Book Reviews 
Catalysts for Change: How the UN’s Independent Experts Promote Human Rights
By Ted Piccone Brookings Institution Press, 2012. Reviewed by Ryan Kaminski* and A. Edward Elmendorf * Ted Piccone’s Catalysts for Change: How the UN’s Independent Experts Promote Human Rights provides an introduction to and analysis of the impact the United Nations’ over forty country-specific and thematic human rights “special procedures.”1 According to the United Nations, [...]
Full Story»Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going
By Han Fook Kwang, et. al. Straits Times Press, 2011. Reviewed by Nathaniel Yong-Ern Khng* Formerly a British commercial emporium, Singapore became a self-governing state within the British Empire in 1959 before becoming part of Malaysia in 1963.1 In 1965, Singapore separated from Malaysia to become an independent nation.2 In the years that followed, the [...]
Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?
By John Fonte. Encounter Books, 2011. Reviewed by Ryan Kaminski* John Fonte’s Sovereignty or Submission fashions itself as a wake-up call to US policymakers asleep at the helm while increasingly serious threats to US national sovereignty and constitutional democracy abound. These dangers, as the author describes, emanate from the influence of international organizations, treaties, multinational [...]
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia By Thant Myint-U. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. $27.00 Reviewed by Marc A. Sorel The last four months have been a watershed period in US-Burma diplomacy. It began two years prior, with Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell’s visit [...]
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