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Volume 91, Number 2

March/April 2012

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NATO's Victory in Libya

The Right Way to Run an Intervention

Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis

Rethinking Latin America

Foreign Policy Is More Than Development

Christopher Sabatini

An Internet cafe in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.

Chinese Computer Games

Keeping Safe in Cyberspace

Adam Segal

The Case for Space

Why We Should Keep Reaching for the Stars

Neil deGrasse Tyson

God and Caesar in America

Why Mixing Religion and Politics Is Bad for Both

David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam

The Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations

Conflict Is a Choice, Not a Necessity

Henry A. Kissinger

The Arab Spring at One

A Year of Living Dangerously

Fouad Ajami

Why We Still Need the World Bank

Looking Beyond Aid

Robert B. Zoellick

Clear and Present Safety

The United States Is More Secure Than Washington Thinks

Micah Zenko and Michael A. Cohen

The Iraq We Left Behind

Welcome to the World’s Next Failed State

Ned Parker

War Downsized

How to Accomplish More With Less

Carter Malkasian and J. Kael Weston

People dressed in costumes take part in a demonstration against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, in Munich April 18, 2015. The posters (L-R) read:

The Globalization of Animal Welfare

More Food Does Not Require More Suffering

Miyun Park and Peter Singer

A Farewell to Fossil Fuels

Answering the Energy Challenge

Amory B. Lovins

U.S. President Barack Obama sits with Speaker of the House John Boehner during a memorial service for former Speaker Tom Foley in the Capitol in Washington October 29, 2013.

The Missing Middle in American Politics

How Moderate Republicans Became Extinct

Reihan Salam

Poker Lessons From Richelieu

A Portrait of the Statesman as Gambler

David A. Bell

Freedom’s Secret Recipe

Balancing the State, Law, and Accountability

Michael Mann

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

Not Time to Attack Iran

Why War Should Be a Last Resort

Colin H. Kahl

Cough It Up

Jack C. Chow; Shenglan Tang and Enis Baris

True Peace Is Hard To Find

David Harris

Reports Of The Bear’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Mark Adomanis

Debating Europe

Norman Davies