Book reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg. By Christopher Coker . Visions of world community. By Jens Bartelson . Rethinking world politics: a theory of transnational neopluralism. By Philip G. Cerny . Intenational law, human rights and ethics The limits of ethics in International Relations: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition. By David Boucher . The fog of law: pragmatism, security and international law. By Michael J. Glennon . Just war on terror? A Christian and Muslim response. Edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker . International organization and foreign policy Deadlocks in multilateral negotiations: causes and solutions. Edited by Amrita Narlikar . A history of diplomacy. By Jeremy Black . The secret state: preparing for the worst, 1945–2010. By Peter Hennessy . The ultimate weapon is no weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace. By Shannon D. Beebe and Mary Kaldor . The problem of force: grappling with the global battlefield. By Simon W. Murden . Governance, civil society and cultural politics Apart: alienated and engaged Muslims in the West. By Justin Gest . Political economy, economics and development Capital ideas: the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization. By Jeffrey M. Chwieroth . History M16: the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–1949. By Keith Jeffery . Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. David Killingray with Martin Plaut . Red plenty: inside the fifties’ Soviet dream. By Francis Spufford . Peru and the United States, 1960–1975: how their ambassadors managed foreign relations in a turbulent era. By Richard J. Walter . Europe In search of the Balkan recovery: the political and economic reemergence of SouthEastern Europe. By Christopher Cviic and Peter Sanfey . Russia and Eurasia Nationalist imaginings on the Russian past: Anatolii Fomenko and the rise of alternative history in post‐communist Russia. By Konstantin Sheiko with Stephen Brown . The new nobility: the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB. By Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan . Persian dreams: Moscow and Tehran since the fall of the Shah. By John W. Parker . Middle East and North Africa Meccanomics: the march of the new Muslim middle class. By Vali Nasr . Invisible war: the United States and the Iraq sanctions. By Joy Gordon . Islam and peacemaking in the Middle East. By Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said . Sub‐Saharan Africa Blood on the stone: greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade. By Ian Smillie . From blood diamonds to the Kimberley Process: how NGOs cleaned up the global diamond industry. By Franziska Bieri . Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid. By Peter Gill . The Ethiopian Revolution: war in the Horn of Africa. By Gebru Tareke . Zimbabwe's exodus: crisis, migration, survival. Edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera . Ending apartheid. By J. E. Spence and David Welsh . South Asia The most dangerous place: Pakistan's lawless frontier. By Imtiaz Gul . The Afghanistan‐Pakistan theater: militant Islam, security and stability. Edited by Daveed Gartenstein‐Ross and Clifford May . Seeds of terror: how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters . Opium: uncovering the politics of the poppy. By Pierre‐Arnaud Chouvy . North America Washington rules: America's path to permanent war. By Andrew J. Bacevich . Advancing democracy abroad: why we should and how we can. By Michael McFaul . The survival and the success of liberty: a democracy agenda for U.S. foreign policy. By Morton H. Halperin and Michael Hochman Fuchs . Latin America and Caribbean Evo Morales: the extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. By Martin Sivak . Amexica: war along the borderline. By Ed Vulliamy . Mexico: narco‐violence and a failed state? By George W. Grayson . Cuba: what everyone needs to know. By Julia E. Sweig .