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states to bolster the interests o

 develop-

ing countries). In each instance, post-

colonial leaders were not simply seeking

to renegotiate relations between former

imperial masters and newly liberated

peoples. They o€ered a more far-reaching

critique o

 prevailing geopolitical and

racial hierarchies, emphasizing cosmo-

politan solidarities and principled

mechanisms for the redistribution o



wealth and power. Getachew traces

these ideas into the 1970s, when, in the

face o

 a powerful Westphalian global

order, anticolonial world-making gave

way to more traditional political strug-

gles that reinforced the nation-state.

Constructing Allied Cooperation:

Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in

Multilateral Military Coalitions

BY MARINA E. HENKE. Cornell

University Press, 2019, 258 pp.

This impressive study provides one o



the best e€orts yet to understand how

and why states have built coalitions to

pursue military operations in the face

oœ human atrocities, terrorism, and the

threat o

 weapons o

 mass destruction.

Surveying dozens o

 military operations

since the end oœ World War II, Henke

shows that coalitions rarely emerge

naturally in response to shared percep-

tions o

 threats, through a convergence

o

 momentary interests, or from the

coercive e€orts o

 a hegemonic power.

They need to be built by “pivotal states”

that can overcome obstacles to collec-

tive action and orchestrate complex

military operations. Henke looks closely

at the coalition-building processes

around the Korean War in the 1950s, the

Australian-led operation in East Timor in

1999, the £ deployment in Darfur in

2007, and the £ interventions in Chad

and the Central African Republic in

2008. Henke ¥nds that building
      coalitions requires “embedded
      diplomacy”—a pivotal state’s complex
      array o
      institutional connections and
      networks o
      relations with other states—
      which creates ways for o ̈cials to make
      commitments, bargain, exchange infor-
      mation, and broaden the scope o
      nego-
      tiations to include other issues. Henke
      demonstrates the importance o
      diplo-
      macy and leadership in building a success-
      ful coalition but does not try to determine
      in which circumstances the use o
      military
      force was (or would be) wise or just.

The Arc of Protection: Reforming the

International Refugee Regime

BY T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF

AND LEAH ZAMORE. Stanford

University Press, 2019, 184 pp.

This short book takes a sobering look at

today’s global refugee crisis and presents

an ambitious agenda for action. A record

70 million refugees have ²ed con²icts in

their homelands in recent decades. Most

o

 these displaced people have crossed

international borders and are now trapped

in semipermanent camps or are seeking

asylum in countries increasingly hostile to

refugees. Aleiniko€ and Zamore recog-

nize a few positive developments, such as

the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees, a

£ agreement that calls for rich states and

international ¥nancial institutions to

provide more funding to those developing

countries that predominantly shoulder

the refugee burden. But they argue that

the refugee regime is broken and propose

sweeping reforms, starting with the

expansion o

 refugee rights and protec-

tions. The keystone o

 their approach is

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