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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg. By Christopher Coker. Visions of world community. By Jens Bartelson. Rethinking world politics: a theory of transnational neopluralism. By Philip G. Cerny. Intenational law, human rights and ethics The limits of ethics in International Relations: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition. By David Boucher. The fog of law: pragmatism, security and international law. By Michael J. Glennon. Just war on terror? A Christian and Muslim response. Edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker. International organization and foreign policy Deadlocks in multilateral negotiations: causes and solutions. Edited by Amrita Narlikar. A history of diplomacy. By Jeremy Black. The secret state: preparing for the worst, 1945–2010. By Peter Hennessy. The ultimate weapon is no weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace. By Shannon D. Beebe and Mary Kaldor. The problem of force: grappling with the global battlefield. By Simon W. Murden. Governance, civil society and cultural politics Apart: alienated and engaged Muslims in the West. By Justin Gest. Political economy, economics and development Capital ideas: the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization. By Jeffrey M. Chwieroth. History M16: the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–1949. By Keith Jeffery. Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. David Killingray with Martin Plaut. Red plenty: inside the fifties’ Soviet dream. By Francis Spufford. Peru and the United States, 1960–1975: how their ambassadors managed foreign relations in a turbulent era. By Richard J. Walter. Europe In search of the Balkan recovery: the political and economic reemergence of SouthEastern Europe. By Christopher Cviic and Peter Sanfey. Russia and Eurasia Nationalist imaginings on the Russian past: Anatolii Fomenko and the rise of alternative history in post-communist Russia. By Konstantin Sheiko with Stephen Brown. The new nobility: the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB. By Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan. Persian dreams: Moscow and Tehran since the fall of the Shah. By John W. Parker. Middle East and North Africa Meccanomics: the march of the new Muslim middle class. By Vali Nasr. Invisible war: the United States and the Iraq sanctions. By Joy Gordon. Islam and peacemaking in the Middle East. By Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said. Sub-Saharan Africa Blood on the stone: greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade. By Ian Smillie. From blood diamonds to the Kimberley Process: how NGOs cleaned up the global diamond industry. By Franziska Bieri. Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid. By Peter Gill. The Ethiopian Revolution: war in the Horn of Africa. By Gebru Tareke. Zimbabwe's exodus: crisis, migration, survival. Edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera. Ending apartheid. By J. E. Spence and David Welsh. South Asia The most dangerous place: Pakistan's lawless frontier. By Imtiaz Gul. The Afghanistan-Pakistan theater: militant Islam, security and stability. Edited by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Clifford May. Seeds of terror: how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters. Opium: uncovering the politics of the poppy. By Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy. North America Washington rules: America's path to permanent war. By Andrew J. Bacevich. Advancing democracy abroad: why we should and how we can. By Michael McFaul. The survival and the success of liberty: a democracy agenda for U.S. foreign policy. By Morton H. Halperin and Michael Hochman Fuchs. Latin America and Caribbean Evo Morales: the extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. By Martin Sivak. Amexica: war along the borderline. By Ed Vulliamy. Mexico: narco-violence and a failed state? By George W. Grayson. Cuba: what everyone needs to know. By Julia E. Sweig.

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