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  • essay
    By Daniel Byman
    Hamas is central to Israeli security and Palestinian politics, yet the international community refuses to work with it. This is a mistake. Hamas might possibly be convinced not to undermine progress on a peace deal. Israel and the international community should exploit Hamas' vulnerabilities with a mix of coercion and concessions -- including a further easing of the siege of Gaza.
    September/October 2010
  • capsule review
    By G. John Ikenberry
    This book is about the fragility of order and the struggle of statesmen to balance, restrain, and legitimate state power.
    September/October 2010
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  • capsule review
    By G. John Ikenberry
    Calleo argues that American foreign policy elites after the Cold War, instead of guiding the world to a stable system of balance, restraint, and shared leadership, quickly became enamored with the idea of "global hegemony."
    September/October 2010
  • capsule review
    By G. John Ikenberry
    Not just American elites but the world, too, will need to adjust to the contraction of Washington's global role -- and Mandelbaum believes that this could lead to renewed great-power conflict as China, Russia, and other states compete to fill the vacuum.
    September/October 2010
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  • essay
    By Jorge G. Castañeda

    The world’s leading international institutions may be outmoded, but Brazil, China, India, and South Africa are not ready to join the helm. Their shaky commitment to democracy, human rights, nuclear nonproliferation, and environmental protection would only weaken the international system’s core values.

    September/October 2010
  • review
    By James E. Nickum

    Three new books about water agree that the world is facing serious water crises but have very different ideas about how to address them, especially when it comes to deciding what roles the public and private sectors have to play.

    September/October 2010
  • capsule review
    By G. John Ikenberry
    In this carefully argued treatise, Norrlof contends that despite a gradual decline in its relative economic size, the United States still possesses three critical features that give it "positional advantages" over all other states.
    September/October 2010
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In the Magazine

September/October 2010, 5, 89
Essay
Beyond Moderates and Militantspremium content icon
Robert Malley and Peter Harling

U.S. policymakers have historically applied yesterday's solutions to today's problems in the Middle East. But the Middle East is not what it was five years ago; it has moved on. President Obama must recognize that there is not a clean divide between a moderate pro-American camp and an extremist militant axis and take into account the region's rapidly shifting dynamics.

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