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April 23, 2008 | Five Years of My Life by Murat Kurnaz

David Vickrey: Historians will look back on President Bush's War on Terror and marvel at how quickly the basic principles and values of America were violated and ignored. Many of the legal abuses have been documented by a few fearless journalists, some courageous ...More

April 23, 2008 | Al Qaeda in Europe by Lorenzo Vidino

Giuseppe Belardetti: Lorenzo Vidino's "Al Qaeda in Europe: the new battleground of international jihad" represents a valuable insight on the structure, functioning and dynamics of the Islamic terror network Al Qaeda in Europe. Vidino, a terrorist expert at the ...More

April 4, 2008 | Do Terrorists Even Have Wallets?

Andrew D. Bishop: A review of Ibrahim Warde's book: The Price of Fear (UC Berkeley Press, 2007) Read the full review at: http://whatyoumustread.blogspot.com/ To people like me who are -for the most part- opposed to putting boots on the ground too often, a financial ...More

March 30, 2008 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Andrew D. Bishop: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins(The Penguin Group, 2006).The life story of a now 60-ish successful businessman who dedicated his talent at understanding foreign cultures to large bogus "consulting" firms throughout the 1970s and ...More

March 30, 2008 | The Israel (not the Jewish) lobby

Andrew D. Bishop: The Israel Lobby (by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt) was first an article published by Harvard and the London Review of Books (you can read that version here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html). In the face of both the outrage and ...More

March 10, 2008 | Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope

Benjamin Lucas Schoo: With the current presidential nomination process under way, Barack Obama's second book, the Audacity of Hope, might help shed light on who the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party's presidential contender really is and what he stands ...More

March 8, 2008 | Amy Chua: Day of Empire

Natasha Doff:   The idea of the hyperpower; a society which amasses such extraordinary military and economic might that they essentially dominate the world is a concept normally used to refer to the USA. In her latest book, Yale law professor and best selling author of ...More

February 25, 2008 | Living History

Samantha Ferrell: A few weeks ago I rang in the new year - election year - in a particularly unusual way: at Circus Circus, in Reno, Nevada, with the Hillary Clinton campaign team. Invited to witness the inner-workings of a campaign, I spent two days at the Reno campaign headquarters. When ...More

February 21, 2008 | A Long Way Gone

Natasha Doff: ‘A Long Way Gone' is the memoir of Ishmael Beah who was recruited by the Sierra Leone government at the age of 13 to fight in the civil war. Ishmael's career as a soldier began at the age of 13 after finding his parents and two brothers murdered by the rebels of ...More

February 5, 2008 | Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics & the Challenge to the US

Cosmo Macfarlane: One of the more interesting books I read in recent years is undoubtedly Nikolas Kozloff's detailed work on Hugo Chavez. Kozloff's writings provide the reader with a critical insight into the Chavez phenomenon, his rise to fame and ...More