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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

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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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