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Alamdari, Kazem, Why the Middle East Lagged Behind: The Case of Iran | Read the Review

Alesina, Albert and Francesco Giavazzi, The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline | Read the Review

Anderson, David L. The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War | Read the Review

Barnes, Bruce E. Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific | Read the Review

Binnendijk, Hans and Richard L. Kugler, Seeing the Elephant: The U.S. Role in Global Security | Read the Review

Bissell, Tom, The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam | Read the Review

Black, Jeremy, War in European History, 1494-1660 | Read the Review

Blatt, Harvey, America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? | Read the Review

Brigham, Robert K. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army | Read the Review

Brooks, Risa A. Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment | Read the Review

Campbell, Colin and Michael Barzelay, Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force | Read the Review

Cofman, Tamara, Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy | Read the Review

Coleman, Katharina P. International Organizations and Peace Enforcement Operations: The Politics of International Legitimacy | Read the Review

Conkin, Paul K. The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100 | Read the Review

Cook, Jonathan, Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East | Read the Review

Cook, Steven A. Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey | Read the Review

Corera, Gordon, Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network | Read the Review

Creswell, Michael, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe | Read the Review

d'Appollonia and Simon Reich, Immigration, Integration, and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective | Read the Review

Datta, Rekha, Beyond Realism: Human Security in India and Pakistan in the Twenty-First Century | Read the Review

Davis, Lynn E., et al. Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Army Planning and Operations | Read the Review

Davis, William C. and James I. Robertson Jr., edited, Virginia at War, 1862 | Read the Review

Deni, John R. Alliance Management and Maintenance: Restructuring NATO for the 21st Century | Read the Review

Diamond, Larry and Marc F. Plattner, edited, Electoral Systems and Democracy | Read the Review

Dobbins, James, et al, After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush | Read the Review

Dobbins, James, et al, The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq | Read the Review

Dominguez, Jorge I. and Anthony Jones, edited, The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research | Read the Review

Doughty, Robert A. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War | Read the Review

Durning, Marvin B. World Turned Upside Down: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Early Cold War Struggle for Germany | Read the Review

Ellison, Lt-Gen Gerald, The Perils of Amateur Strategy | Read the Review

Erickson, Andrew S., edited by, China's Future Nuclear Submarine Force | Read the Review

Feldman, David Lewis, Water Policy for Sustainable Development | Read the Review

Ferrell, Robert H. America's Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argone, 1918 | Read the Review

Fisher, Louis, Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism | Read the Review

Flynn, Stephen, The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient National | Read the Review

Galama, Titus and James Hosek, US Competitiveness in Science and Technology | Read the Review

Gelvin, James I. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War | Read the Review

George, Roger Z. and James B. Bruce, edited, Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations | Read the Review

Ghani, Ashraf and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World | Read the Review

Gibson, Christopher P. Securing the State: Reforming the National Security Decision-Making Process at the Civil-Military Nexus | Read the Review

Gillespie, Paul G. Weapons of Choice: The Development of Precision Guided Munitions | Read the Review

Gilman, Nils, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America | Read the Review

Gingrich, Newt and Terry L. Maple, foreword by E. O. Wilson, A Contract with the Earth | Read the Review

Glatzer, Miguel and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State | Read the Review

Greenberg, Karen J. The Torture Debate in America | Read the Review

Gupta, Amit, edited by, Strategic Stability in Asia | Read the Review

Haley, P. Edward, Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy | Read the Review

Harms, Gregory and with Todd M. Ferry, The Palestine Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction | Read the Review

Haugaard, Mark and Howard H. Lentner, Hegemony and Power: Consensus and Coercion in Contemporary Politics | Read the Review

Helmus, Todd C., Christopher Paul and Russell W. Glenn, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support to Theaters of Operation | Read the Review

Herspring, Dale R. Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power | Read the Review

Higham, Robin, and Stephen J. Harris, edited by, Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat | Read the Review

Hoehn, Andrew R., Adam Grissom, David A. Ochmanek, David A. Shlapak and Alan J. Vick, A New Division of Labor: Meeting America's Security Challenges beyond Iraq | Read the Review

Hoda, Anwarul and Ashok Gulati, WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries | Read the Review

Hosmer, Stephen T. Why the Iraqi Resistance to the Coalition Invasion was so Weak | Read the Review

Jackson, Brian A., et al., Breaching the Fortress Wall: Understanding Terrorist Efforts to Overcome Defensive Technologies | Read the Review

Jalal, Ayesha, Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia | Read the Review

Johnson, David E. Learning Large Lessons: The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post-Cold War Era | Read the Review

Jorgensen, edited by Rikki Frank, Human Rights in the Global Information Society | Read the Review

Judt, Tony, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 | Read the Review

Kagan, Frederick W. Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy | Read the Review

Kagan, Frederick W. Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy | Read the Review

Kalyvas, Stathis N. The Logic of Violence | Read the Review

Karabell, Zachary, Peace Be upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence in the Middle East | Read the Review

Kashmeri, Sarwar, America and Europe After 9/11 and Iraq: The Great Divide | Read the Review

Kaufman, Robert G. In Defense of the Bush Doctrine | Read the Review

Keller, William W. and Thomas G. Rawski, edited, China's Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia | Read the Review

Ketcham, Ralph, The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era | Read the Review

Krenn, Michael L. The Color of Empire: Race and American Foreign Relations | Read the Review

Kolditz, Thomas A. In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It | Read the Review

Laruelle, Marlene, Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire | Read the Review

Leonard, Mark, What Does China Think? | Read the Review

Le Sage, Andre, edited by, African Counterterrorism Cooperation: Assessing Regional and Subregional Initiatives | Read the Review

Lewis, W. David, Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century | Read the Review

Linn, Brian McAllister, The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War | Read the Review

Long, Austin, Deterrence: From Cold War to Long War--Lessons from Six decades of RAND Research | Read the Review

Long, Austin, On Other War: Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counter-Insurgency Research | Read the Review

Löwenheim, Oded, Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority | Read the Review

Litwak, Robert S. Regime Change: A U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11 | Read the Review

Lynch, Timothy J. and Robert S. Singh, After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy | Read the Review

Machamer, Peter and Gereon Wolters, edited, Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics | Read the Review

Maoz, Zeev, Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy | Read the Review

May, Larry, War Crimes and Just War | Read the Review

Megargee, Geoffrey P. War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 | Read the Review

Miller, Edward S. Bankrupting the Enemy: The US Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor | Read the Review

Millett, Allan R. The Korean War | Read the Review

Miscamble, Wilson D. From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War | Read the Review

Moorcraft, Paul L. and Philip M. Taylor, Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting | Read the Review

Moyar, Mark, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 | Read the Review

Murphy, Paul J. The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror | Read the Review

Murphy, Walter F. Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order | Read the Review

Musharraf, Pervez, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir | Read the Review

Neilson, Keith, Britain, Soviet Russia, and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939, | Read the Review

Nelson, Paul J. and Ellen Dorsey, New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs | Read the Review

Olsen, John Andreas, John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power | Read the Review

Pallitto, Robert M. and Williams G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law | Read the Review

Paarlberg, Robert, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is being kept out of Africa | Read the Review

Palmer, Michael A. The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation | Read the Review

Palmer, Scott W. Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia | Read the Review

Peden, G. C. Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs | Read the Review

Phares, Walid, Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America | Read the Review

Pirchner, Herman, Jr. Reviving Greater Russia? The Future of Russia's Borders with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Ukraine | Read the Review

Plattner, Marc F. The State of India's Democracy | Read the Review

Polmar, Norman and Robert S. Norris, The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: A History of Weapons and Delivery Systems since 1945 | Read the Review

Pritchard, Michael S. Professional Integrity: Thinking Ethically | Read the Review

Rabasa, Angel., Peter Chalk, Kim Cragin, Sara A. Daly, Heather S. Gregg, Theodore W. Karasik, Kevin A. O'Brien, and William Rosenau, Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 1, The Global Johadist Movement and Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 2, The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe | Read the Review

Record, Jeffrey, Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win | Read the Review

Reed, Charles and David Ryall, edited by, The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century | Read the Review

Rinnawi, Khalil, Instant Nationalism: McArabism, al-Jazeera and Transnational Media in the Arab World | Read the Review

Risen, James, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration | Read the Review

Ross, Marc Howard, Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict | Read the Review

Schnabel, Rockwell A. The Next Superpower? The Rise of Europe and Its Challenge to the United States | Read the Review

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh, Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man | Read the Review

Shirlow, Peter and Kieran McEvoy, Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland | Read the Review

Shore, Zachary, Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe | Read the Review

Siegel, Mona L. The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940 | Read the Review

Sinno, Abdulkader H. Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond | Read the Review

Smith, Derek D. Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction | Read the Review

Smith, Rupert, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World | Read the Review

Snyder, Don, Patrick Mills, Katherine Comanor, and Charles Robert Roll, Jr. Sustaining Air Force Space Systems, A Model for the Global Positioning System | Read the Review

Stephens, Alan and Nicola Baker, Making Sense of War: Strategy for the 21st Century | Read the Review

Stulberg, Adam N., Michael D. Salomone and with Austin G. Long, Managing Defense Transformation: Agency, Culture, and Service Change | Read the Review

Swaine, Michael D., Andrew N. D. Yang, and Evan S. Medeiros with Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security | Read the Review

Tannenwald, Nina, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons since 1945 | Read the Review

Tierney, John J., Jr. Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History | Read the Review

Wieviorka, Olivier, Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris | Read the Review

Williams, Michael, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgement | Read the Review

Winkler, Jonathan Reed, Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I | Read the Review

Wolf, Charles, Jr. Looking Backward and Forward: Policy Issues in the Twenty-First Century | Read the Review

Wood, Elisabeth Jean, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador | Read the Review

Younossi, Obaid, et. Improving the Cost Estimation of Space Systems: Past Lessons and Future Recommendations | Read the Review