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4 NATO SUMMIT: Fears for the FutureRobin Shepherd

7 AFGHANISTAN - DRUGS: Hard Habit to Break Joanna Shayer

10 BOOK REVIEW: Know Your Enemy Timo Noetzel

11 PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN: Between Bullet and Ballot Ayesha Khan

13 UNITED STATES ELECTIONS AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD:Breaking the Mould Maha Azzam

17 THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA: All the Friends it Can Get Paulo Wrobel

20ISRAEL AT SIXTY:Young Country, Same Old Conflict Yossi Mekelberg

22SIXTY YEARS OF ISRAEL:Breaking the Logic Khaled Hroub

25BOOK REVIEW - TORTURE:Democracy’s Dirty Work David Bentley

26INDIA AND AFRICA:India Calling Alex Vines and Elizabeth Sidiropolous

28KOSOVO:Deeply Destabilising Yuri Fedotov

EDITOR Graham Walker

ASSISTANT EDITOR Alison Couldridge

DESIGNER Martin Colyer

DATABASEMichael Farrell

INTERNJoanna Shayer

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