Foreign Affairs articles from January 2008

Foreign Affairs archives from January 2008

Long time coming: the prospects for democracy in China.(Changing China)
January 1, 2008... CHINA'S LEADERS have held out the promise of some form of democracy to the people of China for nearly a century. After Chinas last dynasty, the Qing, collapsed in 1911, Sun Yat-sen suggested a three-year period of temporary military rule,...

The rise of China and the future of the West: can the liberal system survive?(Changing China)
January 1, 2008... THE RISE of China will undoubtedly be one of the great dramas of the twenty-first century. China's extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy are already transforming East Asia, and future decades will see even greater increases in...

China's new dictatorship diplomacy: is Beijing parting with pariahs?(Changing China)
January 1, 2008... CHINA IS often accused of supporting a string of despots, nuclear proliferators, and genocidal regimes, shielding them from international pressure and thus reversing progress on human rights and humanitarian principles. But over the last two...

Ambitious Chinese territory becomes Asia's Las Vegas.(Macau: On a Roll)
January 1, 2008... Despite its rich cultural background, the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Macau is probably best known as Asia's gaming hotbed, the only place in the People's Republic of China where casinos are legal. This makes it a popular destination...

Melco's winning vision captures Asian imagination.(Macau: On a Roll)(Melco International Development Limited)
January 1, 2008... Between Macau's Taipa and Coloane islands, a marvel of land reclamation known as the Cotai Strip is rapidly becoming the epicenter of Asia's gaming universe. If ever one could see dreams being built, this would be the place. Inspired by the Las...

Turkey 360[degrees].(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Turkey lies at the center of some of the world s most dynamic geopolitical and geoeconomic realities. It is neither the West nor the East, but both. It is a secular, mature democracy in the Western tradition and yet the most progressive state...

Turkey emerged.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... This special supplement in Foreign Affairs, timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum's annual summit at Davos, celebrates the profound economic, political and cultural renaissance that is modern Turkey. Turkey is an ascendant power, a...

European Union.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... With or without European Union membership, Turkey already is European--in its transparency, modernism and cultural outlook. It has been part of the European preferential trading area for nearly 50 years and customs union was completed in 1996....

Caspian and Central Asia.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Turkey is a vital energy trade route for 10 percent of the world's oil and gas. Central Asia's oil energy reserves were unlocked with the opening of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in 2006. Flows in all directions and transit fees will...

Black Sea.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... As Eastern European manufacturing revives from Ukraine to Bulgaria, the Black Sea is growing into a vibrant regional economic area. Istanbul hosts the headquarters of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) group, which also includes Romania,...

Russia.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... While Europe and America have taken ambiguously confrontational approaches towards Russia, Turkey has embraced its historical and second largest trading partner. Turkish exports to Russia soared to $25 billion last year, up from $10 billion in...

Middle East.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Turkey has a free-trade agreement with Syria, its financial institutions are helping reform Syria's banking system and, with Iraq, the three countries are devising crucial irrigation agreements to manage water supply in riverheads originating...

Iraq.(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Despite the turmoil in Iraq, Turkish companies are well positioned to prosper and hold the greatest share of contracts from the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, actively building airports and highways between cities located on Kurdistan's...

Taking the right side.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... From "The Old Turks Revolt," by Omer Taspinar, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, November/December 2007 However Turkey's domestic politics evolve, they are likely to be shaped at least in part by Turkey's relations with the West; thus, the United States...

Home, sweet home.(Sponsored Section)(Turkey's foreign policy)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... From "Turkey Rediscovers the Middle East," by F. Stephen Larrabee, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, July/August 2007 While the recent wrangling in Turkey between the generals and the Islamists has drawn attention to Turkey's domestic policies, a...

Making it work.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... Turkey's new activism in the Middle East--particularly its closer ties to Iran and Syria--has caused concern in some quarters in Washington. Some U.S. officials fear that it could weaken Turkey's ties to the West or lead to the "Islamization"...

Will cooperation last?(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... From "The Turkish Military's March Toward Europe," by Ersel Aydinli, Nihat Ali Ozcan, Dogan Akyaz, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, January/February 2006 Turkey's accession to the European Union has long been an issue of great debate. Some have questioned...

In the EU's court.(Sponsored Section)(European Union)
January 1, 2008... In addition to helping Turkey's military and civilian authorities manage their relations with each other, pressure from Brussels has sometimes also helped them avoid conflicts with some of their respective constituencies. The AKP, for example,...

Talking Turkey.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... From "Talking Turkey," by David L. Phillips, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, November/December 2004 There are important strategic reasons for starting accession talks with Ankara. Closer ties with Turkey would advance the EU's economic, security, and...

Two worlds jostle for the upper hand: selections from the financial times special report on Turkey 2007.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... by Vincent Boland, FINANCIAL TIMES, November 21 2007 Shortly after the general election in Turkey in July, in which the government was returned to power with an increased share of the vote nationwide, the Istanbul newspapers dispatched some...

Big business: influential lobby prepares for next phase of history.(Sponsored Section)(Tusiad)
January 1, 2008... by Vincent Boland, FINANCIAL TIMES, November 21 2007 Whenever Turkey arrives at a crisis point, especially in the political arena, many people look to an unusual source for guidance and comment: the country's business leaders. Since it was...

Foreign investment: open economy woos investors.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... by James Drummond, FINANCIAL TIMES, November 21 2007 Shipbuilding? Cars? Vans? Not perhaps the arenas immediately associated with Turkey. Yet, according to the government's investment support and promotion agency, founded only three years...

Foreign trade: policy follows trade abroad.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... by Vincent Boland, FINANCIAL TIMES November 21 2007 There is something about round numbers with lots of zeros that appeals to the Turkish government. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, recently suggested there was no reason why...

World Economic Forum: Turkey Summit Report 2006.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... Geopolitical Role Glance at a world map and Turkey's unique geopolitical position is obvious. Literally at the strategic crossroads where West collides with East, this stable, secular, moderate Muslim democracy straddles Europe and Asia. A...

Turkey 360[degrees]: did you know?(Sponsored Section)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Nearly 10% of the world's energy supply now passes through Turkey Turkish GDP has reached $400 billion in 2006, making it the 17th largest economy and the 6th largest in the European economic area GDP growth has averaged 7.4% per year...

Reconsidering revaluation: the wrong approach to the U.S.-Chinese trade imbalance.(Changing China)
January 1, 2008... CHINA'S ECONOMY has grown dramatically in the last decade: it is more than twice as large as it was ten years ago. This spectacular rise means that Beijing can influence the global economy today in ways that would have been unimaginable in the...

The myth of the authoritarian model: how Putin's crackdown holds Russia back.(Vladimir Putin)
January 1, 2008... THE CONVENTIONAL explanation for Vladimir Putin's popularity is straightforward. In the 1990s, under post-Soviet Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, the state did not govern, the economy shrank, and the population suffered. Since 2000,...

The costs of containing Iran: Washington's misguided new Middle East policy.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... OVER THE past year, Washington has come to see the containment of Iran as the primary objective of its Middle East policy. It holds Tehran responsible for rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lebanon's tribulations, and Hamas' intransigence...

Turks & Caicos Islands: offshore and more.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... Premier Michael Misick: building a more progressive and productive Turks & Caicos "A haven for high-end tourism," is how Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands describes this Caribbean paradise. The two island groups...

Rock steady financial security.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... So let's assume you're a well to do rock star and would like to supplement your portfolio of Wiltshire, Tuscan, Manhattan, and Malibu mansions with an abode in the Turks & Caicos Islands. After location, your primary concern would be the...

A future in good hands.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... Among the priorities set by the government of Turks and Caicos are health, with two brand new hospitals in the works, and education. In order to grow beyond the existing education system, ranging from early childhood to community college,...

TCInvest: open arms.(Sponsored Section)(Turks and Caicos)
January 1, 2008... Turks and Caicos, with its 40 pristine islands, only eight of which are inhabited, and a total land area of 238 square miles isn't looking to attract masses of tourists, it is aiming for a quality clientele. So too with investors; the major...

The natural appeal of tourism.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... Leafing through glossy Turks & Caicos lifestyle magazines, you'd be forgiven the notion that the islands are all about property development. Images of 5-star resorts, spacious condominiums, second-home villas on palm-lined beaches grace the...

Europe's eastern promise: rethinking NATO and EU enlargement.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... IN THE early 1990s, after the Iron Curtain lifted, Western leaders seized a historic opportunity to open the doors of NATO and the European Union (EU) to postcommunist central and eastern Europe. By consolidating democracy and ensuring...

Global corporate citizenship: working with governments and civil society.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... COMPARED TO just a decade ago, it is now common for businesspeople to talk about social responsibility and the importance of being good corporate citizens. Many business leaders today consider it critical to engage with shareholders, the...

Azerbaijan: in line to prosper.(Sponsored Section)
January 1, 2008... Azerbaijan may not be the most well known nation on the Caspian Sea, but its economic importance in the region is growing. This country, at the crossroads of Eurasia and the Middle East, managed to strike gold with its oil and gas wealth,...

Economy bears fruits.(Sponsored Section)(Azerbaijan)
January 1, 2008... In its 2005 White Paper, the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan (AmCham) made the following observation: "In order to achieve broad, equitable growth, and reduce poverty, Azerbaijan must focus attention and resources on revitalizing the...

Advancing on Caspian advice.(Sponsored Section)(Azerbaijan)
January 1, 2008... A word of advice: when doing business in Azerbaijan, consult an Azeri firm. Professional knowledge of the Caspian business culture is of course key to successfully running an enterprise in this region, and consultancies with a wider scope will...

Public footprints in private markets: sovereign wealth funds and the world economy.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... IN 1953, eight years before its independence from the United Kingdom, Kuwait established the Kuwait Investment Board to invest its surplus oil revenue. That was perhaps the first-ever "sovereign wealth fund" (SWF), although the term would not...

Stopping nuclear terrorism: the dangerous allure of a perfect defense.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... A SUCCESSFUL NUCLEAR attack by terrorists would be catastrophic. Intense fears of nuclear terrorism have led to a search for a perfect defense: destroying all terrorist groups that threaten the United States, sealing U.S. borders against loose...

A new realism: a realistic and principled foreign policy.(Campaign 2008)
January 1, 2008... SIXTY YEARS ago, in the pages of this magazine, George Kennan presented a compelling case for U.S. global engagement and leadership to contain Soviet power. His strategic vision laid the foundation for a realistic and principled foreign policy...

America's priorities in the war on terror: Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan.(Campaign 2008)
January 1, 2008... THE UNITED STATES, as the world's only superpower, is less vulnerable to military defeat. But it is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries. Much like a top high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements,...

Anglo-Saxon attitudes: The Making of the Modern World.(Essays)(God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... God and Gold." Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. BY WALTER RUSSELL MEAD. Knopf, 2007, 464 pp. $27.95. Walter Russell Mead laments at the beginning of God and Gold, "The study of British history and culture has about...

Empires.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Empires. BY HERFRIED MUNKLER. Polity, 2007, 264 pp. $28.95. The flurry of writings on whether the United States is an empire has waned, but questions remain about how best to characterize U.S. global domination. Munkler, a German political...

Summits: Six Meetings That Changed the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Summits: Six Meetings That Changed the Twentieth Century. BY DAVID REYNOLDS. Basic Books, 2007, 544 PP. $35.00. In this engaging history of the great summits of the twentieth century, Reynolds, a distinguished Cambridge historian and...

Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World. BY PHILIP H.. CORDON. Times Books, 2007, 224 pp. $24.00. The Bush administration's framing of the United States' post-9/11 national security challenge as a "war on...

Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s. EDITED BY SEBASTIAN CONRAD AND DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 276 pp. $69.95. Opposition to Western-led globalization did not begin in the 1990s....

Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations. EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER BICKERTON, PHILIP CUNLIFFE, AND ALEXANDER GOUREVITCH. Routledge, 2007, 224 pp. $135.00 (paper, $37.95). Over the last half century,...

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. BY BJORN LOMBORG. Knopf, 2007, 272 pp. $21.00. The title of this highly readable book has a double meaning: steps should be taken against global warming, but unsupported...

The Price of Fear: The Truth behind the Financial War on Terror.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror. BY IBRAHIM WARDE. University of California Press, 2007, 261 pp. $24.95. This book is a well-reasoned critique, amounting to a stinging indictment, of the financial "war on...

Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance.(Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance. BY RAWI ABDELAL. Harvard University Press, 2007, 320 pp. $49.95. Regulating Capital." Setting Standards for the International Financial System. BY DAVID ANDREW SINGER. Cornell University...

Why Cooperate? The Incentives to Supply Global Public Goods.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Why Cooperate? The Incentives to Supply Global Public Goods. BY SCOTT BARRETT. Oxford University Press, 2007, 256 pp. $35.00. The concept of global public goods has drawn increasing attention in the past decade, although in truth it has...

Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. BY GWYNETH CRAVENS. Knopf, 2007, 464 pp. $27.95. The novelist and one-time nuclear skeptic Cravens provides an engaging and unusual travelogue, taking her readers on an excursion...

Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility. BY THERESE DELPECH. TRANSLATED BY ROS SCHWARTZ. Columbia University Press, 2007, 160 pp. $26.95. Those curious as to why France is at the forefront of efforts to curtail...

Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. BY ANDREW COCKBURN. Scribner, 2007, 256 pp. $25.00. It would be out of character for Cockburn to write a balanced biography of Donald Rumsfeld, and this dark portrait of a manipulative...

The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions. BY NEIL J. SMELSER. Princeton University Press, 2007, 292 pp. $29.95. Whatever one's complaints about the excess of new books on terrorism despite there being so little left to...

Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime.(Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime. BY BARRY KELLMAN. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 390 pp. $80.00 (paper, $28.99). Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat. EDITED BY ANDREAS WENGER AND RETO WOLLENMANN. Lynne...

Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. By ALAN KRAMER. Oxford University Press, 2007, 446 pp. $34.00. For atrocities to happen, perpetrators must first think atrocious thoughts. Kramer's book considers the...

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. BY STEPHEN MIHM. Harvard University Press, 2007, 472 pp. $30.00. As aftershocks of a crisis in the credit markets continue to reverberate, Mihm offers a...

The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism. BY GEORGE McKENNA. Yale University Press, 2007, 448 pp. $35.00. In Dangerous Nation, Robert Kagan argues that the influence of Puritan New England in subsequent U.S. national development has been...

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. BY ALAN GREENSPAN. Penguin Press, 2007, 544 pp. $35.00. This engaging and provocative book is more than an account of Chair Greenspan's tenure at the Federal Reserve. It contains a short but...

Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America. BY GREGORY RODRIGUEZ. Pantheon, 2007, 336 pp. $27.00. This awkwardly named volume is required reading for anybody interested in the future...

America's Three Regimes: A New Political History.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... America's Three Regimes: A New Political History. BY MORTON KELLER. Oxford University Press, 2007, 384 pp. $28.00. Keller, a professor emeritus of history at Brandeis University, has written a masterful and fresh account of U.S. politics,...

God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis. BY PHILIP JENKINS. Oxford University Press, 2007, 352 pp. $28.00. Jenkins, a professor of history and religious studies at Penn State University, challenges the...

Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany. BY PAUL HOCKENOS. Oxford University Press, 2008, 400 pp. $35.00. Joschka Fischer began his political career as a rock-throwing leftist...

The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe. BY GREG BEHRMAN. Free Press, 2007, 464 pp. $27.00. Since 9/11, politicians and analysts from across the political spectrum have called for a "new...

The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union. BY CAROLYN M. WARNER. Cornell University Press, 2007, 272 pp. $29.95. Do free markets, privatization, and open competition help limit corruption, as their advocates often...

The U.S. Elections and Europe: The Coming Crisis of High Expectations.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The US. Elections and Europe: The Coming Crisis of High Expectations. BY KORI SCHAKE. Centre for European Reform, 2007, 34 PP. 10.00. [pounds sterling] Schake, a former National Security Council staffer for President George W. Bush, offers...

Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President. BY VICENTE FOX WITH ROB ALLYN. Viking, 2007, 400 pp. $27.95. Many Mexicans will not recognize the self-portrait of their former president in Revolution of Hope, which...

Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants. BY JORGE G. CASTANEDA. New Press, 2007, 240 pp. $25.95. Mexican President Vicente Fox's first foreign minister, the brilliant Princeton-educated intellectual Castaneda, persuaded the Bush administration...

Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico. EDITED BY WAYNE A. CORNELIUS AND DAVID A. SHIRK. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, 536 pp. $37.50. The Fox administration made some progress toward reform of the judiciary and the...

Requiem or Revival? The Promise of North American Integration.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Requiem or Revival? The Promise of North American Integration. EDITED BY ISABEL STUDER AND CAROL WISE. Brookings Institution Press, 2007, 306 pp. $26.95. This Brookings collection poses a critical question: Why have the United States,...

Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope. BY JENNA BUSH. ILLUSTRATED BY MIA BAXTER. HarperCollins, 2007, 304 pp. $18.99. The U.S. president's 20-something daughter traveled to Latin America with UNICEF and was inspired by a badly abused, HIV-positive...

Getting Russia Right.(Russia - Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Getting Russia Right. BY DMITRI V. TRENIN. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007,129 pp. $19.95. Russia--Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies. BY LILIA SHEVTSOVA. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007,...

Young Stalin.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Young Stalin. BY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE. Knopf, 2007, 496 pp. $30.00. How much more is there to learn about Joseph Stalin, given the wave of recent biographies on top of a vast existing literature? Lots, it turns out. With notable...

Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military. By ZOLTAN BARANY. Princeton University Press, 2007, 264 pp. $22-95. Of the many books and articles detailing the degradation of the once-hulking Soviet military and its muddled...

Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism. BY PHILIP G. ROEDER. Princeton University Press, 2007, 430 pp. $70.00 (paper, $29.95). There are 192 states in the world and counting. Over the last two...

Banking on Small Business: Microfinance in Contemporary Russia.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Banking on Small Business: Microfinance in Contemporary Russia. BY GAIL BUYSKE. Cornell University Press, 2007, 240 pp. $35.00. Much of the literature on Russia's transition to capitalism fails to capture what is happening at the micro...

Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. BY IDITH ZERTAL AND AKIVA ELDAR. Nation Books, 2007, 576 pp. $29.95. After the Six-Day War, Israel could have negotiated a restoration of the...

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed. B Y MARTIN EVANS AND JOHN PHILLIPS. Yale University Press, 2007, 352 pp. $35.00. Algeria, seen in the years immediately following 1962 as "the darling of the nonaligned movement," was soon revealed to be...

Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism. BY VICTORIA CLARK. Yale University Press, 2007, 344 PP. $28.00. Allies for Armageddon traces the history of Christian Zionism from its sixteenth-century Calvinist roots to today's...

The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World. BY MOHAMMED AYOOB. University of Michigan Press, 2007, 232 pp. $65.00 (paper, $22.95). How refreshing it is to have a book on this subject that gets around to...

Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, 2002-7.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, 2002-7. By ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI. Columbia University Press, 2007, 224 pp. $24.95. The Taliban were routed but not defeated in the dying days of 2001. This detailed...

Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia.(Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. BY RICHARD J. SAMUELS. Cornell University Press, 2007, 296 pp. $29.95. Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State. EDITED BY THOMAS U....