November's Books of the Month

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Friday, November 16, 2007 - 9:16 PM Share

This month's international relations book is Dani Rodrik's One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. After having read an ever-increasing number of economic development treatises, Rodrik's book is one of the best and describing the current state of play. Of course, this earns him tons of flak -- as he says on his own...

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ADRIAN

8:37 PM ET

November 18, 2007

Admittedly I'm only

Admittedly I'm only responding to the NYTimes review of Mead's book, but they essentially take him to task for assuming a benign imperialism in which no nation joins an empire against its will and no population is ever subject to violence. Oh, and Iraq has no strategic consequences worth mentioning. I'm exaggerating to a certain extent, but none of these gripes appear in your paragraph. Is it because they're not there or you consider them unimportant?

PAUL COSSINS

5:52 PM ET

November 19, 2007

Um, why isn't "God and Gold"

Um, why isn't "God and Gold" the international relations pick and "One Economics" the general interest pick?