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Volume 89, Number 3

May/June 2010

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Helping Others Defend Themselves

The Future of U.S. Security Assistance

Robert M. Gates

The Brussels Wall

Tearing Down the EU-NATO Barrier

William Drozdiak

The Global Glass Ceiling

Why Empowering Women Is Good for Business

Isobel Coleman

The Geography of Chinese Power

How Far Can Beijing Reach on Land and at Sea?

Robert D. Kaplan

Bigger Is Better

The Case for a Transatlantic Economic Union

Richard Rosecrance

And Justice for All

Enforcing Human Rights for the World's Poor

Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros

Hundreds of students of the school of nursing take part in an open-air examination at a playground of an vocational college in Baoji, Shaanxi province, China, May 25, 2015.

Top of the Class

The Rise of Asia's Universities

Richard C. Levin

Faulty Basel

Why More Diplomacy Won't Keep the Financial System Safe

Marc Levinson

Expeditionary Economics

Spurring Growth After Conflicts and Disasters

Carl J. Schramm

NATO's Final Frontier

Why Russia Should Join the Atlantic Alliance

Charles A. Kupchan

Overpowered?

Questioning the Wisdom of American Restraint

Michael Mandelbaum

It Takes the Villages

Bringing Change From Below in Afghanistan

Seth G. Jones

Political and Legal

The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order

How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace

Means to an End: U.S. Interest in the International Criminal Court

Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can

Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law

Economic, Social, and Environmental

From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities, and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity

Opium: Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy

Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World

Smuggling: Contraband and Corruption in World History

Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization

Military, Scientific, and Technological

Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict

Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies

Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943

A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars

The United States

Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent

Global Compassion: Private Voluntary Organizations and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1939

Western Europe

The New Old World

What Is the Impact of EU Interventions at the National Level?

Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic

Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic U.S.-EU Partnership

Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

Western Hemisphere

Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington

Brazil's New Racial Politics

Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro; Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004

Brazilian Foreign Policy in Changing Times: The Quest for Autonomy From Sarney to Lula

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile; The Making of a Revolutionary

Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace

The Road to Independence for Kosovo: A Chronicle of the Ahtisaari Plan

Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov

Middle East

The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics

The Future of Islam; Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts From al-Banna to Bin Laden

From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949

Asia and Pacific

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea; The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom

The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-first Century

Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami; Islamism in Indonesia: Politics in the Emerging Democracy

The Struggle for Tibet; Tibet's Last Stand? The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response

Africa

The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa

From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations; Africa and the World Trade Organization

Development and Dreams: The Urban Legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup

Africa's Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation

To the Finland Station

Is Taiwan Selling Out to China?

Vance Chang, Hans Mouritzen, and Bruce Gilley

Getting Deradicalization Right

Marisa L. Porges, Jessica Stern

Decoding Demography

Joseph Chamie, Jack A. Goldstone