Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy
by Stephen M. Walt
"Americans tend to see U.S. preeminence as benign or positive — but around the world, it arouses worry, fear, and resentment. In this landmark book on U.S. power and grand strategy in the age of unipolarity, Walt provides the most lucid and sophisticated account yet of why these negative reactions arise." —G. John Ikenberry
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Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons
by Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty
". . . original and substantial . . . the value of [Ganguly and Hagerty's] book lies in its systematic analysis of the six crises that have occurred since Indian-Pakistani relations acquired a nuclear dimension." —Lawrence D. Freedman
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Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem — and What We Should Do About It
by Noah Feldman
". . . [a] rich and rewarding book. Feldman's brief but brilliant analysis of the recent Supreme Court approach to church-state issues is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the contemporary debate. . . . a superb job of making complex legal and historical information on an important public debate usefully accessible." —Walter Russell Mead
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France and the French: La Vie en Bleu Since 1900
by Rod Kedward
" . . . a sweeping narration of an extraordinarily complex, agitated, often ferocious, and profoundly confusing period of history." —Stanley Hoffmann
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NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges
by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott
"All of us seeking respite from the highly partisan, often surreal shouting matches over trade policy are deeply in debt to Hufbauer and Schott for this definitive, comprehensive assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement's first decade. . . . Every international economist will want a copy of this exemplary analysis of public policy on his or her bookshelf." —Richard Feinberg
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by Anthony Shadid
"Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his work in The Washington Post, Shadid, an Arabic-speaking American of Lebanese ancestry, offers a gripping account of just what the subtitle describes." —L. Carl Brown
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