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Volume 88, Number 3

May/June 2009

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The Mushroom Cloud That Wasn't

Why Inflating Threats Won't Reduce Them

Michael Krepon

Tomorrow's Institution Today

The Promise of the Proliferation Security Initiative

Amitai Etzioni

The G-2 Mirage

Why the United States and China Are Not Ready to Upgrade Ties

Elizabeth C. Economy and Adam Segal

Deng Undone

The Costs of Halting Market Reform in China

Derek Scissors

State Capitalism Comes of Age

The End of the Free Market?

Ian Bremmer

Necessity, Choice, and Common Sense

A Policy for a Bewildering World

Leslie H. Gelb

Diplomacy, Inc.

The Influence of Lobbies on U.S. Foreign Policy

John Newhouse

Farm Futures

Bringing Agriculture Back to U.S. Foreign Policy

Catherine Bertini and Dan Glickman

The Key to Kiev

Ukraine's Security Means Europe's Stability

Adrian Karatnycky and Alexander J. Motyl

The King and Us

U.S.-Saudi Relations in the Wake of 9/11

David Ottaway

Workers check paper lanterns at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, July 12, 2002.

The Perils of Apology

What Japan Shouldn't Learn From Germany

Jennifer Lind

A Tale of Two Wars

The Right War in Iraq, and the Wrong One

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Ways of Syria

Stasis in Damascus

Fouad Ajami

Political and Legal

Catastrophic Consequences: Civil Wars and American Interests

Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace

Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy From Its Worst Enemies

Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-first Century

Economic, Social, and Environmental

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy

The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy

Foreign Investment and Domestic Development: Multinationals and the State

China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities

Military, Scientific, and Technological

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter; Thinking About Nuclear Weapons: Principles, Problems, Prospects

World Politics Since 1945. 9th ed.

The United States

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power

Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power

In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Portraits of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served -- From JFK to George W. Bush

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims From the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism

Western Hemisphere

The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901–1986

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal

Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It

The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

Persian Dreams: Moscow and Tehran Since the Fall of the Shah

The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

The Balkans in World History

The Rise and Fall of Privatization in the Russian Oil Industry

Terror by Quota: State Security From Lenin to Stalin

Middle East

Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious, and Media Frontiers; Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the State

Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World

Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq

Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership

Asia and Pacific

Democracy Is a Good Thing: Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary China

Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

The Politics of Extremism in South Asia

Taiwan's Relations With Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs

Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan

Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand

Africa

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Becoming Somaliland; Understanding Somalia and Somaliland

Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants

Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa

Comparing Crises

Is the Current Economic Collapse Like Japan's in the 1990s?

Robert Madsen; Richard Katz