American Political Science Review articles from March 1 2001

American Political Science Review archives from March 1 2001

Editor's Notes.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Responding to my editor's notes in the last issue, one reader asked, "Do you have any statistics (or approximate idea) about what proportion of the 2,000 scholars who have reviewed for the APSR are drawn from outside the United States or...

Governance in a Partially Globalized World Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 2000.
March 1, 2001... Talk of globalization is common today in the press and increasingly in political science. Broadly speaking, globalization means the shrinkage of distance on a world scale through the emergence and thickening of networks of...

Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process.
March 1, 2001... After more than a decade of intense scholarly debate, the claim that democratic states hardly ever fight each other remains contested. Although most analysts appear to support the democratic peace hypothesis, a small but determined minority of...

Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The "third wave of democratization" (Huntington 1991; Vanhanen 2000) has raised hopes for a more peaceful world. The thesis of the democratic peace suggests that the spread of democracy will promote a decline in interstate warfare (Doyle 1986;...

Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation.
March 1, 2001... On average, about half the respondents to surveys do not answer one or more questions analyzed in the average survey-based political science article. Almost all analysts contaminate their data at least partially by filling in educated guesses...

Nobility and Necessity: The Problem of Courage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
March 1, 2001... For centuries, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics has been widely recognized as the definitive expression of the classical understanding of virtue and ethical training. Alisdair MacIntyre's (1984) influential After Virtue proposes the possibility...

Rethinking Moral Economy.
March 1, 2001... Political scientists debate as intensely as ever the idea of a moral economy, which contains both descriptive and prescriptive elements. The descriptive element reflects the contributions of, among others, anthropologists and refers to the...

Facilitating Communication across Lines of Political Difference: The Role of Mass Media.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... The extent to which people are exposed to cross-cutting political viewpoints has become of increasing concern to observers of American politics. Advocates of deliberative democracy believe such exposure is essential in order for alternatives to...

The Political Response to Black Insurgency: A Critical Test of Competing Theories of the State.
March 1, 2001... There has been considerable debate among social scientists concerning the role of violent protest in the politics and policies of modern democracies. Much of the discussion centers on the consequences of mass violence and, in particular,...

More Order with Less Law: On Contract Enforcement, Trust, and Crowding.
March 1, 2001... Trust can increase efficiency in the economic and political spheres. Recent studies using aggregate data suggest the existence of an efficiency-enhancing feature of trust for countries and organizations.(1) We attempt to provide a...

Process Preferences and American Politics: What the People Want Government to Be.
March 1, 2001... HOW should democratic government work? This question has been debated by political philosophers since the birth of democracy in Athens 2,500 years ago, but we do not know much about the ordinary American's answer. Understanding public desires...

Convergence and Restricted Preference Maximizing under Simple Majority Rule: Results from a Computer Simulation of Committee Choice in Two-Dimensional Space.
March 1, 2001... Spatial models of simple-majority decision making by committees demonstrate that stable outcomes exist only under very restrictive conditions. In the unlikely event that those conditions are realized, a stable equilibrium proposal can be...

Recycling the Garbage Can: An Assessment of the Research Program.(theory of organizational choice)
March 1, 2001... The garbage can theory of organizations (Cohen, March, and Olsen 1972) has led a charmed life--to its great disadvantage. Although proponents have effectively advanced their ideas, potential critics have done little to bring about a productive...

Garbage Cans, New Institutionalism, and the Study of Politics.
March 1, 2001... It is, of course, flattering that Bendor, Moe, and Shotts (2001) have found it worthwhile to spend time and energy to critique the garbage can and the new institutionalism. The exercise is even more appealing because they argue that some of the...

Our Lives before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Our Lives before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence. By Judith A. Baer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 276p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. It is a daunting assignment to review a book after it has garnered a...

Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. By Darin Barney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 340p. $29.00. This is a welcome and provocative addition to the growing literature on the politics of...

Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism. By Peter Berkowitz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 235p. $27.95. "For quite a while," Peter Berkowitz notes, "leading academic liberals and their best-known critics formed an...

The Environment: Between Theory and Practice.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Environment: Between Theory and Practice. By Avner de-Shalit. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 238p. $60.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Although there is a lot of it about, environmental philosophy has so far had little influence on the...

Public Integrity.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Public Integrity. By J. Patrick Dobel. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 260p. $38.00. Integrity is a shifty, furtive concept. Philosophers have had a hard time defining the idea because it raises a couple of...

Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature. Edited by Thomas S. Engeman. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. 232p. $17.00 paper. This volume offers, as its blurb asserts, "substantive discussions of the key issues facing...

Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom. By Paul Franco. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 391p. $35.00. In a sense, these two books, bearing almost identical titles, could not be more different. Patten's work is a narrowly focused study of...

Hegel's Idea of Freedom.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Hegel's Idea of Freedom. By Alan Patten. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 216p. $45.00. In a sense, these two books, bearing almost identical titles, could not be more different. Patten's work is a narrowly focused study of those...

Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary. By Richard F. Hamilton. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 288p. $59.95. A distinguished political sociologist, Richard F. Hamilton is perhaps best known for Who...

Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social Virtue.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social Virtue. By John E. Hill. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2000. 213p. $55.00. No one will deny John E. Hill's claim that he has written an "unabashedly...

Constituting Feminist Subjects.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Constituting Feminist Subjects. By Kathi Weeks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 196p. $39.95 cloth, $13.95 paper. Feminist theorists have struggled to develop accounts of women's oppression that are historically specific enough...

Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. By Keith E. Whittington. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 320p. $39.95. With friends like Edwin Meese and Robert Bork, "jurisprudence of...

Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor. By Thomas M. Carsey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 232p. $49.50. Carsey presents a sound piece of research planted solidly in two fields: voting behavior and state politics. The...

Supreme Court Decision Making: New Institutionalist Approaches.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Supreme Court Decision Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. Edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 344p. $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. The editors of this timely volume announce at the...

Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust. By Jerold J. Duquette. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 154p. $59.95. Major league baseball, unlike other professional sports in the United States, has been exempt from antitrust laws for...

Money Matters: Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in U.S. House Elections.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Money Matters: Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform in U.S. House Elections. By Robert K. Goidel, Donald A. Gross, and Todd G. Shields. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. 215p. $62.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. In an era when campaign...

Passages to the Presidency: From Campaigning to Governing.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Passages to the Presidency: From Campaigning to Governing. By Charles O. Jones. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1998. 224p. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. The American political system has many features that set it apart from other governments of...

Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century. By David A. Lake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 332p. $60.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. David Lake provides a theoretical framework for understanding the security...

The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Clinton.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Clinton. By William W. Lammers and Michael A. Genovese. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2000. 383p. $28.95 paper. Can presidency research do more than probe idiosyncratic...

Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts. By Susan Gluck Mezey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 209p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. In 1988 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action...

Defending Government: Why Big Government Works.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Defending Government: Why Big Government Works. By Max Neiman. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 260p. $27.00 paper. Max Neiman provides a concise, well-written, and comprehensive critical analysis of "the conservative attack on...

Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House. By Daniel E. Ponder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 244p. $39.95. That the amount and nature of the information reaching the president matters for the...

Public-Private Policy Partnerships.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Public-Private Policy Partnerships. Edited by Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. 256p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Recent calls for public sector reform advocate reinvention, deregulation, reengineering,...

Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States. By Ronald Schmidt, Sr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 250p. $65.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. In the late twentieth century, language conflicts became not only a central...

Culture Wars and Local Politics.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Culture Wars and Local Politics. Edited by Elaine B. Sharp. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 250p. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Although political conflict is certainly no stranger to U.S. cities, the contributors to Culture Wars...

Civic Engagement in American Democracy.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Edited by Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1999. 528p. $52.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Concern about the health of civic life in the United States has generated academic...

It's Our Military, Too!: Women and the U.S. Military.(Review)
March 1, 2001... It's Our Military, Too!: Women and the U.S. Military. Edited by Judith Hicks Stiehm. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1996. 309p. $69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. This anthology opens with several compelling first-person narratives of...

The Movers and the Shirkers: Representatives and Ideologues in the Senate.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Movers and the Shirkers: Representatives and Ideologues in the Senate. By Eric M. Uslaner. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 218p. $44.50. The Movers and the Shirkers is a critique and extension of a well-cited and...

Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society. By Joseph P. Viteritti. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1999. 284p. $29.95. The contours of the school choice debate are by now familiar to public policy students, but a...

The Politics of the Minimum Wage.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Politics of the Minimum Wage. By Jerold Waltman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 172p. $24.95. Upon receiving Jerald Waltman's book, the first thing I read was the dedication to the author's "coworkers at A. & W. Root Beer,...

Checkbook Democracy: How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Checkbook Democracy: How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns. By Darrell M. West. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2000. 220p. $47.50 cloth, $16.95 paper. Darrell West argues that elections, rather than stimulate debate over ideas...

The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program. By John F. Witte. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 221p. $29.95. John F. Witte has been prominent in the academic discourse surrounding...

Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth Century Experience.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth Century Experience. By Howard Ball. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1999. 288p. $35.00. There is little doubt that an abiding feature of international relations in the current period...

Warriors in Politics: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Warriors in Politics: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India. By Sikata Banerjee. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. 207p. $62.00. These two books are about two powerful regional political forces in India--the Shiv Sena of...

Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: Political Parties, Citizens, and Democracy in South India.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: Political Parties, Citizens, and Democracy in South India. By Narendra Subramanian. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 371p. $59.95. These two books are about two powerful regional political forces in...

Incentives and Institutions: The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Incentives and Institutions: The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia. By Serguey Braguinsky and Grigory Yavlinsky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 282p. $39.50. After a decade of market reforms, it is obvious to most...

Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan. By Ray Christensen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. 228p. $52.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. The Japanese party system has been in flux in recent years. In 1993, two groups defected...

Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968. By Neil J. Diamant. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 458p. $55.00. This is a thoroughly revisionist study, in the best sense of the...

Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State Society Relations.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State Society Relations. By Harry Eckstein, Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffman, and William M. Reisinger, with Richard Ahl, Russell Bova, and Philip G. Roeder. Lanham, MD:...

Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France. By Miriam Feldblum. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999. 227p. $54.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. As recently as a quarter-century ago, virtually no...

A Place in the Sun: Marxism and Fascism in China's Long Revolution.(Review)
March 1, 2001... A Place in the Sun: Marxism and Fascism in China's Long Revolution. By A James Gregor. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000. 231p. $45.00. Few scholarly observers of Chinese politics today would disagree with A. James Gregor's assessment that...

Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote: The Comparative Study of Embedded Institution.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote: The Comparative Study of Embedded Institution. Edited by Bernard Grofman, Sung-Chull Lee, Edwin A. Winckler, and Brian Woodall. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...

States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control.(Review)
March 1, 2001... States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. By Jeffrey Herbst. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 280p. $55.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. In this important reappraisal of Africa's political evolution...

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process. By Susanne Jonas. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000. 299p. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Bibliography dealing with the armed conflict in Central America, aptly called crisis literature, was abundant...

Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution. By Rachel M. McCleary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 297p. $49.95. Bibliography dealing with the armed conflict in Central America, aptly called crisis...

Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China. By Katherine Palmer Kaup. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 221p. $52.00. For communists, the "nationalities problem" has always been the major stumbling block to the realization of their...

Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine. By Paul Kubicek. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 275p. $49.50. This year marks the tenth anniversary of Ukraine's historic Declaration...

The Art of Comparative Politics.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Art of Comparative Politics. By Ruth Lane. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. 147p. $32.46. In both these short volumes, Ruth Lane assumes an optimistic stance, generally within the mainstream of political science, and...

Political Science in Theory and Practice: The Politics Model.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Political Science in Theory and Practice: The Politics Model. By Ruth Lane. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. 178p. $58.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. In both these short volumes, Ruth Lane assumes an optimistic stance, generally within the...

Privatization South American Style.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Privatization South American Style. By Luigi Manzetti. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 373p. $74.00. Luigi Manzetti fills an important gap in the literature or market reforms in Latin America by providing a comparative analysis of...

Policy Representation in Western Democracies.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Policy Representation in Western Democracies. By Warren E. Miller, Roy Pierce, Jacques Thomassen, Richard Herrera, Soren Holmberg, Peter Esaiasson, and Bernhard Wessels. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 180p. $65.00. Those who study...

Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918. By Ton Notermans. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 312p. $59.95. Notermans has written a bold and ambitious book in which he purports to explain the...

Gender Matters: Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Gender Matters: Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations. By Valerie R. O'Regan. Westport, CT: Praeger. 2000. 168p. $49.95. Political globalization makes cross-national comparisons ever more important, especially those that...

Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State. By Denis J. Sullivan and Sana Abed-Kotob. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999. 159p. $49.95. "Civil society" has become a key concept and a central quest in the search for paths to...

Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in Hungary and China.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in Hungary and China. By Yanqi Tong. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 280p. $69.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. Tianjian Shi, Duke University Tong addresses one of the most...

After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia.(Review)
March 1, 2001... After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia. By Daniel S. Treisman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 262p. $57.50. Daniel Treisman offers an ingenious explanation for the fact that the Russian...

Feminists and Party Politics.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Feminists and Party Politics. By Lisa Young. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. 227p. $75.00. This comparison of the relationship between organized feminism and partisan politics in Canada and the United States addresses...

The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics. By Myron J. Aronoff. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 316p. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Literary forms of inquiry into politics range far beyond the journal article and the...

Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade. By Robert H. Bates. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 221p. $59.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. For three decades political scientists have attempted to show...

The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy. By Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 281p. $55.00 cloth, $23.50 paper. In introductory international relations courses, we were once...

Maneuvers; the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Maneuvers; the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. By Cynthia Enloe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 418p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s, as the Vietnam conflict was...

Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change. By Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 476p. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. This complex, ambitious, and large book seeks to question,...

Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe?(Review)
March 1, 2001... Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe? By Andrew Geddes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 196p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Andrew Geddes provides a European analysis of European migration policy. He...

America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests.(Review)
March 1, 2001... America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests. By Fawaz A. Gerges. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 282p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. The central theme of this book is that U.S. strategy in the Middle East...

Exploring European Social Policy.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Exploring European Social Policy. By Robert R. Geyer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2000. 272p. $50.00 cloth, $14.99 paper. Social scientific interest in "social Europe" pales in comparison with the attention that has been directed toward...

The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century.(Review)
March 1, 2001... The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century. By Robert Gilpin, with the assistance of Jean Millis Gilpin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 373p. $29.95. The word globalization first appeared in...

Seeking New World Vistas: The Militarization of Space.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Seeking New World Vistas: The Militarization of Space. By Roger Handberg. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 304p. $62.50. Space is a seductive place, where technology-induced vistas often blur the policy vision of earthbound military planners,...

International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism: Defending the Discipline.(Review)
March 1, 2001... International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism: Defending the Discipline. By D. S. L. Jarvis, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 288p. $34.95. Over the past twenty years, the so-called third debate, or the...

Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain. By Christian Joppke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 356p. $72.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. This book will enhance Christian Joppke's growing reputation as...

Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. By Stephen Krasner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 207p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Few concepts in international relations have aroused as much debate and emotion among political...