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Sheri Berman

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What to Read on Modernization Theory
Sheri Berman

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on modernization theory.
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2007
The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
Stanley Hoffmann
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2004
The Nation-State in Question
Sheri Berman
Review Essay
Jul/Aug
2003
We Didn't Start the Fire: Capitalism and Its Critics, Then and Now
Sheri Berman

The Mind and the Market shows that complaints about capitalism are older and more respectable than most of the antagonists in today's globalization debates realize.
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
1999
The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe
Stanley Hoffmann
Comment
Mar/Apr
1999
Bank on Democracypremium content icon
Sheri Berman and Kathleen R. McNamara

As the world gets more democratic, central banks get more undemocratic. These powerful institutions should not be exempt from popular control.
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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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