MOMENTS OF TOTALITARIANISM

Hope And Memory : Lessons From The Twentieth Century . By Tzvetan Todorov. Translated by David Bellos The Dictators : Hitler's Germany And Stalin's Russia . By Richard Overy Stalinism And Nazism : History And Memory Compared . Edited by Henry Rousso. Translated by Lucy B. Golsan, Thomas C. Hilde, and Peter S. Rogers Stalinism and Nazism : Dictatorships in Comparison . Edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the (Mis )Use of A Notion . By Slavoj Zizek     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue. Narratives Unbound : Historical Studies in Post ‐Communist Eastern Europe. Edited by Sorin Antohi, Balázs Trencsényi, and Péter Apor. Disputed Histories : Imagining New Zealand's Past. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney. Creative Pasts : Historical Memory and Identity in Western India , 1700–1960. By Prachi Deshpande. Lost Worlds : The Emergence of French Social History , 1815–1970. By Jonathan Dewald. Memory Against Culture : Arguments and Reminders. By Johannes Fabian. Ethnography as Commentary : Writing from the Virtual Archive. By Johannes Fabian. Viêt Nam : Borderless Histories. Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid. Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West. Edited by E. M. Tyler and R. Balzaretti. Les songes de Clio: fiction et histoire sous l'ancien régime. Compiled and edited by Sabrina Vervacke, Éric Van der Schueren, and Thierry Belleguic.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Memory in Mind and Culture . Edited by Pascal Boyer and James V. Wertsch. Imprisoned by History : Aspects of Historicized Life . By Martin L. Davies. Medievalisms in the Pöstcolonial World : The Idea of “the Middle Ages ”outside Europe . Edited by Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul. The Super ‐Enlightenment : Daring to Know Too Much . Edited by Dan Edelstein. Cultural Mobility : A Manifesto . Edited by Stephen Greenblatt. Pragmatism as Transition : Historicity and Hope in James , Dewey , and Rorty . By Colin Koopman. Ecriture de l 'histoire et regard rétrospectif : Clio et Epiméthée . By Fiona McIntosh‐Varjabédian. Multidirectional Memory : Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization . By Michael Rothberg.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book rviewed in this article: Moscas en una botella : Cómo dominar a la gente con palabras . By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. L'Ecole des Annales : une histoire intellectuelle . By André Burguière. Comparison and History : Europe in Cross ‐National Perspective . Edited by Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor. Historicizing as a Feminist Practice : The Places of History in Judith Butler's Constructivist Theories . By Katrina Honkanen. The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe . Edited by Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu. History and Geography in Late Antiquity . By A. H. Merrills. Paul Ricoeur : Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory . By Andreea Deciu Ritivoi.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism . By Aryeh Botwinick. The Future of Memory . Edited by Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby, and Antony Rowland. Nationalizing the Past : Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe . Edited by Chris Lorenz and Stefan Berger. History and Neorealism . Edited by Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance, and Zara Steiner. Vico and Naples : The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory . By Barbara Ann Naddeo. Populäre Geschichtsschreibung: Historiker, Verleger und die Deutsche Offentlichkeit (1848–1900). By Martin Nissen. Apologia and Criticism : Historians and the History of Spain , 1500–2000. By Gonzalo Pasamar. Atlas of European Historiography : The Making of a Profession 1800–2005. Edited by Haria Porciana and Lutz Raphael.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Historians and Nationalism : East ‐Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century . By Monika Báar. French Historians 1900–2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth ‐Century France . Edited by Philip Daileader and Philip Whalen. A Passion for History : Conversations with Denis Crouzet . By Natalie Zemon Davis. Work in a Modern Society : The German Historical Experiences in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Jürgen Kocka. Pasados en conflicto : Representación, mito y memoria . Edited by María Inés Mudrovcic. Writing Ancient History : An Introduction to Classical Historiography . By Luke Pitcher. History , Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America : From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan . By Reba N. Soffer. Performing the Past : Memory , History, and Identity in Modern Europe . Edited by Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree, and Jay M. Winter.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Enlightenment . Edited by Hans Erich Bödeker, Clorinda Donato, and Peter Hanns Reill. The Annales School : An Intellectual History . By André Burguière. A History of Histories : Epics , Chronicles , Romances , and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century . By John Burrow. Liberalism and Hegemony : Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution . Edited by Jean‐François Constant and Michel Ducharme. Der Fortchrittsglaube : Geschichte einer Europaïschen Idee . By Bedrich Loewenstein. Il Reich di Bismarck : Storia e storiografia . By Anna Maria Voci. Contested Histories in Public Space : Memory , Race , and Nation . Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. The Purpose of the Past : Reflections on the Uses of History . By Gordon Wood.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Introducción a la historia teorica (Introduction to Theoretical History ). By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. Introduced and edited by Pedro Piedras Monroy. Seeing Things Their Way : Intellectual History and the Return of Religion . Edited by Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory. Gatekeepers of the Arab Past : Historians and History Writing in Twentieth ‐Century Egypt . By Yoav Di‐Capua. The Historians ' Paradox : The Study of History in Our Time . By Peter Charles Hoffer. At the Limits of History : Essays on Theory and Practice . By Keith Jenkins. Recasting the Past : History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa . Edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola. Recent Themes in American Religious History : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Randall J. Stephens. Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Donald A. Yerxa.     

Books in Summary

Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Jacob J. Climo and Maria G. Cattell
Hegel's History of Philosophy: New Interpretations. Edited by David A. Duquette
Identities: Time, Difference and Boundaries. By Heidrun Friese
Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography. By Uta Gerhardt
Rezeption im Zeitalter der Konfrontation: Französische Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichte in Deutschland, 1920–1940. By Steffen Kaudelka
Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. By Jessica Riskin
Geschichte der Deutschen Kulturgeschichtsschreibung. By Hans Schleier
El conocimiento hitórico y el lenguaje. By Daniel E. Zalazar     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Historiographie de l'antiquité et transferts culturels : Les histoires anciennes dans l 'Europe des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles . Edited by Chryssanthi Avlami and Jaime Alvar. What Is Migration History ? By Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder. Historical Reenactment : From Realism to the Affective Turn . Edited by Iain McCalman and Paul A. Pickering. When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology . By Hermann Rebel . Virginia Woolf , Modernity and History : Constellations with Walter Benjamin . By Angeliki Spiropoulou. Public Forgetting : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again . By Bradford Vivian. Constructing the Past : Writing Irish History , 1600–1800. Edited By Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Why Concepts Matter : Translating Social and Political Thought . Edited by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter. The Historical Novel in Nineteenth ‐Century Europe : Representations of Reality in History and Fiction . By Brian Hamnett. Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause : A Journey from Language to Experience . By Peter Icke. Making History : The Historian and Uses of the Past . By Jorma Kalela. The Reformation of Feeling : Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany . By Susan C. Karant‐Nunn. History in the Plural : An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck . By Niklas Olsen. Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece . By Charles Stewart. The Holocaust and Historical Methodology . Edited by Dan Stone.     

Book Reviews

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

Memories of Trauma: Problems of Interpretation

Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century. Edited By Michael S. Roth and Charles G. Salas     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Geography And History : Bridging The Divide . By Alan R. H. Baker. ¿Qué Es La Historia Teórica ? By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. The Lost Italian Renaissance : Humanists , Historians , And Latin's Legacy . By Christopher S. Celenza. Sozialgeschichte als politische Geschichte : Werner Conze Und die Neuorientierung der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft nach 1945. By Thomas Etzemüller. Was ist Geschichte ? Einführung in die historische Methode . By Norbert Furrer. The New History and the Old : Critical Essays and Reappraisals . By Gertrude Himmelfarb. What History Tells : George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe . Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice. George L. Mosse Series in European and Cultural History. States And Citizens : History , Theory , Prospects . Edited by Quentin Skinner and Bo Stråth.     

Book reviews

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     

Book reviews

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

Book reviews

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.     

Books in Summary

Herderon Nationality, Humanity, and History. By F. M. Barnard.
Voegelin, Schelling, and the Philosophy of Historical Existence. By Jerry Day.
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945. By Julie Des Jardins.
Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then. Edited by Prasenjit Duara.
Southern Histories: Public, Person, and Sacred. By David Goldfield.
Philosophy of History: a Guide for Students. By M. C. Lemon.
Western Civilization and World History. By Peter N. Stearns.
The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500–1730. By Daniel Woolf.     

Book reviews

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

Book reviews

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