Book reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The balance of power in international relations: metaphors, myths and models. By Richard Little. Empires: the logic of world domination from Ancient Rome to the United States. By Herfried Münkler. Human rights and ethics Human security: reflections on globalization and intervention. By Mary Kaldor. International law and organization The UN Security Council and the politics of international authority. Edited by Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd. Conflict, security and armed forces Leashing the dogs of war: conflict management in a divided world. Edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall. Striking first: preemption and prevention in international conflict. By Michael W. Doyle. Edited and introduced by Stephen Macedo. Politics, democracy and social affairs Democracy's good name: the rise and risks of the world's most popular form of government. By Michael Mandelbaum. The architecture of government: rethinking political decentralization. By Daniel Treisman. Why we hate politics. By Colin Hay. Political economy, economics and development The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: threat or opportunity? Edited by Karl P. Sauvant. World trade politics: power, principles and leadership. By David A. Deese. Regulating capital: setting standards for the international financial system. By David Andrew Singer. Ethnicity and cultural politics Secularism confronts Islam. By Olivier Roy. Energy and environment Break through: from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility. By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Das Energiedilemma: Warum wir über Atomkraft neu nachdenken müssen. The energy dilemma: why we need to think again about nuclear power.] By Jeanne Rubner. Climate change: what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren. Edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman. History Katyn: a crime without punishment. Edited by Anna M. Cienciala, Natalia S. Lebedeva and Wojciech Materski. Poland under communism: a Cold War history. By A. Kemp‐Welch. Indian summer: the secret history of the end of an empire. By Alex Von Tunzelmann. Europe Der europäische Raum: Die Konstruktion europäischer Grenzen. Edited by Petra Deger and Robert Hettlage. Russia and Eurasia Gorbachev's gamble: Soviet foreign policy and the end of the Cold War. By Andrei Grachev. NATO–Russia relations in the twenty‐first century. Edited by Aurel Braun. Russian energy policy and military power: Putin's quest for greatness. By Pavel K. Baev. Middle East and North Africa The vital triangle: China, the United States, and the Middle East. By Jon B. Alterman and John W. Carver. A police force without a state: a history of the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and Gaza. By Brynjar Lia. Building Arafat's police: the politics of international police assistance in the Palestinian territories after the Oslo agreement. By Brynjar Lia. The Palestinian military: between militias and armies. By Hillel Frisch. Sub‐Saharan Africa Guns and governance in the Rift Valley: pastoralist conflict and small arms. By Kennedy Agade Mkutu. Asia and Pacific China's changing political landscape: prospects for democracy. Edited by Cheng Li. North America World out of balance: international relations and the challenge of American primacy. By Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth. The Bush tragedy: the unmaking of a president. By Jacob Weisberg. Democracy incorporated: managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism. By Sheldon S. Wolin. Freedom's unsteady march: America's role in building Arab democracy. By Tamara Cofman Wittes. The strange death of Republican America: chronicles of a collapsing party. By Sidney Blumenthal. Latin America and Caribbean Paraguay and the United States: distant allies. By Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney.