Book reviews

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Book reviewed in this articles. Human rights and ethics Terrorism, human rights and the case for world government. By Louis P. Pojman. International law and organization After anarchy: legitimacy and power in the United Nations Security Council. By Ian Hurd. Foreign policy US policy toward Israel: the role of political culture in defining the ‘special relationship’. By Elizabeth Stephens. China in Africa. By Chris Alden. Conflict, security and armed forces Getting in: mediators’ entry into the settlement of African conflicts. By Mohammed O. Maundi, I. William Zartman, Gilbert M. Khadiagala and Kwaku Nuamah. Arguing the just war in Islam. By John Kelsay. The nuclear taboo: the United States and the non-use of nuclear weapons since 1945. By Nina Tannenwald. Koran, Kalashnikov and laptop: the neo-Taleban insurgency in Afghanistan. By Antonio Giustozzi. Political economy, economics and development The WTO after Hong Kong: progress in, and prospects for, the Doha Development Agenda. Edited by Donna Lee and Rorden Wilkinson. Global outlaws: crime, money and power in the contemporary world. By Carolyn Nordstrom. Capitalism without democracy: the private sector in contemporary China. By Kellee S. Tsai. Ethnicity and cultural politics The politics of the veil. By Joan Wallach Scott. History Summits: six meetings that shaped the twentieth century. By David Reynolds. Fateful choices: ten decisions that changed the world, 1940–1941. By Ian Kershaw. The great partition: the making of India and Pakistan. By Yasmin Khan. Napoleon in Egypt: the greatest glory. By Paul Strathern. Napoleon's Egypt: invading the Middle East. By Juan Cole. Triumph forsaken: the Vietnam War, 1954–1965. By Mark Moyar. Before the killing fields: witness to Cambodia and the Vietnam War. By Leslie Fielding. The history of the PRC, 1949–76. Edited by Julia Strauss. Europe Fianna Fáil, Irish republicanism and the Northern Ireland troubles, 1968–2005. By Catherine O'Donnell. Middle East and North Africa Les Palestiniens: peuple de réfugiés? By Aude Signoles. Algeria: anger of the dispossessed. By Martin Evans and John Phillips. Sub-Saharan Africa Liberals, Marxists and Nationalists: competing interpretations of South African history. By Merle Lipton. Asia and Pacific Ethnic warfare in Sri Lanka and the UN crisis. By William Clarance. Japan rising: the resurgence of Japanese power and purpose. By Kenneth B. Pyle. China: fragile superpower. By Susan L. Shirk. East Asian visions: perspectives on economic development. Edited by Indermit Gill, Yukon Huang and Homi Kharas. India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy. By Ramachandra Guha. North America Freedom's power: the true force of liberalism. By Paul Starr. Winning the right war: the path to security for America and the world. By Philip H. Gordon. A pact with the devil: Washington's bid for world supremacy and the betrayal of the American promise. By Tony Smith. Latin America and Caribbean Puerto Rico in the American century: a history since 1898. By César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe.