Judith Palmer Harik has written an entirely descriptive book on Hizbullah.I read her book extremely carefully and searched for a glimpse of originality, but to no avail. Even when she talks about Hizbullah's transformation from a fundamentalist military orgainization into a mainstream political movement--to fit the requirements of political activity in the Lebanese domestic context--she fails to recognize the dynamics of this lively process of transformation. Harik's books in rich in information, but alas it is mostly unprocessed and unintegrated.