CIAO DATE: 02/2009
Volume: 123, Issue: 4
Winter 2008 - 09
The Political and Economic Forces Shaping Concentrated Poverty (PDF)
William J. Wilson
Through the second half of the 1990s and into the early years of the twenty-first century, public attention to the plight of poor black Americans seemed to wane. There was scant media attention to the problem of concentrated urban poverty (neighborhoods in which a high percentage of the residents fall beneath the federally designated poverty line), little or no discussion of inner-city challenges by mainstream political leaders, and even an apparent quiescence on the part of ghetto residents themselves. This was dramatically different from the 1960s, when the transition from legal segregation to a more racially open society was punctuated by social unrest that sometimes expressed itself in violent terms, as seen in the riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Multilateral Military Interventions: Theory and Practice
Sarah E. Kreps
SARAH E. KREPS advances a two-level definition of multilateralism that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative attributes of cooperation. She argues that the relative decline in American power, rather than leading to more robust multilateralism, might instead make UN-authorized interventions less tenable and ad hoc "coalitions of the willing" a viable alternative.
George W. Bush and the Partisan Presidency
Richard M. Skinner
RICHARD M. SKINNER challenges notions that the strong presidency of the modern era has proved incompatible with powerful political parties. Instead, he argues that, since 1980, the United States has seen a dramatic growth in presidential partisanship across a range of areas.
Saddam Hussein and the Sunni Insurgency: Findings from Values Surveys
Mansoor Moaddel, Mark Tessler, Ronald Inglehart
MANSOOR MOADDEL, MARK TESSLER, and RONALD INGLEHART use findings from two national values surveys that were carried out in Iraq in 2004 and 2006 to determine the attitudes of the Sunni Arabs toward Saddam Hussein, which they use as a proxy measure of their attitudes toward the Sunni insurgency and American-led coalition forces.
War, Intelligence, and Honesty: A Review Essay
Robert Jervis
ROBERT JERVIS analyzes what the memoirs of George Tenet and Douglas Feith tell us about themselves and about the Bush administration's war on terror and war in Iraq. He argues that as accounts of failures, they have the difficult task of defending without seeming defensive, and in the end are as important for what they reveal inadvertently as for the information they mean to convey.
Neil Vidmar and Valerie P. Hans, American Juries: The Verdict (PDF)
Geoffrey R. Stone
Abdulkader H. Sinno, Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond (PDF)
Kimberly Marten
Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Evan Resnick
David D. Laitin, Nations, States, and Violence
Tonya L. Putnam
Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society
Robert M. Pallitto
Michael L. Levin, The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States
Mikhail A. Alexseev
Uwe Steinhoff, On the Ethics of War and Terrorism (PDF)
Jerome Slater
Tony Smith, A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise
Lloyd Gardner
Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal, Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
Peter K. Enns
Janet Abu-Lughod, Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
Wilbur Rich
Christian Davenport, State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace
Ronald A. Francisco
Amitai Etzioni, Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
Stanley A. Renshon
Michael Givel
Brian Steensland, The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
Daniel Béland
Michael Leo Owens, God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America
Ted G. Jelen
Craig A. Rimmerman, The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation?
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Steven P. Croley, Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government
Philip J. Cook
Mark J. White, Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective
Matthew J. Dickinson
Mark Hulliung, The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Present Age
Mark Button
Einer Elhauge, Statutory Default Rules: How to Interpret Unclear Legislation
Frank B. Cross
John McGowan, American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time
Kevin Boyle
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America
Kirk A. Hawkins
Steve Ellner, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon
Kurt Weyland
Susan Bibler Coutin, Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States
Hector Perla, Jr
John Duffield, Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence
Patrick M. Morgan
Dan Tschirgi, Turning Point: The Arab World's Marginalization and International Security after 9/11
Fred H. Lawson
Etel Solingen, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
James H. Lebovic
Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945
Peter Liberman
John Norris, The Disaster Gypsies: Humanitarian Workers in the World's Deadliest Conflicts
Josh Busby
Marc Howard Ross, Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict
Myra A. Waterbury
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity
Harvey Waterman
Kellee S. Tsai, Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China
Martin Dimitrov
Robert H. Bates, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa
William Reno
Leigh A. Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Monika Nalepa