Editor's Note: Sanctions and other economic tools are increasingly the foreign policy instruments of first resort. They seem to harness U.S. economic might and convey strength while avoiding the human an...

Published by Prometheus Books (2013) Reviewed by Ashley Green

Editor’s Note: The savage fighting in Syria and now Iraq seems to grow worse every month. As the U.S. role in the conflict grows, so too does the need to understand the motivations of the fighters, inclu...