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CIAO DATE: 10/03
Volume 118 No. 2 (Summer 2003)
Abstracts
Shoring Up the Right to Vote for President: A Modest Prosposal
Alexander Keyssar argues that the 2000 presidential election has made clear the desirability of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing to all American citizens the right to vote for president and to have those votes determine each state's vote in the electoral college. Tracing certain features of the history of suffrage in the United States, he maintains that such an amendment would make the Constitution consistent with the now broadly based consensus (not present at the nation's founding) that voting is a right that inheres in all citizens.
The Panelists (D. Caraley, L. Greenhouse, S. Issacharoff, R. Pildes, G. Pomper, J. Rakove, R. Shapiro, R. Smith) discuss the points raised by the Keyssar article. They end up with consensus on the need for a constitutional right to vote for president, but have some differences on additional aspects of reforming the system.
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The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy
Charles A. Kupchan argues that America's position of global dominance is far less durable than commonly presumed, as shown by lack of support for the war in Iraq. He contends that the next challenge to America's might comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendent China, but from an integrating Europe that is rising as a counterweight to the United States. The waning of American primacy will be expedited by the erosion of liberal internationalism in the United States, inducing other nations to resist rather than rally behind U.S. leadership.
Schoolyard Revolutions: How Research on Urban School Reform Undermines Reform
Joseph P. Viteritti employs an underutilized case study from the cold war to investigate the dynamics associated with confronting regional powers armed with nascent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) arsenals. This research challenges the thesis of the so-called proliferation optimists, who maintain that small WMD arsenals effectively empower the weak against the strong.examines the research on urban school reform, finding scholars so wedded to the traditional common school model that they are unable to address its failure to educate the majority of children who attend city schools. Instead of supporting equitable forms of school choice, he argues that they place the burden of proof on those who would extend the range of educational options for children consigned to failing schools.
External Interventions and Domestic Ethnic Conflict in Yugoslav Macedonia
Nikolaos Zahariadis examines the impact of three external interventions on ethnic relations in Yugoslav Macedonia. Political strategies crafted by Macedonian elites since 1991 to deal with the Greek opposition to the country's name, the presence of troops under the aegis of the United Nations, and the outbreak of war in neighboring Kosovo have had unintended adverse consequences in undermining interethnic relations in the long term.
Is Eastern Enlargement of the European Union a Beneficial Investment for Germany?
Stephen Wood examines the effects on Germany of the European Union's enlargement to eastern Europe. He challenges the view that Germany will be the primary beneficiary of this development. Rather than a clearly positive balance, the consequences are uncertain, as the process is characterized by political bargaining and conflict.
Robert Mugabe, Another Too-Long-Serving African Ruler: A Review Essay
Norma J. Kriger evaluates three recent books on Robert Mugabe's violent rule in Zimbabwe. The authors offer different perspectives on Mugabe's motives for power and on the relationship between his use of violence in the liberation war against white rule and his postindependence violence.
Book Reviews
Joseph Hayden, Covering Clinton: The President and the Press in the 1990s
Reviewed by Doris A. Graber
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Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar, Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East
Reviewed by John L. Esposito
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Shibley Telhami, The Stakes: America and the Middle East, the COnsequences of Power and the Choice for Peace
Reviewed by Scott Lasensky
David Cole and James X. Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution: SAcrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security
Reviewed by Christopher H. Pyle
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Dominick Jenkins, The Final Prontier: America, Science, and Terror
Reviewed by James A. Russell
Andrew Rudalevige, Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legistlative Policy Formation
Reviewed by Shirley Anne Warshaw
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Predicting Politics
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Shepsle
Jon Roper, The Contours of American Politics
Reviewed by Richard M. Merelman
Earl Black and Merle Black, The Rise of Southern Republicans
Reviewed by David M. Brodsky
Sumit Ganguly, Confloict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947
Reviewed by Thomas Perry Thornton
Quansheng Zhao, ed., Future Trends in East Asian International Relations
Reviewed by Susan Henders
Steve Breyman, Why Movements Matter: The West German Peace Movement and U.S. Arms Control Policy
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos
Ronald Bruce St. John, Libya and the United States: Two Centruies of Strife
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson
Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr., Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests
Reviewed by Michael Pugh
Louis Sell, Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
Reviewed by Julie Mertus
Brian D. Lepard, Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law
Reviewed by Itai Sneh
Joseph Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegla Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary; Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone, Beyond Smoke and Mirros: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
Reviewed by Rodolfo O. de la Garza
Daniel J. Tichenor, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America
Reviewed by Christian Joppke
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the COlor Line: American Race Relations in the GLobal Arena
Reviewed by James Gilbert
Fritz Plasser with Gunda Plasser, Global Political Campaigning: A Worldwide Analysis of Campaign Professionals and Their Practices
Reviewed by David M. Farrell
Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability, 2nd Ed.
Reviewed by Louis Fisher
James V. DeLong, Out of Bounds, Out of Control: Regulatory Enforcement at the EPA
Reviewed by Steven Cohen
Beryl A. Radin, The Accountable Juggler: The Art of Leadership in a Federal Agency
Reviewed by Thad E. Hall
Clarence N. Stone, Jeffrey R. Henig, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi, Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools
Reviewed by Wilbur C. Rich
Constantine J. Spiliotes, Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy
Reviewed by Garrett Glasglow
Steven R. Weisman, The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson — The Fierce Battles Over Money and Power that Transformed the Nation
Reviewed by Jenny B. Wahl
John A. Thompson, Woodrow Wilson: Profiles in Power
Reviewed by Robert A. Divine
Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance
Reviewed by Mary Ruggie
Craig A. Rimmerman, From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States
Reviewed by Miriam Smith
Howard Ball, The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death
Reviewed by Julie Novkov
S. Laurel Weldon, Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence Against Women: A Cross-National Comparison
Reviewed by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
David Kretzmer, The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories
Reviewed by Don Peretz
Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Reviewed by Jerome Slater