Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia
by Pamela Constable
" . . . Constable's combination of the public and the private gives character and authority to her account, making this far more profound than either a mere travelogue or a reporting of political events."  —Lucian W. Pye
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The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
" . . . an original, probing, and engaging examination of conservative politics in America. . . . The Right Nation is part social analysis, part history of ideas that examines how conservative ideology became such a defining feature of American life.   —Daniel Casse
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From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map
by Edward W. Said
"With a slashing style worthy of Jonathan Swift, Said is ever evocative."  —L. Carl Brown
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From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations
by Amitai Etzioni
"In this sweeping vision of an emerging world community, Etzioni, a distinguished sociologist and leading communitarian thinker, lays out a world order that charts a path between power-oriented realism and law-oriented liberalism."  —G. John Ikenberry
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Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security
by Shireen T. Hunter
"To say this is an encyclopedia of Islam in Russia would be to slight the book's rich analysis. But to avoid that description would be to understate how thoroughly Hunter and her colleagues cover every aspect of the subject . . . "  —Robert Legvold
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