Book reviews

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.