Commentary -- The Importance of the Financial Crisis /Alexander Nicoll -- Ukraine Since the War in Georgia /Dominique Arel -- Noteworthy -- Trauma and Transition... -- Securing the Peace: Presidents and Nation Building from FDR to George W. Bush /James Dobbins -- A New American Middle East Strategy? /Robert E. Hunter -- Fragile States: Securing Development /Robert B. Zoellick -- in Asia -- Why War in Asia Remains Thinkable /Hugh White -- Why East Asian War is Unlikely /Richard A. Biizinger and Barry Desker -- in the Middle East -- The Gulf's Renewed Oil Wealth: Getting it Right This Time? /Suzanne Maloney -- Is the Arab World Immune to Democracy? /Volker Perthes -- Plus -- The Evangelical Roots of US Africa Policy /Asteris Huliaras -- Review Essays -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 /Raffaello Pantucci -- Reports from the Revolution /Russell Crandall -- Book Reviews -- United States /John L. Harper -- Europe Hanns / W. Maull -- Russia and Eur0asia /Oksana Antonenko -- Brief Notices -- From the Archives -- Survival 1998-2007 -- Closing Argument -- Real America /Dana H. Allin.