International Social Science Review articles from September 2006

International Social Science Review archives from September 2006

U.S. foreign policy in Asia since 9/11: temporary alliances or permanent changes?
September 22, 2006... Few readers would challenge us if we stated that in the past generation the center of gravity in global industry and trade has shifted from the United States and Western Europe to the Pacific Rim. Even so, except in times of crisis, the world's...

Scottish nationalism before 1789: an ideology, a sentiment, or a creation?
September 22, 2006... SCOTS, WHA HAE Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has often led, Welcome to your gory bed Or to Victorie! Now's the day, and now's the hour: See the front o' battle lout, See approach proud...

"The program for better jobs and income": welfare reform, liberalism, and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter.
September 22, 2006... For a failed president, Jimmy Carter has been well-treated by historians, political scientists, and journalists. Though most observers judged his presidency a failure in the years immediately following Carter's ignominious defeat in 1980, (1)...

Ideological incompatibility: the forced fusion of Nazism and Protestant theology and its impact on anti-Semitism in the Third Reich.
September 22, 2006... While Adolf Hitler's rise to power proved a rude awakening for many organizations in Weimar Germany, the upheaval it caused within the German Protestant Church is particularly noteworthy. Like a slithering snake, Nazi ideology crept into the...

Religion and depression among U.S. college students.
September 22, 2006... Introduction Studies show that religious people have lower rates of depression than non-religious people. (1) Most of these studies focus on the U.S. population as a whole, or on specific subgroups such as the elderly. (2) To date, little...

Bell, J. Bowyer (with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz). Assassin: Theory and Practice of Political Violence.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Bell, J. Bowyer (with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz). Assassin: Theory and Practice of Political Violence. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005. xiii + 310 pages. Paper, $24.95. On the first night of the Iraq War in...

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce; Smith, Alastair; Siverson, Randolph M.; and Morrow, James D. The Logic of Political Survival.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce; Smith, Alastair; Siverson, Randolph M.; and Morrow, James D. The Logic of Political Survival. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. 536 pages. Paper, $25.00. Utilizing formal logic, empirical models, and case histories,...

Churchill, Ward, and Venne, Sharon H., eds. Islands in Captivity: The International Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Churchill, Ward, and Venne, Sharon H., eds. Islands in Captivity: The International Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2004. 783 pages. Cloth, $40.00. In 1893, a group of white business people,...

Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses. Edited by Robert Gellately. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. xxix + 490 pages. Cloth, $35.00. (Paper edition: Vintage, 2005,...

Ito, Mizuko; Okabe, Daisuke; and Matsuda, Misa, eds. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Ito, Mizuko; Okabe, Daisuke; and Matsuda, Misa, eds. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 357 pages. Cloth, $39.95. This is a collection of research articles about the phenomenon of...

Killebrew, Ann E. Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel, 1300-1100 B.C.E.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Killebrew, Ann E. Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel, 1300-1100 B.C.E. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005. xx + 362 pages. Paper, $39.95. (Cloth edition:...

Kochan, Thomas A. Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Kochan, Thomas A. Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 272 pages. Cloth, $29.95. Kochan discusses the impact of advancing technology, globalization, and the growth of a...

Lan, Pei-Chia. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Lan, Pei-Chia. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 304 pages. Paper, $22.95. Historically, in most cultures, women have performed the bulk of household work....

McGee, Micki. Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... McGee, Micki. Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 199 pages. Cloth, $29.95. A thought-provoking and well-written account, Self-Help, Inc. offers a comprehensive analysis of the...

Matthews, John A., and Herbert, David T., eds. Unifying Geography: Common Heritage, Shared Future.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Matthews, John A., and Herbert, David T., eds. Unifying Geography: Common Heritage, Shared Future. London: Routledge, 2004. 402 pages. Paper, $44.95. Is geography grappling with the illusion that place no longer matters? Is knowledge of...

Overholser, Geneva, and Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, eds. The Press.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Overholser, Geneva, and Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, eds. The Press. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. 473 pages. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. One of five volumes in Oxford University Press's "Institutions of American Democracy"...

Renshon, Stanley A. The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Renshon, Stanley A. The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005. xxi + 260 pages. Cloth, $26.95. The 50% American is a critical analysis of the fundamental...

Stajano, Attilio. Research, Quality, Competitiveness: European Union Technology Policy for the Information Society.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Stajano, Attilio. Research, Quality, Competitiveness: European Union Technology Policy for the Information Society. New York: Springer, 2006. xxiv + 464 pages. Cloth, $129.00. The European Union (EU) is much in the news today but, despite...

Stoker, Robert, and Wilson, Laura, When Work Is Not Enough: State and Federal Policies to Support Needy Workers.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Stoker, Robert, and Wilson, Laura, When Work Is Not Enough: State and Federal Policies to Support Needy Workers. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2006. 214 pages. Paper, $24.95. To understand Robert Stoker and Laura Wilson's...

Troy, Gil. Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Troy, Gil. Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 417 pages. Cloth, $29.95. As Americans who grew up in the 1980s are becoming more nostalgic, television programs such as...