American Political Science Review articles from June 2000

American Political Science Review archives from June 2000

Editor's Notes.
June 1, 2000... Authors are reminded that the APSR does not accept new manuscript submissions during August. Invited revisions and reviews may be submitted at any time and are processed upon arrival. Please time new submissions to arrive either by the end of...

Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics.
June 1, 2000... It is increasingly common for social scientists to describe political processes as "path dependent." The concept, however, is often employed without careful elaboration. This article conceptualizes path dependence as a social process grounded...

Institutional Change in the House of Representatives, 1867-1998: A Test of Partisan and Ideological Power Balance Models.
June 1, 2000... I examine competing explanations for House rules changes with significant partisan overtones. I sought to identify all rules changes adopted from 1867 to 1998 that were intended either to advantage or to undermine the majority party and its...

The Political Economy of Expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES), 1991-95.
June 1, 2000... The Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES) was created by President Alberto Fujimori in 1991 with the stated objectives of generating employment, alleviating poverty, and improving access to social services. This article uses province-level data on...

Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade.
June 1, 2000... Relatively little research has focused on whether countries' political institutions affect their international trade relations. We address this issue by analyzing the relationship between regime type and trade policy. In a formal model of...

Mobile Capital, Domestic Institutions, and Electorally Induced Monetary and Fiscal Policy.
June 1, 2000... The literature on global integration and national policy autonomy often ignores a central result from open economy macroeconomics: Capital mobility constrains monetary policy when the exchange rate is fixed and fiscal policy when the exchange...

Reflections on Fear: Montesquieu in Retrieval.
June 1, 2000... According to most scholars, Montesquieu argues that fear threatens a loss of self. Disconnected from the exercise of reason, fear is an emotion that is supposed to prevent the individual from acting with any kind of moral or rational agency....

City Size and Civic Involvement in Metropolitan America.
June 1, 2000... Given the coincidence between America's recent migration to smaller, suburban cities and declines in civic participation, Dahl's speculations on the ideal-sized democratic Polity have gained more pertinence. I explore the effects of city size...

In Defense of Unanimous Jury Verdicts: Mistrials, Communication, and Strategic Voting.
June 1, 2000... The requirement of unanimous jury verdicts in criminal trials is widely believed to reduce the likelihood of convicting the innocent. This belief depends largely upon the assumption that jurors will vote nonstrategically based on their...

Jury Verdicts and Preference Diversity.
June 1, 2000... I develop a model of decision making in juries when there is uncertainty about jurors' preferences. I provide a characterization of the equilibrium strategy under any voting rule and show that nonunanimous rules are asymptotically efficient....

An Experimental Study of Jury Decision Rules.
June 1, 2000... We present experimental results on groups facing a decision problem analogous to that faced by a jury. We consider three treatment variables: group size (three or six), number of votes needed for conviction (majority or unanimity), and pre-vote...

Military Capabilities and Escalation: A Correction to Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, and Zorick.
June 1, 2000... Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, and Zorick analyze the evolution of crises as a two-sided incomplete information game in order to illuminate the relationship between observable military capabilities and the escalation of a dispute to armed conflict....

Reply to "Military Capabilities and Escalation: A Correction to Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, and Zorick".
June 1, 2000... We thank Professor Molinari for bringing the error in our article (Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, and Zorick 1997) to the attention of the readers of the Review. Despite the inadequacies of the model we presented, we continue our efforts to explain...

Queer Liberalism?(Review)
June 1, 2000... Gay and Lesbian Politics: Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic. By Mark Blasius. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 239p. $69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire. By...

Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life. By Arthur Isak Applbaum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton university Press, 1999. 288p. $29.95. Impressive substantive knowledge, analytical rigor, and Kantian and...

Why I Am Not a Secularist.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Why I Am Not a Secularist. By William E. Connolly. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 2lOp. $29.95. This is the latest in a series of works in which Connolly has been interrogating liberalism and its fellow travelers. Drawing...

The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America. By Richard J. Ellis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 426p. $34.95. In this elegantly written, provocative, and sometimes just plain provoking book, punctuated by...

New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse.(Review)
June 1, 2000... New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. 104p. $14.95 paper. This book provides a revised text of Jean Elshtain's Hesburgh...

The Community of Rights.(Review)
June 1, 2000... 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,"...

The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory. By J[ddot{u}]rgen Habermas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1998. 300p. $32.00. This volume contains ten essays that Habermas wrote in the mid-1990s. The essays trace the connections...

Reconstituting Social Criticism: Political Morality in an Age of Scepticism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Reconstituting Social Criticism: Political Morality in an Age of Scepticism. Edited by Iain MacKenzie and Shane O'Neill. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 217p. $65.00. The eleven essays in this volume are the product of a conference held in...

Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. By John Mueller. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 335p. $29.95. Mueller wants us to ask less of democracy than some of its keener advocates have promised; to value...

Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 1: The Enlightenment of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 1: The Enlightenment of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764. By J. G. A. Pocock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 323p. $49.95. Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 2: Narratives of Civil Government. By J. G. A....

Equality, Responsibility, and the Law.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Equality, Responsibility, and the Law. By Arthur Ripstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 319p. $54.95. Legal systems are concerned both with standards of responsibility and with allocating the consequences of luck. Whether a...

The Problem of Trust.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Problem of Trust. By Adam B. Seligman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 231p. $29.95. As Adam Seligman points out, recent discussions of civil society in the work of Robert Putnam and Francis Fukuyama emphasize trust and...

Sovereign Grace: The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin's Political Thought.(Review)
June 1, 2000... H. M. H[ddot{o}]pfl Sovereign Grace: The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin's Political Thought. By William R. Stevenson, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 200p. $49.45. The main value of this book is...

Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy. By Meena Bose. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. l97p. $29.95. The reputations of Eisenhower and Kennedy have, at...

Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy. By Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 198p. $42.50. Interest in the instruments of direct democracy (e.g., referendums and initiatives)...

Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. Edited by David E. Camacho. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 232p. $17.95 paper. There is a burgeoning literature on "environmental racism," or...

The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. By Cathy J. Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. 394p. $18.00 paper. What defines the political interests of African Americans? It is usually assumed that...

Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect. By Richard A. Couto, with Catherine S. Guthrie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 336p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. ...

Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity. By Jon[acute{e}] E. Crux. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1999. 278p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Demographic changes in the United States are creating a new...

The Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection. By Evan Gerstmann. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. l96p. $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper. At the heart of Evan Gerstmann's...

Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953. By David M. Hart. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 267p. $39.95. Research on technological change and the policies affecting it is...

Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Culture.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Culture. By Daniel Lessard Levin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 283p. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Daniel Levin examines the Constitution in various...

Environmental Cancer--A Political Disease?(Review)
June 1, 2000... Environmental Cancer--A Political Disease? By S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 235p. $35.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. This is a good book on an important matter, but the material it addresses is...

The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? By Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 282p. $64.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. This book has generated excitement in political...

Getting Beyond Race: The Changing American Culture.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Getting Beyond Race: The Changing American Culture. By Richard J. Payne. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. 240p. $25.00. Race is the most profound and enduring cleavage in American society and politics. It always has been. Therefore, the...

Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel. By James D. Savage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 2l9p. $49.95. Perhaps you have wondered, striding across your campus, why the...

The Sometime Connection: Public Opinion and Social Policy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Sometime Connection: Public Opinion and Social Policy. By Elaine B. Sharp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 289p. $17.95 paper. The simple yet profound purpose of The Sometime Connection is to investigate, in broad...

Choosing Justice: The Recruitment of State and Federal Judges.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Choosing Justice: The Recruitment of State and Federal Judges. By Charles H. Sheldon and Linda S. Maule. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1997. 305p. $35.00. The role of the courts in the American political system places...

Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow.. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 277p. $48.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Bartholomew Sparrow rejects the "fourth estate" model for an...

Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections. Edited by Joel A. Thompson and Gary F. Moncrief. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998. 249p. $47.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. No serious scholar of American campaign finance or of...

American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People.(Review)
June 1, 2000... American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People. By Jean M. Yarbrough. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. 256p. $35.00. The mind of Thomas Jefferson, recorded in his voluminous writings and papers, is and has...

Taking the Wheel: Auto Parts Firms and the Political Economy of Industrialization in Brazil.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Taking the Wheel: Auto Parts Firms and the Political Economy of Industrialization in Brazil. By Caren Addis. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 257p. $47.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. The third chapter of Taking the...

Women on the Defensive: Living through Conservative Times.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Women on the Defensive: Living through Conservative Times. By Sylvia Bashevkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 3l8p. $47.50 cloth, $18.00 paper. Although contemporary feminism has been strongest in the Western industrial...

The Gorbachev Factor.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Gorbachev Factor. By Archie Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 406p. $16.95 paper. Nearly ten years after the collapse of the USSR, judgments about both Mikhail Gorbachev's intentions and the consequences of his six-year...

Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State. By Valerie Bunce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 206p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property...

Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-War Transformation.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-War Transformation. By Francis G. Castles. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. 352p. $53.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. This is a magisterial study by a leading international...

Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent. By Mamoun Fandy. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 272p. $45.00. This work deals with political stability in one of the most important countries in the world. The focus is on Islamic opposition to the...

Pornography and Democratization: Legislating Obscenity in Post-Communist Russia.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Pornography and Democratization: Legislating Obscenity in Post-Communist Russia. By Paul W. Goldschmidt. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999. 274p. $55.00. One of the first signs that censorship was easing in the former Soviet Union was the...

All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies.(Review)
June 1, 2000... All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies. By Michael Herb. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 352p. $49.50. An observer of the Gulf states once quipped that studying the...

The Individual and the State in China.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Individual and the State in China. Edited by Brian Hook. Oxford and New York: Clarendon, Oxford University Press, 1996. 231p. $23.00 paper. Mass Politics in the People's Republic: State and Society in Contemporary China. By Alan P. L....

Militant Nationalism: Between Movement and Party in Ireland and the Basque Country.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Militant Nationalism: Between Movement and Party in Ireland and the Basque Country. By Cynthia L. Irvin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 28lp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. In this ninth volume in the Social Movements,...

Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies. By Torben Iversen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 22lp. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Torben Iversen generalizes,...

The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices. By Oleg Kharkhordin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 4l8p. $50.00. This is one of the most important books ever written about Russian politics and society....

Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation. By Herbert Kitschelt, Zdenka Manfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski, and G[acute{a}]bor T[acute{o}]ka. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 457p. $69.95...

Regulating Finance: The Political Economy of Spanish Financial Policy from Franco to Democracy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Regulating Finance: The Political Economy of Spanish Financial Policy from Franco to Democracy. By Arvid John Lukauskas. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 326p. $52.50. A full quarter of a century has passed since Spain...

After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China.(Review)
June 1, 2000... After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China. By Daniel C. Lynch. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. 327p. $55 00. The fact that the Chinese communist government has been losing control over...

Ideology and Change: Transformation of the Caribbean Left.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ideology and Change: Transformation of the Caribbean Left. By Perry Mars. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 230p. $65.00. The violent implosion of the Grenadian Revolution in October 1983 brought to a close a phase in...

Parliamentary Representation: The Case of the Norwegian Storting.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Parliamentary Representation: The Case of the Norwegian Storting. By Donald R. Matthews and Henry Valen. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. 2llp. $49.95 cloth. $23.95 paper. This is a fresh and insightful book by two major...

The Agony of the Russian Idea.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Agony of the Russian Idea. By Tim McDaniel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 20lp. $14.95 paper. All post-Soviet societies faced the challenge of constructing a new identity that is both national and democratic. Yet, not...

Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development. Edited by Manus Midlarsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 28lp. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. This collection of essays provides a multifaceted perspective on the process of...

Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform & Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform. By Jean C. Oi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 253p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and...

China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform.(Review)
June 1, 2000... China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform. By Margaret M. Pearson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 217p. $35.00. Margaret Pearson addresses a key question in the field of comparative...

Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights. By Daniel B. Price. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 221p. $59.95. Does "Islam" cause authoritarianism? Samuel Huntington claims it is antidemocratic (The Clash of Civilizations, 1996)....

Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoac[acute{a}]in.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoac[acute{a}]in. By Jennie Purnell. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1999. 27lp. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Jennie Purnell's...

Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Changes in East-Central Europe and Russia.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Changes in East-Central Europe and Russia. By Sabrina P. Ramet. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 424p. $69.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. Sabrina Ramet has supplied the scholarly community with...

Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. By Kenneth M. Roberts. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 37Op. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. The Left in Latin America has changed in many ways from the...

Building Social Capital in Thailand: Fibers, Finance, and Infrastructure.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Building Social Capital in Thailand: Fibers, Finance, and Infrastructure. By Danny Unger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 227p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. From the late 1950s until the late 1990s Thailand had one of the best...

Institutions and Institutional Change in China: Premodernity and Modernization.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Institutions and Institutional Change in China: Premodernity and Modernization. By Fei-Ling Wang. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 227p. $65.00. For the past generation, after the rejection of Maoism, the Chinese leadership directed its...

Unstately Power, Vol. I: Local Causes of China's Economic Reforms.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Unstately Power, Vol. I: Local Causes of China's Economic Reforms. By Lynn T. White III. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 52lp. $69.00. Unstately Power, Vol. II: Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal, and Governmental Reforms. By Lynn...

Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991. By John Young. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 270p. $59.95. The author offers a much needed account of an ethno-national liberation movement...

Institutional Designs for a Complex World: Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Institutional Designs for a Complex World: Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting. Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 224p. $65.00. This collection of essays is a welcome addition to the small but growing...

From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations.(Review)
June 1, 2000... From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations. By Nitza Berkovitch. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 224p. $34.95. One of the more interesting puzzles in political science is why nations...

Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics & International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics. Edited by David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 268p. $19.95. International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives. Edited by David R....

Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States--Korea--Japan Security Triangle.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States--Korea--Japan Security Triangle. By Victor D. Cha. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. 373p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. What accounts for the "puzzling" uncooperativeness that...

Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy. By Richard Deeg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 3l2p. $49.50. Is globalization undermining the traditional Continental European model of finance...

Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment. By Michael C. Desch. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. l84p. $69:00 cloth, $22.95 paper. This book is a hallmark of the recent renaissance in...

Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict. By John D. Dunlop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 234p. $18.95 paper. At century's end, the problem of war between clearly independent states seems to have been...

The Third World Beyond the Cold War.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Third World Beyond the Cold War. Edited by Louise Fawcett and Yezid Sayigh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 256p. $78.00. The Cold War and the Third World are two overly written, overly studied, and undertheorized topics in the...

Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace and Democratic Internationalism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace and Democratic Internationalism. By Alan Gilbert. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 3l6p. $55.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. In the nearly 20 years...

Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace. By Joanne Gowa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 136p. $27.50. Over the past several years Joanne Gowa has published a string of noteworthy attacks on the widely held...

International Relations on Film.(Review)
June 1, 2000... International Relations on Film. By Robert W. Gregg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1998. 310p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Robert Gregg makes it clear that popular culture has contributed more than Stanley Kubrick's maniacal Dr. Strangelove...