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CIAO DATE: 9/07

Political Science Quarterly

Volume 122, No. 2 (Summer 2007)

Articles

• Iran’s Nuclear Challenge (PDF, 18 pages, 191 KB)

  COLIN DUECK and RAY TAKEYH describe the political, ideological and security motivations behind Iran’s nuclear program and examine various strategic alternatives available to the United States. They conclude that the United States should pursue comprehensive, direct negotiations with Tehran on the nuclear issue, within an overarching framework of containment.

• The Lessons of September 11, Iraq, and the American Pendulum

  CHRISTOPHER HEMMER examines the impact of September 11 on the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq. He also explores the potential dangers for American foreign policy that could result from an over-active interventionist policy.

• Of Paradise, Power, and Pachyderms

  MIROSLAV NINCIC and MONTI NARAYAN DATTA challenge the conventional wisdom that the political values of the United States and Europe are increasingly diverging. They argue that the divergence does not so much separate Europeans from Americans as it does U.S. Republicans from the rest of the political West.

• Presidential Republics and Divided Government: Lawmaking and Executive Politics in the United States and France

  RICHARD S. CONLEY compares the impact of institutional prerogatives and informal resources available to American and French presidents in their quest to manage legislative outcomes under split-party control of national institutions in each country.

• The Structural Causes of Trusting Relationships: Why Rivals Do Not Overcome Suspicion Step by Step

  AARON M. HOFFMAN explores how certain European states overcame their suspicion and developed trusting relationships. He challenges the view that trusting relationships can be established gradually. Instead, he argues that trusting relationships emerge when governments guarantee one another a voice in collective decisions and limit each other’s exposure to domestic political pressures.

Book Reviews

• Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (PDF, 4 pages, 168 KB)

  Reviewed by Fred I. Greenstein

• Jonathan Renshon, Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention (PDF, 3 pages, 129 KB)

  Reviewed by Yael S. Aronoff

• Bruce Ackerman, Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism

  Reviewed by Mark Tushnet

• Robert K. Brigham, Is Iraq Another Vietnam?

  Reviewed by Ann Marie Murphy

• Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House, Sasha Abramsky; The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons, Elizabeth A. Hull

  Reviewed by Alec Ewald

• Louis Fisher, In the Name of National Security: Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case

  Reviewed by Adrian Vermeule

• Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (PDF, 3 pages, 129 KB)

  Reviewed by Sean M. Theriault

• Thomas F. Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South

  Reviewed by Patrick R. Cotter

• Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard, Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President’s Big Speech

  Reviewed by Mary E. Stuckey

• Peter F. Burns, Electoral Politics is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics

  Reviewed by David Tabb

• William N. Eskridge and Darren R. Spedale, Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? What We’ve Learned from the Evidence

  Reviewed by Raymond A. Smith

• Richard R. Lau and David Redlawsk, How Voters Decide: Information Processing During Election Campaigns

  Reviewed by John Gastil

• Gretchen Ritter, The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order

  Reviewed by Elisabeth S. Clemens

• Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana, Editors, The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State

  Reviewed by Richard Briffault

• Marie Gottschalk, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

  Reviewed by Charles Williams

• Kristin A. Goss, Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America

  Reviewed by Harry L. Wilson

• Andrew Preston, The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam

  Reviewed by John Garofano

• Chae-Jin Lee, A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas

  Reviewed by Tae Yang Kwak

• Glenn Palmer and T. Clifton Morgan, A Theory of Foreign Policy

  Reviewed by John Conybeare

• Ryan C. Hendrickson, Diplomacy and War at NATO: The Secretary General and Military Action After the Cold War

  Reviewed by James Goldgeier

• Neil E. Harrison, Editor, Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm

  Reviewed by Barry B. Hughes

• Ahmed S. Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq

  Reviewed by Navin A. Bapat

• Alan L. McPherson, Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America Since 1945

  Reviewed by Gaspare M. Genna

• Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett, Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality (PDF, 4 pages, 144 KB)

  Reviewed by Simone Chambers

• Staffan I. Lindberg, Democracy and Elections in Africa

  Reviewed by Jeffrey Krutz

• Shanker Satyanath, Globalization, Politics, and Financial Turmoil: Asia’s Banking Crisis

  Reviewed by Anastasia Xenias

• Francesca Polletta, It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

  Reviewed by Wendy Griswold

• Tristan Anne Borer, Editor, Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies

  Reviewed by David Mendeloff

• John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling, and Richard H. Steinberg, The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO

  Reviewed by Christina Davis

• Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Editor, Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Youth and Post-Accord Peace Building

  Reviewed by Henry F. Carey