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CIAO DATE: 12/01
Volume 116 No. 2 (Summer 2001)
Abstracts
What Went Wrong? The Collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Jerome Slater examines the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 2000 and argues provocatively that contrary to the prevailing view, it is Israel rather than the Palestinians that bears the primary responsibility, not only for the latest breakdown but for the entire course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1948.
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The 2000 Presidential Election: Why Gore Lost
Gerald M. Pomper asserts that the presidential election of 2000 represents a paradox of democracy, distinctive in the eventual victory of the candidate with fewer popular votes and the decisive intervention of the Supreme Court. The results show sharp divisions among the electorate, both geographically and socially, as well as a unique Republican advantage in the "gender gap." The election carries important implications for the future of the presidency, the electoral college, and the stability of American democracy.
Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution: Perceiving the End of Threat
Barbara Farnham examines President Ronald Reagan's reevaluation of the Soviet threat in light of the policy changes instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev. This presents a puzzle, because the psychological literature strongly suggests that people alter their central beliefs with great difficulty, if at all. Farnham describes Reagan's decision-making characteristics that allowed him to reevaluate his perception of threat when many others did not.
The Rehnquist Court and Contemporary American Federalism
Timothy J. Conlan And François Vergniolle De Chantal Analyze the core tenets of the Supreme Court's emerging doctrines of judicial federalism under Chief Justice William Rehnquist. They assess the significance of these cases for the operation of contemporary American federalism, and consider their implications for the judiciary's role in the U.S. constitutional framework.
Democratization and the Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Turkey in the 1974 Cyprus Crisis
Fiona B. Adamson examines the relationship between democratization and war through a study of Turkish foreign policy making during the 1974 Cyprus crisis. She finds that, contrary to the claims of the democratic peace literature, elections and increased popular participation did not facilitate but rather inhibited a peaceful resolution to the crisis.
Book Reviews
Robert D. Cooter, The Strategic Constitution
Reviewed by Susan Rose-Ackerman
Timothy J. Power, The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization
Reviewed by Jorge I. Domínguez
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Mary Ann Tétreault, Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait
Reviewed by Sheila Carapico
Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
Reviewed by Burke Marshall
Kathleen Kendall, Communication in the Presidential Primaries: Candidates and the Media, 1912-2000
Reviewed by Alison D. Dagnes
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond
Reviewed by Shirley Anne Warshaw
Paul C. Light, The New Public Service
Reviewed by Paul L. Posner
Beth Reingold Representing Women: Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California
Reviewed by Kim Kahn
John D. Wirth, Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Reviewed by Judith McKenzie
Jeffrey W. Helsing, Johnson's War/Johnson's Great Society
Reviewed by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
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Richard Shultz, The Secret War Against Hanoi
Reviewed by Wallace J. Thies
Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975
Reviewed by T. Christopher Jespersen
Tony Smith, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Patrick J. Haney
Martha Gibson, Conflict Amid Consensus in American Trade Policy
Reviewed by Frederick W. Mayer
Stephan Haggard, The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis
Reviewed by Thomas Oatley
Birthe Hansen and Bertel Heurlin, eds., The New World Order: Contrasting Theories
Reviewed by George H. Quester
Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Harry P. Pachon, eds., Latinos and U.S. Foreign Policy: Representing the "Homeland"?; Juan González, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Reviewed by Louis DeSipio
Katja Weber, Hierarchy Amidst Anarchy: Transaction Costs and Institutional Choice
Reviewed by Peter Liberman
David Tawei Lee, The Making of the Taiwan Relations Act
Reviewed by Steven I. Levine
G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars
Reviewed by Peter Liberman
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Peter Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James J. Wirth, eds., Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
Reviewed by Ashley J. Tellis
Robert S. Litwak, Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy
Reviewed by James M. Goldgeier
Wayne Bowen, Spaniards and Nazi Germany
Reviewed by John Lawrence Tone
Carol Lancaster, Transforming Foreign Aid: United States Assistance in the 21st Century
Reviewed by Steven W. Hook