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On Belonging

What we owe people who stay.

  • Joseph H. Carens

No Peace, No War

With world attention now focused on the tsunami and its devastating effects, the story of the Bindunuwewa massacre is easy to forget.

  • Alan Keenan

Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

  • Helena Cobban

Hungry for Air

Learning the language of torture.

  • Deborah Stone

The Blemish of Conquest

Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq?

  • Martin van Creveld

The Good Empire

Should we pick up where the British left off?

  • Vivek Chibber

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Cold War Casualties

How our claim of victory distorts American foreign policy.

  • Neta C. Crawford

Best Intentions

The story of Tanzania’s people’s park.

  • Christine J. Walley

What Went Wrong

Why the United States must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

  • Rajan Menon

Rich World, Poor World

On Francis Fukuyama’s State-Building.

  • Mick Moore

Iraq’s Chaos

Why the insurgency won't go away.

  • Ahmed S. Hashim

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

  • Colin Dayan

Tragedy in Darfur

On understanding and ending the horror.

  • Alex de Waal

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

Russia’s Quagmire

On ending the standoff in Chechnya.

  • Rajan Menon

Body of the Nation

Why women were mutliated in Gujarat.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Chameleon

Does Joschka Fischer really believe in anything?

  • Paul Hockenos

Reading China

What American conventional wisdom gets wrong.

  • Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Dead End

Is there a future for secular Palestinian nationalism?

  • Helena Cobban

Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

  • John R. Bowen

Common Ground

An immigration crisis in the European Union.

  • Michael Standaert

The Wrong Lessons

The vanishing legacy of Operation Restore Hope.

  • Alex de Waal

Healing Rwanda

Can an international court deliver justice?

  • Helena Cobban

Exporting Democracy

The UN and the rebuilding of Kosova.

  • Ralph Cintron
  • Stevan Weine
  • Ferid Agani
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