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What to Read on Communism
Stephen Kotkin

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on communism.
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.
Review Essay
Sep/Oct
2009
The Unbalanced Triangle
Stephen Kotkin

The Chinese-Russian relationship is more opportunistic than strategic, Bobo Lo argues. The United States is stuck watching from the sidelines and may be pushing Moscow further into Beijing's pocket.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2007
Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century and the Shadow of the Past
Stephen Kotkin
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2002
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse; Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin
Robert Legvold
Capsule Review
Fall
1991
Steeltown, Ussr: Soviet Society In The Gorbachev Era
John C. Campbell
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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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