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Volume 89, Number 5

September/October 2010

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Strengthening the Political-Military Relationship

Matthew Moten

Smaller and Safer

A New Plan for Nuclear Postures

Bruce Blair, Victor Esin, Matthew McKinzie, Valery Yarynich,

Beyond Moderates and Militants

How Obama Can Chart a New Course in the Middle East

Robert Malley and Peter Harling

Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement

Has Nuclear Ambiguity Outlived Its Shelf Life?

Avner Cohen and Marvin Miller

A Palestinian man walks past a building at an abandoned airport that was hit by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip

How to Handle Hamas

The Perils of Ignoring Gaza's Leadership

Daniel Byman

Staying Power

The U.S. Mission in Afghanistan Beyond 2011

Michael O'Hanlon

Russia's New Nobility

The Rise of the Security Services in Putin's Kremlin

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

Defending a New Domain

The Pentagon's Cyberstrategy

William J. Lynn III

Not Ready for Prime Time

Why Including Emerging Powers at the Helm Would Hurt Global Governance

Jorge G. Castañeda

An Unlikely Trio

Can Iran, Turkey, and the United States Become Allies?

Mustafa Akyol

Hydraulic Pressures

Into the Age of Water Scarcity?

James E. Nickum

Interdependency Theory

China, India, and the West

Simon Tay

Political and Legal

The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order.

ConUNdrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives

America's Global Advantage: US Hegemony and International Cooperation

Economic, Social, and Environmental

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System.

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates; Against Intellectual Monopoly

Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations: Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam; Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

Military, Scientific, and Technological

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern.

Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Responses to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats

War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War

Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense From Reagan to Obama; Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home

The United States

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

National Security Strategy

Henry Clay: The Essential American

Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction

The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School

Western Europe

Europe 2030

The Transatlantic Economy 2010: Annual Survey of Jobs, Trade, and Investment Between the United States and Europe

NATO: In Search of a Vision

The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe: Modernization in Hard Times

Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe

Western Hemisphere

Learning to Salsa: New Steps in U.S.-Cuba Relations

Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?

Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

Democratic Governance in Latin America

Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism After the 1968 Prague Spring

Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus

Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind From Peter the Great to the Emigration

Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985

Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe

Taming Ethnic Hatred: Ethnic Cooperation and Transnational Networks in Eastern Europe

Middle East

The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship With Apartheid South Africa

Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East

Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East; The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle

Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam

Asia and Pacific

Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China; Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China's Reform Era

Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan

The Korean War: A History

India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia

Vietnam: Rising Dragon

Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

Africa

The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya

Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria

The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

Democratization in Africa: Progress and Retreat, 2nd. ed.

Islamism, Unveiled

From Berlin to Cairo and Back Again

Paul Berman, Jeffrey Herf, and Marc Lynch

Send in the Civilians

Edward E. Kaufman, Howard Berman

Law for the Global Poor

Karen I. Tse and Kenneth Neil Cukier, Tiernan Mennen and Viv

A NATO Red Carpet for Moscow

Daryl Morini