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CIAO DATE: 02/03
Volume 117 No. 3 (Fall 2002)
Abstracts
Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, and American Self-Defense
Ruth Wedgwood critically examines the U.S. detainment of al Qaeda prisoners and others accused of visa violations or of being enemy combatants. She explains that "In a world where terrorist action flirts with catastrophic weapons, the competing paradigms of crime and war may provide no more than analogies. Fitting the law to this unwanted new world thus will require tact, judgment, and the weight of a heavy heart."
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Encircled Again: Russia's Military Assesses Threats in a Post-Soviet World
William D. Jackson examines the nature and evolution of threat discourse within the Russian military command. He finds that while Russia's civilian leadership has generally pursued policies that have downplayed serious external threats, Russia's military leadership has increasingly embraced a new world view that describes a range of objectively-determined aggressive threats encircling Russia.
Capitalist Development, Entrepreneurial Class, and Democratization in China
An Chen examines China's capitalist development in the reform era as an "artifact" invented by the communist state. He argues that in a somewhat spurious capitalist context, China's entrepreneurial class and other middle classes must rely heavily upon arbitrary political power for survival and thriving.
Kosovo and the Metaphor War
Roland Paris uses historical metaphors in the speeches and statements of American policy makers during the Kosovo crisis of 1999 to argue that American policy makers used competing historical analogies as a proxy for debating the merits of different responses to the crisis.
American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might: A Review Essay
Seyom Brown reviews the RAND Corporation study of military coercion by Daniel Byman and Matthew Waxman. Brown commends the authors' comprehensive mining of the record and conceptual literature for the factors that need to be taken into account when the United States attempts to forcibly influence an adversary's behavior. But he criticizes the cogency of their theoretical argument that "escalation dominance" is the key to successful coercion.
Electoral Consequences of Porkbusting in the U.S. House of Representatives
Gregory L. Bovitz examines the electoral consequences of seemingly risky political decisions by members of the U.S. House of Representatives to support termination of other legislators' pork-barrel programs. He finds that strategic choices to defect from the pork-barrel game, thereby establishing or enhancing a reputation for fiscal responsibility, can help - and never hurt - legislators' reelection bids.
Issue Positions of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House, 1998: A Research Note
Scot Schraufnagel and Jeffery J. Mondak use survey data from Project Vote Smart to compare the issue positions of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House. Results reveal significant differences in eighteen of nineteen issues. The divide between the parties most often is moderate in magnitude and consistent with a depiction of the parties as center-left and center-right.
Book Reviews
Gary R. Hess, Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf
Reviewed by David A. Crockett
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David Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Reviewed by Lamont C. Hempel
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go it Alone
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson
Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Sidney Verba, The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation
Reviewed by Robert Y. Shapiro
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Henry R. Nau, At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Stephen R. Rock
James A. Thurber, ed., The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters
Reviewed by Gary J. Andres
Richard L. Pacelle, Jr., The Role of the Supreme Court in American Politics: The Least Dangerous Branch?
Reviewed by Timothy R. Johnson
Alexander J. Motyl, Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires
Reviewed by James Kurth
Robert E. Harkavy and Stephanie G. Neuman, Warfare and the Third World
Reviewed by Steven R. David
Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
Reviewed by Jack Snyder
Meg Greenfield, Washington
Reviewed by Doris Graber
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Alan Kuperman, The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda
Reviewed by Michael Barnett
Christopher Read, The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation
Reviewed by Archie Brown
A. James McAdams, Judging the Past in Unified Germany
Reviewed by Marc Morj Howard
David M. Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000
Reviewed by John W. Garver
Yijiang Ding, Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen
Reviewed by Joseph Fewsmith
Chris P. Ioannides, Realpolitik in the Eastern Mediterranean: From Kissinger and the Cyprus Crisis to Carter and the Lifting of the Turkish Arms Embargo
Reviewed by Bruce Kuniholm
Kirk J. Beattie, Egypt During the Sadat Years
Reviewed by Ellis Goldberg
Susan C. Stokes, Mandates and Democracies: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America
Reviewed by Frances Hagopian
Richard Snyder, Politics After Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico
Reviewed by Kathleen O'Neill
Marco F. Guill, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain
Reviewed by Anthony W. Pereira
Cecilia Albin, Justice and Fairness in International Negotiation
Reviewed by David A. Welch
Paul Pierson, ed., The New Politics of the Welfare State
Reviewed by Robert C. Lieberman
Michael W. Spicer, Public Administration and the State: A Postmodern Perspective
Reviewed by Steven Cohen
Bill Press, Spin This! All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth
Reviewed by Kathleen Knight
E. D. Dover, Missed Opportunity: Gore, Incumbency, and Television in Election 2000
Reviewed by Gerald M. Pomper
Robert D. Behn, Rethinking Democratic Accountability
Reviewed by O. P. Dwivedi
Alexander DeConde, Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control
Reviewed by Kristin A. Goss
Brian Waddell, The War Against the New Deal
Reviewed by Robert A. Divine
Michael R. Gardner, Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks
Reviewed by Kevin J. McMahon
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship
Reviewed by Peter H. Schuck
Sandra F. VanBurkleo, "Belonging to the World": Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture
Reviewed by Dorothy McBride Stetson
Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson, eds., Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation
Reviewed by Judith A. Layzer
George A. Gonzalez, Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy
Reviewed by Michael E. Kraft
Kelly Tzoumis, Environmental Policymaking in Congress: The Role of Issue Definition in Wetlands, Great Lakes and Wildlife Policies
Reviewed by Christopher J. Bosso
James P. Lester, David W. Allen, and Kelly M. Hill, Environmental Injustice in the United States: Myths and Realities
Reviewed by Evan J. Ringquist