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CIAO DATE: 10/05
Volume 120 No. 3 (Fall 2005)
Abstracts
Why the Bush Doctrine Cannot Be Sustained
Robert Jervis argues that despite some successes, the Bush Doctrine cannot be sustained because it has many internal contradictions, requires more sustained domestic support than is possible, makes excessive demands on intelligence, places too much faith in democracy, and is overly ambitious. It will, however, be difficult to construct a replacement foreign policy.
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Complications of American Democracy: Elections Are Not Enough
Demetrios James Caraley discusses the major features critical to the working of our democratic institutions: free elections, separation of powers with checks and balances, and government limited by constitutional guarantees. He looks at some evidence that suggests our democracy may be shifting to an "elective despotism" of the majority—something that Jefferson declared "was not the government we fought for."
China's Porous Protectionism: The Changing Political Economy of Trade Policy
Scott Kennedy analyzes China's growing use of antidumping regulations to protect its domestic industry. He finds that the accused foreign firms' surprising victories are due not to the existence of liberal Chinese political elites or an impartial Chinese bureaucracy, but rather are the result of lobbying by foreign companies and their Chinese customers. Globalization generates powerful pro-liberal non-state forces even in authoritarian states.
"Going Bipartisan": Politics by Other Means
Peter Trubowitz and Nicole Mellow examine the electoral conditions associated with bipartisanship in Congress over the last century of American politics. They challenge the widely held view that bipartisanship is above politics and show that bipartisanship is just as driven by electoral imperatives as partisanship. They argue that the polarization of political parties combined with sluggish economic conditions and the war on terrorism challenge the future of bipartisanship.
The EU, Human Rights, and the Russo-Chechen Conflict
Tuomas Forsberg and Graeme P. Herd assess the role that the Russo-Chechen conflict has played in shaping EU relations with Russia. They argue that the EU sacrificed coherent and systematic support of its own foreign policy agenda in order to maintain stable relations with Russia.
Triumph of Globalism: American Trade Politics
Orin Kirshner argues that America's promotion of an open, international trading system has required a fundamental reorganization of the foreign trade policy-making process. The reorganization has led to the subordination of domestic concerns to issues of global economic management and to the centralization of state power. He calls this phenomenon the "triumph of globalism."
Book Reviews
John G. Matsusaka, For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy and American Democracy
Reviewed by Todd Donovan
Yevgeny M. Primakov, A World Challenged: Fighting Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by Jonathan Harris
Michael Comiskey, Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees
Reviewed by Ronald Stidham
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Stanley Hoffmann with Frédéric Bozo, Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq
Reviewed by Ronald R. Krebs
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Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Editors, After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition
Reviewed by Henry E. Hale
Daniel A. Smith and Caroline J. Tolbert, Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the United States
Reviewed by M. Dane Waters
Jasmine Farrier, Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and Deficits
Reviewed by David Schoenbrod
R. Douglas Arnold, Congress, the Press and Political Accountability
Reviewed by Steven V. Roberts
Adam J. Berinsky, Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America
Reviewed by Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
Daniel Wirls and Stephen Wirls, The Invention of the United States Senate
Reviewed by Sarah A. Binder
Richard M. Valelly, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement
Reviewed by Robert J. Norrell
David Lublin, The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change
Reviewed by William F. Connelly, Jr.
Pradeep K. Chhibber and Ken Kollman, The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States
Reviewed by Joseph LaPalombara
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Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz, The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less
Reviewed by Rick Fantasia
James David Meernik, The Political Use of Military Force in US Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Meena Bose
Anthony D. Lott, Creating Insecurity: Realism, Constructivism, and US Security Policy
Reviewed by Daniel Nexon
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics
Reviewed by David Clinton
William Pfaff, The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia
Reviewed by Stuart A. Scheingold
Stephen F. Szabo, Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations
Reviewed by Dorothee Heisenberg
Vicki J. Rast, Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia
Reviewed by William Crotty
Wade Jacoby, The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe
Reviewed by John S. Duffield
T. David Mason, Caught in the Crossfire: Revolutions, Repression, and the Rational Peasant
Reviewed by Dipak K. Gupta
Todd A. Eisenstadt, Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions
Reviewed by Joseph L. Klesner
Andrew Jack, Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform Without Democracy?
Reviewed by Brian D. Taylor
Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero,and Joan Botella, Democracy in Modern Spain
Reviewed by Gerard Alexander
Jonathan Weiler, Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform
Reviewed by Kathleen E. Smith
Evan F. Kohlmann, Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network
Reviewed by Richard Drake
Nancy D. Lapp, Landing Votes: Representation and Land Reform in Latin America
Reviewed by Gabriel Ondetti
Richard M. Flanagan, Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership
Reviewed by Richard E. DeLeon
Lorraine M. McDonnell, Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing
Reviewed by Kenneth R. Howe
Rhonda Y. Williams, The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality
Reviewed by Nancy A. Naples
Godfrey Hodgson, More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century
Reviewed by Matthew A. Crenson
Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law
Reviewed by Douglas A. Kysar