Books & Reviews
Books and Reviews
Recent Books
Focus on: Venezuela
The Collapse of Venezuela: Scorched Earth Politics and Economic Decline, 2012–2020
By Francisco Rodríguez
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism
By Javier Corrales
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
Venezuela’s Authoritarian Allies: The Ties That Bind?
Edited by Cynthia J. Arnson
Reviewed by Andrew F. Cooper
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
By William Neuman
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chávez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela
By Javier Corrales,Michael Penfold
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
Demography and destiny
The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War
By Mark L. Haas
Reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman
Novels in the world
The Transparency of Time: A Novel
By Leonardo Padura. Translated by Anna Kushner
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
I Remember Fallujah: A Novel
By Feurat Alani. Translated by Adriana Hunter.
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson
The big debates
Focus on: Southeast Asia
Chasing Freedom: The Philippines’ Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence
By Adele Webb
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Unity Through Division: Political Islam, Representation, and Democracy in Indonesia
By Diego Fossati
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
By Christopher Goscha
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order
Edited by Börje Ljunggren and Dwight H. Perkins
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
By Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
By David Van Reybrouck
Reviewed by Elizabeth Economy
Spies vs. spies
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
By Shaun Walker
Reviewed by Maria Lipman
Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis
By Yvonnick Denoël
Reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
By Elyse Graham
Reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies, and Exile in Russia; The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
By Simon Kuper
Reviewed by Maria Lipman
Autocracy on the march
World on the move
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By Jonathan Blitzer
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, and Diego Chaves-González
Reviewed by Richard Feinberg
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By Jake Bittle
Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews
