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Volume 90, Number 3

May/June 2011

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Libya - Foreign Affairs

Demystifying the Arab Spring

Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya

Lisa Anderson

Understanding the Revolutions of 2011

Weakness and Resilience in Middle Eastern Autocracies

Jack A. Goldstone

Algeria - Foreign Affairs

The Heirs of Nasser

Who Will Benefit From the Second Arab Revolution?

Michael Scott Doran

The Fall of the Pharaoh

How Hosni Mubarak’s Reign Came to an End

Dina Shehata

Egypt - Foreign Affairs

The Black Swan of Cairo

How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous

Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Blyth

North Africa - Foreign Affairs

The Rise of the Islamists

How Islamists Will Change Politics, and Vice Versa

Shadi Hamid

North Africa - Foreign Affairs

Terrorism After the Revolutions

How Secular Uprisings Could Help (or Hurt) Jihadists

Daniel Byman

Law - Foreign Affairs

The Future of the Liberal World Order

Internationalism After America

G. John Ikenberry

South Asia - Foreign Affairs

Getting the Military Out of Pakistani Politics

How Aiding the Army Undermines Democracy

Aqil Shah

Americas - Foreign Affairs

The Post-American Hemisphere

Power and Politics in an Autonomous Latin America

Russell Crandall

Western Europe - Foreign Affairs

How to Save the Euro -- and the EU

Reading Keynes in Brussels

Henry Farrell and John Quiggin

Monetary Issues - Foreign Affairs

After Doha

Why the Negotiations Are Doomed and What We Should Do About It

Susan C. Schwab

Who's Afraid of the International Criminal Court?

Finding the Prosecutor Who Can Set It Straight

David Kaye

United States - Foreign Affairs

Recalibrating Homeland Security

Mobilizing American Society to Prepare for Disaster

Stephen Flynn

What Is Totalitarian Art?

Cultural Kitsch From Stalin to Saddam

Kanan Makiya

Political and Legal

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety

Dangerous Times? The International Politics of Great Power Peace

Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972-2006

History and Neorealism

Economic, Social, and Environmental

The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

Financial Globalization, Economic Growth, and the Crisis of 2007-09

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992; Banking on Sterling: Britain's Independence From the Euro Zone

Military, Scientific, and Technological

15 Minutes: General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation; How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III

The Age of Airpower

Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War; The Columbia History of the Vietnam War

The United States

The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the Present

The Dogs of War: 1861

The South and America Since World War II

Nearest East: American Millennialism and Mission to the Middle East

Western Europe

Bust: Greece, the Euro, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis

The Spanish Republic and Civil War

Genocide and the Europeans

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World System, 1830-1970

From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath

Western Hemisphere

The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States

Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chávez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela

Hemispheric Giants: The Misunderstood History of U.S.-Brazilian Relations

Rethinking Corporate Social Engagement: Lessons From Latin America

Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750-2000

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

Allah's Angels: Chechen Women in War

Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond

Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in a Post-Soviet Landscape

The Kirov Murder and Soviet History

A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables From a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven

Middle East

Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak

Pakistan: A Hard Country; Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad

Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations; 1820-2001

What Is a Palestinian State Worth?

Asia and Pacific

Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics

Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic

Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics

Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land

The Making of Northeast Asia

Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia

The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations

Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge

Africa

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe; Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals, and the Media; Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities

Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State

Americas - Foreign Affairs

Progress and the Past

Peter Hakim

Americas - Foreign Affairs

The Impending Squeeze

Tim W. Ferguson, Charles B. Heck, and Mitchell W. Hedstrom

Turkey's Cyprus Problem

Andrew Jacovides