CIAO DATE: 03/2011
Volume: 125, Issue: 4
Winter 2010-2011
George W. Bush, the Surge, and Presidential Leadership
Stephen Benedict Dyson
STEPHEN BENEDICT DYSON discusses the impact of George W. Bush's personality and belief system on the decision to surge troops in Iraq. He argues that absent Bush's distinctive approach to leadership, the surge decision would not have been made.
The Origins of the Two Lefts in Latin America
Raul L. Madrid
RAÚL L. MADRID argues that liberal left parties in Latin America arose prior to the debt crisis of the 1980s and were profoundly shaped by the failure of state interventionist policies and the initial success of market-oriented reforms. The interventionist left parties, by contrast, typically emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the economies of the region had encountered problems and the support for market-oriented policies had diminished.
Conservatives and American Political Development
Brian J. Glenn
BRIAN J. GLENN explores how conservatism has impacted the growth of the American state since the New Deal and also how the growth of the American state has influenced conservatism. He finds that in many instances, conservatives have moved beyond mere obstructionism and that a new form of modern conservatism has conceded the goals of liberalism.
Consumer Protection Policy Issues on the Congressional Agenda
Loree Bykerk, Ardith Maney
LOREE BYKERK and ARDITH MANEY look at how consumer protection policy fared under the conservative congresses of recent decades. They argue that although the congressional forum open to consumer protection issues remained stable, consumer advocates and their allies were significantly more outnumbered by producer interests than they were before the Republican takeover of the House in 1995.
Turkey and Europeanization of Foreign Policy?
Tarik Oguzlu
TARIK OGUZLU argues that even though Turkish foreign policy has in recent years become Europeanized, the driving force of this Europeanization has not been Turkey's accession process with the European Union or its desire to prove its European identity.
Policy and Politics in the United Kingdom and the United States: A Review Essay
Robert Jervis
ROBERT JERVIS examines policy and politics in the United Kingdom and the United States. He offers a review and assessment of the recently published autobiography, A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair and Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars.
Eric A. Posner, The Perils of Global Legalism
Tonya L. Putnam
Morris Fiorina, Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Thomas E. Mann
David P. Calleo, Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy
Miroslav Nincic
Mark Moyar, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
James Russell
Betty Glad, An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy
Mark J. Rozell
Adam Berinsky, In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq
Allan Silver
Alistair Horne, Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year
Mark Atwood Lawrence
Matthew Levendusky, The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans
Joseph Bafumi
Richard L. Fox
David W. Kearn, Jr.
James Igoe Walsh, The International Politics of Intelligence Sharing
Arthur S. Hulnick
Paul Peterson, Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
Scott Abernathy
Jude C. Hays, Globalization and the New Politics of Embedded Liberalism
Andy Baker
Mabel Berezin, Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe
Mark Kesselman
Yinan He, The Search for Reconciliation: Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II
Thomas Berger
Sarah A. Binder and Forrest Maltzman, Advice & Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Lisa M. Holmes
Donald Kinder and Cindy Kam, Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion
Christina M. Greer
James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Sheila L. Croucher, Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality: The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States
Charles W. Eagles
Tritia Toyota, Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
Edward J.W. Park
Brian E. Adams, Campaign Finance in Local Elections: Buying the Grassroots
Bertram Johnson
Patrick Sellers, Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress
Corwin D. Smidt
Luis Ricardo Fraga, John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Gary M. Segura, Latino Lives in America: Making It Home
Jeronimo Cortina
Hahrie Han, Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics
Dara Z. Strolovitch
David Karol, Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management
Walter C. Wilson
Daniel J. Galvin, Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush
Steven E. Schier
Elaine C. Kamarck, Primary Politics: How Presidential Candidates Have Shaped the Modern Nominating System
Gar Culbert
Lada V. Kochtcheeva, Comparative Environmental Regulation in the United States and Russia: Institutions, Flexible Instruments, and Governance
Liliana B. Andonova
Pierre Englebert, Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow
Carl LeVan
Saïd Amir Arjomand, After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors
Barbara Ann Flanagan
Brent L. Sterling, Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? What History Teaches Us About Strategic Barriers and International Security
George Gavrilis