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Volume 91, Number 3

May/June 2012

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Baby Gap

How to Boost Birthrates and Avoid Demographic Decline

Steven Philip Kramer

The U.S. Army in a Time of Transition

Building a Flexible Force

Raymond T. Odierno

The Cartel Crackdown

Winning the Drug War and Rebuilding Mexico in the Process

Robert C. Bonner

Campaign Tips From Cicero

The Art of Politics, From the Tiber to the Potomac

Quintus Tullius Cicero and James Carville

Scoring Obama's Foreign Policy

A Progressive Pragmatist Tries to Bend History

Martin Indyk, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Botching the Bomb

Why Nuclear Weapons Programs Often Fail on Their Own -- and Why Iran’s Might, Too

Jacques E. C. Hymans

Europe After the Crisis

How to Sustain a Common Currency

Andrew Moravcsik

The True Lessons of the Recession

The West Can’t Borrow and Spend Its Way to Recovery

Raghuram G. Rajan

Bearish on Brazil

The Commodity Slowdown and the End of the Magic Moment

Ruchir Sharma

Workers of the World Divide

The Decline of Labor and the Future of the Middle Class

Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfeld

Mafia States

Organized Crime Takes Office

Moisés Naím

The remnants of a roller coaster sits in the surf three days after Hurricane Sandy came ashore in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, November 1, 2012.

The Climate Threat We Can Beat

What It Is and How to Deal With It

David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, Veerabhadran Ramanathan

Developing Symptoms

Noncommunicable Diseases Go Global

Thomas J. Bollyky

Windmills turn in the breeze at Horns Rev 2, the world's largest wind farm, 19 miles off the west coast of Denmark near Esbjerg, September 15, 2009.

Tough Love for Renewable Energy

Making Wind and Solar Power Affordable

Jeffrey Ball

The First Global Man

The Americas Before and After Columbus

Jeremy Adelman

America’s Hidden Government

The Costs of a Submerged State

Desmond King

India's Broken Promise

How a Would-Be Great Power Hobbles Itself

Basharat Peer

Political and Legal

Liberal Peace: Selected Essays

Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government -- and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead

Taming Globalization: International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order

Universal Rights Down to Earth

No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn

Economic, Social, and Environmental

Sustaining China’s Economic Growth After the Global Financial Crisis

Superfuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future

The Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy

How to Fix Copyright

Disease Eradication in the Twenty-first Century: Implications for Global Health

Military, Scientific, and Technological

Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns That Killed bin Laden and Devastated al Qaeda; Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa’ida Since 9/11

The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food

The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity

A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order

All In: The Education of General David Petraeus

The United States

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010

The Crisis of Zionism

Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power

The World America Made

The Real Romney

Western Europe

Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation; The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration

Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History

The European Union and Its Crises: Through the Eyes of the Brussels Elite

School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education

Western Hemisphere

Mexico: A Middle Class Society; Poor No More, Developed Not Yet

Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering; Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings

The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America; Chinese Investment in Latin American Resources: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin; Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft

It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past

Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus

Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia

Peasants Under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949–1962

Middle East

A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy With Iran

The Lingering Conflict: Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East, 1948–2011

The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East; The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

Algeria: France’s Undeclared War

Asia and Pacific

Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West

In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka

China Experiments: From Local Innovations to National Reform

Walmart in China

After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War

China Hand: An Autobiography

Africa

Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa’s Lone Star State

Africa’s Moment

The Origins of AIDS; Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It

UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts

Tough Talk Is Cheap

Washington’s Real Options in Islamabad

Alexander Evans; Stephen D. Krasner