Foreign Affair's Best Books on Political & Legal Issues

Each month (except for a summertime hiatus in July and August) a different member of Foreign Affair's distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. For February 2005, G. John Ikenberry selects the best books on political and legal issues.

A New World Order
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004
Read May/June 2004 review


Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004
Read November/December 2004 review


The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
Michael Mann
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004
Read November/December 2004 review


Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
Timothy Garton Ash
New York: Random House, 2004
Read November-December 2004 review.