Books and Reviews

Books & Reviews

Patrick Leger

Recent Books

Short capsules from our regular reviewers

Political & Legal

G. John Ikenberry

Economic, Social, & Environmental

Barry Eichengreen

Military, Scientific, & Technological

Lawrence D. Freedman

The United States

Jessica T. Mathews

Western Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

Western Hemisphere

Richard Feinberg

Eastern Europe & Former Soviet Republics

Maria Lipman

The Middle East

Lisa Anderson

Asia & Pacific

Andrew J. Nathan

Africa

Nicolas van de Walle

Editor’s Pick

ISSUE: November/December 2024
Illustration by John Lee

World on the move

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By Jonathan Blitzer

Reviewed by Richard Feinberg

My Friends: A Novel

By Hisham Matar

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By Jake Bittle

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews

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Trade and geopolitics

A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China

By Dale C. Copeland

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews

Made in China: When U.S.-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade

By Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson

Reviewed by Barry Eichengreen

The Trade Weapon: How Weaponizing Trade Threatens Growth, Public Health, and the Climate Transition

By Ken Heydon

Reviewed by Barry Eichengreen

Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States

By Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country

By Elena Kostyuchenko

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Illustration by John Lee

Gaza: A History

By Jean-Pierre Filiu

Reviewed by John Waterbury

The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?

Edited by Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

Autocracy on the march

Focus on: Southeast Asia

Chasing Freedom: The Philippines’ Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence

By Adele Webb

Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan

Unity Through Division: Political Islam, Representation, and Democracy in Indonesia

By Diego Fossati

Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan

The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

By Christopher Goscha

Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan

John Lee

America in the world

“Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, From 1776 to the Twenty-first Century

By Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall

Reviewed by Richard Feinberg

The Downfall of the American Order?

Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner

Reviewed by G. John Ikenberry

America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition

By Ali Wyne

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews