American Political Science Review articles from December 2000

American Political Science Review archives from December 2000

Editor's Notes.(protests against the American Political Science Association and the American Political Science Review.)
December 1, 2000... By now most readers will know of the New York Times article on November 4, 2000, reporting a protest against the American Political Science Association in general and the American Political Science Review in particular. The protestors generated...

International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... International peacebuilding can improve the prospects that a civil war will be resolved. Although peacebuilding strategies must be designed to address particular conflicts, broad parameters that fit most conflicts can be identified. Strategies...

Cluster-Based Early Warning Indicators for Political Change in the Contemporary Levant.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... We use cluster analysis to develop a model of political change in the Levant as reflected in the World Event Interaction Survey coded event data generated from Reuters between 1979 and 1998. A new statistical algorithm that uses the correlation...

International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Why do sovereign governments make international legal commitments, and what effect does international law have on state behavior? Very little empirical research tries to answer these questions in a systematic way. This article examines patterns...

Decentralization and Inflation: Commitment, Collective Action, or Continuity?(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Do political and fiscal decentralization make it easier or harder to control inflation? Statistical analysis of average annual inflation rates in a panel of 87 countries in the 1970s and 1980s found no clear relationship between...

Legislative Professionalism and Incumbent Reelection: The Development of Institutional Boundaries.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... It is well established that legislators from highly professionalized bodies are more likely to win reelection than members of less professionalized legislatures. We find that the effect of professionalization on incumbent electoral success is...

Xenophon's Philosophic Odyssey: On the Anabasis and Plato's Republic.
December 1, 2000... Xenophon's Anabasis, a military adventure interwoven with a story of philosophical self-discovery, is a companion piece to Plato's Republic. The Anabasis takes up in deed the two great political problems treated in speech in the Republic,...

Disaggregating and Explaining Corporate Political Activity: Domestic and Foreign Corporations in National Politics.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Corporate political activity is usually operationalized and analyzed as financial contributions to candidates or political parties through political action committees (PA Cs). Very little attention has been paid to other dimensions, such as...

Recovering the Political Aristotle: A Critical Response to Smith.(Thomas Smith )
December 1, 2000... Thomas Smith presents an Aristotelian view of the common good that resembles much contemporary political theory in that it focuses on ethics rather than politics. Smith contends that Aristotle is a potent remedy to a society in crisis due to...

Ethics and Politics: A Response to Terchek and Moore.
December 1, 2000... I respond to Terchek and Moore by investigating the interrelationship of ethics to politics in Aristotle's thought. To this end I defend two claims. First, doing ethics requires understanding politics. Second, politics requires practical wisdom...

Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics. By Ricardo Blaug. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 229p. $65.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Democracy in Dark Times. By Jeffrey C. Isaac. Ithaca, NY: Cornell...

Democratic Devices and Desires.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 267p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The central argument of this book is that the standard rational actor model is an impoverished representation of individual...

Republican Theory in Political Thought: Virtuous or Virtual?(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Bill Brugger. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 211p. $59.95. At a time when communitarians are moderating their once radical critique of liberalism by an embrace of individual rights and liberals are calling for more robust community, Bill...

Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life. By Laurence D. Cooper. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 264p. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. (Un)Manly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's...

Fugitive Theory: Political Theory, the Southern Agrarians, and America.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Christopher M. Duncan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. 244p. $65.00. The American South is unique. As Christopher Duncan notes in this provocative volume, only the South inspires true love or true hate (p. 4). He addresses the ideas...

Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by David Dyzenhaus. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 318p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. This is an excellent collection of articles, both from German and Anglo-American commentators, on one of the most controversial and...

Marxism and Social Science.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Andrew Gamble, David Marsh, and Tony Tant. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 381p. $42.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Engels after Marx. Edited by Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver. University Park: Pennsylvania State...

Freedom of Association.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 382p. $77.50 cloth, $20.95 paper. The morning I began writing this review, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale. James...

The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Nancy C. M. Hartsock. Boulder, GO: Westview, 1998. 262p. $18.00 paper. This collection by Nancy Hartsock traces the increasing theoretical sophistication of a leading American feminist scholar. The breadth, seriousness, and occasionally...

Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althusius on Community and Federalism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Thomas O. Hueglin. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. 28Op. $39.95. Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) spent his life defending the prerogatives of small political entities against the encroachments of large...

Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Peter Augustine Lawler. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. l93p. $60.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This deeply serious and richly thought-provoking book opposes a "postmodernism rightly understood" to "postmodernism as it is usually...

Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Mark Mattern. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 240p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Political scientists have long been ambivalent about including some particular cultural and social modes of action into their standard...

Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Waller R. Newell. Lanham/Boulder, New York/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 205p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. This extremely interesting book contains a subtle and finely detailed reflection on one of the main problems in Plato: the...

The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Kimberly K. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 320p. $40.00. Through this learned and imaginative theoretical excursion into American political history, Kimberly Smith issues a challenge to deliberative democrats and...

The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By J. W. Tubbs. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 253p. $42.50. Legal scholars of the modern era have attempted vigorously and with varying degrees of success to find in late medieval and early modern...

The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By David Walsh. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 256p. $65.00 cloth. $22.95 paper. "Without war," Rousseau writes in the First Discourse (1750), "there would be no history." What, then, is the place of political...

Taking Language Seriously: The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Jay D. White. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 2l7p. $65.00. This serious, demanding book provides a valuable service to advanced students of public administration and their professors. They will not always like what...

Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Robert W. Bailey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 396p. $49.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. The theoretical goal of Gay Politics, Urban Politics is to demonstrate how traditional economic or political economy approaches to urban...

California in the New Millennium: The Changing Social and Political Landscape.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Mark Baldassare. Berkeley: University of California Press and Public Policy Institute of California, 2000. 283p. $27.50. In a recent essay in the Los Angeles Times (July 9, 2000), Richard Rodriguez notes that times are changing when the...

Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Glenn Beamer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 174p. $39.50. The premise of Creative Politics is that federalism matters. It matters for all the familiar reasons. It creates both horizontal (interstate) and vertical...

Race, Money, and the American Welfare State.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Michael K. Brown. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 381p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. A sound understanding of the formulation and legitimation of social welfare policy in the United States involves making some sense of the...

Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By James A. Dunn, Jr. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. 230p. $44.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. America's enduring romance with the automobile is one of the great love stories of the twentieth century. It is a tale of fulfillment...

The Choices Justices Make.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998. $21.95 paper. Choices questions the presumption, prevalent among many law and political science scholars, that decision making by justices is based either...

Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Martin Gilens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 296p. $25.00. Why Americans Hate Welfare is a lucid and provocative investigation of how Americans think about poverty and what they believe government should do in its efforts...

Organizational Report Cards.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By William T. Gormley, Jr., and David L. Weimer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 272p. $39.95. Despite all the changes implemented within the public sector during the past several decades, accountability remains the central...

Something Within: Religion in African American Political Activism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Fredrick C. Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 227p. $35.00. Within the study of African American polities there has been a debate over whether religion is the opiate or the inspiration for political activism. Those who...

Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Roderick P. Hart. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 328p. $29.95. The United States has just concluded another presidential nominating season. Judging from television ratings for the conventions, comments of pundits, and...

Presidential Greatness.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000. 278p. $34.95. This work is part of a broad tradition that addresses a central dilemma of democratic leadership: how leaders, especially bold, visionary,...

International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Azza Salama Layton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 217p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. This engaging book approaches the dynamic relationship between policymaking and interested publics by analyzing the issues from which...

Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements. By Ronald T. Libby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 254p. $45.00 cloth, $21.50 paper. Voices and Echoes for the Environment. By Ronald G. Shaiko. New York: Columbia University...

Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Cathie Jo Martin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 262p. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Cathie Jo Martin makes a novel contribution to our understanding of business preferences and political behavior. She argues that a...

Controlling Technocracy: Citizen Rationality and the NIMBY Syndrome.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Gregory E. McAvoy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. l84p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. The emergence of the United States as a postindustrial society has led to an increasing array of social and political problems that...

A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Samuel Merrill III and Bernard Grofman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 213p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. A Unified Theory of Voting is a "must read" for anyone wishing to stay current with the controversies in modern spatial...

Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Marion Orr. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 242p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. School reform has been near the top of the public agenda for more than fifteen years. Federal, state, and local policymakers have launched...

Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By William Simonsen and Mark D. Robbins. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000. 179p. $59.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Simonsen and Robbins examine Eugene Decisions, an effort to engage citizens in the local decision-making process in Eugene, Oregon. The...

Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Cynthia J. Arnson. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 216p. $60.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. This important book examines how negotiation processes have contributed to effots to...

Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By William Ascher. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 333p. $65.00. William Ascher examines a fundamental puzzle in the politics of natural resource exploitation: Why do governments waste natural resources? For him, this...

Community Conflicts and the State in India.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Community Conflicts and the State in India. Edited by Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. 363p. $34.95. Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney....

Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Jeffrey Broadbent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 440p. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Japan experienced several decades of astounding postwar economic expansion, but the many Japanese who lived near sites of concentrated...

Women and the State in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Cynthia Chavez Metoyer. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 149p. $40.00. When the conservative Violeta Chamorro became Nicaragua's first woman president after defeating the Sandinista revolutionary government in 1990 elections, the...

Democracy without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Pradeep K. Chhibber. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 287p. $18.00 paper. Political scientists have generally focused on one of two variables to explain the nature of party systems. Following Duverger, many have analyzed...

Leadership Selection in Six Western Democracies.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By James W. Davis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 232p. $65.00. The aim of this book is to fill an information gap concerning leadership selection in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, and Australia. In this respect, the...

Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Gerald M. Easter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 221p. $54.95. The collapse of Soviet communism intensified the long simmering debate over the nature of Soviet political reality and prompted a reexamination of the major...

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, and Henk-Jan Dirven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 358p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The first two sentences of the preface succinctly state both the breadth of analysis and...

The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century. By A. James Gregor. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. 256p. $30.00. Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time. By A. James Gregor. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999. 208p....

Political Corruption.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Paul Heywood. London: Blackwell, 1997. 230p. $75.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. This collection of twelve articles is the product of a workshop held at the University of Nottingham to which British political scientists invited...

In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Desmond King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 340p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Desmond King is a British policy historian who focuses on British and American work and welfare programs. In Actively Seeking Work? (1995), he argued...

Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberal Reform in Brazil.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Peter R. Kingstone. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 284p. $60.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. An enduring puzzle for Latin Americanists is how free-market, neoliberal economic reform was possible. To the extent that...

Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese House-wife.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Robin M. LeBlanc, with a Foreword by Saskia Sassen. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. 263p. $40.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Few commentators on the politics of Japan are impressed by the intensity of...

Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Scott P. Mainwaring. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. 390p. $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Scott Mainwaring combines a terrific description of the current Brazilian party system with an argument that classifying party systems...

Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Soberg Shugart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 493p. $74.95, cloth, $29.95 paper. Presidential Institutions and Democratic Politics:...

On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By David Morton Rayside. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 384p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. David Rayside adds to a growing literature on lesbian and gay politics and policy. His comparative study of lesbian and gay politics in...

Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Marco Rimanelli. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 454p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Democracies enjoyed banner years during the last decade of the twentieth century. Worldwide, both military and communist dictatorships were in...

People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Peter Roman. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999. 284p. $70.00. Against all odds, Cuba escaped the domino collapse of Soviet bloc communism, despite its heavy dependence on the superpower for trade and aid. Although Peter Roman provides little...

Participation and Democracy, East and West: Comparisons and Interpretations.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Bjorn Wittrock. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 304p. $73.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. The aim of this volume is to provide a "fresh" theoretical and empirical approach to the study of...

Ambiguity, Coping, and Governance: Israeli Experiences in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Ira Sharkansky. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 216p. $59.95. This is a book about ambiguity as a policy tool; its message is that ambiguity is pervasive and that it works. The author not only analyzes but also unambiguously advocates...

Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Doh C. Shin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 335p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Doh C. Shin has made a most welcome and long overdue contribution to the literature on both contemporary Korean politics and comparative...

The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Peter M. Siavelis. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. 245p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. A full decade has passed since Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet handed the presidential sash to a democratically...

Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Wenfang Tang and William Parish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 388p. $54.95 cloth, $25.95 paper. Mobilizing survey data from the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wenfang Tang and William Parish have crafted a textured, subtle,...

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Lisa Wedeen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 230p. $48.00. First-time visitors to Damascus invariably notice two things: the groups of armed men clustered at key points throughout the city and the massive portraits of...

The Political Economy of Dictatorship.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Ronald Wintrobe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 390p. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Political science typically covers the modern state, which emerged around 1776, and mass democracy (regimes with mass suffrage), which...

Between the Flag and the Banner: Women in Israeli Politics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Yael Yishai. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 292p. $54.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. This is an excellent textbook for the reader who is not familiar with the subject of women and politics in Israel. It presents, clearly and...

The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Thomas Banchoff. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999, 2l7p. $44.50. Applying an historical-institutionalist framework, Banchoff posits that the Four Power regime, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union...

Condemned to Repetition?: The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet-Russian Military Interventionism, 1973-1996.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Andrew Bennett. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. 387p. $35.00 cloth, $17.50 paper. In this rich, dense book Andrew Bennett develops learning theory (LT) and uses it to explain Soviet and Russian military interventions from 1973 to...

Community under Anarchy: Transnational Identity and the Evolution of Cooperation.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Bruce Cronin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. l76p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Springing now from constructivist impulses is a strong interest in the nature, scope, and influence of identity in international politics....

Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Christian Davenport. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 248p. $69.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. This book joins a legacy of quality edited works that have focused on the study of political repression. Each volume, at its time of...

In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Aaron L. Friedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 362p. $69.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Most international relations scholars would probably agree that a relatively greater ability to mobilize and direct societal resources...

Doing Good and Doing Well: An Examination of Humanitarian Intervention.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Stephen A. Garrett. Westport. CT: Praeger, 1999. 213p. $55.00. Humanitarian intervention is a controversial old idea that attracts new interest in the post--Cold War era. The notion justifies some foreign military operations that purport...

Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Fred Halliday. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. 402p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Many of the "great books" on revolution have been written by scholars who were primarily theorists and only secondarily (at best) area experts....

Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By William M. LeoGrande. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 773p. $45.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Central America was in the spotlight of world attention from the 1970s into the 1990s and a major site of revolutionary...

State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Marc Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 327p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Jordan is a relatively poor, weak country situated in a highly conflictual neighborhood. It has been very permeable to the shifting ideological...

The Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edited by Gordon Mace and Louis Belanger. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1999. 195p. $38.00. Economic integration is the concept of regionalism emphasized by most of the authors in this book. They are largely Canadian (one is Brazilian),...

Deadly Transfers and the Global Playground: Transnational Security Threats in a Disorderly World.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Robert Mandel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. l39p. $55.00. Robert Mandel employs a descriptive and imaginative metaphor to explain the problem of covert transnational transfers. Like the typical neighborhood playground, the international...

Security, Identity, and Interests: A Sociology of International Relations.(Review)
December 1, 2000... By Bill McSweeney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 239p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. In this ambitious new book, Bill McSweeney applies a great deal of thought to questions at the heart of an ongoing project to retheorize...