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LESS THAN 12 hours after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush proclaimed the start of a global war on terror. Ever since, there has been a vigorous debate about how [...]

At the end of this year, Europe is scheduled to take its first serious steps toward creating a credible unified military force. The clock began ticking at a December 1999 [...]

Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization. Edited by Andrew F. Cooper and Jorge Heine. United Nations University Press, 2009, 328 pp. $36.00. Here is an accessible compilation of [...]

The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler By Jeffrey Record: Potomac Books, 2006, 160, $24.95 This book is a model of how good historical analysis can usefully […]

The European Superpower By John McCormick: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 256, $85.00 As its title implies, this book does more than reject the oft-heard charge that Europe is in economic, military, […]

Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts By Simon Jenkins: Allen Lane, 2006, 384, $20.00 If the test of any revolution is how enduring it proves to be, then, […]

The New Global Puzzle: What World for the EU in 2025 By Edited by Nicole Gnesotto and Giovanni Grevi: Intstitute for Security Studies, 2006, 250, Free As part of an […]

Europe's Blurred Boundaries: Rethinking Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy By Charles Grant: Centre for European Reform, 2006, 78, $19.00 The European Union's enlargement process has arguably been Europe's greatest contribution to […]

Prevailing Against Terrorism: White Paper on Domestic Security Against Terrorism By Dominique De Villepin: La Documentation Francaise, 2006, 135, Free For all the talk of a 'transatlantic gap' on the […]

A RETURN TO REALISM Reading over President George W. Bush's March 2006 National Security Strategy, one would be hard-pressed to find much evidence that the president has backed away from [...]

FROM SOLIDARITY TO RECRIMINATION In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans and Europeans surprised each other in positive ways. George W. Bush, who had faced [...]

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. BY WILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK. Free Press, 2008, 464 pp. $28.00. For most Americans, the liberation of Europe [...]

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. BY TONY JUDT. Penguin Press, 2008, 464 pp. $29.95. Judt made his name during the 1990s writing about left-wing European intellectuals with a [...]

'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat': The Dire Warning; Churchill's First Speech as Prime Minister. BY JOHN LUKACS. Basic Books, 2008, 147 pp. $24.00. The horrifying challenges of the summer of [...]

Shifting Alliances: Europe, America, and the Future of Britain's Global Strategy. BY PATRICK DIAMOND. Politico's Publishing, 2008, 256 pp. $26.83. For the past 50 years, the United Kingdom's main foreign [...]

What's Wrong With the European Union and How to Fix It. BY SIMON HIX. Polity, 2008, 228 pp. $64.95 (paper, $22.95). Europe: The State of the Union. BY ANAND MENON. [...]

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe. BY JAMES SHEEHAN. Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 284 pp. $26.00. This gem of a book is the story of the [...]

Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time. BY BERNARD WASSERSTEIN. Oxford University Press, 2007, 928 pp. $45.00. Trying to write a single-volume 'history of Europe in our [...]

Over to You, Mr. Brown: How Labour Can Win Again. BY ANTHONY GIDDENS. Polity, 2007, 256 pp. $54.95. In 1998, the British sociologist Giddens published The Third Way, a sort [...]

Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany. BY PAUL HOCKENOS. Oxford University Press, 2008, 400 pp. $35.00. Joschka Fischer began his political [...]

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. BY PIERS BRENDON. Knopf, 2008, 816 pp. $37.50. Only a very confident historian with a massive, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched manuscript [...]

How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789. BY PATRICK WEIL. TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE PORTER. Duke University Press, 2008, 456 pp. $89.95 (paper, $24.95). Weil, a senior research [...]

European Military Crisis Management: Connecting Ambition and Reality. BY BASTIAN GIEGERICH. Routledge, 2008, 95 pp. $37.50. In December 1999, the European Union endorsed a 'headline goal' of being able by [...]

Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism. BY BERNARD-HENRI LEVY. Random House, 2008, 256 pp. $25.00. Levy burst onto the French intellectual scene in 1977 with the [...]

The French White Paper on Defence and National Security. BY THE WHITE PAPER COMMISSION. Odile Jacob, 2008, 336 pp. $19.95. The third official statement of French defense policy since the [...]

Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. BY MARK MAZOWER. Penguin Press, 2008, 768 pp. $39.95. The Nazis are rightly better remembered for their capacity to wage war than for [...]

Europe's Role in Nation-Building: From the Balkans to the Congo. BY JAMES DOBBINS, SETH G. JONES, KEITH CRANE, CHRISTOPHER S. CHIVVIS, ANDREW RADIN, F. STEPHEN LARRABEE, NORA BENSAHEL, BROOKE K. [...]

The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order. EDITED BY JEFFREY ANDERSON, G. JOHN IKENBERRY, AND THOMAS RISSE. Cornell University Press, 2008, 312 pp. $59.95 (paper, [...]

Can Europe and China Shape a New World Order? BY CHARLES GRANT. Center for European Reform, 2008, 59 pp. 10.00 £. Grant, the director of London's Center for European Reform, [...]

NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999. BY DAG HENRIKSEN. Naval Institute Press, 2007, 304 pp. $48.00 (paper, $24.00). The path to Kosovo's independence, proclaimed in [...]

Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft. BY MICHAEL MAKOVSKY. Yale University Press, 2007, 368 pp. $35.00. Previous studies of Winston Churchill's attitude toward 'the Jewish question' have portrayed the great [...]