Sympathizing With The Enemy: Reconciliation, Transnational Justice, Negotiation (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010) is essential reading because it addresses the issues of how one should respond to the problems of political violence, war cries, terrorism and genocide which continue to bedevil the modern world. In this profound and probing book, the author provides a theory of political reconciliation. He argues that what Adams Smith called "sympathy" and Laurence Kohlberg designated as empathy - the ability to view the world from another's perspective- offers a more promising framework for thinking about reconciliation than proposals based upon forgiveness, forgetting or mutual recognition.