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Grading the War on Terrorism.(The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Asking the Right Questions
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. BY DANIEL BENJAMIN AND STEVEN SIMON. Henry Holt, 2005, 352 pp. $26.00.
With the end of the Bush administration coming...
Writing of Wrongs.(The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
By George Packer
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, 467 pp., $26.00
Was the War in Iraq Doomed From the Start?
It may be too early to tell whether the 2003 war in Iraq will benefit or hurt...
Political and Legal - Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy
By Stephen M. Walt
: Norton, 2005, 320 pp., $27.95
Americans tend to see U.S. preeminence as benign or positive -- but around the world, it arouses worry, fear, and...
Political and Legal - The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations
By Michael C. Williams
: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 254 pp., $70.00 (paper, $28.99)
Realism is the oldest and most venerable school of thought in the study of...
Political and Legal - Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
By Edited by Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, and Ramesh Thakur
: United Nations University Press, 2005, 350 pp., $45.00
The Bush administration's 2002 National...
Political and Legal - UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
By Edited by Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly
: Indiana University Press, 2005, 544 pp., $75.00 (paper, $29.95)
This fascinating...
Political and Legal - A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform
By Kemal Dervis
: Brookings Institution Press, 2005, 301 pp., $26.95
In this social democratic proposal for reforming global governance, Dervis, a Turkish economist and...
Political and Legal - 2005 Human Security Report: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... 2005 Human Security Report: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century
By Home Security Centre
: Home Security Centre, 2005, 170 pp., Free
This major new global survey of long-term trends in war and civil conflict, sponsored in...
Economic, Social, and Environmental - End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
By Barry C. Lynn
: Doubleday, 2005, 320 pp., $26.00
Lynn makes the important point that the dispersion of the production of components around the world --...
Economic, Social, and Environmental - Global Governance of Financial Systems: The International Regulation of Systemic Risk.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Global Governance of Financial Systems: The International Regulation of Systemic Risk
By Kern Alexander, Rahul Dhumale, and John Eatwell
: Oxford University Press, 2005, 328 pp., $45.00
This book finds serious deficiencies with the...
Economic, Social, and Environmental - Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
By Philip J. Hilts
: Penguin Press, 2005, 320 pp., $25.95
Hilts, a science and health journalist, issues a clarion call to devote many more resources, human and...
Economic, Social, and Environmental - Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations
By Sophie Meunier
: Princeton University Press, 2005, 248 pp., $35.00
The European Union has come to rival -- indeed, to exceed -- the United States in...
Economic, Social, and Environmental - Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance
By Peter A. Gourevitch and James Shinn
: Princeton University Press, 2005, 384 pp., $35.00
The limited liability corporation, invented 400 years...
Military, Scientific, and Technological - Second Strike: Arguments about Nuclear War in South Asia.(Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Second Strike: Arguments About Nuclear War in South Asia
By Rajesh Rajagopalan
: Penguin Books India, 2005, 237 pp., [pounds sterling]15.99
Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons. By Sumit Ganguly...
Military, Scientific, and Technological - Fearful Symmetry: India- Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons.(Second Strike: Arguments About Nuclear War in South Asia)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons
By Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty
: University of Washington Press, 2005, 234 pp., $55.00
Second Strike: Arguments About Nuclear War in South Asia. By...
Military, Scientific, and Technological - Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process.(Military Intervention after the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process
By Ho-Won Jeong
: Lynne Rienner, 2005, 260 pp., $55.00 (paper, $22.50)
Military Intervention After the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice. By Andrea Kathryn...
Military, Scientific, and Technological - Military Intervention after the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice.(Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Military Intervention After the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice
By Andrea Kathryn Talentino
: Ohio University Press, 2005, 376 pp., $26.00
Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process. By Ho- Won...
Military, Scientific, and Technological - The Quest for Viable Peace: International Intervention and Strategies for Conflict Transformation.(Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process, Military Intervention after the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Quest for Viable Peace: International Intervention and Strategies for Conflict Transformation
By Edited by Jock Covey, Michael Dziedzic, and Leonard Hawley
: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2005, 368 pp., $22.50
Peacebuilding in...
Military, Scientific, and Technological - "Military Power: A Roundtable Review.".(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... "Military Power: A Roundtable Review."
By Eliot A. Cohen, Lawrence Freedman, Michael Horowitz, Stephen Rosen, Martin Van Creveld, and Stephen Biddle.
: Journal of Strategic Studies 28, no. 3 (June 2005): 413-69., 2005, ,
The...
The United States - Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do about It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem -- and What We Should Do About It
By Noah Feldman
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, 320 pp., $25.00
Sobered and enriched by his experience in the Iraqi and Afghan constitutional...
The Almanac of American Politics: The Senators, The Represenatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election results, Their States and Districts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... 2006 Almanac of American Politics
By Michael Barone with Richard E. Cohen
: National Journal Group, 2005, 1,900 pp., $69.95
The most important reference text on American politics is back in a new edition, complete with Barone's...
The United States - Henry Adams and the Making of America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Henry Adams and the Making of America
By Garry Wills
: Houghton Miffin, 2005, 448 pp., $30.00
This is an unusual book; if it were a musical performance, one would call it a cover, a musician's take on a song made famous by someone...
The United States - Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition -- 1742-2004.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition -- 1742-2004
By Tracy Campbell
: Carroll & Graf, 2005, 448 pp., $26.00
This uneven but important book is less a history of election fraud in the United...
Western Europe - After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
By A. N. Wilson
: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, 624 pp., $32.50
Novelist, biographer, historian, Wilson has once again brought his gifts as a man of letters to the study of...
Western Europe - The Atlantic Alliance under Stress: US-European Relations after Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: U.S.-European Relations After Iraq
By Edited by David M. Andrews
: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 204 pp., $75.00 (paper, $29.99)
Of all the volumes devoted to the U.S.-European crisis over...
Western Europe - The Transformation of Ireland.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Transformation of Ireland
By Diarmaid Ferriter
: Overloook Press, 2005, 884 pp., $37.50
At a time when the economic development of Ireland is widely seen as one of the great achievements of the European Union, this enormous...
Western Europe - France and the French: La Vie en Bleu since 1900.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... France and the French: La Vie en Bleu Since 1900
By Rod Kedward
: Overlook Press, 2006, 712 pp., $35.00
Kedward's work as a historian has dealt mainly with the heroism and tragedy of the French Resistance, but his new volume does...
Western Europe - Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War
By Richard N. Gardner
: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 320 pp., $29.95
Mission Italy tells in great detail the story of the four years of Gardner's service as ambassador to Rome during...
Western Hemisphere - NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges
By Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott
: Institute for International Economics, 2005, 544 pp., $27.95
All of us seeking respite from the highly partisan, often surreal shouting...
Western Hemisphere - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By Charles C. Mann
: Knopf, 2005, 480 pp., $30.00
The boom in new scholarship on the Western Hemisphere before Columbus is intelligently synthesized in 1491, the engrossing...
Western Hemisphere - From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics
By Donna Lee Van Cott
: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 296 pp., $75.00
In the last two decades, indigenous political parties have emerged to fight for...
Western Hemisphere - The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress, Priorities, and IDB Support for Their Implementation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress, Priorities, and IDB Support for Their Implementation
By Cesar Bouillon, Carlos M. Jarque, and Marco Ferroni
: Inter-American Development Bank, 2005, 95 pp.,...
Western Hemisphere - Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History
By Frederick H. Smith
: University Press of Florida, 2005, 368 pp., $59.95
In his autobiography, Colin Powell recalls that his Jamaican-born parents exclusively served Appleton Estate...
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
: Basic Books, 2005, 678 pp., $29.95
From 1972 to 1984, Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist, smuggled out notes and...
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics
By M. Steven Fish
: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 336 pp., $75.00 (paper, $29.99)
Fish argues that the time has come to explain why Russia has not made it to democracy...
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Central Asia's Second Chance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Central Asia's Second Chance
By Martha Brill Olcott
: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005, 389 pp., $50.00 (paper, $24.95)
September 11 and the attention it brought gave Central Asian regimes a "second chance," and...
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - An Infamous Past: E. M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... An Infamous Past: E. M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania
By Marta Petreu
: Ivan R. Dee, 2005, 348 pp., $30.00
To confront ideas so opposed to the aspirations of liberal democracy, so unapologetically anti-Semitic, elitist,...
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations
By Alexander Cooley
: Cornell University Press, 2005, 208 pp., $35.00
Borrowing from organizational theory applied to the corporate world, Cooley...
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
By Catherine Merridale
: Metropolitan Books, 2005, 480 pp., $30.00
Considering the number of shelves laden with books on the Soviet Union in World War II, it may be surprising...
Middle East - The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By Robert Fisk
: Knopf, 2005, 1,136 pp., $40.00
As the heft of this book indicates, Fisk, who has reported on the Middle East for almost three decades, has much to...
Middle East - Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
By Anthony Shadid
: Henry Holt, 2005, 448 pp., $26.00
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his work in The Washington Post, Shadid, an...
Middle East - How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process
By Edited by Tamara Cofman Wittes
: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2005, 172 pp., $40.00 (paper, $14.95)
Here is a different quartet...
Middle East - The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria
By David W. Lesch
: Yale University Press, 2005, 320 pp., $30.00
Three years ago, Lesch raised the possibility of "writing a book about Bashar and modern Syria" with some...
Middle East - Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
By Edited by Bruce Lawrence, Translated by James Howarth
: Verso, 2005, 224 pp., $16.95
Following Lawrence's succinct introduction, this short book presents translations of...
Asia and Pacific - From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China
By Merle Goldman
: Harvard University Press, 2005, 304 pp., $39.95
Goldman has devoted her career to studying the role of intellectuals in modern China, always...
Asia and Pacific - South Asia in World Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... South Asia in World Politics
By Edited by Devin T. Hagerty
: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 336 pp., $70.00 (paper, $24.95)
When colonialism collapsed in the wake of World War II, South Asia was seen as the leader in the development...
Asia and Pacific - Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security
By Avery Goldstein
: Stanford University Press, 2005, 288 pp., $55.00 (paper, $22.95)
The title of this carefully worded book is calculatedly ambiguous:...
Asia and Pacific - In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
By Richard Lloyd Parry
: Grove Press, 2006, 336 pp., $25.00
As a British journalist stationed in Tokyo from 1997 to 1999, Parry took many trips to Indonesia, which was then in...
Asia and Pacific - A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor
By Joseph Nevins
: Cornell University Press, 2005, 296 pp., $49.95 (paper, $18.95)
This book is an unlikely combination of the sort of in-depth analysis expected of a...
Asia and Pacific - Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
By Mary Elizabeth Gallagher
: Princeton University Press, 2005, 256 pp., $35.99
This carefully reasoned book seeks to explain why the widespread hope that...
Africa - Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis: Africa, vol. 1.(Clausewitz and frican War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis. Vol. 1, Africa
By Edited by Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis
: World Bank, 2005, 350 pp., $40.00
Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia. By...
Africa - Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia.(Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis: Africa, vol. 1)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia
By Isabelle Duyvesteyn
: Routledge, 2004, 200 pp., $115.00
Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis. Vol. 1, Africa. Edited by Paul Collier and...
Africa - The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of Fifty Years of Independence.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair; A History of Fifty Years of Independence
By Martin Meredith
: PublicAffairs, 2005, 800 pp., $35.00
Meredith, a longtime observer of African affairs, has written...
Africa - The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments: Elites and Institutions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments: Elites and Institutions.
By Edited by Leonardo A. Villalon and Peter Vondoepp
: Indiana University Press, 2005, 352 pp., $60.00 (paper, $24.95)
What has happened to the African countries...
Africa - Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future
By George Ayittey
: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 512 pp., $35.00
Ayittey has written another acerbic critique of contemporary African political economy, following Africa Betrayed...
Failing the Stalin Test.(Russians opinion on Joseph Stalin)
January 1, 2006... RUSSIANS AND THEIR DICTATOR
Imagine that a scientific survey revealed that most Germans under 30 today viewed Hitler with ambivalence and that a majority thought he had done more good than bad. Imagine that about 20 percent said they would...
Understanding Madrasahs.
January 1, 2006... HOW THREATENING ARE THEY?
Madrasahs, the religious schools that educate millions of students in the Muslim world, have been blamed for all sorts of ills since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Critics have denounced them as dens of...
Reforming the World Bank.(Paul Wolfowitz)
January 1, 2006... CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
The World Bank entered a new era when Paul Wolfowitz took over as its president on June 1, 2005. Wolfowitz's predecessor, James Wolfensohn, had served in the role for ten years, with a mission of transformation and a...
Women, Islam, and the New Iraq.
January 1, 2006... THE IMPACT OF SHARIA
Article 14 of Iraq's new constitution, approved in a nationwide referendum held on October 15, states that Iraqis are equal before the law "without discrimination because of sex." Yet the constitution also states that...
Is Washington Losing Latin America?
January 1, 2006... DRIFTING DANGEROUSLY
Relations between the United States and Latin America today are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. Many observers in the 1980s had hoped that Latin America's turn toward democracy and market...
Furthering Democracy in Mexico.
January 1, 2006... A RETURN TO OLIGARCHY?
In July 2006, Mexico will have an opportunity to consolidate its democratic process for the first time in modern history. Only then will it be clear whether the political changes of the past five years have taken...
The Forgotten West Bank.(Palestine and Israel border conflicts)
January 1, 2006... A DULL DISENGAGEMENT
Contrary to most predictions, Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last August was a dull affair, accomplished ahead of schedule and with little violence. Since then, as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has assumed...
The Turkish Military's March Toward Europe.
January 1, 2006... WILL COOPERATION LAST?
Turkey's accession to the European Union has long been an issue of great debate. Some have questioned the EU's willingness to welcome such a large, poor, and culturally distant country as a member; others have...
Recovering Sustainable Development.
January 1, 2006... A FASHIONABLE NOTION
The concept of sustainable development first emerged from academic seminar rooms two decades ago, thanks to a best-selling report called Our Common Future. Put together by the World Commission on Environment and...
A Natural History of Peace.
January 1, 2006... THE NAKED APE
The evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky once said, "All species are unique, but humans are uniquest." Humans have long taken pride in their specialness. But the study of other primates is rendering the concept of...
One Country, Two Prisms.(Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Bruce Gilley's opinion on "The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin")
January 1, 2006... Bruce Gilley ("In China's Own Eyes," September/October 2005) is correct that my biography, The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, portrays Jiang as he might see himself. My intention (as stated in the book itself, on...
Kosovo and Its Discontents.(border disputes)
January 1, 2006... Charles Kupchan ("Independence for Kosovo," November/December 2005) is correct when he asserts that countries such as Russia have no real interest in Kosovo as a territory; Kosovo as a precedent, however, is another matter. Governments from...
Europe's Divided Muslims.(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... In his article "Europe's Angry Muslims" (July/August 2005), Robert Leiken argues that European Muslims are "distinct, cohesive, and bitter." He later writes that Islamist terrorist groups should not be compared with marginal European terrorist...
Out, Damned Spot!(insurgency in Iraq)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Andrew Krepinevich ("How to Win in Iraq," September/October 2005) proposes Baghdad and Mosul as the two primary targets for "oil-spot offensives." He asserts that the focus should be on "protecting the population, not pursuing insurgent...
Tyranny and Terror.(effect of democracy on terrorism)
January 1, 2006... Will Democracy in the Middle East Make Us Safer?
Aiming High
PAULA J. DOBRIANSKY AND HENRY A. CRUMPTON
In "Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?" (September/October 2005), Gregory Gause posits a one-dimensional solution to a...
The Cost of War.
January 1, 2006... How Many Casualties Will Americans Tolerate?
Misdiagnosis
CHRISTOPHER GELPI
In "The Iraq Syndrome" (November/December 2005), John Mueller argues that public support for the American wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq can be...