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Reviews

Depreciation of Force: How to Win a Modern War
Murden S.W. The Problem of Force: Grappling with the Global Battlefield, Boulder, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2009. 234 p.

US Outer Space Policies: Pros and Cons
Joan Johnson-Freese. Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.178 р.

Non-State Actors in World Affairs
Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics / Helen V. Milner and Andrew Moravcsik (eds.). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 320 с.

Contemporary World Politics
Современная мировая политика: прикладной анализ / Отв. ред. А.Д. Богатуров. М.: Аспект Пресс, 2009. 588 с.

Two Perspectives on Space Security
Космос: оружие, дипломатия, безопасность / Под. ред. А. Арбатова, В. Дворкина. М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2009. 174 с.
James Clay Moltz. The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests. Stanford: Stanford Security Studies, 2008. 367 p.

Leading the USA: a Handbook for Would-Be Presidents
LEADING THE USA: A HANDBOOK FOR WOULD-BE PRESIDENTS Change for America : A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President / ed. M. Green, M. Jolin – NY.: Basic Books, 2009. 704 p.

Nuclear Weapons Testing in World Politics
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING IN WORLD POLITICS Ola Dahlman, Svein Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak. Nuclear Test Ban. Converting Political Vision to Reality. Springer Science + Business Media, 2009. 277 p.

Altruism and Profit in International Relations
ALTRUISM AND PROFIT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Brysk A. Global Good Samaritans. Human rights as foreign policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 287 p.

International Development and Liberal Transformation
Гжегож В. Колодко «Мир в движении». М.: Магистр, 2009. 575 с.

The Cost of Non-Recognition
Deon Geldenhuys. Contested States in World Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 295 p.

Russia in a Rethought World
Россия в современной системе обеспечения глобальной стабильности: политика и восприятие / Отв. ред. А. А. Кокошин. М.: Издательство ЛКИ, 2008. 208 с. Россия в формировании международной системы профилактики распространения оружия массового поражения / Отв. ред. А. А. Кокошин, А. Д. Богатуров. М.: КомКнига, 2008. 208 с.

Democracy and the Left Turn in Brazil
Окунева Л.С. Бразилия: особенности демократического проекта. Страницы новейшей политической истории латиноамериканского гиганта (1960-е гг.-2006 г.). М.: МГИМО-Университет, 2008. 823 с.

China in Central Asia
Marlene Laruelle, Sebastien Peyrouse. China as a Neighbor: Central Asian Perspectives and Strategies. Central Asia – Caucasus Institute. Silk Road Studies Program. 2009.

Transnational Trends in the World-System: Implications and Paradoxes
William I. Robinson. Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 412 p.

Effects of International Institutions and Liberalism on Eastern Europe
Rachel A. Epstein. In Pursuit of Liberalism. International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 280 p.

The Internet-Governance: Steering Not Rowing
John Mathiason. Internet Governance. The new frontier of global institutions. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 178 p.

The Legacy of the Portsmouth Treaty
Treaty of Portsmouth and its Legacies / Steven Ericson and Allen Hockley (eds.). Dartmouth: Dartmouth College Press, 2008. 249 p.

American Economic Model in Crisis
Phillips K. Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. New York: Viking Penguin, 2008. 239 p.

East Asian Integration: Geopolitical Interpretations
Ellen L. Frost Asia's New Regionalism. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. 293 p.

Asymmetrical Respouse in the New Century
Ознобищев С.К., Потапов В.Я., Скоков В.В. Как готовился «асимметричный ответ» на «Стратегическую оборонную инициативу» Р. Рейгана: Велихов, Кокошин и другие. М.: ЛЕНАНД, 2008. 56 с.

The European Union in World Politics
Stephan Keukeleire, Jennifer MacNaughtan. The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 374 p.

Political Governance of the World Trade System
David A. Deese. World Trade Politics: Power, Principles, and Leadership. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2008. 240 p.

Bifurcations in Political History
Кокошин А.А. О системном и ментальном подходах к мирополитическим исследованиям: краткий очерк. М.: URSS, 2008. 88 с.

Diagnosing the Bush Conservatism
David Frum. Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again. N.Y.: Doubleday, 2008. 214 p.

Power and Legitimacy in Contemporary World
Beyond Preemption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changing World / Ivo H. Daalder (ed.). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 190 p.

Shadow Economies as a Global Phenomenon
Napoleoni Loretta. Rogue Economics. Capitalism's new reality. New York – London – Melbourn – Toronto: Seven Stories Press, 2008. 307 p.

Russian Politics through American Lens
Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century and the Shadow of the Past (ed. Robert Legvold). New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 544 p.

American Lobbies and Israel
Mearsheimer J., Walt St. The Israel lobby and the US Foreign Policy. New York 2007. 484 р.

The Kosovo Trap
Jean-Arnault Derens. Le pie`ge du Kosovo. Paris: Editions Non Lieu, 2008. 393 p.

A Bomb for North Korean Comrades
Charles L. Pritchard. Failed Diplomacy. The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 228 p.

An Atomic Bazaar and a Nuclear Market
Joseph Cirincione. Bomb Scare: the History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 206 p.
William Langewiesche. The Atomic Bazaar: the Rise of the Nuclear Poor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 179 p.

Incentives and Obstacles to NATO Enlargement
Moore, Rebecca R. NATO's New Mission: Projecting Stability in a Post-Cold War World. – West-port (Connecticut), L.: Praeger Security International, 2007. 210 p.
Jones, Seath G. The Rise of European Security Cooperation. – Cambridge; N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 301 p.

What Is Europe's Business in East Asia?
Multiregionalism and Multilateralism. Asian-European Relations in a Global Context. Edited by Sebastien Bersick, Wim Stokhof, Paul van der Velde. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 192 p.

Policy Options for the Democrats
Ian Shapiro. Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. 192 p.

World Transformations Viewed through an American Lens
идеологическое отражение в сознании элит США и Западной Европы трансформаций политического миропорядка 1940–2000-х годов. М.: Крафт+, 2007. 464 с.

A Bomb for North Korean Comrades
Charles L. Pritchard. Failed Diplomacy. The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 228 p.

An Atomic Bazaar and a Nuclear Market
Joseph Cirincione. Bomb Scare: the History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 206 p.
William Langewiesche. The Atomic Bazaar: the Rise of the Nuclear Poor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 179 p.

Incentives and Obstacles to NATO Enlargement
Moore, Rebecca R. NATO's New Mission: Projecting Stability in a Post-Cold War World. – West-port (Connecticut), L.: Praeger Security International, 2007. 210 p.
Jones, Seath G. The Rise of European Security Cooperation. – Cambridge; N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 301 p.

What Is Europe's Business in East Asia?
Multiregionalism and Multilateralism. Asian-European Relations in a Global Context. Edited by Sebastien Bersick, Wim Stokhof, Paul van der Velde. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 192 p.

Policy Options for the Democrats
Ian Shapiro. Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. 192 p.

World Transformations Viewed through an American Lens
идеологическое отражение в сознании элит США и Западной Европы трансформаций политического миропорядка 1940–2000-х годов. М.: Крафт+, 2007. 464 с.

A Bomb for North Korean Comrades
Charles L. Pritchard. Failed Diplomacy. The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 228 p.

An Atomic Bazaar and a Nuclear Market
Joseph Cirincione. Bomb Scare: the History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 206 p.
William Langewiesche. The Atomic Bazaar: the Rise of the Nuclear Poor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 179 p.

Incentives and Obstacles to NATO Enlargement
Moore, Rebecca R. NATO's New Mission: Projecting Stability in a Post-Cold War World. – West-port (Connecticut), L.: Praeger Security International, 2007. 210 p.
Jones, Seath G. The Rise of European Security Cooperation. – Cambridge; N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 301 p.

What Is Europe's Business in East Asia?
Multiregionalism and Multilateralism. Asian-European Relations in a Global Context. Edited by Sebastien Bersick, Wim Stokhof, Paul van der Velde. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 192 p.

Policy Options for the Democrats
Ian Shapiro. Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. 192 p.

World Transformations Viewed through an American Lens
идеологическое отражение в сознании элит США и Западной Европы трансформаций политического миропорядка 1940–2000-х годов. М.: Крафт+, 2007. 464 с.

How Real is the «Iraq Syndrome»
Robert K. Brigham. Is Iraq Another Vietnam? N.Y.: Public Affairs, 2006. 208 p.

Temptation to Agree with Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski. Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 234 p.

A European Union's Strategic Culture: One or Many?
Christoph O'Meyer. The Quest for a European Strategic Culture. Changing Norms on Security and Defence in the European Union. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 232 p.

Efficiency of Global Governance
Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate / ed. by Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes E. Linn // Washington, D.C.: Brooking Institution Press, 2007. 142 p.

Competitive Co-Development in China-US Relations
Joshua Kurlantzick. Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 306 p.

A New Shape of the Non-Proliferation Regime
Фененко А.В. Теория и практика контрраспространения во внешнеполитической стратегии США. М.: Издательство ЛКИ, 2007. 246 с.

The Power Factor in U.S. Policy
Kurt M. Campbell and Michael E. O'Hanlon. Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security. New York: Basic Books, 2006. 319 p.

Europe as “Anti-America”
Andrei S. Markovits. Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. 275 p.

Realism with a Human Face
Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman. Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. 228 p.

“Irregular” Integration and Outdated Integration Standards
Mark Beeson. Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security, Economic Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 324 p.

Case Study Methods
John Gerring. Case study research: principles and practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Textbook Creating
Алексеева Т.А. Современные политические теории: Курс лекций. М.: РОССПЭН, 2007. 464 с. Алексеева Т.А. Политическая философия: От концепций к теориям: Учебное пособие. М.: РОССПЭН, 2007. 397 с.

War as a Legal Procedure
David Kennedy. Of War and Law. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. 206 p.

Who Feels Threatened by China's Security?
Bates Gill. Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. 267 p.

State in the World Economic Governance Regimes
Daniel Drezner. All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. 254 P.

International Security: A Liberal Interpretation
Кулагин В.М. Международная безопасность. М.: Аспект-Пресс, 2006. 318 с.

From "New Political Thinking" to "Sovereign Pragmatism"
Tsygankov A.P. Russia's Foreign Policy. Change
and Continuity in National Identity. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. 217 p.

History of World Transformations
Сидоров А.Ю., Клеймёнова Н.Е. История международных отношений. 1918–1939 гг. М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2006. 640 с.
Дубинин Ю.А., Мартынов Б.Ф., Юрьева Т.В. История международных отношений (1975–1991 гг.). М.: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (Университет); Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2006. 336 с.

A Cheer for the United Nations
Paul Kennedy. The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government. London: Allen Lane, 2006, 361 p.

A Think Tank and a Gentlemen's Club

Boundless War and Boundless Peace

Will America Follow the Fate of Goliath?

Dreaming of a Liberal Hegemony

A Theory of International Organization

Inoculated by Imported Democracy

Political Ecology and International Law

A Virtual "Triangle"

"Reflexive Liberalism" in the Theory of Conflict.
Andrew Williams. Liberalism and war: the victors and vanquished (The new international relations). New York, London: Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge, 2006. 263 p.

Between Prudence and Obsession
Warren I. Cohen. America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations since the Cold War. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 204 p.

War and Arms Control
Michael A. Levi, Michael E. O'Hanlon. The Future of Arms Control. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2005. 191 p.
George Perkovich, Jessica T. Methews, Joseph Cirincione, Rose Goetemoeller, Jon B. Wolfstall. Universal Compliance. A Strategy for Nuclear Security. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. 220 p.

Who Is the First to Break the Nuclear Taboo?
George H. Quester. Nuclear First Strike: Consequences of a Broken Taboo. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 159 p.

The Bush's Nuclear World
Nuclear Transformation. The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine / Edited by James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 288 p.

Tempted by Power
Andrew Bacevich. The New American Militarism. How Americans are Seduced by War. Oxford, New-York: Oxford Universuty Press, 2005. xvi + 270 p.

International Order: A View from Moscow
Баталов Э.Я. О философии международных отношений. М.: Научно-образовательный форум по международным отношениям, 2005. 128 с.
Баталов Э.Я. Мировое развитие и мировой порядок. Анализ современных американских концепций. М.: РОССПЭН, 2005. 366 с.

The Three Myths of "American Grandeur"
Nancy Soderberg. The Superpower Myth. The Use and Misuse of American Might. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wily & Sons, Inc., 2005. 404 p.

The Internal Challenges to American Power
Stephen Walt. Taming American Power. The global response to U.S. primacy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. 317 p.

Catching the Opportunity
Richard N. Haass. The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. 243 p.

Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from the Cold War
Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom / James Jay Carafano and Paul Rosenzweig (eds.). Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 2005. 292 p.

The Nuclear Factor in World Politics
Ядерное сдерживание и нераспространение / Под ред. А. Арбатова и В. Дворкина. М.: Московский Центр Карнеги, 2005. 82 с.
Ядерное противостояние в Южной Азии / Под ред. А. Арбатова и Г. Чуфрина. М.: Московский Центр Карнеги, 2005. 29 с.
Ядерное распространение в Северо-Восточной Азии / Под ред. А. Арбатова и В. Михеева. М.: Московский Центр Карнеги, 2005. 35 с.
Угрозы режиму нераспространения ядерного оружия на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке / Под ред. А. Арбатова и В. Наумкина. М.: Московский Центр Карнеги, 2005. 33 с.

The Belarus Paradox
Baltarusijos paradoksai. Istrigusi transformacija ir regioninis saugumas / Sudare G. Vitkus, V. Pugaсauskas. Vilnius: Lietuvos karo akademija, 2004. 216 p.

Power and Wealth go to the East
Clyde Prestowitz. Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of We­alth and Power to the East. New York: Basic Books, 2005. 321 p.

Energy Supplies and Security
Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy / Jan H. Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn (eds.). Washington – Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 604 p.

Theorizing European Integration
European Integration Theory / Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez (eds.). Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

The Myths and Realities of Global Governance
Kemal Dervis (in cooperation with Ceren Ozer). A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance and Reform. Washington: Center for Global Development, 2005. 301 p.

International Law: The Limits of Power
Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner. The Limits of International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 262 p.

Global Studies and Globalization
А.Н. Чумаков. Глобализация. Контуры целостного мира. М.: Проспект, 2005. 428 с.

What is World Politics?
Мировая политика: теория, методология, прикладной анализ / Под ред. А.А. Кокошина и А.Д. Богатурова. Москва: Комкнига / URSS, 2005 428 стр.

The Fatigue Symptom from Theoretical Liberalism in the English School of I R
Barry Buzan. From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 300 p.

The European Union: An Aborted Flight or...
T.R. Reid. The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Superemcy. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. 306 p.

The Pitfalls of Relations within the «Post-West»
Timothy Garton Ash. Free World. America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West. New York: Random House, 2004. 286 p.

Avoiding the «Unavoidable Empire»

Will the United States Guarantee Russian Security?
Thomas P.M. Barnett. The Pentagon New Map. War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. 435 p.

Networks and States in World Politics

Joseph Nye’s «Soft» Security

Starting Wars «Rightly»

The «Fatigue Syndrome»ѕ from Enlarging Democracy

American Ideas and Russian Interpretations

«Illiberal Democracies» and the Liberal Ideology
Fareed Zakaria. The Future of Freedom. Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York; London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. 286 p.

The Paradox of Nuclear Deterrence
Patrick Morgan. Deterrence Now. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 331 p.

«The Iraq Strategy» as seen by Wesley Clark
General Wesley K. Clark U.S. Army (Retired). Winning Modern Wars. Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire. New York: PublicAffairs, 2003. 218 p.

The Dim World, Full of Dangers …
Grave New World. Security Challenges in the 21st Century / Michael E. Brown (ed.). Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 342 p.

Xinjiang. The Altai School Is Again at the Cutting Edge
Vladimir A. Moiseev. Russia and China in Central Asia (second half of the XIXth century - 1917). Barnaul: Az Buka, 2003. 346 p. (in Russian)

Empire and Fear
Benjamin Barber. Fear’s Empire. War, Terrorism, and Democracy. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. 220 p.

Siberia: A Burden or a Blessing?
Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. The Siberian Curse. How Communist Planners Left Russia out in the Cold. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2003. 270 р.

Shifting Priorities
Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay. America Unbound. The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 246 p.

The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy: Globalists vs. Hegemonists
Agenda for the Nation / Henry J. Aaron, James M. Lindsey,
Pietro S. Nivola (eds.). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 574 p.

«European Islam» or «Islamic Europe»?
V.G. Sobolev. Muslim Diasporas in EU Member States. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2003. 148 p.

Russia on the Baltic: Politics and Security
The Kaliningrad Challenge: Options and Recommendations / Hanne-Margaret Birchenbach, Christian Wellmann (eds.). Munster: Lit Verlag, 2003. 304 p.

A Long Solo by Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein. The Decline of American Power. The U.S. in a Chaotic World. New York – London: The New Press, 2003. 324 p.

Irresponsible Power and the Illusion of Force. Educating Politicians as an Analytical Framework in the United States
Seyom Brown. The Illusion of Control. Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 187 p.

The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy: «Globalists» vs. «Hegemonists»
Bob Woodward. Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 376 p.

Oriental Studies in Russia: A Fruit of the Siberian Branch
V.G. Datsyshen, G.A. Onder. The Sayan Puzzle: Uryankhay Krai and Russia-Tyva Relations in 1911-1921. Kyzyl, 2003. 284 p.
V.G.Datsyshen. Contemporary History of China: Textbook. Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University, 2003. 300 p.
O.A. Omelchenko. Social and Economic History of Xinjiang (1948-1978). Barnaul: Altai State University, 2002. 225 p.
K.L. Syroezhkin. Myths and Reality of Ethnic Separatism in China and Central Asian Security. Almaty: Daik-Press, 2003. 733 p.

Making Borders Transparent?
Transparent Frontiers. Security and Transboundary Cooperation in Russia's New Borderlands / L.V. Vardomsky, S.V. Golunov. Moscow-Volgograd: AEFIR, 2002. 573 p.

Systems Approach to Foreign Policy Analysis
A.D. Bogaturov, N.A. Kosolapov, M.A. Khrustalev. Essays on Theory and Political Analysis of International Relations. Moscow: AEFIR, 2002. 384 p.