Before the Next Attack
by Bruce Ackerman
"In this brilliant study, a Yale legal scholar outlines proposals aimed to prevent the abuses of presidential power that could all too easily result from a future attack." —G. John Ikenberry
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The Global Cold War
by Odd Arne Westad
"Westad's account is sharply observed and deeply researched. . . . As an exposition of Soviet decision-making relating to the Cuban and Vietnamese revolutions and Afghanistan, this book is superb: few scholars could match Westad's mastery of the sources." —Lawrence D. Freedman
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At Canaan's Edge
by Taylor Branch
"For students of American politics and history, this book is an extraordinary history of the ways that foreign and domestic policy overlap. . . . At Canaan's Edge is a book that demands to be read." —Walter Russell Mead
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The Accidental President of Brazil
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso with Brian Winter
"Readers with even a passing curiosity about Brazil will enjoy — and all aspiring Latin American politicians should study — this rare "lessons learned" memoir by one of the foremost statesmen of our times." —Richard Feinberg
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Scars of War, Wounds of Peace
by Schlomo Ben-Ami
"Telling the story largely in terms of representative political figures, Ben-Ami weaves a rich tableau of individual leaders and the more elusive social forces and mindsets that guided their actions. This is a book that the layperson will read with profit and the old Middle East hand will ponder and annotate." —L. Carl Brown
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Surviving the Slaughter
by Marie Beatrice Umutesi
"Umutesi's remarkable narrative deserves to be read widely. . . . Passages of Umutesi's book rank with some of the most effective antiwar literature of the twentieth century. " —Nicolas Van De Walle
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