March 2004    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, G. John Ikenberry gives his picks for the best books on political and legal issues.

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
John Robert McNeill and William Hardy McNeill
New York: W. W. Norton, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism
Marina Ottaway
Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knoweldge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
Ira Katznelson
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003
Read September/October 2003 review

The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force
Martha Finnemore
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003
Read January/February 2004 review

At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy
Henry R. Nau
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002
Read January/February 2004 review

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
New York: Penguin Press, 2004
Read March/April 2004 review

The Year in Books Index

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