BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Democratic Flaws
RICHARD BOURKE The Life and Death of Democracy, by John Keane. Flawed democracy
Gianfranco Pasquino Democracy Inc. Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin. Democracy in the Land of Good Things (Britain)
Richard Mullender Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty, by Peter Kellner. The soldier's right to kill
Christopher Finlay Killing in War, by Jeff McMahan. Facts from Eastern Europe and elsewhere
Richard Briand Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name, by Timothy Garton Ash. The soul of Tony Blair
Ilaria Favretto Losing Labour's Soul? New Labour and the Blair Government, 1997–2007, by Eric Shaw. Greeks and Turks in Europe and Cyprus
Mehmet Ugur Turkey's Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, by Constantine Arvanitopoulos. Cyprus: The Post‐Imperial Constitution, by Vassilis K. Fouskas and Alex O. Tackie. Obama's last chance
Tony Klug The Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance, by David Gardner. Thatcher's grandchildren
Mark Garnett Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s, by Richard Vinen.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Bush's Indecisive Decisions
GIANFRANCO PASQUINO Decision Points, by George W. Bush. Anger, pessimism and community
Richard Mullender The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton. Forever learning
Brian Groombridge Remaking Adult Learning, edited by Jay Derrick, Ursula Howard, John Field, Peter Lavender, Sue Meyer, Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein and Tom Schuller. The ‘good’ migrant
Anne Kershen Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London, by Maritsa V. Poros. Imagining migrants
Tiziana Caponio Migration, Public Opinion and Politics: The Transatlantic Council on Migration, edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung and Migration Policy Institute. Dissenting communists
Maud Anne Bracke L'appuntamento mancato. La sinistra italiana e il dissenso nei regimi comunisti, 1968–1989, by Valentine Lomellini. Not a rose‐tinted view
Richard Briand Ages of Reform: Dawns and Downfalls of the British Left, by Kenneth O. Morgan. The people's flag is deepest green
Dick Pountain The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth, by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Travails of Opposition
MARK GARNETT The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron, by Tim Bale. Labour's travails
Richard Briand Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party, by Martin Pugh. Anti‐social behaviour? Dial 101
Paul Michael Garrett The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, by Stuart Waiton. Surviving nukes in one's back garden
Victoria Honeyman After the Bomb; Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain 1945–68, by Matthew Grant. Israel's foundation myths
Richard Kuper The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, (trans. Yael Lotan). Political science mission statement
Gianfranco Pasquino The Oxford Handbook of Political Science, edited by Robert E. Goodin. Sir Ian Blair: the Burkean top cop
Ian Loader Policing Controversy, by Ian Blair. To intervene or not to intervene?
Daniele Archibugi Humanitarian Intervention, by Michael Newman. A phenomenal trade unionist
Geoffrey Goodman Arthur Horner: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1918–1944; Vol. 2: 1944–1968, by Nina Fishman.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Casual Cruelty of the Tabloids
JOHN LLOYD Journalism for Democracy, by Geraldine Muhlmann, translated by Jean Birrell. ‘Who now remembers the Circassians?’
Jad Adams ‘Let Our Fame Be Great’: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, by Oliver Bullough. A meaty slab of Supermac
Peter Catterall Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan, by D. R. Thorpe. Hamas: good works in Gaza
Victoria Brittain Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector, by Sara Roy. The minister as a hero of our time
Ben Yong Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities, by Patrick Weller and Anne Tiernan. The incoherence of market freedom
Geoff Kennedy The Invention of Market Freedom, by Eric MacGilvray. Chav‐hate and the ‘children of pride’
Richard Mullender Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, by Owen Jones. The slippery world of democracy
Richard Bourke Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth‐century Europe, by Jan Werner‐Müller.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Labour: Professionalism and Internal Democracy
JAMES E. CRONIN Building New Labour: The Politics of Party Organisation, by Meg Russell Cuba: Miserable Happiness? Cuba: A New History, by Richard Gott
Maurice Walsh Yeh but no but
Robert Colls The Politics of Identity. Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference, by Michael Kenny Does economic growth help the poor?
Norman Flynn The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime, by Jeffrey Sachs, with a Foreword by Bono Jews for dialogue
Ann Jungmann A Tale of Love and Happiness, by Amos Oz. Vintage A modest proposal
James Cornford Magnificent Vision: The Right to Work, by Alan Whitford Churchill's righting history
John Rams den In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War, by David Reynolds     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The European Project: There Could Be Troubles Ahead
DONALD SASSOON The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand. Europe's killing fields
Paul Jankowski Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder. Memoirs of a repentant Stalinist
Oliver Bullough Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (edited and translated by Deborah Kaple). Doing God in America
Gianfranco Pasquino American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. Blair's journey: bowels, balls and getting to grips
James E. Cronin A Journey: My Political Life, by Tony Blair.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Refugees and migrants: the globalisation of indifference
 VICTORIA BRITTAIN Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control, by Bridget Anderson. Borderline Justice. The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights, by Frances Webber. Bad News for Refugees, by Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald. The Walking, by Laleh Khadivi. North Korea: as mysterious as ever
 Seung‐Young Kim Only Beautiful, Please. A British Diplomat in North Korea, by John Everard. World government and realistic utopianism
 Richard Mullender Governing the World: The History of an Idea, by Mark Mazower. Good ol’1970s
 Patrick Diamond Reassessing 1970s Britain, edited by Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton and Pat Thane. Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice, by David Sainsbury. Oh why, oh why, oh why?
 Dick Leonard The Blunders of our Governments, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. The social basis of electoral reform
 Geoff Kennedy Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth‐Century West, by Dennis Pilon. Context rules over electoral rules
 Gianfranco Pasquino Electoral Systems and Political Context, by Robert G. Moser and Ethan Scheiner. Lacan et al. in post‐apartheid South Africa
 Saul Dubow (Post)Apartheid Conditions. Psychoanalysis and Social Formation, by Derek Hook. The expansion of same‐sex marriage
 Donna Smith The Same Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies. International Norms and Domestic Policy Change, by Kelly Kollman. Hollywood and the politics of stars
 Mark Glancy Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, by Steven J. Ross. Gladstone in the left corner, Disraeli in the right
 Richard Briand The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli, by Dick Leonard. Loving the Lords?
 Lord Lipsey (David Lipsey) The Contemporary House of Lords. Westminster Bicameralism Revived, by Meg Russell.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Life and Times of Neo‐Cons
THOMAS BENDER Neo‐conservatism: The Biography of a Movement, by Justin Vaïsse (translated by Arthur Goldhammer). The two faces of British Liberalism
Robert Taylor The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945, edited by Kevin Hickson. Labour and Liberals: opportunities lost, opportunities taken
Richard Briand Parties and People: England (1914–51), by Ross McKibbin. Do political personalities really matter?
Gianfranco Pasquino The Personalization of Politics: A Study of Parliamentary Democracies, by Lauri Karvonen. The politics of economics
John Grahl The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, by Andrew Gamble. The successes of organised crime: the case of Naples
Ombretta Ingrascì Storia della camorra, by Francesco Barbagallo. Dismal days are here again?
Paul Auerbach Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, by Nouriel Roubini with Stephen Mihm.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Real Story of the Romanian ‘Revolution’
SILVIA MARTON 1989 à l'est de l'Europe: une mémoire controversée, edited by Jérôme Heurtaux and Cédric Pellen. La mort des Ceau?escu: la vérité sur un coup d'Etat communiste, by Catherine Durandin and Guy Hoedts. A hedgehog approach to capitalism
Paul Auerbach 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, by Ha‐Joon Chang. A Scottish Salmond in a sea of banalities?
Tom Gallagher Salmond Against the Odds, by David Torrance. Israel: the politics of brute force
Geoffrey Bindman The Punishment of Gaza, by Gideon Levy. Heath: no need to be loved
Mark Garnett Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography, by Philip Ziegler. The politics of rebellious music
Nico Pizzolato Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States, by William G. Roy. Lloyd George's wrong choices
Dick Leonard David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider, by Roy Hattersley. The constraints on American caesars
Richard Briand American Caesars: Lives of the American Presidents, from Franklyn D. Roosevelt to George Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. Faltering Habermas
Gianfranco Pasquino Europe: The Faltering Project, by Jürgen Habermas. Some light on the Prince of Darkness
Andrew Blick The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Mandelson. Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project, by Giles Radice.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Making the Market Behave
COLIN CROUCH The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition and the Common Good, by Robert H. Frank. The Oil‐rich Revolutionary
Maurice Walsh Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, by Richard Gott. Demonising Muslims
Victoria Brittain Pointing The Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media, edited by Julian Petley and Robin Richardson. The Strange Non‐death of Multiculturalism
Karim Murji Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction, by Ali Rattansi. What did Atatürk Read?
Rifat Kandiyoti Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sükrü Hanioglu. Muddling through the Constitution (Again)
Ben Yong The Coalition and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor Lefty Brits on a Visit to China in 1954
Matthew Grant Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China, by Patrick Wright. American Republicans may Harm Your Health
Gianfranco Pasquino Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous than Others, by James Gilligan. The Possible Death of American Imperialism
Vassilis K. Fouskas Rethinking Imperialism, by Ray Kiely. Neoliberalism Lives On
Michael Rustin The Strange Non‐death of Neoliberalism, by Colin Crouch.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. A breed apart: the Waziristan model
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Thistle and the Drone. How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, by Akbar Ahmed. Inventing history or inventing Israel?
Dennis Marks The Invention of the Land of Israel, by Shlomo Sands. Explaining the Congo wars
Sara Hellmüller Congo, by Thomas Turner. Not so right‐wing after all
Richard Briand Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–1965, by Michael Burleigh. Caucasian problems and old Russian questions
Andrew Wachtel The Fire Below. How the Caucasus Shaped Russia, edited by Robert Bruce Ware. Capitalism versus democracy?
Gianfranco Pasquino Politics in The Age of Austerity, edited by Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck. Anti‐colonialism with a hint of nostalgia
Arifa Akbar From the Ruins of the Empire. The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra. What to do with the toffs and the not‐so‐toffs
Meg Russell The House of Lords 1911–2011: A Century of Non‐Reform, by Chris Ballinger. How liberal was John Stuart Mill?
Duncan Kelly Mill and Paternalism, by Gregory Claeys. Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations, by Georgios Varouxakis. War on terror: ‘Collateral damage’ in Britain
Laleh Khalili Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror, by Victoria Brittain.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. ‘We can't go on as we are’
Donald Sassoon Mammon's Kingdom. A Essay on Britain, Now, by David Marquand. Superpower no more
Gianfranco Pasquino Good‐Bye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System, by Simon Reich and Richard Ned Lebow. The real professionals: The NGOs
Matthew Grant The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain, by Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson and Jean‐François Mouhot. Good‐bye democracy
Tony Wright Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy, by Peter Mair. The joys of scraps
Joseph Rykwert Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion‐Dollar Trash Trade, by Adam Minter. Making Thatcherism possible
Robert Taylor Crisis? What Crisis? The Callaghan Government and the British Winter of Discontent by John Shepherd. Love in the time of capitalism
Stella Tillyard Why Love Hurts. A Sociological Explanation, by Eva Illouz You want to see how we live? We live like dogs.
Victoria Brittain Refugees of the Revolution. Experiences of Palestinian Exile, by Diana Allan. From the haven of care to community care
Lindsay Duguid The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, by Barbara Taylor. Serving the Prime Minister
Catherine Haddon At Power's Elbow. Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron, by Andrew Blick and George Jones. Narrative bombshells
Duncan Kelly The War That Ended Peace, by Margaret Macmillan Catastrophe, by Max Hastings. July 1914, by Sean McMeeckin.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. Susan Rose–Ackerman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN, Syracuse University Multi‐Level Governance. Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 237 pp. £47.50 (cloth).
Reviewed by JULIE M. SIMMONS, University of Guelph Players in the Public Policy Process: Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents. Herrington J. Bryce. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by ROBERT C. TURNER, Skidmore College Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality. David P. Varady, ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MARY PATTILLO, Northwestern University Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea. Joseph Wong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 222 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by HUCK‐JU KWON, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Shock! Horror! America shocks Europe
 DONALD SASSOON The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century, by David Ellwood. Greedy grey voters?
 David Metz Going Grey: the Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society, by Scott Davidson. How to hate Muslims in America
 Tahir Abbas The Islamophobia Industry: How the Far Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims, by Nathan Lean. Planning urban blight
 Joseph Rykwert A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain, by Owen Hatherley. The self‐appointed imperial umpire
 Andrew Johnstone American Umpire, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. Daddy knows best?
 Dick Pountain Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly. Advice to (male) politicians: keep trousers zipped up
 Dick Leonard Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media‐Saturated Democracies, by James Stanyer. Christians and Muslims facing the world
 Alessandra Cecolin Christian Response to Islam. Muslim–Christian relations in the modern world, edited by Anthony O'Mahony and Emma Loosley. The sweet charms of the upper‐class voice
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Unheavenly Chorus. Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady. Integration, again: the Frenchness of a British nationalist
 Daniel Gordon The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post‐War Immigration, by David Goodhart.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Capitalism with a Poker Face
DICK POUNTAIN Cool Capitalism, by Jim McGuigan. Reinvigorating the left—again?
Michael Newman In Search of Social Democracy: Responses to Crisis and Modernisation, edited by John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson and Martin McIvor Imperialism—again?
Vassilis K. Fouskas Imperialism and Global Political Economy, by Alex Callinicos Rethinking Imperialism: A Study of Capitalist Rule, by John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos The making of Thatcherism
Matthew Grant Finding a Role? The United Kingdom, 1970–1990, by Brian Harrison Neo‐liberalism: the case against
Gianfranco Pasquino The Neo‐Liberal State, by Raymond Plant Planetary fantasy or strategic project?
Roland Axtmann The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy, by Daniele Archibugi A bit of anarchy is good for you
Constance Bantman Anarchism and Utopianism, edited by Laurence Davis and Ruth Kinna The godlessness of Englishness
Michael Kenny Is God Still an Englishman? How We Lost Our Faith (but Found New Soul), by Cole Moreton     

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Book reviewed in this article: Far Right ELISABETH CARTER Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe, by Piero Ignazi. Right‐wing Extremism in the Twenty‐first Century, edited by Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg. From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right‐wing Populism in Sweden, by Jens Rydgren. Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy, by Michel Huysseune. New Labour new NHS? , Jennifer Dixon New Labour's State of Health. Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS, by Calum Paton. Bad aid , Norman Flynn The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much III and so Little Good, by William Easterly. Plato Lives! , Richard Mullender Plato's Republic: A Biography, by Simon Blackburn. Plato's Children: The State We Are In, By Anthony O'Hear. plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh. Exporting Burke , Richard Bourke Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke, by Seamus Deane.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Pakistan: The Hope of Wiser Mornings
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Future of Pakistan, by Stephen P. Cohen and others. The euro crisis: will the left awaken?
Jon Bloomfield The Future of Social Democracy: Building the Good Society, by Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford. Nudging or nagging? Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour, by Peter John, Sarah Cotterill, Alice Moseley, Liz Richardson, Graham Smith, Gerry Stoker, Corinne Wales, Hanhua Liu and Hisako Nomura. Is Berlusconi history?
Claudia Capelli Berlusconi passato alla storia. L'Italia nell'era della democrazia autoritaria, by Antonio Gibelli. Berlusconismo. Analisi di un sistema di potere, edited by Paul Ginsborg and Enrica Asquer. Island story or real history?
Kate Moorse The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth‐century England, by David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon. The Tea Parties: neither crazies nor righteous
Martin Durham The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williams. A global mafia?
John Dickie Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories, by Federico Varese. What now, America?
Ilaria Poggiolini Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Knaves not fools
Dick Pountain The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super‐Rich and the Economy, by Stewart Lansley.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. The Doubting President
SELINA CHEN The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama. Old age and new economics
David Metz The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World, by George Magnus. Vindicating the state
Gianfranco Pasquino In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation, by Warvick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew. Italian communists and the USSR
Maud Anne Bracke Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography, by Aldo Agosti. Antisemitism in the hall of mirrors
Brian Klug Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism, by Denis MacShane. Taking on the sceptics
Rosemary Bechler Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Approach, by Gillian Brock. Financial scandals: the lessons from France
Robert Boyce Shades of Indignation: Political Scandals in France, Past and Present, by Paul Jankowski: Berghahn. Fewer Willys but more consensus
Matthew Grant Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970, by Brian Harrison. The crunching of classical economics
Paul Auerbach The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It, by Robert J Shiller. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.     

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European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore