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CIAO DATE: 09/06
Volume 121 No. 2 (Summer 2006)
Articles
Tragic Choices in the War on Terrorism: Should We Try to Regulate and Control Torture? (PDF Format)
JEROME SLATER argues that in certain circumstances in the war on terrorism, the coercion or perhaps even the torture of captured terrorists may be both necessary for national security and morally a lesser evil than the preventable mass murder of innocents.
President Bush and Social Policy: The Strange Case of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
DOUGLAS JAENICKE and ALEX WADDAN analyze the distinctive partisan politics that culminated in the passage of the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act, which not only created a new prescription drug benefit for the elderly but also advanced a Republican agenda for re-structuring Medicare and health care more generally. They argue that while electoral expediency drove most Republicans to support drug coverage for the elderly, their stealth-like conservative reforms of Medicare caused most Democrats to oppose the details of the Republicans’ legislation.
The Rise of a European Defense
SETH G. JONES examines the increase in cooperation of Europe’s defense industry. He challenges the view that European cooperation is more fiction than fact and argues that the changing structure of the international system has caused a notable rise in defense cooperation. European states, he argues, have been motivated by a desire to decrease reliance on the United States and to increase European power.
U.S. Human Rights Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
JOHN W. DIETRICH explores U.S. human rights policy in the post-Cold War era. He notes important policy developments, but also continued constraints. He concludes that the constraints stem from the realities of global and domestic politics.
The Rationality of Radical Islam
QUINTAN WIKTOROWICZ and KARL KALTENTHALER focus on how spiritual incentives inspire Islamic radicalism. They argue that radical Islamic groups offer spiritual incentives and strategies for fulfilling divine duties and maximizing the prospect of salvation on judgment day. They conclude that the choice of individuals to move to high-cost and high-risk activism can be understood as a rational decision.
Book Reviews
John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (PDF Format)
Reviewed by Fred I. Greenstein
Gerard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
Reviewed by Ousmane Kane
Avery Goldstein, Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security
Reviewed by Michael R. Chambers
Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Political Parties Matter: Realignment and the Return of Partisan Voting
Reviewed by Mary P. McGuire
Anne E. Sartori, Deterrence by Diplomacy
Reviewed by Richard J. Harknett
Noah Pickus, True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism
Reviewed by Andrew L. Aoki
Stephen G. Brooks, Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict
Reviewed by Tanisha M. Fazal
Daniel N. Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Reviewed by Nelson Kasfir
Paul Edward Gottfried, The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium
Reviewed by George Ross
David L. Phillips, Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco (PDF Format)
Reviewed by Patrice C. McMahon
Jeffrey W. Legro, Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order
Reviewed by Stacie E. Goddard
Frank E. Vandiver, How America Goes to War
Reviewed by Meena Bose
Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public
Reviewed by Paul Brace
David M. Barrett, The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
Reviewed by Sean Gailmard
Andrew J. Taylor, Elephant’s Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party
Reviewed by Wendy J. Schiller
William G. Mayer, ed., The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004
Reviewed by Philip Paolino
David M. Abshire, Saving the Reagan Presidency: Trust is the Coin of the Realm
Reviewed by Brandon Rottinghaus
Sharon E. Jarvis, The Talk of the Party: Political Labels, Symbolic Capital and American Life (PDF Format)
Reviewed by Darrell M. West
David S. Gutterman, Prophetic Politics: Christian Social Movements and American Democracy
Reviewed by Kimberly H. Conger
Charles C. Turner, The Politics of Minor Concerns: American Indian Policy and Congressional Dynamics
Reviewed by David R. Jones
Jason Pierceson, Courts, Liberalism and Rights: Gay Law and Politics in the United States and Canada; David A. J. Richards, The Case for Gay Rights: From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond
Reviewed by David Rayside
James A. Gardner, Interpreting State Constitutions: A Jurisprudence of Function in a Federal System
Reviewed by John Kincaid
Donald Alexander Downs, Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
Reviewed by Mark Kemper
Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox, It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office (PDF Format)
Reviewed by Elizabeth S. Smith
Hannah E. Britton, Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Government
Reviewed by Michael Kevane
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging
Reviewed by Goran Hyden
Andrew Wilson, Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World
Reviewed by Juliet Johnson
Allen C. Lynch, How Russia is Not Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development
Reviewed by Andrew C. Kuchins
Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
Reviewed by Peter R. Moody, Jr.
Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne, Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment
Reviewed by Douglas A. Kysar
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity
Reviewed by Jonathan Koppell