Book Reviews

The praise on the back cover of David Kilcullen’s Counterinsurgency is deceptive: “Required reading” (Fareed Zakaria). “Excellent” (The Economist).

Those familiar with modern Middle East history are aware of Stephen Kinzer’s contributions, especially All the Shah’s Men, his account of the CIA’s 1953 coup in Tehran.

Brown, Nathan J. et. al., The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East: Regional politics and external policies (New York: Routledge, 2009).

Greg Mortenson, Stones into Schools (New York: Viking, 2009)

David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, The Fourth Star (New York: Random House, 2009)

Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (Henry Holt and Co., 2009)