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Jeffrey A. Engel

Review Essay
Nov/Dec
2009
The Suicide of the East?
<p>Philip D. Zelikow</p>

Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism in Eastern Europe, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story. The story these books tell is more of a civil war within the elite than of a revolt from below.
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2009
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President
<p>Andrew J. Nathan</p>

Engel's collection conveys the local color of a quaint Beijing that is now lost to history and reveals much about the gregarious character and social skills of the man who became the 41st U.S. president.
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In the Magazine

March/April 2010, 2, 89
Essay
After Iran Gets the Bomb
James M. Lindsay and Ray Takeyh

Despite international pressure, Iran appears to be continuing its march toward getting a nuclear bomb. But Washington can contain and mitigate the consequences of Tehran's nuclear defiance, keeping an abhorrent outcome from becoming a catastrophic one.
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