Neither Marxist nor Whig: the great Atlantic crises, 1774-1962, and the foundations of domestic and international order.
In their 1991 and 1996 books, William Strauss and Neil Howe seek to explain the origins, triumph, decline and fall of national political and social orders, using the history of the United States as their primary example. (1) They developed the concept of the saeculum, a period of roughly...

Coming to terms with Iraq.
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, Larry Diamond (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2005), 384 pp., $25 cloth. Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco, David L. Phillips (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2005), 292 pp., $25 cloth....

From Russia with love.
THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY MONTH IN MOSCOW: PHOTOBIENNALE 2006 MOSCOW, RUSSIA MARCH 23-MAY 14, 2006 Formerly exemplifying the dreariness of Soviet culture, the Gosudarstvenny Universalny Magazin (GUM) is now considered the greatest shopping center in Eastern Europe. The establishment is now a symbol...

Where are the wounded?
I can remember many years ago when I was just a little tyke, taking a stroll with my mother to the corner store or the neighborhood park. We would run into the people from the neighborhood, of course, but always the occasional stranger. My memories of my...

Still a fateful conflict: the Korean War fifty years on.
FIFTY YEARS AGO the Korean War came to an end. The forces involved negotiated an armistice signed on July 27, 1953, though no permanent peace agreement ensued. The temporary nature of the settlement no less than the effects the war had upon the states and parties concerned are the...

Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War.
Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War, Michael L. Gross (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006), 400 pp., $65 cloth, $26 paper. Bioethics and Armed Conflict is a book that people interested in ethics and international affairs will want to have on their shelves. It...

Democratic peace, illiberal democracy, and conflict behavior.
The view that democracies do not go to war with each other is widely held in international relations. This study draws distinction between mature stable constitutionally liberal democratic republics and illiberal democracies. The study supports the democratic peace postulate only regarding the former. The key conclusion of...

Flight of the Intruder.
Flight of the Intruder. By Stephen Coonts. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 336. $27.95 ISBN: 1-59114-127-3 Twenty years ago the Naval Institute Press took a chance publishing Stephen Coonts' first book. Flight of the Intruder took off and started his successful writing career. The...

Equality or discrimination?; African Americans in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.
9780761836728 Equality or discrimination?; African Americans in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Kimbrough, Natalie. Univ. Press of America 2007 186 pages $28.95 Paperback DS559 Kimbrough (history, Community College of...

Iran-Europe Relations: Challenges and opportunities.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IRAN-EUROPE RELATIONS: Challenges and opportunities By Seyyed Hossein Mousavian published by Routledge ISBN 9780415447560 price $160.00 hardback Iran-Europe Relations provides an assessment, and history, of relations between Iran and Europe. With an account...