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Volume 93, Number 5

September/October 2014

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The american distemper

Dysfunction Junction

Trouble on the Home Front

Gideon Rose and Jonathan Tepperman

America in Decay

The Sources of Political Dysfunction

Francis Fukuyama

Pitchfork Politics

The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

Yascha Mounk

Crashing the Party

Why the GOP Must Modernize to Win

David Frum

A woman carries a sign along West 72nd Street during the People's Climate March in New York, September 21, 2014.

Halfway There

Why the Left Wins on Culture and Loses on Economics

Michael Kazin

The Right Stuff

The Reformers Trying to Remake the Republican Party

Byron York

A Woman of the People

Elizabeth Warren and the Future of the American Left

Michael Tomasky

A man takes a picture as he stands on a Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint so that it resembles the Ukrainian flag.

Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin

John J. Mearsheimer

A Broken Promise?

What the West Really Told Moscow About NATO Expansion

Mary Elise Sarotte

Print Less but Transfer More

Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly to the People

Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan

An Army to Defeat Assad

How to Turn Syria's Opposition Into a Real Fighting Force

Kenneth M. Pollack

Modi flies a kite at the 19th International Kite festival in Ahmedabad, January 11, 2009.

Leaders Indicating

Why Markets Now Use Politics to Predict Economics

Ruchir Sharma

Passage to India

What Washington Can Do to Revive Relations With New Delhi

Nicholas Burns

Banker to the Poor

A Conversation With Jim Yong Kim

Can't Buy Me Love

China's New Rich and Its Crisis of Values

John Osburg

Modi waves to a crowd in front of the Indian Embassy in Washington, September 30, 2014.

The Triumph of the Hindu Right

Freedom of Speech and Religious Repression in Modi's India

Ananya Vajpeyi

Success Stories

A Reader's Guide to Strategy

Paul Kennedy

Political and Legal

Leviathan 2.0; The Fourth Revolution

Liberal Internationalism: Theory, History, Practice

The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights

Good-Bye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System

Economic, Social, and Environmental

The Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do About Falling Birth Rates

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons From China

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy

Military, Scientific, and Technological

No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security; On Limited Nuclear War in the Twenty-first Century

Invasion of Laos, 1971: Lam Son 719

Confronting Memories of World War II: European and Asian Legacies

102 Days of War: How Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived 2001

The United States

Hard Choices; HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft From Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

The Scorpion’s Sting: Anti-Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War

An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

Western Europe

Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attacks on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp

Is the EU Doomed?

The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?

Land and Wine: The French Terroir

Lessons From Europe? What Americans Can Learn From European Public Policies

Civil and Uncivil Wars: Memories of a Greek Childhood, 1936–1950

Western Hemisphere

Three Books on Trade in the Western Hemisphere

Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics

Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State

Diplomatic Counterinsurgency: Lessons From Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Plot for Global Revolution

The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World’s Greatest Railroad

Middle East

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

The New Arabs; Arab Social Media Report

The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan

Asia and Pacific

Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific; Strategic Reassurance and Resolve

North Korean Nuclear Operationality: Regional Security and Nonproliferation

A Middle Class Without Democracy: Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China

In Transit: The Formation of a Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere

An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

Africa

The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa

Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

Eritrea at a Crossroads: A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal, and Hope

Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa

Africa’s Urban Revolution

Coupdunnit

What Really Happened in Iran?

Christopher de Bellaigue; Ray Takeyh

Showdown in Santiago

What Really Happened in Chile?

Peter Kornbluh; Jack Devine

Data Minding

A Response to "Privacy Pragmatism"

Ann Cavoukian