In this Issue

Table of Contents

Foreword

Efrem Fisher, Elizabeth Allen, Sam Abrams, Shane Perkinson
pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0061
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New State and Non-State Players

Brazil: The Global Power Looking for a Backyard

Joshua Goodman
pp. 3-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0045
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New Non-State Players and Implications for Regional Security: The Case of the Shiite Religious Establishment of Iraq

Reidar Visser
pp. 11-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0050
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The “Shia crescent” and Arab State Legitimacy

Kevin Mazur
pp. 21-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0052
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From Beneficiaries to Change Agents: The Rise of Women’s Leadership in International Development

Kirrin Gill, Ann Warner, Ellen Weiss, Geeta Rao Gupta
pp. 23-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0048
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Rethinking Institutional Players

Sri Lanka’s “Bloodbath on the Beach” Made the UN’s Ban Ki-mute Moot: Now What?

Matthew Russell Lee
pp. 39-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0051
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Accomplice to Impunity?: Rethinking the Political Strategy of the International Criminal Court in Central Africa

Angelo Izama
pp. 51-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0060
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New Ideas in International Affairs

Shifting the Focus: The New Political Economy of Global Macroeconomic Imbalances

Erik Jones
pp. 61-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0055
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Fighting Radicalism, Not “Terrorism”: Root Causes of an International Actor Redefined

Ömer Taşpınar
pp. 75-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0059
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U.S. Counterinsurgency: A Historic Plan under a New Guise

Bryan Prior
pp. 87-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0062
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Statecraft at the Crossroads: A New Diplomacy

Donna Marie Oglesby
pp. 93-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0058
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Old Actors Reconfigured: Crisis and Northeast Asia

Momoko Sato
pp. 107-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0049
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The Link between Extractive African Industries and Global Political Power

Stephanie Sheridan Lipinski
pp. 109-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0046
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Tapping the Power of Structural Change: Power Cycle Theory as an Instrument in the Toolbox of National Security Decision-Making

Jacob L. Heim
pp. 113-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0043
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Power Cycle Theory and Implications for Policy

Sam Abrams
pp. 129-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0056
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The SAIS Review Prize

When Killers become Victims: Darfur in Context

Sean Brooks
pp. 133-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0053
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Poverty Reduction Efforts: Does Microcredit Help?

Sana Khan
pp. 147-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0057
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Religion in India

Maany Peyvan
pp. 159-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0054
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Pessimism and Development

David Fowkes
pp. 169-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0047
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Response

Global Cities as Actors: A Rejoinder to Calder and de Freytas

Michele Acuto
pp. 175-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.0.0044
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