Invasion of Iraq Books & Reviews

Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2006
A review of The J Curve by Ian Bremmer and Winning the Un-War by Charles Peña.  Two authors turn their critical, discerning eye on the foibles of U.S. counter-terror and nation-building strategy. Just one offers a constructive course

Patriot Games

Zeyno Baran | Mar 01, 2006
The Tom Clancys of Turkey have a clear and present bias.

Iran's Atomic Journey

Ilan Berman | Jun 01, 2005
Al J. Venter traces the history of the Iranian nuclear project.

FDR's Legacy

Martin Walker | Dec 01, 2003
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great president.  Is Conrad Black a great biographer?

Revolutionary Nepotism

Steve Sailer | Dec 01, 2003
Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 01, 2003
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

John Lukacs | Sep 01, 2003
A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

Power Steering

Walter A. McDougall | Dec 01, 2002
Two optimistic portrayals of the international future--by political scientists Joseph Nye and Michael Mandelbaum--go under a historian's scalpel.

Fighting Men

Geoffrey Parker | Sep 01, 2002
Eliot Cohen's look at the greatest democratic statesman of recent centuries affirms Clemenceau's quip that war is too important to be left to the generals--even American generals.

The Four Schoolmasters

H. W. Brands | Dec 01, 2001
Walter Russell Mead's new book deploys the ideas and heirs of Hamilton, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson to illuminate the future of U.S. foreign policy.

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