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Russian Foreign Policy and the West
Paul Kubicek analyzes crucial cases of Russian-Western interaction after the Cold War to determine whether foreign policy interests or domestic politics better explain Russian foreign policy. He argues that domestic politics has affected rhetoric much more than policy, and that Russian policy responds predictably to constraints and opportunities in the international environment.
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The Paradox of Clinton Winning and the Presidency Losing
Richard M. Pious describes a paradoxical outcome of the Clinton impeachment: the president staved off personal catastrophe and inflicted political damage on his opponents, but did so at the expense of the institutional protections of testimonial privilege, a result that will be damaging to the presidential office in the future.
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Getting into the Black: Race, Wealth, and Public Policy
Dalton Conley examines the causes and consequences of the black-white asset gap in the United States. He argues that it is wealth, more than any other measure of socioeconomic well being, that captures the nature of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Conley discusses policy implications that may be used to address such "equity inequity."
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Constitutional Pied Piper: The Northern Irish Good Friday Agreement
Andrew Reynolds finds parallels between the crafting of the Northern Irish God Friday agreement and the experiences of South Africa and Zimbabwe which made the journey from unstable mi nority rule to majority re-incorporation. He argues that if the Good Friday power-sharing arrangements are transitional, one logical, but politically sensitive, ultimate destination for the peace process is the reunification of Ireland.
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Political Parties and Candidate Selection in Venezuela and Columbia
John D. Martz focuses on presidential candidate selection in Venezuela and Colombia to explore the hypothesis that prevailing political party elites seek to preserve their organizational domination even while voicing rhetorical commitment to grass roots participation. He concludes that both informal and institutional mechanisms mirror the continuing determination of party elites to finesse popular demands for internal party democratization.
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The Mexican-American Diaspora's Impact on Mexico
Yossi Shain discusses the changing relations between home countries and their diasporic kin with particular emphasis on the role of diasporas in the construction and reconstruction of national identity in their homeland. He explores how the rapprochement between Mexico and its U.S.-based diaspora after years of estrangement has led to homeland's changing perception of itself.
Book Reviews
- Kissinger, Henry, Years of Renewal
Reviewed by Walter LaFeber
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- Logevall, Fredrik, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow
- Lock, Shmuel, Crime, Public Opinion, and Civil Liberties: The Tolerant Public
Reviewed by Greg M. Shaw
- Smith, Jeffery A., War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power
Reviewed by Louis Fisher
- Dominguez, Jorge I., Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Reviewed by Marifeli Perez-Stable
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- Mayer, Frederick W., Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis
Reviewed by Sidney Weintraub
- Stephanopoulos, George, All Too Human: A Political Education
Reviewed by Anthony King
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- Cimbala, Stephen J., Coercive Military Strategy
Reviewed by Tamara Cofman Wittes
- Levy, Frank, The New Dollars and Dreams: American Incomes and Economic Change
Reviewed by Hugh Heclo
- Dark, Taylor E., The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance
Reviewed by John C. Gerring
- Glasser, Theodore L., ed., The Idea of Public Journalism
Reviewed by John J. Smee
- Gilens, Martin, Why Americans Hate Welfare
Reviewed by Phillip L. Gianos
- Schill, Michael H., ed., Housing and Community Development in New York City
Reviewed by Ralph Nunez
- Lieberman, Robert C., Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State
Reviewed by Desmond King
- Hopkin, Jonathan, Party Formation and Democratic Transition in Spain: The Creation and Collapse of the Union of the Democratic Centre
Reviewed by Gerard Alexander
- Slotnick, Elliot E. and Jennifer Segal, Television News and the Supreme Court
Reviewed by David L. Paletz
- Bomberg, Elizabeth, Green Parties and Politics in the European Union
Reviewed by Nancy Quirk
- Lake, David A., Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century
Reviewed by Timothy W. Crawford
- Krasner, Stephen D., Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy
Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson
- Jordan, David C., Drug Politics: Dirty Money and Democracies
Reviewed by Cathy Schneider
- Hall, Rodney Bruce, National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems
Reviewed by Robert E. Latham
- Sahu, Sunil K., Technology Transfer, Dependence, and Self-Reliant Development in the Third World: The Pharmaceutical and Machine Tool Industries in India
Reviewed by Christopher Candland
- Hira, Anil, Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National, and Organizational Case Studies
Reviewed by Alfred P. Montero
- Waldner, David, State Building and Late Development
Reviewed by Ellis Goldberg
