Book reviews

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.