Politics of Russia Books & Reviews

Dreaming Europe in a Wide-Awake World

When it comes to Europe's gilded future, success is always just around the corner. Europeanists need to wake up--or risk being left behind by an unlikely coalition.

Russia's Straight-Talk Express

Yevgeny Primakov hates to say "I told you so", but....

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Bad Laws Make Bad Judges

Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.

The Best Defense

Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.

Kaplan's War

Robert Kaplan advocates a pagan ethos for American statesmen in the 21st century, but not all pagans think alike.

Riding the Tiger

Preventing the spread of atomic weaponry is less in our control than we think.

Subverting Kant

An Irishman of indefatiguable mind and rare sensibilities.

Nature's Pitchfork

The sky is falling, really.

Attraction and Chastisement

The counterinsurgency that worked--a century ago.

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May 26, 2012