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COMMENTSGoogle's X-ManA Conversation With Sebastian Thrun
A Kinder, Gentler Immigration PolicyForget Comprehensive Reform—Let the States CompeteJagdish Bhagwati and Francisco Rivera-Batiz
Left OutHow Europe's Social Democrats Can Fight BackHenning Meyer
The End of HypocrisyAmerican Foreign Policy in the Age of LeaksHenry Farrell and Martha Finnemore
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ESSAYSBiology's Brave New World
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The Promise and Perils of the Synbio Revolutiono Laurie Garrett
Keeping Science in the Right Hands 47
Policing the New Biological FrontierRonald K. Noble
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Accepting AusterityThe Right Way to Cut DefenseCindy Williams
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Defense on a Diet
How Budget Crises Have Improved U.S. StrategyMelvyn P. Leffier
Cyberwar and Peace
Hacking Can Reduce Real-World ViolenceThomas Rid
Never Saw It ComingWhy the Financial Crisis Took Economists by iSurpriseAlan Greenspan
Why Banking Systems Succeed—and FailThe Politics Behind Financial InstitutionsCharles W Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber
Bridge to SomewhereHelping U.S. Companies Tap the Global Infrastructure Marketfose W. Fernandez
The Devolution of the Seas
The Consequences of Oceanic DestructionAlan B. Sielen
ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COMContinuing coverage ► Adam Heffez on how
► William Janeway onof breaking events in
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REVIEWS & RESPONSES
The Spoils of War 134
The Horrors and Hopes of 1945Max Hastings
India and Ideology
139Why Western Thinkers Struggle With the SubcontinentPankaj Mishra
In Search of the Real China 148
Outsiders Still See What They Want to SeeJohn Pomfret
Border Battle 4
155The Ugly Legacy of the Mexican-American WarEnrique Krauze
The Case for International Law
162A Response to "The War of Law"Harold Hongju Koh and Michael Doyle
How to Copy Right
167Is Piracy Productive?Steven Tepp; Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman
Recent Books 171
Letters to the Editor 194
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