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CIAO DATE: 11/04
Volume 119 No. 3 (Fall 2004)
Abstracts
American Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy from September 11 to the Iraq War
Paul T. McCartney examines how the Bush administration drew upon nationalist imagery first to interpret the terrorists attacks of 11 September 2001 and then to frame the war against Iraq. He demonstrates how President Bush drew on both enduring elements of American identity and security concerns following September 11 to provide normative justification for the Iraq invasion. He concludes that the exceptionalist dimension of American nationalism that underpins the Bush doctrine is outdated and dangerous to current foreign policy interests.
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Managed Participation in China
Yongshun Cai examines how citizen resistance is possible and how it is managed in China. He concludes that while the Chinese political system is flexible and provides space for citizen resistance, such resistance is confined within the boundary established by the state.
Databases, Felons, and Voting: Bias and Partisanship of the Florida Felons List in the 2000 Elections
Guy Stuart analyzes the use of the felons' exclusion list in the 2000 presidential elections in Florida. He finds that the state produced a list that contained racially biased errors, and that county supervisors across the state did not use the list uniformly. Instead, party politics intervened: any partisan advantage Republicans gained from the use of the list was offset by Democratic supervisors' refusal to use a flawed list.
The Global Governance of the Internet: Bringing the State Back In
Daniel W. Drezner assesses the current state of global Internet governance. He challenges the common assumption that the Internet leads to a decline in state autonomy relative to other global actors. Drezner argues that the great powers remain the primary actors shaping the governance structure and regulatory standards of the Internet.
Electoral Reform and Partisan Jugglery
Peter H. Argersinger examines the ways in which many of the controversial features of the presidential election of 2000 had precedents in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on Michigan's law for the district election of presidential electors, he shows the persistent partisanship that controls electoral rules and still prevents serious electoral reform.
Book Reviews
Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
Reviewed by Rogers M. Smith
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 62.6 kb]
William W. Newmann, Managing National Security Policy: The President and the Process
Reviewed by James P. Pfiffner
Steve Neal, ed., HST: Memories of the Truman Years, Steve Neal, ed.; Miracle of ’48: Harry Truman’s Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle–Stops.
Reviewed by Peri E. Arnold
Michael J. Towle, Out of Touch: The Presidency and Public Opinion
Reviewed by Robert Y. Shapiro
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 57.1 kb]
James P. Pfiffner, The Character Factor: How We Judge America’s Presidents
Reviewed by Wayne P. Steger
Charles Lewis, The Buying of the President 2004: Who’s Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers—and What They Expect in Return
Reviewed by Darrell M. West
Richard Michael Marano, Vote Your Conscience: The Last Campaign of George McGovern
Reviewed by Jeffrey Kraus
William I. Robinson, Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization
Reviewed by Jorge I. Domínguez
P.W. Singer, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Reviewed by James J. Wirtz
Judd Choate, Torn and Frayed: Congressional Norms and Party Switching in an Era of Reform
Reviewed by Douglas B. Harris
Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin, eds., The United States and Coercive Diplomacy
Reviewed by Stacie E. Goddard
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 57.4 kb]
Ka Zeng, Trade Threats, Trade Wars: Bargaining, Retaliation, and American Coercive Diplomacy
Reviewed by John Conybeare
Amitai Etzioni, From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations
Reviewed by James N. Rosenau
Patricia A. Weitsman, Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War
Reviewed by Joseph M. Grieco
Gregory C. Shaffer, Defending Interests: Public–Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation
Reviewed by A. Jane Bradley
Layna Mosley, Global Capital and National Governments
Reviewed by Miles Kahler
Ethan J. Leib, Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government
Reviewed by James Fishkin
Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman, eds., The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance
Reviewed by Monica Toft
Loukas Tsoukalis, What Kind of Europe?
Reviewed by Séamus O’Cléireacáin
Cyrille Guiat, The French and Italian Communist Parties: Comrades and Culture
Reviewed by Stephen Hellman
Robert W. Allen, Churchill’s Guests: Britain and the Belgian Exiles During World War II
Reviewed by Susan A. Brewer
Yongnian Zheng, Globalization and State Transformation in China
Reviewed by Dorothy J. Solinger
[Full Text, PDF, 4 pages, 61.1 kb]
Serge Joyal, ed., The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective, David E. Smith; Protecting Canadian Democracy: The Senate You Never Knew.
Reviewed by Richard Schultz
Mala Htun, Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies
Reviewed by Douglas A. Chalmers
Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel Mauerer, The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929
Reviewed by Mark Erik Williams
Jon Agar, The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer
Reviewed by Rick Farmer
Robert J. Duffy, The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty–First Century
Reviewed by David Vogel
John D. Clark, Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization
Reviewed by Peter H. Juviler
Sarah L. Henderson, Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia: Western Support for Grassroots Organizations
Reviewed by Joyce Gelb
Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955
Reviewed by Edward C. Luk
Rhodes Cook, The Presidential Nominating Process: A Place for Us?
Reviewed by David Karol
Frank Fischer, Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices
Reviewed by B. Guy Peters