2005 News

Religion and Religiosity in the Philippines and Indonesia: Essays on State, Society and Public Creeds, edited by FPRI Senior Fellow Theodore Friend (Brookings Institution for the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2006).

The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East, by FPRI Senior Fellow Barry Rubin (John Wiley and Sons, 2005)

China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition, by FPRI Senior Fellow June Teufel Dreyer (Pearson, 2006, 5th edition)

The Right War? TheConservative Debate on Iraq,edited by Garen Rosen (Cambridge University Press, 2005), withcontributions by FPRI Senior Fellow James Kurth, plus Fouad Ajami, Eliot Cohen, Francis Fukuyama, Henry A. Kissinger, William Kristol, George F.Will, Fareed Zakaria, and others.

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, edited by FPRI Member Thomas Cushman (University of California Press, 2005), with contributions by PaulBerman, Ian Buruma, Roger Scruton, and others.

TheEducation of a University President, Temple University Press (2005), by Marvin Wachman,trustee and former president of FPRI. Although the book deals largely with Dr. Wachman’s presidencies of Lincoln University and Temple University, it also mentions his work at FPRI in building outreach programs to thecommunity, which culminated in FPRI’s establishing the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Fund in 1990.

Rising to theChallenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security (2005), by FPRI Senior Fellow Avery Goldstein.Stanford University Press.

The fully revised and updated edition of World History Atlas: Mapping the Human Journey, edited by FPRI Senior Fellow Jeremy Black, is this month’s History Book Club selection.

As part of a 17-volume series for the secondary school audience on The Growth and Influence of Islam in Asia, Mason Crest Publishers has just published two volumes in that series by FPRI associates: Islamism and Terrorist Groups in Asia, by Michael Radu, co-chair of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security; and Azerbaijan, by Gerald Robbins, FPRI Associate Scholar. FPRI is Editorial Consultant for the series, as it was for an earlier Mason Crest series of 25 volumes on Modern Middle East Nations. For book series info: www.masoncrest.com

Palgrave Macmillan published The Whig Revival, 1808-1830, by William Anthony Hay, FPRI Senior Fellow.

FPRI alumnus Gerald T. West co-authored with Theodore Moran a volume published by the World Bank: International Political Risk Management, Vol. 3: Looking to the Future.