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Patterns of International Terrorism

December 2001

by Holger Schrader From a German university student comes a structured look at types of terrorism in a changed world and an interesting attempt to explain why these forms of international intimidation have come about. The author opines that governments … Read more

No Shortage of the “New Terrorists” With No Place to Hide

December 2001

Review by David W. Thornton
The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass DestructionThe New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. By Walter Laqueur. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 312. $15.95 paper.)

Art Imitating Life?

November 2001

Review by Henry E. Mattox
Flash Point. By James W. Huston. (William Morrow: June 2000. Avon (paper): June 2001. Copyright 2000. 579 pp.)

Beijing Plays the “Washington Card”

October 2001

Review by Steven I. Levine
America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations. Fourth Edition. By Warren I. Cohen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 270.)

The UN of the “Four Policemen”

October 2001

Review by David Ettinger
FDR and the Creation of the United Nations. By Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; 2000. Pp. xii, 287.)