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THOMAS S. BURNS. Rome and the Barbarians, 100 BC-AD 400.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 461. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter S. WellsCATHARINE EDWARDS and GREG WOOLF, eds. Rome the Cosmopolis.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 249. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard J. A. TalbertWALTER E. KAEGI. Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Clive FossALFRED W. CROSBY. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900,2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 368. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey W. RiceDONALD B. FREEMAN. The Straits of Malacca: Gateway or Gauntlet?Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xxix, 249. $55.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Nicholas TarlingRICHARD BARBER. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 463. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Ian N. WoodMARTIN DIMNIK. The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146–1246.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxxviii, 437. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by David GoldfrankHERBERT FRANKE. Krieg und Krieger im chinesischen Mittelalter (12. bis 14. Jahrhundert): Drei Studien.Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 245. €49.00, paper. Reviewed by Nicola Di CosmoPAULA SUTTER FICHTNER. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490–1848.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 222. $22.95 (US), paper; MICHAEL HOCHEDLINGER. Austria's Wars of Emergency: War, State, and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1683–1797.London and New York: Longman, 2003. Pp. xviii, 466. £24.99, paper. Reviewed by Karl A. RoiderMARY ANN LYONS. Franco-Irish Relations, 1500–1610: Politics, Migration, and Trade.Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. Pp. xiii, 242. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald S. LoveGARY P. LEUPP. Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543–1900.New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. xii, 313. $125.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian NishJEROEN DUINDAM. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550–1780.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 349. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger MettamMARSHALL T. POE. The Russian Moment in World History.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 116. $17.95 (US). Reviewed by John P. LeDonneCAESAR E. FARAH, ed. and trans. An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Travels of Elias al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 117. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard E. BoyerBENNO TESCHKE. The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations.London and New York: Verso, 2003. Pp. xii, 308. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David ParrottGLYN WILLIAMS. Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 467. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. DavisEDWARD CORP, with contributions by EDWARD GREGG, HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL, and GEOFFREY SCOTT. A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689–1718.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 386. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew C. ThompsonANNE SALMOND. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 506. $30.00 (US); NICHOLAS THOMAS. Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook.Toronto: Viking Canada, 2003. Pp. xxxvii, 467. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian C. CampbellSANKAR MUTHU. Enlightenment against Empire.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 348. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Dane KennedyDANIEL MORAN and ARTHUR WALDRON, eds. The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 268. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John Lawrence ToneALAN MACFARLANE. The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan, and the Malthusian Trap.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxxv, 427. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Sheldon WattsLAURENT DUBOIS. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 357. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman HampsonVICTORIA JOAN MOESSNER, trans. The First Russian Voyage around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern (1803–1806).Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 482. $35.95 (US). Reviewed by Glynn WilliamsSTEVE STRIFFLER and MARK MOBERG, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 364. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lester D. LangleyCHRISTOPHER CLARK and WOLFRAM KAISER, eds. Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 368. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Ann Pottinger SaabHEINZ DUCHHARDT and MALGORZATA MORAWIEC, eds. Vision Europa: Deutsche und polnische Föderationspläne des lg. undfrühen 20. Jahrhunderts.Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2003. Pp. xiv, 137. €24.80. Reviewed by Richard BlankePHILIPPA LEVINE. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.London and New York: Roudedge, 2003. Pp. ix, 480. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Linda BryderDAVID PAULL NICKLES. Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 265. $30.95 (US). Reviewed by H. W. BrandsPATRIZIA PALUMBO, ed. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 332. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by R. J. B. BosworthHODONG KIM. Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 295. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Morris RossabiGEOFFREY WAWRO. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 327. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by H. Joachim MaitreANDREW PORTER, ed. The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914.Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Daniel Y. K. KwanTHOMAS SCHOONOVER. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward P. CrapolDAVID C. ENGERMAN. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 399. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by David S. FoglesongGÜNTHER KRONENBITTER. ‘Krieg im Frieden’: Die Führung der k.u.k. Armee und die Groβmachtpolitik Österreichs-Ungarns, 1906–1914.Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003. Pp. vii, 579. €79.80. Reviewed by Lothar HöbeltBRITON C. BUSCH, ed. Canada and the Great War: Western Front Association Papers.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 240. $24.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond MortonROBERT BICKERS. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai.New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. 409. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Parks M. CobleTIBOR FRANK, ed and intro. Discussing Hitler: Advisers of US Diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934–1941.Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2003. Pp. 374. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Bennett KovrigPHILIP SNOW. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 477. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish IonMAX PAUL FRIEDMAN. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Reinhard R. DoerriesPHILIP SNOW. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 477. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish IonMAX PAUL FRIEDMAN. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Reinhard R. DoerriesDONALD THOMAS. An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers, and Civilians in the Second World War. London: John Murray, 2003. Pp. xv, 429. £20.00. Reviewed by Paul JankowskiREINHARD R. DOERRIES, ed. Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 382. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman J. W. GodaGILES SCOTT-SMITH and HANS KRABBENDAM, eds. The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945–1960. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. 335. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ronald J. GrantieriSANDHYA SHUKLA. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 322. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kumkum ChatterjeeYALE RICHMOND. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Frank NinkovichLIONEL CARTER, ed. and new intro. Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty, 22 March–15 August, 1947. New Delhi: Manohar, 2003. Pp. 397. Rs 850. Reviewed by A. Martin WainwrightORNA ALMOG. Britain, Israel, and the United States, 1955–1958: Beyond Suez. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 243. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Nigel J. AshtonMICHAEL D. STEVENSON, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: XXIV: 1957–1958, Part I. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2003. Pp. xlix, 1,377. $119.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Bruce MuirheadHOWARD B. SCHAFFER. Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xiv, 380. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by William J. DuikerJEFFREY KIMBALL. The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xvii, 352. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew PrestonPETER DALE SCOTT. Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Lanham: Rowman i& Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xix, 225. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by William O. Walker IIIPHILIP ROBINS. Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy since the Cold War. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 404. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank TachauRICHARD E. MATLAND and KATHLEEN A. MONTGOMERY, eds. Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 369. $165.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Éva FodorIKECHI MGBEOJI. Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 186. $80.00 (CDN), cloth; $24.95 (CDN)? paper. Reviewed by Christopher ClaphamMARY L. DUDZIAK, ed. September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 240. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by David A. ChartersJENNIFER MILLIKEN, ed. State Failure, Collapse, and Reconstruction. Maiden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. x, 325. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kathleen HawkCOLIN S. GRAY. The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xi, 195. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. BacevichEMILY O. GOLDMAN and LESLIE C. ELIASON, eds. The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 415. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Colin S. GrayGEOFFREY TILL. Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2004. Pp. xvi, 430. $27.95 (US), paper; JOHN REEVE and DAVID STEVENS, eds. The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2003. Pp. xx, 363. $39.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Robert C. RubelSTACY BERGSTROM HALDI. Why Wars Widen: A Theory of Prédation and Balancing. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. x, 198. $62.50 (US). Reviewed by T. V. PaulPETER D. FEAVER and CHRISTOPHER GELPI. Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 236. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Walter La Feber

PETER S. WELLS. The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered. Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 335. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. EcksteinDAVID ABULAFIA, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: V: c. 1198–c. 1300. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 1,045. $120.00 (US). Reviewed by T. N. BissonCHRISTOPH T. MAIER. Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 280. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by James A. BrundageGAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542–1773. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 310. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by John E. Wills Jr.KARIN FRIEDRICH. The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland, and Liberty, 1569–1772. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 280. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard J. ButterwickLUCIEN BÉLY. La société des princes: XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1999. Pp. 651. FF 195.00. Reviewed by Randall LesafferANN SAVOURS. The Search for the North West Passage. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. x, 342. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Trevor H. LevereALISON GAMES. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 322. $45.00(US). Reviewed by Natalie ZacekGLYN WILLIAMS. The Prize of All the Oceans: The Triumph and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage round the World. London: HarperCollins, 1999. Pp. xxi, 264. £19.99. Reviewed by Philip WoodfineTIMOTHY J. SHANNON. Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 268. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Eric HinderakerNEVILLE THOMPSON. Earl Bathurst and the British Empire, 1762–1834. London: Leo Cooper, 1999. Pp. xii, 308. £25.00. Reviewed by J. E. CooksonGEORGE FORSTEK. A Voyage round the World: I and II, ed. Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof, assisted by Jennifer Newell. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. xlvii, 475 (I); xv, 477–860 (II). $115.00 (US), for the set. Reviewed by Alan FrostDICK DOUWES. The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. viii, 244. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Daniel CreceliusEFRAIM KARSH and INARI KARSH. Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 409. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Feroz AhmadDAVID VITAL. A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 944. £30.00. Reviewed by M. BerkowitzBRIAN DOLAN. Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 232. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jeremy BlackCATHRYN BRENNAN and MURRAY FRAME, eds. Russia and the Wider World in Historical Perspective: Essays for Paul Dukes. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xviii, 234. $68.00 (US). Reviewed by Matthew S. AndersonLAMIN SANNEH. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 291. $29.95(US). Reviewed by Graham Russell HodgesJOHN B. HATTENDORF. Naval History and Maritime Strategy: Collected Essays. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. x, 284. $29.50 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. HerwigULRIKE KIRCHBERGER. Aspekte deutsch-britischer Expansion: Die Überseeinteressen der deutschen Migranten in Großbritannien in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 508. DM 166.00. Reviewed by Herman J. HieryWINFRIED BAUMGART. Europäsches Konzert und nationale Bewegung: Internationale Beziehungen, 1830–1878. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1999. Pp. xv, 600. DM 188.00. Reviewed by Ann Pottinger SaabWINFRIED BAUMGART. The Crimean War, 1853–1856. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 244. £16.99, paper. Reviewed by David GoldfrankANTHONY KIRK-GREENE. Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858–1966. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xv, 347. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by D. K. FieldhouseJ. E. HOARE. Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and Their Embassies in China, Japan, and Korea from 185g to the Present. Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1999; dist. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. xvi, 238. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian NishLAWRENCE A. CLAYTON. Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 363. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by David RyanJENNIFER M. T. CARTER. Painting the Islands Vermilion: Archibald Watson and the Brig ‘Carl’. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 279. $45.00 (AUS). Reviewed by Clive MooreNITZA BERKOVITCH. From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 207. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Francisco O. RamirezMICHAEL HUGHES. Diplomacy before the Russian Revolution: Britain, Russia, and the Old Diplomacy, 1894–1917. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 222. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith NeilsonRAANAN REIN, ed. Spain and the Mediterranean since 1898. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. 255. $54.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael RichardsJAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON. America's Boy: A Century of Colonialism in the Philippines. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. Pp. xxv, 462. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas B. CullatherMICHAEL D. CALLAHAN. Mandates and Empire: The League of Nations and Africa, 1914–1931. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 297. $122.95 (US). Reviewed by James SearingJOHN F. WILLIAMS. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. x, 302. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Raymond EvansSUSAN ZEIGER. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 211. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Deborah MontgomerieLEO J. BACINO. Reconstructing Russia: US Policy in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–1922. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 244. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Benjamin D. RhodesBENJAMIN F. MARTIN. France and the Après Guerre, 1918–1924: Illusions and Disillusionment. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 278. $49.95 (US), cloth; $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joel BlattANTHONY HEYWOOD. Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 328. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by E. A. ReesLENNART SAMUELSON. 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Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 322. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Mary C. WilsonQIANG ZHAI. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 304. $82.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Williams J. DuikerDAVID J. BERCUSON. Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 269. $35.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Williams JohnstonSIMON DUKE. The Elusive Quest for European Security: From EDC to CFSP. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvii, 406. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Anne DeightonELIE PODEH. The Decline of Arab Unity: The Rise and Fall of the United Arab Republic. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 292. $115.95 (US). Reviewed by Philip S. KhouryDONETTE MURRAY. Kennedy, Macmillan, and Nuclear Weapons. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. x, 220. $65.00 (US). 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