Book Reviews

Winter 2026 Book Reviews:
By Asaf Romirowsky and Donna Robinson Divine •
Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. 344 pp., $49 (hardcover and eBook)

Reviewed by Mitchell Bard
By Theo Padnos • New York: Scribner, 2022. 400 pp., $25.00 (paperback)

Reviewed by Jonathan Spyer
By Vali Nasr • Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. 376 pp., $35.00 (hardcover); $24.99 (eBook)

Reviewed by Patrick Clawson
By John David Ragan • New York and Cairo: The American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, 2025. 349 pp; $69.95 (hardback), $68.99 (PDF), $68.99 (EPUB)

Reviewed by Roger F. S. Kaplan
By Roxanne L. Euben • Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. 280 pp., $99.95 (hardcover); $29.95 (paperback)

Reviewed by Craig Considine
By Yaron Peleg, Eran Kaplan, and Ido Rosen • Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. 364 pp., $55.00 (hardcover)

Reviewed by Sariel Birnbaum
By İsmail Albayrak • Singapore: Springer, 2024. xx+144 pp., $109.99 (paperback), $84.99 (eBook)

Reviewed by Tom Gage
By Edwin Black • Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2025. 131pp., $30.00 (hardcover); $25.00 (paperback)

Review by Efraim Inbar

By Jonathan Harounoff • Castroville, Texas: Black Rose, 2025. 181 pp.; $25.95 (hardcover), $15.95 (paperback)

Reviewed by Michael Rubin
More from MEF
International Forces Historically Fail When They Lack Clear Enforcement Authority
Whether Washington Intends to Confront Tehran over the Killings or Demand Guarantees Against Its Repetition Is Unclear
The Kingdom’s Pivot to an Islamist Vision and Its Turn Toward Turkey, Qatar, and Pakistan May Have Been the End Goal All Along
As a Victim of Pakistan-Supported Terrorism and Transnational Islamist Networks, India Has No Reason to Appease the Iranian Regime
Framed as Neutral Governance, Gaza’s New Technocratic Committee Masks Hamas’s Ongoing Military Rule
Erdoğan May Conclude That He Needs to Follow Khamenei’s Lead and Slaughter Tens of Thousands of Dissatisfied Turks
Certain Partnerships Carry Greater Strategic Weight Because of Their Economic, Technological, and Security Significance
A $2.7 Billion Port Deal That Turns Infrastructure Into Armed Power
The West, in Its Universalist Hubris, Imports Incompatible Paradigms, Believing That Liberal Democracy Can Digest Everything, like an Omnivorous Leviathan
Years of State Protection and Legal Impunity Allowed Jihadist Networks to Flourish Inside Turkey