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CIAO DATE: 11/01
Volume 115 No. 4 (Winter 2000)
Abstracts
After the Storm U.S. Policy Toward Iraq Since 1991
Daniel Byman argues that criticism of U.S. policy toward Iraq is often overstated and fails to appreciate the accomplishments of the Bush and Clinton administrations. The author discusses which mechanisms have proven particularly effective but also analyzes the room for improvement in U.S. policy.
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Cooptation and Corporatism in China The Logic of Party Adaptation
Bruce J. Dicksonanalyzes the political consequences of economic reform in China by looking at the Chinese Communist party's efforts to recruit technical experts and entrepreneurs into the party. These strategies of cooptation and corporatism are designed to help the party to adapt, but they are also creating tensions with its Leninist nature that may undermine the party's authority rather than rejuvenate it.
The Origins and Diffusion of Racial Restrictive Covenants
Michael Jones-Correaexplores the diffusion of racial restrictive covenants in the early twentieth century. He argues that while critical events like the 1917-1921 race riots ushered in new racial policies, it was interactions among political actors that helped determine which policy alternatives survived and which withered on the vine.
Producing and Consuming Trust
Eric M. Uslanerchallenges the accepted wisdom about trust. He argues that group membership and informal socializing do not depend on trust and do not create trust. He establishes categories of trust and discusses the consequences of each type for civic engagement. This author also explores why Americans have become less trusting over time, emphasizing the role of religious fundamentalism, growing pessimism, and rising economic inequality.
Contingency, Catalysts, and International System Change
Richard Ned Lebowasserts there have been three transformations of the international system in the twentieth century. He conducts a counterfactual analysis of World War I--one such transformation--to show there is no necessary relationship between the number and the intensity of underlying causes and the probability of an event. The immediate causes of World War I--the double assassinations at Sarajevo--met a diverse set of political and psychological requirements without which Austrian and German leaders would not have taken the steps that led to war. Sarajevo indicates that there is a class of situations that require complex and highly specialized triggers whose appearance may be infrequent.
Book Reviews
Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis, Presidential Greatness
Reviewed by Paul Kengor
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Reviewed by Robert Y. Shapiro
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Hanes Walton, Jr., Reelection: William Jefferson Clinton as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate
Reviewed by Peri E. Arnold
James H. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance
Reviewed by George E. Shambaugh
Robert S. McNamara, Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
Reviewed by Richard M. Pious
Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy: A Societal Analysis
Reviewed by James L. Perry
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William G. Hyland, Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Kenneth W. Thompson
Michael D. Swaine and Ashley J. Tellis, Interpreting China's Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future
Reviewed by June Teufel Dreyer
Rex Brynen, A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza
Reviewed by Ann Mosely Lesch
Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
Reviewed by Robert Jervis
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Daniel E. Ponder, Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House
Reviewed by Meena Bose
Robert A. Strong, Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Mark H. Lytle
Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook, America's Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt
Reviewed by Daniel Kryder
John W. Malsberger, From Obstruction to Moderation: The Transformation of Senate Conservatism, 1938-1952
Reviewed by Randall B. Ripley
Julie A. Mertus, Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started A War
Reviewed by Jon W. Western
Tim Judah, Kosovo: War and Revenge
Reviewed by Laura Swartz
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
Reviewed by Rosalind Rosenberg
Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age, Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman; National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War, Craig Eisendrath, Editor.
Reviewed by Richard Brody
John Fousek, To Lead the World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War
Reviewed by Craig T. Cobane
Tinsley E. Yarbrough, The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution
Reviewed by Susan E. Grogan
Robert J. Spitzer, Editor, Politics and Constitutionalism: The Louis Fisher Collection
Reviewed by Joel K. Goldstein
Susan Gluck Mezey, Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts
Reviewed by Caren G. Dubnoff
Bruce Conin, Community Under Anarchy: Transnational Identity and the Evolution of Cooperation
Reviewed by Thomas Risse
Scott A. Bollens, On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Ethnic Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast
Reviewed by Michael Dumper
Aili Mari Tripp, Women and Politics in Uganda
Reviewed by Linda J. Beck
Alison Brysk, From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America
Reviewed by Pamela Stricker
Lloyd Gruber, Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions
Reviewed by Jeremy Rabkin
Joel M. Ostrow, Comparing Post-Soviet Legislatures: A Theory of Institutional Design and Conflict
Reviewed by Paul Kubicek
Michael A. Santoro, Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox, Editors, Prayers in the Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Elections
Reviewed by Anna Greenberg
Desmond King, In The Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain
Reviewed by Kent Worcester
David Coates, Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era
Reviewed by Pepper D. Culpepper
John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell, Term Limits in the State Legislatures
Reviewed by Gerald Benjamin