American Political Science Review articles from September 2000

American Political Science Review archives from September 2000

A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States.
September 1, 2000... We challenge the widely held view that classic American voluntary groups were tiny, local, and disconnected from government. Using newly collected data to develop a theoretically framed account, we show that membership associations emerged...

The Sovereignless State and Locke's Language of Obligation.
September 1, 2000... Modern liberal states are founded on individual rights and popular sovereignty. These doctrines are conceptually and historically intertwined but are in theoretical and practical tension. Locke's political theory is a source for proponents of...

The Possibility of Self-Government.
September 1, 2000... Many have suggested that the findings of social choice theory demonstrate that there can be no "will of the people." This has subversive implications for our intuitive concept of self-government. I explore the relation between the notion of a...

The Fear of Death and the Longing for Immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature and the Problem of Anarchy.
September 1, 2000... Recent challenges to the modern secular state invite us to reexamine the arguments made by its theoretical founders, especially Hobbes. Hobbes argues that the desire for security is the most reliable and rational desire of our nature, and the...

Equilibria in Campaign Spending Games: Theory and Data.
September 1, 2000... We present a formal game-theoretic model to explain the simultaneity problem that makes it difficult to obtain unbiased estimates of the effects of both incumbent and challenger spending in US. House elections. The model predicts a particular...

The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors.
September 1, 2000... The apparent ability of the American public to form coherent assessments of policy options--while being largely ignorant of political institutions, actors, and ideology--remains a persistent puzzle for political science. We develop a theory of...

Cabinet Terminations and Critical Events.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... We present an empirical assessment of Lupia and Strom's noncooperative bargaining model of cabinet terminations. We construct a stochastic version of the model and derive several testable implications. As the next mandatory election approaches:...

The Dynamics of Collective Deliberation in the 1996 Election: Campaign Effects on Accessibility, Certainty, and Accuracy.
September 1, 2000... We examine the effectiveness of political communication and deliberation among citizens during a presidential election campaign. In order for communication to be effective, messages conveyed through social interaction must be unambiguous, and...

The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... We report the results of a randomized field experiment involving approximately 30,000 registered voters in New Haven, Connecticut. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were conveyed through personal canvassing, direct mail, and telephone calls...

Congressional Voting over Legislative Careers: Shifting Positions and Changing Constraints.
September 1, 2000... The proposed model predicts that voting behavior of legislators is more variable early in their career and that junior members are more likely to vote with their party than senior members. The results from the analysis of voting patterns in the...

Buying Supermajorities in Finite Legislatures.
September 1, 2000... I analyze the finite-voter version of the Groseclose and Snyder vote-buying model. I identify how the optimal coalition size varies with the underlying preference parameters; derive necessary and sufficient conditions for minimal majority and...

Vote Buying, Supermajorities, and Flooded Coalitions.
September 1, 2000... In a recent paper, Banks (2000), adopting the framework of our model (Groseclose and Snyder 1996), derives several new and noteworthy results. In addition, he provides a counterexample to our proposition 4. Here we explain the error in our...

Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition.
September 1, 2000... In Pathologies of Rational Choice, Donald Green and Ian Shapiro (1994) claim that rational choice theory has poor empirical support. Analytic Narratives (AN) is among other things an attempt to rebut this claim (p. 231). [1] In my opinion,...

The Analytic Narrative Project.
September 1, 2000... In Analytic Narratives, we attempt to address several issues. First, many of us are engaged in in-depth case studies, but we also seek to contribute to, and to make use of, theory. How might we best proceed? Second, the historian, the...

Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea. By John Ehrenberg. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 288p. $55.00 cloth, $18.50 paper. Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal. Edited by Robert K. Fullinwider. Lanham, MD: Roman...

Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism. By Roxanne L. Euben. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 239p. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper. For more than twenty years the resurgence of Islam,...

The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory. By Kennan Ferguson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. 153p. $40.00. Is there anyone out there in Political Science Land who still believes in rational choice, not just...

Living with Nature: Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Living with Nature: Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse. Edited by Frank Fischer and Maarten A. Hajer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 269p. $27.50 paper. Environmental concern has become firmly established on the...

The Theater of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Political Science, and Higher Education.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Theater of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Political Science, and Higher Education. By Eric B. Gorham. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2000. 235p. $65.00 cloth. $24.95 paper. Although the title suggests this work will examine the philosophy of...

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. By Charles L. Griswold, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 412p. $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Charles Griswold poses a series of alternatively fruitful and frustrating questions. He...

Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium. By David S. Katz and Richard H. Popkin. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. 303p. $26.00. Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the...

Principles of Social Justice.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Principles of Social Justice. By David Miller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 337p. $45.00. Miller's aim in this clear and well-written book is to defend a plural theory of justice that consists of three component...

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?(Review)
September 1, 2000... Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Edited by Susan Moller Okin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 146p. $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Many students in required cultural diversity courses enter (or leave) with what Uma Narayan...

The American Language of Rights.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The American Language of Rights. By Richard A. Primus. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 262p. $54.95. The postphilosophical, pragmatist point of departure for this wonderful first book from Richard A. Primus is that...

Carl Schmitt: The End of Law.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Carl Schmitt: The End of Law. By William E. Scheuerman. Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield, 1999. 360p. $70.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. When Carl Schmitt died in April 1985, only The Concept of the Political was available in English, and few in...

Modesty and Arrogance in Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Modesty and Arrogance in Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. By Barry Sharpe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. l92p. $55.00. The unique qualities of the human faculty for judgment must be recognized in any explanation of political...

Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. By Pamela Brandwein. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. 272p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Because this book is an outgrowth of a doctoral...

Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts. By David T. Canon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 324p. $50.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. It is sometimes striking what small use the...

Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution. By Timothy E. Cook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 289p. $48.00 cloth, 17.95 paper. There is a ritual quality to academic critiques of the press nowadays. One...

Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States. By Christopher P. Gilbert, David A. M. Peterson, Timothy R. Johnson, and Paul A. Djupe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. 192p. $59.95. In recent years, the apparent growth of public...

Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places. By James G. Gimpel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 403p. $57.50. James Gimpel has written a deceptively complex book. He examines recent migration...

Calculating Risks?: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Calculating Risks?: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy. By James T. Hamilton and W. Kip Viscusi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. 336p. $37.50. James Hamilton and Kip Viscusi have produced a wide-ranging,...

Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process. By Susan Herbst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 256p. $41.00 cloth, $16.00 paper. Susan Herbst tackles the vital question of how political decision...

The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America. By Philip A. Klinkner with Rogers M. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 4l7p. $32.50. In a theory-driven political history of race in the United States,...

Legal Advocacy: Lawyers and Nonlawyers at Work.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Legal Advocacy: Lawyers and Nonlawyers at Work. By Herbert M. Kritzer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 269p. $44.50. What difference does a lawyer make? That is the central question of Kritzer's book, which asks to what...

Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era. By Jonathan Mermin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. l62p. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Debating War and Peace is energized by empirical and...

The Missing Majority: The Recruitment of Women as State Legislative Candidates.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Missing Majority: The Recruitment of Women as State Legislative Candidates. By David Niven. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 208p. $59.95. For the past quarter-century, women politicians have been slowly gaining access to more and higher...

Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis. By David Orden, Robert Paarlberg, and Terry Roe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 270p. $38.00. Two economists and a political scientist have joined forces to...

Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change. By Joel Rast. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. $36.00. Joel Rast forcefully challenges those who promote the notion that the policy choices in U.S. cities...

Reconstructing Times Square: Politics and Culture in Urban Development.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Reconstructing Times Square: Politics and Culture in Urban Development. By Alexander J. Reichl. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 239p. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Since its official creation in 1904, New York City's Times Square...

Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State. By Bo Rothstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 254p. $59.95 cloth. $19.95 paper. Politics is the serious, sometimes grim, contest over the...

Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering. By Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1999. 192p. $20.95 paper. This book is timely, particularly considering the public debates about campaign...

Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach. By Steven A. Shull and Thomas C. Shaw. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 224p. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Because Congress and the president...

Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People. By Arun Agrawal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. 219p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. This intriguing volume uses rational choice theory at the...

India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality.(Review)
September 1, 2000... India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality. By Sanjib Baruah. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 257p. $36.50. Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism, and Development in Contemporary India. By...

Social Movements and Political Reform in Hong Kong.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Social Movements and Political Reform in Hong Kong. By Linda Butenhoff. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. l34p. $55.00. This is an unusual study of the activism of social movements in Hong Kong. Both in the book and in the publisher's blurb...

Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico. Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Todd A. Eisenstadt, and Jane Hindley. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999. 369p. $69.95 cloth, $25.00 paper. ...

The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change. By Gerald L. Curtis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 303p. $27.95. Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy. By T. J....

The Stable Minority: Civilian Rule in Africa, 1960-1990.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Stable Minority: Civilian Rule in Africa, 1960-1990. By Samuel Decalo. Gainesville, FL: Academic Press, 1998. 344p. $47.50. When in 1990 the Beninois inaugurated a revival of electoral democracy in Africa, many observers proclaimed the...

Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. By Larry Diamond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 26lp. $55.00. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe....

Capitalism Russian-Style.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Capitalism Russian-Style. By Thane Gustafson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 264p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Few observers are better prepared to comment on the transformation of the Russian economy than Thane Gustafson. A...

Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National, and Organizational Case Studies.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National, and Organizational Case Studies. By Anil Hira. Westport, CT: Praeger. 1998. 337p. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Knowledge is power. Everyone understands this. But how exactly...

When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998.(Review)
September 1, 2000... When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998. By Katherine Hite. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 246p. $49.50 cloth, $22.00 paper. Katherine Hite contributes to the comparative analysis of the redefinition of...

Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations during the Reform Era.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations during the Reform Era. By Yasheng Huang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 37lp. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. This well-written and...

The Politics of Economic Restructuring and Democracy in Africa.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Politics of Economic Restructuring and Democracy in Africa. By Obioma M. Iheduru. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 1999. 184p. $49.95. Whether IMF conditionalities produce more hardship and condemnation than economic growth is a controversy...

Reflections on Revolutions.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Reflections on Revolutions. By Mark N. Katz. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. l46p. $25.95. Mark Katz's method here is to juxtapose several well-known (e.g., Barrington Moore, Crane Brinton) and less well-known (e.g., Liah Greenfeld and...

British Politics in the Global Age: Can Social Democracy Survive?(Review)
September 1, 2000... British Politics in the Global Age: Can Social Democracy Survive? By Joel Krieger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 232p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. National social democracy is dead! Long live global social democracy! This,...

Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France. By Jonah D. Levy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 386p. $55.00. In this thoughtful, carefully researched study of recent attempts at French economic...

Values and Political Change in Postcommunist Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Values and Political Change in Postcommunist Europe. By William L. Miller, Stephen White, and Paul Heywood. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 460p. $75.00. Miller, White, and Haywood have compiled an exhaustive report on coordinated public...

Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy, and the Islamic State.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy, and the Islamic State. By Ahmad S. Moussalli. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1999. 250p. $49.95. Since the Iranian revolution of the late 1970s and...

Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Governance.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Governance. Edited by Pippa Norris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 303p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Much of what political scientists do can be described as understanding how...

Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany. By Jonathan Olsen. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 326p. $15.95 paper. Obviously, the topic of this book is important, and there is no doubt...

Banking on Privilege: The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Banking on Privilege: The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform. By Sofia A. Perez. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. l90p. $35.00. This very important book deserves more attention than it has received. It addresses a...

Third World Environmentalism: Case Studies from the Global South.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Third World Environmentalism: Case Studies from the Global South. By N. Patrick Peritore. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 328p. $49.95. A major debate about environmental politics asks about the sources and nature of...

Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred. By Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 366p. $30.00. This book offers an insightful and quite compelling blend of psychological, especially...

Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Learning Democracy: Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany. By Robert Rohrschneider. New York: Oxford University Press. 309p. $72.00. Robert Rohrschneider recognized that the natural experiment created by German reunification...

The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. By Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 384p. $84.00. Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay emerged from military rule...

Parties, Candidates, and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Parties, Candidates, and Constituency Campaigns in Canadian Elections. By Anthony M. Sayers. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999. 254p. $51.75 cloth, $19.29 paper. This carefully researched volume is a welcome addition to the small but growing...

Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture. By Frederic C. Schaffer. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. 168p. $39.95. Suppose we reverse our conventional approach to democratization, as...

Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic. By Brian H. Smith. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1998. 126p. $16.00 paper. Brian Smith has written a comprehensive review essay of scholarly literature assessing...

Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions. By Steven L. Solnick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 337p. $18.95 paper. Steven Solnick provides a rich, neoinstitutionalist analysis of the disintegration of...

From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites.(Review)
September 1, 2000... From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites. By Jennifer A. Yoder. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1999. 287p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. The unification of the two Germanys has led to a surge of scholarly...

Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan. By Thomas U. Berger. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 256p. $38.00. Thomas Berger joins an expanding cadre of international relations and comparative...

Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond. Edited by Ken Booth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 358p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, an obvious question...

The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence. By Stephen J. Cimbala. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1998. 235p. $55.00. Stephen J. Cimbala provides a welcome addition to the ongoing debate over the utility or danger of the spread of...

The Sanctions Paradox: Economic Statecraft and International Relations.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Sanctions Paradox: Economic Statecraft and International Relations. By Daniel W. Drezner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 342p. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. The last quarter of the twentieth century was characterized by a...

Inventing International Society: A History of the English School.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Inventing International Society: A History of the English School. By Tim Dunne. London: Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford; 1998; New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 207p. $65.00. The classical international society...

Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In.
September 1, 2000... Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In. By Jenny Edkins. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999. l63p. $49.95. Navigating Modernity: Postcolonialism, Identity, and International Relations. By Albert J....

Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace. By Kurt Taylor Gaubatz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. 208p. $45.00. Kurt Gaubatz explores the relations among public opinion, electoral...

At Arm's Length: The European Union and Europe's Defence Industry.(Review)
September 1, 2000... At Arm's Length: The European Union and Europe's Defence Industry. By Terrence R. Guay. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 219p. $59.95. The author sets out to provide a theoretically grounded explanation of the development of European Union...

American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State.(Review)
September 1, 2000... American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State. By Stephen Hopgood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 262p. $65.00. Stephen Hopgood argues for the continued relevance of the state in a world of increasing...

Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection. By Christopher C. Joyner. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. 363p. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Creating Regimes: Arctic Accords and...

Zones of Peace in the Third World: South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Zones of Peace in the Third World: South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective. By Arie M. Kacowicz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 267p. $21.95. This exercise in comparative international relations analysis...

International Management of the Environment: Pollution Control in North America.(Review)
September 1, 2000... International Management of the Environment: Pollution Control in North America. By Emmett N. Lombard. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. l98p. $59.95. Lombard presents a timely and generally competent review of post-NAFTA environmental policy...