Empires
by Herfried Münkler
"Münkler, a German political theorist, provides an illuminating survey of the sprawling history and theory of empire with an eye to making sense of today's unipolar order — and it joins Michael Doyle's Empires and Anthony Pagden's Peoples and Empires as one of the best single summary volumes." —G. John Ikenberry
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Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility
by Thérèse Delpech
"Those curious as to why France is at the forefront of efforts to curtail Iran's ambitions to become a nuclear power should read this wonderfully pugnacious book . . . For a short, sharp book on the current crisis and how it should be managed, it is hard to see how this could be bettered." —Lawrence D. Freedman
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Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
by Jorge G. Castañeda
"Castañeda is a wonderful writer — literate, lucid, iconoclastic — and guides the reader through the complex immigration debates with a firm yet responsive grip. . . . he also offers one of the best case studies so far of contemporary inter-American diplomacy." —Richard Feinberg
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Getting Russia Right
by Dmitri V. Trenin

Russia — Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
by Lilia Shevtsova

"Rarely have Westerners been more in need of help in understanding Russia than now, and one could ask for no better guides than Trenin and Shevtsova. Both combine extraordinary intellectual sophistication and an ability to think outside their national skins with hardheaded realism — analytic skills applied equally well to Western policies toward their country." —Robert Legvold
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