in Latin America: the evolution of ethnic politics. By Donna Lee Van Cott.     

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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.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Jacinta O’Hagan, Conceptualizing the West in International Relations: from Spengler to Said Richard Shapcott, Justice, community and dialogue in International Relations Alejandro Colas, International civil society: social movements in world politics International Development Research Centre, Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty: the responsibility to protect E. Wayne Nafziger and Raimo Väyrynen (eds.),.The prevention of humanitarian emergencies Oliver P. Richmond, Maintaining order, making peace Richard Connaughton, Military intervention and peacekeeping: the reality David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: human rights and intervention Marrack Goulding, Peacemonger S. R. Ashton, G. Bennett and K. A. Hamilton (eds.), Documents on British policy overseas. Series I, volume VIII: Britain and China, 1945–1950 Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin (eds.), Re–examining the Cold War: US–China diplomacy, 1954–1973 Michael Ignatieff, Human rights as politics and idolatry John Authers and Richard Wolffe, The victim’s fortune: inside the epic battle over the debts of the Holocaust C. Edwin Baker, Media, markets, and democracy Anthony Forster, Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour parties since 1945 Mike Morrissey and Marie Smyth, Northern Ireland after the Good Friday agreement: victims, grievance and blame Stjepan Malovi? and Gary W. Selnow, The people, press and politics of Croatia Victor Roudometof, Nationalism, globalization, and orthodoxy: the social origins of ethnic conflict in the Balkans Robert D. Dean, Imperial brotherhood: gender and the making of Cold War foreign policy Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Cold War fantasies: film, fiction, and foreign policy Douglas A. Irwin, Free trade under fire Duane Swank, Global capital, political institutions, and policy change in developed welfare states Michael McWilliam, The development business: a history of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz (eds.), International Relations and global climate change Robert G. Darst, Smokestack diplomacy: cooperation and conflict in East–West environmental politics Antony Beevor, Berlin: the downfall 1945 Richard J. Aldrich, The hidden hand: Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence Lawrence Douglas, The memory of judgment: making law and history in the trials of the Holocaust Mario Telò, European Union and new regionalism: regional actors and global governance in a post–hegemonic era Roy H. Ginsberg, The European Union in international politics: baptism by fire David McKay, Designing Europe: comparative lessons from the federal experience Lene Hansen and Ole Waever (eds.), European integration and national identity: the challenge of the Nordic states Hans–Dieter Lucas (ed.), Genscher, Deutschland und Europa Elizabeth M. Cousens and Charles K. Cater, Toward peace in Bosnia: implementing the Dayton Accords Norman Cigar and Paul Williams, Indictment at the Hague: the Milosevic regime and the crimes of the Balkan Wars Paul Ginsborg, Italy and its discontents: family, civil society, state: 1980–2001 George Kassimeris, Europe’s last red terrorists: the revolutionary organization 17 November Archie Brown and Lilia Shevtsova (eds.), Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin: political leadership in Russia’s transition Boris Kargalitsky, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: neo–liberal autocracy James Hughes and Gwendolyn Sasse (eds.), Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict Levon Chorbajian (ed.), The making of Nagorno–Karabagh: from secession to republic John Esposito (ed.), The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world Toby Dodge and Richard Higgott (eds.), Globalization and the Middle East: Islam, economy, society and politics Samir Khalaf, Civil and uncivil violence in Lebanon Carole H. Dagher, Bring down the walls: Lebanon’s post–war challenge Francis Deng and I. William Zartman, A strategic vision for Africa: the Kampala movement Graham Harrison, Issues in the contemporary politics of sub–Saharan Africa: the dynamics of struggle and resistance Adekeye Adebajo, Building peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea–Bissau David Robinson, Paths of accommodation: Muslim societies and French colonial authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920 Tor Sellström, Sweden and national liberation in southern Africa. Volume II: Solidarity and Assistance 1970–1994 Patrick Bond, Against global apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and international finance Rajen Dabee and David Greenaway (eds.), The Mauritian economy: a reader William T. Tow, Asia–Pacific strategic relations: seeking convergent security Roger Buckley, The United States in the Asia–Pacific since 1945 R. E. Elson, Suharto: a political biography Robert W. Hefner Civil Islam: Muslims and democratization in Indonesia John Mason Hart, Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Enrique Cárdenas, José Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp (eds.), An economic history of twentieth–century Latin America. Volume 3: Industrialization and the state in Latin America: the postwar years Judith A. Teichman, The politics of freeing markets in Latin America—Chile, Argentina, and Mexico     

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Books reviewed: John J. Mearsheimer The tragedy of great power politics. Fred Halliday Two hours that shook the world. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey Democracy, liberalism, and war: rethinking the democratic peace debate. Morten Kelstrup and Michael C. Williams International relations theory and the politics of European integration: power, security and community. Ward Thomas The ethics of destruction: norms and force in international relations. Ken Booth The Kosovo tragedy: the human rights dimensions. Europa The international who's who 2002 book and cd‐rom. Mark Duffield Global governance and the new wars: the merging of development and security. Andrew Duncan and Michel Opatowski Trouble spots: the world atlas of strategic information. H. W. Brands The use of force after the Cold War. Victor S. Papacosma, Sean Kay and Mark R. Rubin NATO after fifty years. Ted Galen Carpenter NATO enters the twenty‐first century. Benjamin S. Lambeth NATO's air war over Kosovo: a strategic and operational assessment. Michael E. O'Hanlon Defense policy options for the Bush administration 2001–5. Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani Civil society: history and possibilities. Joel Migdal State in society: studying how states and societies transform and constitute one another. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer Globalization unmasked: imperialism in the twenty‐first century. Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman Citizenship in diverse societies. Will Kymlicka Politics in the vernacular: nationalism, multiculturalism, and citizenship. Montserrat Guiberneau and John Hutchinson Understanding nationalism. Peter Andreas and Timothy Snyder The wall around the West: state borders and immigration controls in North America and Europe. David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh The British general election of 2001. Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan and IIan Peleg Negotiating culture and human rights. Peter Wilkin The political economy of global communication: an introduction. Spyros Economides and Peter Wilson The economic factor in international relations: a brief introduction. Manfred B. Steger Globalism: the new market ideology. Steven Weber Globalization and the European political economy. John J. Kirton and George M. von Furstenberg New directions in global economic governance: managing globalisation in the twenty‐first century. Leslie Elliott Armijo Financial globalization and democracy in emerging markets. Heikki Patomäki Democratising globalisation: the leverage of the Tobin tax. Roger Charlton and Roddy McKinnon Pensions in development. David Henderson Misguided virtue: false notions of corporate social responsibility. Dag Harald Claes The politics of oil‐producer cooperation. Eileen Claussen Climate change: science, strategies, and solutions. Paul G. Harris The environment, international relations and US foreign policy. William Chandler Energy and environment in the transition economies. Helen Wallace Interlocking dimensions of European integration. Neil Winn and Christopher Lord EU foreign policy beyond the nation‐state: joint actions and institutional analysis of the Common and Foreign Security Policy. Christopher Brewin The European Union and Cyprus. Stephen Saxonberg The fall: a comparative study of the end of communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland. Alan Smith The return to Europe: the reintegration of eastern Europe into the European economy. Elizabeth De Boer‐Ashworth The global political economy and post‐1989 change: the place of the Central European transition. Alex Pravda and Jan Zielonka Democratic consolidation in eastern Europe volume 2: international and transnational factors. Mitchell A. Orenstein Out of the red: building capitalism and democracy in postcommunist Europe. Michael McFaul Russia's unfinished revolution: political change from Gorbachev to Putin. Jerry F. Hough The logic of economic reform in Russia. Robert Ebel and Rajan Menon Energy and conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Gary K. Bertsch, Cassady Craft, Scott A. Jones, and Michael Beck Crossroads and conflict: security and foreign policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Anthony Shadid Legacy of the prophet: despots, democrats, and the new politics of Islam. Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman Between the state and Islam. As'ad Ghanem The Palestinian regime: a ‘partial democracy’. Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East. Joel S. Migdal. Through the lens of Israel: explorations in state and society. Dilip Hiro Neighbors, not friends: Iraq and Iran after the Gulf Wars. Vanessa Martin Creating an Islamic state: Khomeini and the making of a new Iran. Ali Mirsepassi Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization: negotiating modernity in Iran. Eliz Sanasarian Religious minorities in Iran. Roland Jacquard Au nom d'Oussama ben Laden. Nicolas van de Walle African economies and the politics of permanent crisis, 1979–1999. Paul J. Magnarella Justice in Africa: Rwanda's genocide, its courts, and the UN criminal tribunal. Eric S. Margolis War at the top of the world: the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet. Kyung‐Ae Park and Dalchoong Kim Korean security dynamics in transition. Samuel S. Kim Korea's globalization. Joseph Fewsmith China since Tiananmen: the politics of transition. Ming Wan Human rights in Chinese foreign relations: defining and defending national interests. Roland Challis Shadow of a revolution: Indonesia and the generals. Gregory F. Treverton Reshaping national intelligence for an age of information. Wilson Dizard, Jr. Westport Digital diplomacy: US foreign policy in the information age. Richard Sobel The impact of public opinion on US foreign policy since Vietnam: constraining the colossus. David Pion‐Berlin Civil—military relations in Latin America: new analytical perspectives.     

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Sohail H, Hashmi (ed), State Sovereignty: Change and Persistence in International Relations William Polk, Neighbors and Strangers: The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives David R. Mapel and Terry Nardin (eds), International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives John Macmillan, On Liberal Peace: Democracy, War and the International Order Gil Friedman and Harvey Starr, Agency, Structure and International Politics: From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry James C. Hsiung, Anarchy and Order: The Interplay of Politics and Law in International Relations James Robert Huntley, Pax Democratica: A Strategy for the 21st Century John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism James E. Goodby, Europe Undivided: The New Logic of Peace in US–Russian Relations Richard Holbrooke, To End a War Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming, Confucianism and Human Rights Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience Mark Curtis, The Great Deception: Anglo–American Power and World Order Ramesh Thakur, Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain: The United Nations at Fifty Alan Collins, The Security Dilemma and the End of the Cold War Ina Q.R. Thomas, The Promise of Alliance: NATO and the Political Imagination William van Eekelen, Debating European Security, 1948–1998 G. Wyn Rees, The Western European Union at the Crossroads: Between Trans-Atlantic Solidarity and European Integration Beatice Heuser, NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949–2000 Nancy W. Gallagher (ed), Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy Harald Müller (ed), Europe and Nuclear Disarmament: Debates and Political Attitudes in 16 European Countries Raju G.C. Thomas (ed), The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the 21st Century Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism Raymond Tanter, Rogue Regimes: Terrorism and Proliferation Percy B. Lehning (ed), Theories of Secession William Field, Regional Dynamics: The Basis of Electoral Support in Britain V.S. Naipaul, Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples Lyn Spillman, Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia Jonathan Story and Ingo Walter, Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (eds), Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System Paul Temperton, The Euro Brian Hocking and Michael Smith, Beyond Foreign Economic Policy: The United States, the Single European Market, and the World Monetary System Paul Temperton, The Euro Brian Hocking and Michael Smith, Beyond Foreign Economic Policy: The United States, the Single European Market, and the Changing World Economy David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor Alex Inkeles, One World Emerging: Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies Derek Osborne and Tom Bigg, Earth Summit II: Outcomes and Analysis Janne Haaland Matláry, Energy Policy in the European Union Allen Hunter, Rethinking the Cold War Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped on Enduring Cold War Strategy Hannes Adomeit, Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev and George Bailey, Battleground Berlin: CIA v KGB in the Cold War John Killick, The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945–1960 Motti Golani, Israel in Search of a War: The Sinai Campaign 1955–1956 Kieran Williams, The Prague Spring and its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968–1970 Fergus Carr (ed), Europe: The Cold Divide Valerie Symes, Carl Levy and Jane Littlewood, The Future of Europe: Problems and Issues for the Twenty-first Century Alice Landau and Richard Whitman (eds), Rethinking the European Union: Institutions, Interests and Identities Alan Mayhew, Recreating Europe: The European Union’s Policy Towards Central and Eastern Europe James Forder and Anand Menon, The European Union and National Macroeconomic Policy Peter Drysdale and David Vine, Europe, East Asian and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda? Hanns Jürgen Küsters and Daniel Hofmann (eds), Dokumente zur Deutschlandpolitik: Deutsche Einheit. Sonderedition aus den Akten des Bundeskanzleramtes 1989/90 David Baker and David Seawright (eds), Britain For and Against Europe: British Politics and the Question of European Integration K.A. Ingersent, A.J. Rayner and Robert C. Hine, The Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy Noel Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History Miranda Vickers, Between Serbs and Albanians: A History of Kosovo Thanos Veremis and Evangelos Kofos, Kosovo: Avoiding Another Balkan War Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans Mark Brzezinski, The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Poland Daniel H. Cole, Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland Clement H. Dodd, The Cyprus Imbroglio Steven L. Solnick, Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions Barnett R. Rubin and Jack Snyder (eds), Post-Soviet Political Order: Conflict and State Building Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance Peter J. Stavrakis, John DeBardeleben and Larry Black (eds), Beyond the Monolith: The Emergence of Regionalism in Post-Soviet Russia Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy and Andrzej Rapaczynski, Capitalism with a Comrade’s Face: Studies in the Postcommunist Transition Dmitri Volkogonov, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire Ian Anthony (ed), Russia and the Arms Trade Andrew J. Pierre and Dmitir V. Trenin (eds), Russian in the World Arms Trade George Giacaman and Dag Jørund Lønning (eds), After Oslo: New Realities, Old Problems Roland Dannreuther, The Soviet Union and the PLO Edgar O’Balance, The Palestinian Intifada William Maley (ed), Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban Sheila Carapico, Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia Latif Abul-Husn, The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward Roland Marchal and Christine Messiant, Les chemins de la guerre at de la paix: fins de conflit en Afrique orientale et australe Alain Marie (ed), L;Afrique des individus John Dzimba, South Africa’s Destabilization of Zimbabwe Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramiriya (eds), What Women do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa Hanns Maull, Gerlad Segal and Jusuf Wanandi (eds), Europe and the Asia Pacific Michael Schaller, Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation George Hicks, Japan’s War Memories: Amnesia or Concealment? Nicholas R. Lardy, China’s Unfinished Revolution Charles Harvie and Tran van Hoa, Vietnam’s Reforms and Economic Growth Sumil Khilnani, The Idea of India Victoria Schofield (ed), Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan Herbert Dittgen, Amerikanische Demokratie und Welpolitik: Außenpolitik in den Vereinigten Staaten James F. Rochlin, Redefining Mexican ;Security;: Society, State, and Region under NAFTA David Pion-Berlin, Through Corridors of Power: Institutions and Civil-military Relations in Argentina     

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

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The global commonwealth of citizens: toward cosmopolitan democracy. By Daniele Archibugi. Order, conflict, and violence. Edited by Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud. Human rights and ethics Torture and democracy. By Darius Rejali. Sexual enslavement of girls and women worldwide. By Andrea Parrot and Nina Cummings. International law and organization International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation. By Victor A. Peskin. Humanitarian intervention after Kosovo: Iraq, Darfur and the record of global civil society. By Aidan Hehir. Foreign policy America and the world: conversations on the future of American foreign policy. By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft and David Ignatius. Conflict, security and armed forces Does peacekeeping work? Shaping belligerents’ choices after civil war. By Virginia Page Fortna. Fighting terror: ethical dilemmas. By Alex J. Bellamy. Twilight war: the folly of US space dominance. By Mike Moore. Global non‐proliferation and counter‐terrorism: the impact of UNSCR 1540. Edited by Olivia Bosch and Peter van Ham. National missile defense and the politics of US identity: a postcultural critique. By Natalie Bormann. The way of the world: a story of truth and hope in an age of extremism. By Ron Suskind. Political economy, economics and development The shape of the world to come: charting the geopolitics of a new century. By Laurent Cohen‐Tanugi. Globalization, regionalization and business: conflict, convergence and influence. By Marc Schelhase. Energy and environment The end of food. By Paul Roberts. History Great Britain and the creation of Yugoslavia: negotiating Balkan nationality and identity. By James Evans. The voices of the dead: Stalin's great terror in the 1930s. By Hiroaki Kuromiya. Europe Explaining institutional change in Europe. By Adrienne Héritier. European defence policy: beyond the nation state. By Frédéric Mérand. Turkish accession to the EU: satisfying the Copenhagen criteria. By Eric Faucompret and Jozef Konings. Serbia in the shadow of Milo?evi?: the legacy of conflict in the Balkans. By Janine N. Clark. Spanish politics: democracy after dictatorship. By Omar G. Encarnación. Russia and Eurasia Oilopoly: Putin, power and the new Russia. By Marshall Goldman. Russian civil–military relations: Putin's legacy. By Thomas Gomart. Axis of convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the new geopolitics. By Bobo Lo. Middle East and North Africa Harmonizing foreign policy: Turkey, the EU and the Middle East. By Mesut Özcan. Sub‐Saharan Africa Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles. By Richard Dowden. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon?: Africa and China. Edited by Kweku Ampiah and Sanusha Naidu. China returns to Africa: a rising power and a continent embrace. Edited by Chris Alden, Daniel Large and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. China into Africa: trade, aid and influence. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Gulliver's troubles: Nigeria's foreign policy after the Cold War. Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Abdul Raufu Mustapha. Becoming Somaliland. By Mark Bradbury. Crude continent: the struggle for Africa's oil prize. By Duncan Clarke. Asia and Pacific Descent into chaos: how the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. By Ahmed Rashid. Korea. By Christoph Bluth. Butcher and bolt. By David Loyn. North America The American civilizing process. By Stephen Mennell. Latin America and Caribbean US presidents and Latin American interventions: pursuing regime change in the Cold War. By Michael Grow.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Realist strategies of republican peace: Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and the politics of patriotic dissent. By Vibeke Schou Tjalve. Critique, security and power: the political limits to emancipatory approaches. By Tara McCormack. International law, human rights and ethics * * See also Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse than war: genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity, pp. 551–2; Amartya Sen, The idea of justice, and Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel, eds, Against injustice: the new economics of Amartya Sen, pp. 560–1.
The perils of global legalism. By Eric A. Posner. The torture memos: rationalizing the unthinkable. Edited by David Cole. The Guantanamo effect: exposing the consequences of US detention and interrogation practices. By Laurel E. Fletcher and Eric Stover. Beyond corporate social responsibility: oil multinationals and social challenges. By Jedrzej George Frynas. Civilising globalisation: human rights and the global economy. By David Kinley. International organization and foreign policy When empire meets nationalism: power politics in the US and Russia. By Didier Chaudet, Florent Parmentier and Benoît Pélopidas. Conflict, security and defence Worse than war: genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. The defence of the realm: the authorized history of MI5. By Christopher Andrew. The accidental guerrilla: fighting small wars in the midst of a big one. By David Kilcullen. First do no harm: humanitarian intervention and the destruction of Yugoslavia. By David N. Gibbs. How wars end. By Dan Reiter. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The life and death of democracy. By John Keane. Democracy kills: what's so good about the vote?. By Humphrey Hawksley. Political economy, economics and development The idea of justice. By Amartya Sen. Against injustice: the new economics of Amartya Sen. Edited by Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel. The politics of global regulation. Edited by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods. The creation and destruction of value: the globalization cycle. By Harold James. Misadventures of the most favored nations: clashing egos, inflated ambitions, and the great shambles of the world trade system. By Paul Blustein. Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty. Edited by Dan Banik. Energy, resources and environment Energy and climate change: Europe at the crossroads. By David Buchan. History German unification, 1989–1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas, series III, volume VII. Edited by Patrick Salmon, Keith Hamilton and Stephen Twigge. Europe * * See also David Buchan, Energy and climate change: Europe at the crossroads, pp. 566–7.
What's so eastern about Eastern Europe? By Leon Marc. The new old world. By Perry Anderson. Russia and Eurasia Russia and the challengers: Russian alignment with China, Iran and Iraq in the unipolar era. By Helen Belopolsky. Russia as an aspiring Great Power in East Asia: perceptions and policies from Yeltsin to Putin. By Paradorn Rangsimaporn. Middle East and North Africa Saving Iraq: rebuilding a broken nation. By Nemir Kirdar. Khatami's Iran: the Islamic Republic and the turbulent path to reform. By Ghoncheh Tazmini. The Middle East: a beginner's guide. By Philip Robins. Sub‐Saharan Africa Eritrea's external relations: understanding its regional role and foreign policy. Edited by Richard Reid. Africa: unity, sovereignty and sorrow. By Pierre Englebert. After Mandela: the battle for the soul of South Africa. By Alec Russell. South Africa's brave new world: the beloved country since the end of apartheid. By R. W. Johnson. Asia and Pacific Making sense of Pakistan. By Farzana Shaikh. Inside Central Asia: a political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran. By Dilip Hiro. Speaking like a state: language and nationalism in Pakistan. By Alyssa Ayres. To live or to perish forever: two tumultuous years in Pakistan. By Nicholas Schmidle. The limits of influence: America's role in Kashmir. By Howard B. Schaffer. China from the inside out: fitting the People's Republic into the world. By Ronald C. Keith. China's international behavior: activism, opportunism, and diversification. By Evan S. Medeiros. North America * * See also David Cole, ed., The torture memos: rationalizing the unthinkable, and Laurel E. Fletcher and Eric Stover, The Guantanamo effect: exposing the consequences of US detention and interrogation practices, pp. 546–8.
The limits of power: the end of American exceptionalism. By Andrew Bacevich. American foreign policy and the politics of fear: threat inflation since 9/11. Edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer. By his own rules: the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld. By Bradley Graham. Latin America and Caribbean Death squads or self‐defense forces? How paramilitary groups emerge and challenge demo cracy in Latin America. By Julie Mazzei. Beyond neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and politics at the crossroads. Edited by John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn and Kenneth M. Roberts. Our place in the sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro era. Edited by Robert Wright and Lana Wylie.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Past Recaptured. Great Historians and the History of History. By M. A. Fitzsimons. The Ideal City: Its Architectural Evolution in Europe. By Helen Rosenau. Third Edition. Roman Gaul: The Three Provinces, 58 B.C.-A.D. 260. By J. F. Drinkwater. Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe A.D. 400–700. By Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. City, Town, and Countyside in the Early Byzantine Era. [East European Monogaphs, CXX; Ryzantine Series, No. 1]. Edited by Robert L. Hohlfelder. Rupert of Deutz. By John H. Van Engen. The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under Queen Urraca, 1109–1126. By Bernard F. Reilly. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children from the Thirteenth Century. By Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by M. Thom. Seven-Headed Luther: Essays in Commemoration of a Quincentenary 1483–1983. Edited by Peter Newman Brooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.) Paolo Sarpi Between Renaissance and Enlightenment. By David Wootton. Maximilian I (1459–1519): An Analytical Biography. By Gerhard Benecke. Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. By Retha M. Warnicke. Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution: A Geography of the Yorkshire Woollen Industry. By Derek Gregory. Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. By J. A. W. Gunn. Britain, Europe and The World 1850–1982; Delusions of Grandeur. By Bernard Porter. Thomas Carlyle: A Biography. By Fred Kaplan. Man of Wars: William Howard Russell of The Times. By Alan Hankinson. Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz, and David Sutton, with a foreward by Mary Jo Maynes. The French Council of Commerce 1700–1715: A Study of Mercantilism after Colbert. By Thomas J. Schaeper. Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, France and Algeria 1784–1849. Politics, Power and the Good Society. By Antony Thrall Sullivan. The Well-ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600–1800. By Marc Raeff. Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism. By Peter D. Stachura. The Nazi Machtergrezfung. Edited by Peter D. Stachura. Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933–1945. By Ian Kershaw. Nazi Propaganda: The Power and the Limitations. Edited by David Welth. Explaining Hitler's Germany: Historians and the Third Reich. By John Hiden and John Farquharson. The Balkan City, 1400–1900. By Nikolai Todorov. Society in Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király. The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union: Economic Development in Austria-Hungary in the Nineteenth Century. By John Komlos. The Effects of World War I: The Class War after the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties an East Central Europe, 1918–1921. Warsaw Between the World Wars: Profile of the Capital City in a Developing Land, 1918–1939. By Edward D. Wynot, Jr. Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–1918. By S. A. Smith. The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550–1650. By I. Metin Kunt. The Afghan Connection: The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger. By George Pottinger. Peasant Movements in India, 1920–1950. By D. N. Dhanagare. Monopolists and Freebooters. The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941. Edited by James William Morley. The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960. Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: A Historical Analysis. By Richard C. Berner. Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade. Edited by Paul Edwards and James Walvin. Renato Beluche: Smuggler, Privateer, and Patriot. By Jane Lucas De Grummond. Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. The Games They Played: Sports in American History, 1845–1980. By Douglas A. Noverr and Lawrence Ziewacz. Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. By Leon Fink. The End of Arcadia: Gordon Browning and Tennessee Politics. By William R. Majors. American Profile, 1900–1909. By Edward Wagenknecht. Brandeis. By Lewis J. Paper. Crossroads of Decision: The State Department and Foreign Policy, 1933–1937. By Howard Jablon. G-Men: Homer's FBI in American Popular Culture. By Richard Gid Powers. The Limits of Liberalism. By Larry G. Gerber. Urban Workers and Labor Unions in Chile, 1902–1927. By Peter De Shazo.     

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Book Reviewed in this articles. International Relations theory Security as practice: discourse analysis and the Bosnian war. By Lene Hansen. Informal coalitions: mastering the hidden dynamics of organizational change. By Chris Rodgers. The anarchical society in a globalized world. Edited by Richard Little and John Williams. Human rights and ethics Guantánamo and the abuse of presidential power. By Joseph Margulies. Complicity with evil: the United Nations in the age of modern genocide. By Adam LeBor. International law and organization Max Planck commentaries on world trade law: world economic order, world trade law. Edited by Peter‐Tobias Stoll and Frank Schorkopf. Max Planck commentaries on world trade law: institutions and dispute settlement. Edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter‐Tobias Stoll and Karen Kaiser. Key issues in WTO dispute settlement: the first ten years. Edited by Rufus Yerxa and Bruce Wilson. Crimes against humanity. By Geoffrey Robertson. Laws of fear: beyond the precautionary principle. By Cass R. Sunstein. Democracy, minorities and international law. By Steven Wheatley. Foreign policy Seize the hour: when Nixon met Mao. By Margaret MacMillan. Conflict, security and armed forces Nation‐building: beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. Edited by Francis Fukuyama. Kosovo between war and peace: nationalism, peacebuilding and international trusteeship. Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen and Carsten Bagge Laustsen. Empire in denial: the politics of state‐building. By David Chandler. The age of war: the United States confronts the world. By Gabriel Kolko. Terror on the internet: the new arena, the new challenges. By Gabriel Weimann. Political economy, economics and development The World Economic Forum: a multi‐stakeholder approach to global governance. By Geoffrey Allen Pigman. Mapping the markets: a guide to stockmarket analysis. By Deborah Owen and Robin Griffiths. Ethnicity and cultural politics Islam and global dialogue: religious pluralism and the pursuit of peace. Edited by Roger Boase. Energy and environment Field notes from a catastrophe: climate change: is time running out? By Elizabeth Kolbert. History Stalin's wars: from world war to Cold War, 1939–53. By Geoffrey Roberts. Suez 1956: the inside story of the first oil war. By Barry Turner. Keith Kyle died on 21 February 2007. He will be much missed by all at Chatham House and particularly by the editors of International Affairs, not least for his authoritative articles and reviews, and generous advice. Twelve days: revolution 1956. By Victor Sebestyen Churchill's man of mystery: Desmond Morton and the world of intelligence. By Gill Bennett. The battle for Spain: the Spanish civil war 1936‐1939. By Antony Beevor. Europe The new Atlanticist: Poland's foreign and security policy priorities. By Kerry Longhurst and Marcin Zaborowski. Endgame in the Balkans: regime change European style. By Elizabeth Pond. Europeanization, varieties of capitalism and economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe. By Lucian Cernat. Democracy in the new Europe. By Christopher Lord and Erika Harris. Russia and Eurasia Putin's Russia and the enlarged Europe. By Roy Allison, Margot Light and Stephen White. Dependent on oil and gas: Russia's integration into the world economy. Edited by Shinichiro Tabata. Middle East and North Africa Killing Mr Lebanon: the assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the Middle East. By Nicholas Blanford. Sub‐Saharan Africa The new multilateralism in South African diplomacy. Edited by Donna Lee, Ian Taylor and Paul D. Williams. Peace without power: Ghana's foreign policy 1957‐66. By Kwesi Armah. Asia and Pacific The king never smiles: a biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej. By Paul M. Handley. China's trapped transition: the limits of developmental autocracy. By Minxin Pei. China: a guide to economic and political developments. By Ian Jeffries. Regionalism and globalization in East Asia: politics, security and economic development. By Mark Beeson. North America The silence of the rational center: why American foreign policy is failing. By Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. Ethical realism: a vision for America's role in the world. By Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman. Is Iraq another Vietnam? By Robert K. Brigham. Überpower: the imperial temptation of America. By Josef Joffe. Latin America and Caribbean Hugo Chávez: oil, politics and the emerging threat to the US. By Nikolas Kozloff. Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism. By Greg Grandin.     

Review Article: Nordic Exceptions in War and Cold War

PHILIP GILTNER. ‘In the Friendliest Manner’: German-Danish Economic Cooperation during the Nazi Occupation of 1940–1949. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. xii, 258. $49.95 (US); T. MICHAEL RUDDY, ed. Charting an Independent Course: Finland's Place in the Cold War and in US Foreign Policy. Claremont: Regina Books, 1998. Pp. 223. $32.95 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper; MAX JAKOBSON. Finland in the New Europe. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xiv, 176. $19.95 (US), paper; TEIJA TIILIKAINEN. Europe and Finland: Defining the Political Identity of Finland in Western Europe. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 185. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Munch-Petersen     

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Books reviewed: Stephen Krasner, Sovereignty: organized hypocrisy Mark R. Amstutz, International ethics: concepts, theories and cases in global politics Fred Halliday, Revolution and world politics: the rise and fall of the sixth great power Jan Jindy, Kathleen Pettman, Jones and Gillian Youngs, International Feminist Journal of Politics: volume 1; nos 1, 2, 3 Bruce W. Jentleson, Opportunities missed, opportunities siezed: preventive diplomacy in the post‐Cold War world Marc Weller, The crisis in Kosovo 1989–1999: from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to Rambouillet and the outbreak of hostilities Tim Judah, Kosovo: war and revenge Richard N. Haass, Transatlantic tensions: the United States, Europe and problem countries Robert G. Sutter, US policy toward China: an introduction to the role of interest groups Tong Whan Park, The US and the two Koreas: a new triangle Pierre Allan and Dieter Kläy, Zwischen Bürokratie und Ideologie: Entscheidungsprozesse in Moskaus Afghanistan–konflikt The Europa directory of international organizations Thomas G. Weiss, Military–civilian interactions: intervening in humanitarian crises Kimberly A. Maynard, Healing communities in conflict: international assistance in complex emergencies Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, The power of human rights: international norms and domestic change Frances Nicholson, Refugee rights and realities: evolving international concepts and regimes Max Travers, The British immigration courts: a study of law and politics Alison Des Forges, Leave none to tell the story: genocide in Rwanda Monique Mas, Paris–Kigali 1990–1994: lunettes colonials, politique du sabre et onction humanitaire pour un genocide en Afrique Diana Woodhouse, The Pinochet case: a legal and constitutional analysis John Collier and Vaughan Lowe, The settlement of disputes in international law: institutions and procedures Stuart Croft and Terry Terriff, Critical reflections on security and change Bill McSweeny, Security, identity and interests: a sociology of international relations Janne E. Nolan, An elusive consensus: nuclear weapons and American security after the Cold War Harold A. Feiveson, The nuclear turning point: a blueprint for deep cuts and de‐alerting of nuclear weapons George Perkovich, India's nuclear bomb: the impact on global proliferation Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare, Light weapons and civil conflict: controlling the tools of violence Ian Davis, An independent audit of the first UK Annual report on strategic export controls Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, The political economy of NATO: past, present, and into the 21st century J. L. Black, Russia faces NATO expansion: bearing gifts or bearing arms? Michael Ignatieff, Virtual war: Kosovo and beyond Peter Dorey, The Major premiership: politics and policies under John Major 1990–97 Nicholas N. Kittrie, Rebels with a cause: the minds and morality of political offenders Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere, Globalization and identity: dialectics of flow and closure Israel W. Charny, Encyclopedia of genocide: volumes 1 and 2 Susie Jacobs, Ruth Jacobson and Jennifer Marchbank, States of conflict: gender, violence and resistance Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti and Marta Mercado, Women and power: fighting patriarchies and poverty Heike Behrend and Ute Luig, Spirit possession: modernity and power in Africa Heike Behrend, Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: war in northern Uganda 1986–97 Susan L. Carruthers, The media at war Philip M. Taylor, British propaganda in the twentieth century: selling democracy Nicholas Bayne, Hanging in there: the G7 and G8 summit in maturity and renewal Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, Chaos and governance in the modern world system James H. Mittelman, The globalization syndrome: transformation and resistance Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, Nation‐states and money: the past, present and future of national currencies Edward J. Lincoln, Troubled times: US–Japan trade relations in the 1990s Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod, The global environment: institutions, law and policy United Nations Environment Programme, Global environmental outlook 2000 Sander V. Meijerink, Conflict and cooperation on the Scheldt river basin Sean Greenwood, Britain and the Cold War 1945–91 Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr., Truman and Korea: the political culture of the early Cold War Jean A. Garrison, Games advisors play: foreign policy in the Nixon and Carter administrations Henry Kissinger, Years of renewal: the concluding volume of his memoirs Ben Rosamond, Theories of European integration David Broughton and Mark Donovan, Changing party systems in western Europe Marie‐Thérèse Bitsch, Wilfried Loth and Raymond Poidevin, Institutions européennes et identitéseuropéennes Reiner Martin, The regional dimension in European public policy: convergence or divergence? Alice Bloch and Carl Levy, Refugees, citizenship and social policy in Europe Marjorie Lister, New perspectives on European Union development cooperation Simon Duke, The elusive quest for European security: from EDC to CFSP James Sperling, Two tiers or two speeds? The European security order and the enlargement of the European Union and NATO Julius W. Friend, The long presidency: France in the Mitterrand years, 1981–1995 András Körösényi, Government and politics in Hungary Christopher Lord, Central Europe: core or periphery? Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, Rebellious civil society: popular protest and democratic consolidation in Poland, 1989–1993 Magarditsch Hatschikjan and Stefan Troebst, Südosteuropa: ein Handbuch: Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur Leon Aron, Boris Yeltsin: a revolutionary life Sharon L. Wolchik and Volodymyr Zviglyanich, Ukraine: the search for a national identity Martha Brill, Olcott Anders Åslund and Sherman W. Garnett, Getting it wrong: regional cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States Fred Halliday, Nation and religion in the Middle East Graham E., Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke, The Arab Shi'a: the forgotten Muslims Graham Usher, Dispatches from Palestine: the rise and fall of the Oslo Peace Process Christopher Parker, Resignation or revolt? Socio‐political development and the challenges of peace in Palestine Kathleen Christison, Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on US Middle East policy Adnan Abu‐Odeh, Jordanians, Palestinians and the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East peace process Ali A. Mazrui, General history of Africa, volume 8: Africa since 1935 David Birmingham, Portugal and Africa David M. Anderson and Vigdis Broch‐Due, The poor are not us: poverty and pastoralism Sherbaz Khan Mazari, A journey to disillusionment Nasim Ahmad Jawed, Islam's political culture: religion and politics in predivided Pakistan Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Islam, oil and the new Great Game in Central Asia H.W. Arndt and Hal Hill, Southeast Asia's economic crisis: origins, lessons, and the way forward François Godement, The downsizing of Asia T. J. Pempel, The politics of the Asian economic crisis Scott Snyder, Negotiating on the edge: North Korean negotiating behaviour Michael G. MacKinnon, The evolution of US peacekeeping policy under Clinton: a fairweather friend? Gordon Mace and Louis Bélanger, The Americas in transition: the contours of regionalism Luigi Manzetti, Privatization South American style F. Constant and J. Daniel, Politique et développement dans les Caraïbes     

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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: James N. Rosenau and J. P. Singh , Information technologies and global politics: the changing scope of power and governance Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen , Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context, and practice Sohail H. Hashmi , Islamic political ethics: civil society, pluralism, and conflict Arthur Jay Klinghoffer and Judith Apter Klinghoffer , International citizens' tribunals: mobilizing public opinion to advance human rights Daniel Pipes , Militant Islam reaches America François Burgat , Face to face with political Islam Paul R. Williams and Michael P. Scharf , Peace with justice? War crimes and accountability in the Former Yugoslavia Ryan K. Beasley, Juliet Kaarbo, Jeffrey S. Lantis and Michael T. Snarr , Foreign policy in comparative perspective Christopher Hill , The changing politics of foreign policy Stanley A. Renshon and Deborah Welch‐Larson , Good judgment in foreign policy: theory and application Stuart E. Eizenstat , Imperfect justice: looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II Scott Ritter and William Rivers Pitt , War on Iraq—what team Bush doesn't want you to know Richard Butler , Fatal choice: nuclear weapons and the illusion of missile defense John Darby and Roger Mac Ginty , Contemporary peacemaking: conflict, violence and peace processes Hans Joas , War and modernity Andrew Sinclair , An anatomy of terror—a history of terrorism Ian Shapiro , The moral foundations of politics Marianne Braig and Sonia Wölte , Common ground or mutual exclusion? Women's movements and international relations Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur , Theorizing diaspora David M. Andrews, C. Randall Henning, and Louis W. Pauly , Governing the world's money Santonu Basu , Financial liberalization and intervention: a new analysis of credit rationing Gordon de Brouwer , Financial markets and policies in East Asia Robert M. Stern , Issues and options for US—Japan trade policies David Kyle and Rey Kolowski , Global human smuggling: comparative perspectives Paul Langley , World financial orders: an historical international political economy Mike Moore , A world without walls: freedom, development, free trade and global governance M. Pani?, Globalization and national economic welfare Jon B. Alterman , Egypt and American foreign assistance 1952–1956: hopes dashed Peter Busch , All the way with JFK? Britain, the US and the Vietnam war Michael F. Hopkins , Oliver Franks and the Truman administration: Anglo‐American relations, 1948–1952 Feiwel Kupferberg , The rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic Angelo Rasanayagam , Afghanistan: a modern history Brian Hocking and David Spence , Foreign ministries in the European Union: integrating diplomats Dietrich Jung and Wolfango Piccoli , Turkey at the crossroads: Ottoman legacies and a greater Middle East F. Stephen Larrabee and Ian O. Lesser , Turkish foreign policy in an age of uncertainty Jan‐Werner Müller , Memory and power in post‐war Europe: studies in the presence of the past M. Lane Bruner , Strategies of remembrance: the rhetorical dimensions of national identity construction Anders Åslund , Building capitalism: the transformation of the former Soviet bloc David Brandenberger , National Bolshevism: Stalinist mass culture and the formation of modern Russian national identity, 1931–1956 Gregory Gleason , Markets and politics in Central Asia: structural reform and political change Jan T. Gross , Revolution from abroad: the Soviet conquest of Poland's western Ukraine and western Belorusssia Bobo Lo , Vladimir Putin and the evolution of Russian foreign policy Richard Lourie , Sakharov: a biography Eric W. Sievers , The post‐Soviet decline of Central Asia: sustainable development and comprehensive capital Strobe Talbott , The Russia hand: a memoir of presidential diplomacy Shibley Telhami and Michael Barnett , Identity and foreign policy in the Middle East John P. Miglietta , American alliance policy in the Middle East, 1945–1992: Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia Naomi Sakr , Satellite realms: transnational television, globalization and the Middle East Mohammed El‐Nawawy and Adel Iskandar , Al‐Jazeera: how the free Arab news network scooped the world and changed the Middle East Mwesiga Baregu and Christopher Landsberg , From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's evolving security challenges Fiona C. Ross , Bearing witness: women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa Peter Vale , Security and politics in South Africa: the regional dimension Stephan Haggard, Wonhyuk Lim and Euysung Kim , Economic crisis and corporate restructuring in Korea David C. Kang , Crony capitalism: corruption and development in South Korea and the Philippines Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley , China's new rulers: the secret files Baldev Raj Nayar and T. V. Paul , India in the world order: searching for major‐power status Michael Lind , Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern takeover of American politics Gary Prevost and Carlos Oliva Campos , Neoliberalism and neopanamericanism: the view from Latin America     

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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 .     

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

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory 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.