The New York Review of Books

The Turbulent Giant

April 7, 2011

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester

Revolution Without Violence?

March 10, 2011

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash

Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash

How Great Was Churchill?

August 19, 2010

Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940–1945 by Max Hastings

Finding the Hidden UN

May 27, 2010

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower

UN Ideas That Changed the World by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, with a foreword by Kofi A. Annan

A Contest in the Cold

December 17, 2009

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson

Blundering in the Mideast with Prince Bandar

August 13, 2009

A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East— from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler

Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi

What You Can Learn from Reinhold Niebuhr

March 26, 2009

The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr, with an introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did) by James Traub

The Middle East: What to Do?

November 6, 2008

A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East by Kenneth M. Pollack

The UN and the Race Against Death

June 26, 2008

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity by Jan Egeland

One Angry Man

March 6, 2008

Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad by John Bolton

‘Are Diplomats Necessary?’

November 8, 2007

Are Diplomats Necessary?

October 11, 2007

Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite by Carne Ross

India’s Great Tragedy

May 31, 2007

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple

Disaster: From Suez to Iraq

March 29, 2007

Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization by Wm. Roger Louis

The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980–2005 by David M. Malone

Living in an Impasse

September 21, 2006

It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir by Emma Williams

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk

The Outlaw World

May 11, 2006

Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush’s Illegal War by Philippe Sands

Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Our Leaders Are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands by Philippe Sands

War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers

Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer

The UN Oil-for-Food Program: Who Is Guilty?

February 9, 2006

The Management of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme (five volumes) a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme

Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme by the Iraqi Regime (one volume) a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme

The New American Century?

August 11, 2005

The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course by Richard N. Haass

Humanitarianism Is Not Enough

May 26, 2005

The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s by Sadako Ogata

Extreme Makeover

February 24, 2005

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven

The Election and America’s Future

November 4, 2004

The Good General

September 23, 2004

Battle Ready by Tom Clancy, with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building by Simon Chesterman

A Major Attack

July 15, 2004

A Cautionary Tale

June 10, 2004

Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward

A Matter of Truth

May 13, 2004

Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States Staff Statements Nos. 1-8 www.9-11commission.gov

Hidden Truths

March 25, 2004

Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix

The Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly, CMG by Lord Hutton

‘A Great Day in History’

January 15, 2004

Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations by Stephen C. Schlesinger

World Order & Mr. Bush

October 9, 2003

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson

American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy by Andrew J. Bacevich

Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions by Clyde Prestowitz

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

The Rights Stuff

May 15, 2003

Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights by Aryeh Neier

The Prospect of War

December 19, 2002

The Threatening Storm:The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack

Is There a Case for Little Wars?

October 10, 2002

The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot

Shameful Neglect

April 25, 2002

‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Lumumba and the UN

February 14, 2002

The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange

December 20, 2001

The Tragedy of Lumumba

October 4, 2001

The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated from the Dutch by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby

Mrs. Roosevelt’s Revolution

April 26, 2001

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declarationof Human Rights Mary Ann Glendon

How Not to Deal with Bullies

September 21, 2000

The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security by Richard Butler

The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s by David Cortright, by George A. Lopez

We The Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-first Century Report of the Secretary-General

Some Thoughts on Sierra Leone

June 15, 2000

In the Name of Humanity

April 27, 2000

Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict by William Shawcross

Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/55 (1998) (Srebrenica Report) United Nations Document

Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda by United Nations Document

Mission Impossible

November 18, 1999

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

The Making of a Scapegoat

August 12, 1999

Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga by Boutros Boutros-Ghali

How Not to Fight a Dictator

May 6, 1999

Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn, by Patrick Cockburn

Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem—Once and for All by Scott Ritter

Looking for the Sheriff

July 16, 1998

FDR and the Creation of the UN by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley

United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler

The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War by Richard N. Haass

Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Who Can Police the World?

May 12, 1994

Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond by Gareth Evans

Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia Publishers by Samuel M. Makinda

The UN in Cambodia: Lessons for Complex Peacekeeping International Peacekeeping by Michael W. Doyle, by Nishkala Suntharalingam

Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action Publishers by Ian Johnstone

A UN Volunteer Military Force—Four Views

June 24, 1993

For a UN Volunteer Military Force

June 10, 1993

A Double Standard

April 9, 1992

Learning from the Gulf

March 7, 1991

Discontents at the UN: An Exchange

June 14, 1990

‘The UN and Its Discontents’: An Exchange

April 26, 1990

The United Nations & Its Discontents

March 15, 1990

Market Garden

January 21, 1988

The Last Disaster of the War

September 24, 1987