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
The Tom Clancys of Turkey have a clear and present bias.
Al J. Venter traces the history of the Iranian nuclear project.
In the Cold War, Reagan overreached--and hit the mark.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great president. Is Conrad Black a great biographer?
Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.
A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.
Two optimistic portrayals of the international future--by political scientists Joseph Nye and Michael Mandelbaum--go under a historian's scalpel.
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.