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Volume 91, Number 2

March/April 2012

March/April 2012
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Political and Legal

Humanity’s Law
Uniting States: Voluntary Union in World Politics
Governance Without a State? Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood
Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy; Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11

Economic, Social, and Environmental

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring
Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction
Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change
DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World

Military, Scientific, and Technological

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918; The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944; The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

The United States

Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
Steve Jobs
Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power

Western Europe

Thinking the Twentieth Century
The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent
Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

Western Hemisphere

The Southern Tiger: Chile’s Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future
International Mediation in Venezuela
Guantánamo: An American History
Latin America and the Caribbean’s Long-Term Growth: Made in China?; Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Road Ahead
Reaching Out: Cuba’s New Economy and the International Response

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life
The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia; Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries
The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia
The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

Middle East

Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East
Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi’s Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States: Competition, Crisis, and the Reordering of Power
Turkey and Its Neighbors: Foreign Relations in Transition

Asia and Pacific

Saying the Unsayable: Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand
Oceans of Crime: Maritime Piracy and Transnational Security in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh
China’s Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-national Hierarchy
China’s Thought Management
Diplomacy: A Singapore Experience
Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance
Social Networks and Japanese Democracy: The Beneficial Impact of Interpersonal Communication

Africa

Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent
Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence
From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa
An Inconvenient Youth: Julius Malema and the ‘New’ ANC
South Africa and Contemporary Counterinsurgency: Roots, Practices, Prospects

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