Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam
by Melvin R. Laird, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005
Similarities between the two conflicts and suggestions to resolve the Iraq situation. The author served as secretary of defense during the first Richard Nixon term.

The Neo-communist Parties and Power in Central and Eastern Europe
by Erhan Büyükakinci, East European Quarterly, Fall 2005
Thorough comparison of history, role and impact of left-wing parties in the post-communist region.

"Caught with Jam on Our Fingers"
Radio Free Europe and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
by Johanna Granville, Diplomatic History, November 2005
Radio Free Europe was one of the main channels used by the West to deliver information to the public in Communist countries. In its beginnings, however, it went through an interesting trial-and-error development.  

The World is Flat 
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
By Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
A bestseller by a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist. With the technological advances, globalization and turbulent changes happening on various levels, the world is getting faster and we need to move in order to stay in place. Friedman translates complex policy and economic issues in a down-to-earth and extremely readable way and offers one of the most current and essential glances on globalization today.