BOOK REVIEWS

We are continuously seeking reviews of newly published books and reviews providing a different perspective on critical and influential books. If you are interested in submitting a review, you may choose from the listed books below, or we can obtain a text you believe is important and wish to review. Please direct all book review inquiries to diplomacyjournal@shu.edu c/o Book Review.

International Military Aspects
War Economics in a Regional Context by Michael Pugh, Neil Cooper, and Jonathan Goodhand

International Economics and Trade
Guns, God, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International Political Economy Edited by Mary Ann Tertreault and Robert A. Denemark

International Health Issues

International Political and Legal Issues
Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy by Helmut K Anheier
Diplomatic Handbook by Ralph G. Feltman
Democracy in Question by Alan Keenan
European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous People: the Moral Backwardness of International Society by Paul Keal
Globalizing Civil Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action edited by John Clark
Institutions for the Common Good: International Protection Regimes in International Society by Bruce Cronin
The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace by Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein, fwd by George Soros
Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt, and Murray Stewart
How Democracies Lose Small Wars by Gil Merom

Regional

Asia
Asian Security Order by Muthiah Alagappa
Developing China’s West edited by Y.M. Yeung and Shen Jianfa
Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia edited by Michael Krepon

Africa
Women and Development in Africa by Michael Kevane

Americas

Pacific

Europe
Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia edited by Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, and Vera Kaplan

Middle East
The Iraqi Predicament by Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline Ismael