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American Political Science Review archives from June 1999

Communities of memory: on identity, memory, and debt.
June 1, 1999... In looking at political identity from the standpoint of continuity across time, of memory, and of responsibility for the past, I am principally concerned with political identity and moral accountability. Identity statements often appear as...

Collective identity and electoral competition in Israel.
June 1, 1999... Comparative electoral research in advanced industrial societies suggests that voting has become more individualized and less structured by groupings; the bases of electoral mobilization and choice have changed from social cleavages to cognitive...

Strategic interaction and the statistical analysis of international conflict.
June 1, 1999... Historians from Thucydides (1972) to Taylor (1954) to Kissinger (1994) and Kagan (1995) all detail the machinations of state leaders trying to achieve their foreign policy goals through sometimes peaceful but often violent means. Not...

How much is majority status in the U.S. Congress worth?
June 1, 1999... We assess the value of majority status in the U.S. House and Senate by looking at how political action committees (PACs) reallocate their contributions when the identity of the majority party changes, as it did in both chambers after the...

The effect of political trust on the presidential vote, 1968-96.
June 1, 1999... Scholars exploring the link between declining political trust and declining political participation have consistently arrived at null findings. Citrin (1974) finds those who trust the government are no more likely to vote, engage in campaign...

Who influences whom? The president, Congress, and the media.
June 1, 1999... Influencing the policy agenda, the set of issues that receive serious attention by policymakers, has long been viewed as one of the most important sources of political power (Anderson 1978; Baumgartner and Jones 1993; Cobb and Elder 1972; Downs...

The effect of TV ads and candidate appearances on statewide presidential votes, 1988-96.
June 1, 1999... American presidential election campaigns have always received much notoriety both in the news media and political science. This notoriety masks considerable scholarly debate over the importance of contemporary campaigns, Studies of...

Tyranny and self-knowledge: Critias and Socrates in Plato's 'Charmides.'.
June 1, 1999... Plato's Charmides presents a conversation about sophrosune (usually translated as moderation) between Socrates and two future tyrants, Critias and Charmides. Socrates' discussion with these most immoderate of political actors can still help us...

Three ways of thinking "critically" about the law.
June 1, 1999... The prevailing fashion in left-leaning legal theory over the last two decades argues that the fundamental indeterminacy of the law exposes the arbitrary nature of legal adjudication. Moreover, indeterminacy possibly provides occasion for more...

Trust and Governance.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998. 386p. $45.00. Keith Dowding, London School of Economics There has been an increasing interest in the social sciences in recent years in...

Trust Within Reason.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Martin Hollis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 170p. $54.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Keith Dowding, London School of Economics There has been an increasing interest in the social sciences in recent years in explaining trust....

Politics and Uncertainty: Theory, Models and Applications.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Claudio Cioffi-Revilla. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 343p. $64.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. Manus I. Midlarsky, Rutgers University This is a profound book. It seeks to explore the basic configurations of political reality...

Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Richard Dagger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 258p. $49.95. Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto Like many intelligent and thoughtful liberals, Richard Dagger thinks that the debates between liberals and communitarians or...

Pragmatism and Political Theory: From Dewey to Rorty.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Matthew Festenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ix, 237p. $50.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. John J. Stuhr, Pennsylvania State University What is the value of pragmatism for political thought? What is its value as a...

Radical Critiques of the Law.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Stephen M. Griffin and Robert C. L. Moffat. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997. 337p. $45.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Susan Burgess, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee In addition to the editors' introduction, this book...

Norms and Values: Essays on the Works of Virginia Held.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Joram G. Haber and Mark S. Halfon. Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 2%p. $62.50 cloth, $23.95 paper. Marion Smiley, University of Wisconsin, Madison Norms and Values is a very well put together collection of...

Nietsche's Tragic Regime: Culture, Aesthetics, and Political Education.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Thomas Heilke. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998. 215p. $32.00. Jane Bennett, Goucher College "Political education" is a productive partnership of terms, an idea that can be inflected in a variety of ways. Add a...

Gramsci's Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By James Martin. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 208p. $59.95. Joseph A. Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame The comprehensive Gramsci bibliography (available, with search engines, at http://www.soc.qc.edu/gramsci), which John Cammett is...

Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By David Owen. London: Routledge, 1994. $22.99 paper. Peter Breiner, SUNY Albany David Owen's book fits into a genre of recent inquiries seeking to trace the status of the always ambiguous notion of Enlightenment reason and its...

Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Nancy L. Rosenblum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 438p. $29.95. Jon Mandle, SUNY Albany Frequently, ethical theory pays insufficient attention to the empirical details of its investigation. In part, it is this...

Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Rogers M. Smith. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 704p. $35.00. Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto Who belongs? What kind of political community are we? Every political community must address these sorts of questions...

Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By David Weinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 235p. $64.95. Paul Kelly, London School of Economics and Political Science Much recent work on the history of utilitarianism, especially in its nineteenth-century...

Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Melissa S. Williams. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiii, 329p. $35.00. Charles R. Beitz, Bowdoin College Melissa Williams's thesis is that the fair representation of certain groups may require the presence of...

Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory Institutions.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By H. Peyton Young. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 190p. $35.00. Andrew Kydd, University of California, Riverside Why does everyone in Europe but the British drive on the right-hand side of the road? Why, when you go...

Information and Elections.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By R. Michael Alvarez. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1997. 257p. $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Christopher Wlezien, University of Houston A long tradition in political science presumes the public does not acquire much, if any,...

When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Mark Baldassare. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 320p. $48.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Steven P. Erie, University of California, San Diego In 1976, after New York's near bankruptcy, Terry Clark asked: "How Many More New...

Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Larry Bennett. New York: Garland, 1997. 269p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Todd Swanstrom, SUNY Albany Urban politics is still being rocked by the political conflicts that shook cities beginning in the 1960s. In opposition to plans...

Challenging Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Barbara Ferman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. 192p. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Todd Swanstrom, SUNY Albany Urban politics is still being rocked by the political conflicts that shook cities beginning in the 1960s. In...

Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, and Caroline J. Tolbert. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. 316p. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Daniel A. Smith, University of Denver Like direct democracy itself, scholarly interest in the...

Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Mark E. Brandon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 248p. $39.50. Pamela Brandwein, University of Texas at Dallas Almost forty years ago, Arthur Bestor suggested that the American Civil War be seen as a constitutional...

Women and Political Participation: Cultural Change in the Political Arena.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By M. Margaret Conway, Gertrude A. Steuernagel, and David W. Ahem. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1997. xii, 162p. $22.95 paper. Susan B. Hansen, University of Pittsburgh The title of this book does not fully convey the scope of this survey...

Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew: Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative Politics.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Douglas Dion. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 291p. $49.50. Sarah A. Binder, George Washington University and The Brookings Institution Scholars across the discipline of political science are grappling with where...

The Presidential Election of 1996: Clinton's Incumbency and Television.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By E. D. Dover. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 216p. $55.00. David J. Lanoue, Texas Tech University Maybe it's not just the economy, stupid. That is the theme of E. D. Dover's comprehensive study of the 1996 presidential race between...

Party Ideologies in America: 1828-1996.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By John Gerring. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 337p. $64.95. Clyde P. Weed, Southern Connecticut State University John Gerring has produced a work of sustained value here. His book is an important attempt to reconfigure...

The Politics of News: The News of Politics.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Doris Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1998. 268p. $39.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington These two volumes attest to the growing quality and range of...

Polities and the Press: The News Media and Their Influences.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Pippa Norris. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 335p. $59.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington These two volumes attest to the growing quality and range of interdisciplinary research in political...

Rethinking Health Care Policy: The New Politics of State Regulation.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Robert B. Hackey. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 272p. $49.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University To even the most casual observer, health policies and policymaking are complex....

The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Christopher Howard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 250p. $39.50. Saundra K. Schneider, University of South Carolina The uniqueness of the American welfare state has been the focus of numerous scholarly analyses...

Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Sheldon Kamieniecki, George Gonzalez, and Robert Vos. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997. 367p. $19.95 paper. Matthew Cahn, California State University Northridge Research in environmental policymaking has undergone several...

Pursuing Majorities: Congressional Campaign Committees in American Politics.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Robin Kolodny. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. 318p. $29.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Randall Strahan, Emory University Once a central focus of historians, political history seems well on the way to marginalization within...

Politics, Power and Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Mark E. Rushefsky and Kant Patel. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 316p. $62.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University This 1998 work by Rushefsky and Patel is the second effort of political scientists in recent...

Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Alberta M. Sbragia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 296p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. James C. Clingermayer, Northern Kentucky University Many scholarly discussions of the policy role of American cities emphasize...

The Modern Political Campaign: Mudslinging, Bombast, and the Vitality of American Politics.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Richard K. Scher. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. 206p. $51.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Darrell M. West, Brown University Richard K. Scher has written a book with a very simple but compelling point: Campaigns are rooted in our...

Changing Urban Education.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Clarence N. Stone. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 316p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Brian L. Fife, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Since local autonomy in education is deeply rooted in the...

Pluralism by the Rules: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Regulation.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Edward P. Weber. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 308p. $55.00 cloth, $23.95 paper. George A. Gonzalez, University of Miami The author analyzes the recent trend in environmental regulatory policy toward cooperative...

The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Kenny J. Whitby. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 189p. $37.50. Charles S. Bullock III. University of Georgia This volume examines three aspects of representation of black interests in the U.S. House. Chapters 2 and 3...

Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America: 1977-1984.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Ariel C. Armony. Athens: Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 1997. 301p. $26.00 paper. Deborah L. Norden, University of California, Riverside Few observers of Central America would perceive the prolonged war between...

Costa Rica: Quest for Democracy.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By John A. Booth. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. 230p. $65.00. Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M University The last major resource book about the history and political system of Costa Rica was published in 1982 - Charles Ameringer's...

Costa Rica: Politics, Economics and Democracy.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Bruce M. Wilson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 187p. $49.95. Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M University The last major resource book about the history and political system of Costa Rica was published in 1982 - Charles...

Executive Decree Authority.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by John M. Carey and Matthew Soberg Shugart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 334p. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Thomas A. Baylis, University of Texas at San Antonio It would be difficult to think of a much less...

The Protest Business? Mobilizing Campaign Groups.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Grant Jordan and William Maloney. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1997. 211p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Christopher J. Bosso, Northeastern University A lot of paper has been used to assess the "environmental...

Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World: Comparative Experiences.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Bahgat Korany, Rex Brynen, and Paul Noble. Vol. 2. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1998. 299p. $55.00. James A. Bill, College of William and Mary Political scientists who study the Middle East often harbor intellectual...

The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 228p. $58.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Anthony Gill, University of Washington With the explosive growth of religious fundamentalism during the final...

Migration, Displacement, and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Hilary Pilkington. New York: Routledge, 1998. 252p. $85.00 cloth, $27.99 paper. George O. Liber, University of Alabama at Birmingham With the collapse of the USSR in December 1991, several million Russian-language speakers (not only...

Warlord Politics and African States.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By William Reno. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 257p. $58.00. Jeffrey Herbst, Princeton University The phenomenon of state failure has been one of the most important developments of the post-Cold War era. The collapse of states,...

Elections and Conflict Management in Africa.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Timothy D. Sisk and Andrew Reynolds. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998. 224p. $14.95. James R. Scarritt, University of Colorado at Boulder This edited volume is the first book-length study of the...

After the Wall: Eastern Germany Since 1989.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Patricia J. Smith. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. 350p. $64.95. Michael Minkenberg, Viadrina European University at Frankfurt (Oder) Ten years after the fall of the state socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, many questions...

Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Steve J. Stern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 536p. $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University This is one of the most significant scholarly contributions to date about the Shining...

Private Groups and Public Life: Social Participation, Voluntary Associations and Political Involvement in Representative Democracies.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Jan W. van Deth. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 244p. $85.00. Hanspeter Kriesi, University of Geneva This collection is based on a workshop, "Social Involvement, Voluntary Associations and Democratic Politics," held...

The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968-1970.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Kieran Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 270p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Karen Dawisha, University of Maryland College Park Taking advantage of the release of thousands of new documents on Soviet and...

Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Rogers Brubaker. Cambridge: University Press, 1996. 202p. $54.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder There seems to be no end to theorizing about nationalism. This is understandable in view of the...

Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Rise and Decline of Nationalism.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Ernst Haas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 362p. $39.95. William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder There seems to be no end to theorizing about nationalism. This is understandable in view of the continuing...

Ethnopolitics in the New Europe.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By John T. Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 199p. $49.95. William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder There seems to be no end to theorizing about nationalism. This is understandable in view of the...

Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Jeffrey T. Checkel. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 214p. $26.00. Vidya Nadkarni, University of San Diego The largely unanticipated and peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union has generated a great deal of interest among...

The Ethics of War.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By A. J. Coates. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. 313p. $24.95 paper. David R. Mapel, University of Colorado, Boulder Part I of The Ethics of War examines what Coates calls the different "images" of war in the realist,...

International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Jorge I. Dominguez. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. 346p. $50.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Michael A. Morris, Clemson University The fourteen articles in this edited volume offer multiple perspectives on...

Paths of Peace: Is Democracy the Answer?(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Miriam Fendius Elman. CSIA Studies in International Security. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 528p. $25.00 paper. Erik Gartzke, Pennsylvania State University In Paths to Peace, editor Miriam Elman and nine other contributors...

Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Barbara Rearden Farnham. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 313p. $39.50. Stephen G. Walker, Arizona State University In this account of President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the growing threat of war in Europe,...

Interactive Conflict Resolution.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Ronald J. Fisher. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. 294p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Lisa J. Carlson, University of Idaho Scholars of international relations are becoming increasingly aware of a curious disconnection...

Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crisis, War, and Peace.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Frank P. Harvey and Ben D. Mor. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 366p. $69.95. Linda P. Brady, Georgia Institute of Technology The causes and consequences of international conflict, crisis, and war have been the subject of...

Beyond the Market: The EU and National Social Policy.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by David Hine and Hussein Kassim. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. 231p. $85.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. Michael Baun, Valdosta State University This book, along with its three companion volumes in Routledge's "The State and...

Weapons Under Fire.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Lauren Holland. New York: Garland, 1997. 267p. $50.00 cloth, $20.95 paper. James M. Lindsay, University of Iowa Lauren Holland has written "a book about how the American government makes the decisions that result in the production...

One World Emerging? Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Alex Inkeles. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. 423p. $39.00. Bruce E. Moon, Lehigh University Few scholars have maintained a research agenda with the continuity evidenced by the distinguished sociologist Alex Inkeles. One World...

Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by David Kelly and Anthony Reid. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Asian Freedoms exemplifies why large advances in comparative politics are...

Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Charles King and Neil J. Melvin. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. 240p. $59.00. Ray Taras, Tulane University Following an initial burst of scholarship in the early 1990s that focused on nationalist movements in the former Soviet...

The Soviet World of American Communism.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 378p. $35.00. Athan G. Theoharis, Marquette University The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had one unanticipated if temporary...

The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of the Postwar International Order.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Robert Latham. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 281p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Philip G. Cerny, University of Leeds Most of the literature on the origins of the Cold War and the postwar international system falls into...

Expanding Realism: The Historical Dimension of World Politics.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By George Liska. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 305p. $68.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Dale Copeland, University of Virginia George Liska has written another in a long line of difficult but fascinating books outlining his unique...

The Council of Mutual Economic Assistance: The Failure of Reform.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Lee Kendall Metcalf. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1998. 214p. $35.00. Randall W. Stone, University of Rochester This is a welcome addition to a literature that has arisen since the end of the...

The Republican Legacy in International Thought.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 284p. $64.95. Georg Cavallar, Vienna, University of California, Riverside (visiting scholar) Onuf identifies the legacy of republicanism in contemporary...

Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By James N. Rosenau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 467p. $59.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Yale H. Ferguson, Rutgers University-Newark Those who write reviews should avoid such trite descriptions of a new book as "major,"...

The Internationalization of Environmental Protection.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Edited by Miranda A. Schreurs and Elizabeth Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 221p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Juliann Emmons Allison, University of California, Riverside The intersection between domestic politics...

Power and Ideas: North-South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Susan K. Sell. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 289p. $19.95 paper. Keith E. Maskus, University of Colorado, Boulder Susan Sell provides a well-written and scholarly discussion of the most important episodes of North-South bargaining over...

From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role.(Review)
June 1, 1999... By Fareed Zakaria. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 1998. 199p. $29.95. Randall Schweller, Ohio State University In recent years a new school of political realism has arisen, variously called neoclassical or neotraditional...

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