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Philip D. Zelikow

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

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.
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America and the Muslim Middle East: Memos to the President
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis; The Dark Side of Camelot
David C. Hendrickson
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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