Review Essays

Recently Received Books: Regional Focus on Africa & the Middle East

Hezbollah: A Short History

Hezbollah: A Short History
By Augustus Richard Norton

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 187pp.

New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance

New News Out of Africa:
Uncovering Africa's Renaissance

By Charlayne Hunter-Gault

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 189pp.

* Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa
By Robert H. Bates

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 191pp.

The French Betrayal of Rwanda

The French Betrayal of Rwanda
By Daniela Kroslak

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 330pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes, & Genocide

Reparations to Africa

Reparations to Africa
By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. 257pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
& International Law & Ethics

Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region

Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search
for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region

By Patricia O. Daley

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 268pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes, & Genocide
& Women, Children & Gender

Humanitarianism Under Fire: The US and UN Intervention in Somalia

Humanitarianism Under Fire:
The US and UN Intervention in Somalia

By Kenneth R. Rutherford

Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press. 2008. 215pp.

*Cross-listed in Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace

China Returns to Africa: A Rising
Power and a Continent Embrace

Edited by Chris Alden, Daniel Large & Ricardo Soares De Oliveira

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2008. 382pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Asia
& Development, Democracy & Health

Israel's Occupation

Israel's Occupation
By Neve Gordon

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2008. 318pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes & Genocide
& Refugees & Displaced Persons

Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities

Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion
and the Making of National Identities

By Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2008. 288pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence

Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
By Jeroen Gunning

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2008. 310pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture
& Development, Democracy & Health

Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda

Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda
By Lee Ann Fujii

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2009. 212pp.

* Cross-listed inWar, War Crimes & Genocide

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
By Noah Feldman

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2008. 189pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic

Iran in World Politics: The Question
of the Islamic Republic

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2008. 272pp.

* Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious, and Media Frontiers

Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political,
Religious, and Media Frontiers

Edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2008. 383pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

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