American Political Science Review articles from December 1999

American Political Science Review archives from December 1999

Value Pluralism and Liberal Political Theory.
December 1, 1999... Budding on suggestions by Isaiah Berlin, a number of thinkers have elaborated a moral theory of value B pluralism. Berlin himself believed that value pluralism was consistent with liberalism, which he understood as a political theory giving...

Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-92.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... What is the effect of regime type on public expenditures for social programs? We investigate the relationship between democracy and the change in social spending--controlling for GDP, the debt, inflation, and age structure of the...

An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace.
December 1, 1999... We examine formally the link between domestic political institutions and policy choices in the context of eight empirical regularities that constitute the democratic peace. We demonstrate that democratic leaders, when faced with war, are more...

Demand Competition and Policy Compromise in Legislative Bargaining.
December 1, 1999... I propose a new majoritarian bargaining model in which more than one implicit proposal can be on the table at the same time. Institutional differences from system to system affect the order of play, the equilibrium majorities, and the policy...

Unified Government, Divided Government, and Party Responsiveness.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Revisionist accounts conclude that divided and unified government do not differ significantly in the production of "important" public policy. I argue instead that when one theoretically reclaims the concerns about party responsiveness and...

Was James Madison Wrong? Rethinking the American Preference for Short, Framework-Oriented Constitutions.
December 1, 1999... American constitutional thought has long held that short, framework-oriented constitutions last longer than lengthy, statute-oriented constitutions. The longevity of the U.S. Constitution contributes heavily to this assumption. Not...

The Effects of Negative Political Advertisements: A Meta-Analytic Assessment.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The conventional wisdom about negative political advertisements holds that no one likes them, but they work, that is, they have the consequences their sponsors intend. Moreover, many analysts have expressed concern over the detrimental effects...

Do Negative Campaigns Mobilize or Suppress Turnout? Clarifying the Relationship between Negativity and Participation.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Does negative campaigning influence the likelihood of voting in elections? Our study of U.S. Senate campaigns indicates the answer is "yes." We find that people distinguish between, useful negative information presented in an appropriate manner...

Negative Campaign Advertising: Demobilizer or Mobilizer?(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... As political campaigns become increasingly adversarial, scholars are giving some much-needed attention to the effect of negative advertising on turnout. In a widely recognized Review article and subsequent book, Ansolabehere and his colleagues...

Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data: The Case of Negative Advertising and Turnout.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for...

Church and State in Stanley Fish's Antiliberalism.
December 1, 1999... Even though they contain one of the most forceful critiques of liberalism in contemporary political thought, the political writings of Stanley Fish have been neglected by political theorists. Fish's critique of liberal claims of moral and...

A Reply to J. Judd Owen.
December 1, 1999... Although J. Judd Owen's account of my work is on target in many ways, on some points he mischaracterizes my argument by making it claim or do too much. His misunderstandings flow in part from a conflating of two assertions: (1) that our...

Correction to "The Political Determinants of International Trade".(Correction Notice)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Efforts to replicate our study of the effects of politics on trade flows between the major powers have revealed that the computer program written to calculate the estimates produced errors in both the coefficients and the standard errors. [1]...

Political Science and the Jews: A Review Essay on the Holocaust, the State of Israel, and the Comparative Analysis of Jewish Communities.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Jewish State: A Century Later. By Alan Dowty. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 337p. $35.00. Comparing Jewish Societies. Edited by Todd M. Endelman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. The Comparative Studies in...

Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature. By Larry Arnhart. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 332p. $24.95. During the last quarter of this century, a new and fitter form of evolutionary or Darwinian...

Politisches Denken: Jahrbuch 1995-96.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Politisches Denken: Jahrbuch 1995-96. Edited by Karl Graf Ballestrem, Volker Gerhardt, Henning Ottmann, and Martyn P. Thompson. Stuttgart-Weimer: Metzler Verlag, 1996. 376p. np. Politisches Denken: Jahrbuch 1997. Edited by Karl Graf...

Camus: Portrait of a Moralist.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Camus: Portrait of a Moralist. By Stephen Bronner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 172p. $37.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. This very fine book presents an overview and critical commentary of the life, writings, and intellectual...

Governing Out of Order: Space, Law, and the Politics of Belonging.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Governing Out of Order: Space, Law, and the Politics of Belonging. By Davina Cooper. London and New York: Rivers Oram, 1998. 242p. $50.00 cloth, $19.50 paper. Governing Out of Order is a fascinating, analysis of institutional change from a...

Beyond Right and Left: Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Beyond Right and Left: Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 320p. $32.50. Given the events of the last decade, the fall of the Soviet Union and its East European...

The Community of Rights.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Community of Rights. By Alan Gewirth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 396p. $39.95 paper. We live in an era of the triumph of market ideology--an era of privatization and commercialization after the "end of big government,"...

Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity. By Gary Gutting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. l98p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. For twenty years, political theorists have been lost in the dark wood of metatheory. Sadly,...

The State of the Nation: Ernest Geilner and the Theory of Nationalism.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The State of the Nation: Ernest Geilner and the Theory of Nationalism. Edited by John A. Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 317p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Ernest Gellner, who died in 1995, was a brilliant polymath whose...

Political Theory and Ecological Values.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Political Theory and Ecological Values. By Tim Hayward. New York: St Martin's, 1998. l96p. $65.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. Tim Hayward is one of Britain's leading environmental political theorists, and here he continues the project begun in...

Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory. Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Christine Di Stefano. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996. 281p. $75.00 cloth, $26.00 paper. Nancy J....

Toleration, Identity, and Difference.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Toleration, Identity, and Difference. Edited by John Horton and Susan Mendus. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 200p. $65.00. John Rawls tells us in Political Liberalism (1993) that modern democratic society is characterized not only by a...

Speech and Political Practice: Recovering the Place of Human Responsibility.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Speech and Political Practice: Recovering the Place of Human Responsibility. By Murray Jardine. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 173p. $21.95 paper. If communitarian theory has thus far lacked a foundation, Murray...

A Case for Conservatism.(Review)
December 1, 1999... A Case for Conservatism. By John Kekes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 239p. $28.50. This is one of a series of books in which John Kekes assesses critically the liberal tradition. Specifically, it is the sequel to his Against...

Rethinking Liberal Equality: From a "Utopian" Point of View.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Rethinking Liberal Equality: From a "Utopian" Point of View. By Andrew Levine Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 140p. $32.50. Andrew Levine has written a timely, challenging, and important book about equality. It is timely...

Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. By David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 222p. $49.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. It is surely better to teach a person to fish than to give her a fish, but...

Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy. By Ronald J. Terchek. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 280p, $58.00 cloth. $19.95 paper. Serious studies of Gandhi's political theory by Western analysts began as early as 1934 with Richard Gregg's...

Machiavelli.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Machiavelli. By Maurizio Viroli. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 247p. $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Most readers happening upon Machiavelli for the first time find him disturbing. Near the beginning of The Prince, for example, one...

The Proliferation of Rights: Moral Progress or Empty Rhetoric?(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Proliferation of Rights: Moral Progress or Empty Rhetoric? By Carl Wellman. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999. 191p. $65.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. With the proliferation of rights in legal and political discourse has come a proliferation of...

Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America. By John H. Aldrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 349p: $16.95 paper. One attraction of rational choice theories is their challenge to long-standing...

Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science. By Frank R. Baumgartner and Beth L. Leech. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 223p. $55.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Basic Interests is a superb review...

Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation. By Keith J. Bybee. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. l94p. $55.00. In a series of contentious, confusing, and contradictory opinions beginning...

The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. By Lydia Chavez. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 305p. $40.00 cloth, $13.56 paper. Racial/ethnic diversity is a defining feature of U.S. politics, especially in...

The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture. By James W. Clarke. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1998. 339p. $39.95. That the black homicide rate is four to ten times that for whites has caught the attention of...

From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform.(Review)
December 1, 1999... From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform. By Timothy Conlan. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. 374p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Although Bob Dole's efforts to extol the virtues of...

New Media and American Politics.(Review)
December 1, 1999... New Media and American Politics. By Richard Davis and Diana Owen. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 304p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Richard Davis and Diana Owen draw from news accounts, interviews, content analyses, and...

Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights. By John J. Dinan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 260p. $35.00. Contemporary Americans are accustomed to looking to courts, and...

More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law.(Review)
December 1, 1999... More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law. By Donald Alexander Downs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 309p. $27.50. About twelve years ago I received a late afternoon call from the brother of a jailed...

Race and Redistricting in the 1990s.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Race and Redistricting in the 1990s. Edited by Bernard Grofman. Bronx, NY: Agathon, 1998. 405p. $43.95. Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction. By J. Morgan Kousser. Chapel Hill: University...

The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature. By Erwin C. Hargrove. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 229p. $25.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Erwin Hargrove describes this book as his "personal synthesis about...

The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice. By Christopher P. Manfredi. Lawrence: University of Press of Kansas, 1997. 256p. $35.00. Juvenile justice is a highly pertinent topic. The public, political leaders, and the media often ponder whether...

Office Politics: Computers, Labor, and the Fight for Safety and Health.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Office Politics: Computers, Labor, and the Fight for Safety and Health. By Vernon L. Mogensen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 223p. $17.95 paper. Office Politics tells a convincing story of how video display terminals...

The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control. By Armando Navarro. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 438p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. This book is likely to elicit mixed reactions from students of Latino...

Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress. By Nicol C. Rae. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 272p. $62.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Most contemporary political scientists agree that the power of...

Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy. By Charles R. Shipan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 173p. $42.50. A growing literature explores the complex interactions among interest...

Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches. By Steven A. Shull. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. l78p. $42.50. Steven Shull, in collaboration with chapter coauthors Johnny Goldfinger (chap. 2), Thomas C....

Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. By Harold J. Spaeth and Jeffrey A. Segal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 315p. $59.95. This book examines the influence of precedent versus the...

Understanding State Constitutions.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Understanding State Constitutions. By G. Alan Tarr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 247p. $35.00. Many Americans are not aware that their state of residence has its own constitution, even though they may be asked to vote...

From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities.(Review)
December 1, 1999... From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities. By Bruce A. Wallin. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. l62p. $53.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. With devolution extolled across ideological camps by...

Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906-1934.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906-1934. By Franklin Hugh Adler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 458p. $74.95. No doubt many observers of events in...

The Political Economy of Dual Transformations: Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Political Economy of Dual Transformations: Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary. By David L. Bartlett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 299p. $52.50. Ironically, a couple of decades ago the inevitable linkage...

Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees: Canada, United States, Britain, and France. By Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, and Stephane Dion. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997....

Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico. By Roderic Ai Camp. New York: Oxford University Ness, 1997. 34lp. $65.00. Camp has written another excellent book on Mexican elites and politics. To accompany his previous solid...

Beyond the Developmental State: East Asia's Political Economies Reconsidered.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Beyond the Developmental State: East Asia's Political Economies Reconsidered. Edited by Steve Chan, Cal Clark, and Danny Lam. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. l82p. $65.00. Progress in theorizing on international and comparative political...

Citizen Politics in Post-Industrial Societies.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Citizen Politics in Post-Industrial Societies. Edited by Terry Nichols Clark and Michael Rempel. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 261p. $65.00. The New Political Culture. Edited by Terry Nichols Clark and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot. Boulder,...

The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967. By Michael Dumper. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 365p. $29.50. The title of this book is doubly misleading: It is about much more than politics, and it deals with a much longer historical...

India's Environmental Policies, Programmes, and Stewardship.(Review)
December 1, 1999... India's Environmental Policies, Programmes, and Stewardship. By 0. P. Dwivedi. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 235p. $65.00. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Mohandas K Gandhi, asked if he would like a free India to become like Great...

Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco.(includes another review)(Review)
December 1, 1999... Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco. By Laura Desfor Edles. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 197p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain....

Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills. By Leela Fernandes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 199p. $42.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. This ethnographic study reconceptualizes...

The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America. By J. Samuel Fitch. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 264p. $48.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. The military has long been the dominant actor in Latin American politics. Although...

After Development: The Transformation of the Korean Presidency and Bureaucracy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... After Development: The Transformation of the Korean Presidency and Bureaucracy. By Sung Deuk Hahm and L. Christopher Plein. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997. l92p. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Since the economic crisis in...

The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy. By Neil Harvey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 447p. $17.95 paper. On March 21, 1999, more than five years after its official emergence in January 1994, the Zapatista...

Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh. By Zoya Hasan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. 292p. $24.95. Contemporary politics in India poses a unique case for the study of economic and...

The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. By Terry Lynn Karl. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 342p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. In an influential article published in the Latin American Research Review in 1987,...

State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986-94.(Review)
December 1, 1999... State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986-94. By Harvey F. Kline. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 240p. $34.95. In a refreshing return to state-centered explanations of the endemic and almost embedded violence...

The Czech and Slovak Republics: Nation versus State.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Czech and Slovak Republics: Nation versus State. By Carol Skalnik Leff. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 295p. $69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Czecho/Slovakia: Ethnic Conflict, Constitutional Fissure, Negotiated Breakup. By Eric Stein. Ann...

NIMBY Politics in Japan: Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict.(Review)
December 1, 1999... NIMBY Politics in Japan: Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict. By S. Hayden Lesbirel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 187p. $39.95. Hayden Lesbirel is an Australian scholar who has been studying the...

Center and Provinces: China 1978-93. Power as Non-Zero Sum.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Center and Provinces: China 1978-93. Power as Non-Zero Sum. By Linda Chelan Li. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. 342p. $85.00. Linda Li begins by discussing the "crisis" in the relationship between the central and provincial governments in China...

The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa. By Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1998. 151p. $55.00. The ideal of democracy is ontologically good in itself and is...

Constitutional Engineering in Brazil: The Politics of Federalism and Decentralization.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Constitutional Engineering in Brazil: The Politics of Federalism and Decentralization. By Celina Souza. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 2llp. $65.00. During the 1980s many theorists of democratization and development set high hopes in...

Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany. By Lowell Turner. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 195p. $39.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Fighting for Partnership is an excellent book on an extremely difficult...

Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies. By Bruce Western. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 230p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Bruce Western has written an excellent book on the...

Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy. By Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 244p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This volume is the first modern...

Security: A New Framework for Analysis.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Security: A New Framework for Analysis. By Barry Buzan, Ole Weaver, and Jaap de Wilde. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 239p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This reconceptualization of the field of security studies proposes to broaden the...

World Power Forsaken: Political Culture, International Institutions, and German Security Policy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... World Power Forsaken: Political Culture, International Institutions, and German Security Policy. By John Duffield. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 408p. $49.50. In this closely reasoned and informative volume John Duffield...

Strategic Coercion: Concepts and Cases.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Strategic Coercion: Concepts and Cases. Edited by Lawrence Freedman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 400p. $92.00. This is a book about foreign policy strategy geared to building policy-relevant theory, and it is a much needed...

Interests and Integration: Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Interests and Integration: Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union. By Matthew J. Gabel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 192p. $42.50. If anyone is still skeptical about the importance of the study of...

Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty under Siege.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty under Siege. By Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 283p. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. One question with which scholars of world politics and...

The Mark of the Bundesbank: Germany's Role in European Monetary Cooperation.(includes other reviews)(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Mark of the Bundesbank: Germany's Role in European Monetary Cooperation. By Dorothee Heisenberg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999. 214p. $49.95. Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money. By Karl Kaltenthaler. Durham, NC: Duke...

Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy.(includes another review)(Review)
December 1, 1999... Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy. By Ole R. Holsti. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 257p. $42.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. Getting to War: Predicting International Conflict with Mass Media Indicators. By W. Ben Hunt....

Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration. Edited by Michael C. Hudson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 368p. $49.50 cloth, $19.50 paper. In the Arab world, the Westphalian system of sovereign...