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CIAO DATE: 03/05
Volume 119 No. 4 (Winter 2004)
Abstracts
Rebuilding Bosnia: A Model to Emulate or to Avoid?
Patrice C. McMahon assesses international strategies for rebuilding Bosnia- Herzegovina. She contends that international involvement there has been a model to both emulate and avoid and that the successes and failures in Bosnia provide a timely test case for the efficacy of Western nation-building efforts.
The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective
Eva Bellin draws on comparative historical analysis to explore the question can military occupation serve as the midwife to democracy? She challenges the relevance of America's historically successful occupation of Germany and Japan to the current intervention in Iraq because of the cases' fundamental incomparability. Broader comparison suggests that military occupation may improve the chances of democratization but overall, the outcome is largely shaped by other factors, domestic and international.
What Was the Cold War About? Evidence from Its Ending
John Mueller assesses the rhetoric and actions of important international actors and concludes that the Cold War essentially ended in the spring of 1989. This suggests that the Cold War was principally about an ideological conflict and not about the military, nuclear, or economic balance or about Communism as a form of government -issues that would be resolved later.
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Presidents, Responsiveness, and Competence: Revisiting the "Golden Age" at the Bureau of the Budget
Matthew J. Dickinson and Andrew Rudalevige analyze the tension between neutrality and responsiveness in presidential staff agencies, focusing on the Bureau of the Budget (BoB) under President Harry S. Truman. They find that the BoB was very responsive to Truman's political needs-but that those needs were best served by a neutrally competent BoB exhibiting professionalism, careerism, and administrative competence.
Blacks on the Bench
Nancy Scherer analyzes the voting behavior of judges in the United States Courts of Appeals in criminal search and seizure decisions. She concludes that black judges appear more willing than white judges to accept claims by criminal defendants of police misconduct and that in certain cases, race may in fact impact judicial decision making.
Book Reviews
John Prados, Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War; James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence
Reviewed by Robert Jervis
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Joseph S. Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 55.2 kb]
John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Reviewed by James J. Wirtz
Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
Reviewed by Jerome M. Slater
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership
Reviewed by Richard Storatz
Louis Fisher, The Politics of Executive Privilege
Reviewed by Athan Theoharis
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 55.8 kb]
Raymond William Baker, Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists
Reviewed by Samer Shehata
David C. Wills, The First War on Terrorism: Counter-Terrorism Policy During the Reagan Administration
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos
Dante J. Scala, Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics
Reviewed by Audrey A. Haynes
Peter L. Francia, Paul S. Herrnson, John C. Green, Lynda W. Powell, and Clyde Wilcox, The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates
Reviewed by Burdett A. Loomis
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Mark Clarence Walker, The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy
Reviewed by Jody Baumgartner
Evan Gerstmann, Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution
Reviewed by Kenneth Sherrill
Timothy Macklem, Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination
Reviewed by Gordon A. Babst
Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliot Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, and Marjorie M. Shult, White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Reviewed by Richard M. Valelly
Gallya Lahav, Immigration and Politics in the New Europe: Reinventing Borders
Reviewed by Steven A. Weldon
Justin Greenwood, Interest Representation in the European Union
Reviewed by John K. Glenn
David Judge and David Earnshaw, The European Parliament
Reviewed by Erik Jones
Zoltan Barany, The Future of NATO Expansion: Four Case Studies
Reviewed by Robert E. Hunter
Geir Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift
Reviewed by Andreas W. Daum
Maria Sampanis, Preserving Power Through Coalitions: Comparing the Grand Strategy of Great Britain and the United States
Reviewed by Jakub Grygiel
Adam Przeworski, States and Markets: A Primer in Political Economy
Reviewed by Macartan Humphreys
Judith Russell, Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty
Reviewed by Edward D. Berkowitz
Lawrence S. Wittner, Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present
Reviewed by David S. Meyer
William J. Lahneman, Ed., Military Intervention: Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by John F. Clark
Monica Duffy Toft, The Geography of Ethnic Violence
Reviewed by Steven L. Burg
Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order
Reviewed by David A. Deese
Omar G. Encarnacion, The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil
Reviewed by Bruce P. Chadwick
Earl Conteh-Morgan, Collective Political Violence: An Introduction to the Theories and Cases of Violent Conflicts
Reviewed by Ted Robert Gurr
Carnes Lord, The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now
Reviewed by Stacy Bergstrom Haldi
R.B. Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson
Reviewed by Jan Ellen Lewis
Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
Reviewed by Jay M. Parker
Thomas Bernauer, Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology
Reviewed by Eugene B. Skolnikoff