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CIAO DATE: 05/02
Volume 116 No. 4 (Winter 2001)
Abstracts
Pivotal Deterrence and the Kosovo War: Why the Holbrooke Agreement Failed
Timothy W. Crawford examines the failure of NATO's Kosovo policy in the months preceding the air war against Serbia in March 1999. He argues that the real challenge was not just to deter Belgrade from attacking Kosovar Albanians. It should also have been to deter the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from guerrilla tactics aimed precisely to provoke Serb attacks on civilians in order to trigger a NATO intervention.
Ending Welfare As We Know It: A Reform Still in Progress
Demetrios James Caraley summarizes the political and social dynamics that brought about the repeal of Aid to Families of Dependent Children (AFDC) and analyzes the effects of the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program over its first four years. He considers possibilities for further changes in cash assistance for poor families during the program's necessary reauthorization in 2002.
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Elections Online: Assessing Internet Voting in Light of the Arizona Democratic Primary
Rachel Gibson provides evidence for the main arguments made for and against Internet or I-voting. These range from normative criticism about the rise of "pushbutton" democracy to more optimistic expectations about increased participation and improved efficiency. The arguments are confronted with evidence from the 2000 Arizona Democratic primary election where I-voting was used as one method of ballot casting.
Rethinking Human Security
Gary King and Christopher J. L. Murray note that many attempts to ensure the territorial security of nation-states through military power have failed to improve their total human condition. In response, the international community has moved to combine economic development with military security and other basic human rights to form a new concept of "human security." Unfortunately, by common assent the concept lacks either a clear definition or any agreed upon measure of it.
Blairism Brazilian Style? Cardoso and the "Third Way" in Brazil
Timothy J. Power analyzes the Cardoso experiment in Brazil through the lens of so-called Third Way politics. He demonstrates that while President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PDSB) has been the only major Latin American political party associated with the transnational Third Way debate, it has deviated in several important ways from recent European efforts to modernize social democracy.
Book Reviews
Willard C. Matthias, America's Strategic Blunders: Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991
Reviewed by Robert Jervis
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Jason G.Ralph, Beyond the Security Dilemma: Ending America's Cold War
Reviewed by James H. Joyner, Jr.
Nicholas Guyatt, Another American Century? The United States and the World After 2000
Reviewed by Joseph Lepgold
[Full Text, PDF Format, 3 pages, 53kb]
Donald M. Snow, When America Fights: The Uses of U.S. Military Forces
Reviewed by James J. Wirtz
Victor A. Utgoff, ed., The Coming Crisis: Nuclear Proliferation, U.S. Interests and World Order
Reviewed by Colin Elman
Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik, New Nukes: India, Pakistan, and Global Nuclear Disarmament
Reviewed by T. V. Paul
Kenneth R. Mayer, With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power
Reviewed by Jim Granato
Robert Shogan, Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President
Reviewed by John J. Smee
Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Implementing the Constitution
Reviewed by John R. Vile
Despite Nationalist Conflicts: Theory and Practice of Maintaining World Peace, Kristen P. Williams; Europe's Nightmare: The Struggle for Kosovo, Miron Rezun
Reviewed by Micah Zenko
A. I. Johnston and R. S. Ross, Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Robert D. Blackwill and Paul Dibb, eds., America's Asian Alliances
Reviewed by Victor D. Cha
Rodney Wallis, Lockerbie: The Story and the Lessons
Reviewed by Laura K. Donohue
Debra L. DeLaet, U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights
Reviewed by Richard Sobel
[Full Text, PDF Format, 3 pages, 53kb]
David S. Bell, Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France
Reviewed by Jean V. Poulard
Philip Cowley, David Denver, Andrew Russell, and Lisa Harrison, eds., British Elections and Parties Review, Vol. 10
Reviewed by Dennis Kavanaugh
Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life, Leon Aron; My Six Years with Gorbachev, Anatoly S. Chernyaev
Reviewed by Anders Aslund
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
Reviewed by William E. Odom
Robert W. Rauchhaus, ed., Explaining NATO Enlargement
Reviewed by Ted Galen Carpenter
Mark Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950
Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich
Ruben Berrios, Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Contractors in U.S. Foreign Development Assistance
Reviewed by Alexander Cooley
York Bradshaw and Stephen N. Ndegwa, eds., The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa
Reviewed by Herman J. Cohen
Courtney Jung, Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition
Reviewed by JamesNeta C. Crawford
Jean Reith Schroedel, Is the Fetus a Person?
Reviewed by SusanCaren G. Dubnoff
Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
Reviewed by SusanCarl Wennerlind
Joe Soss, Unwanted Claims: The Politics of Participation in the U.S. Welfare System
Reviewed by Lawrence M. Mead
Jameson W. Doig, Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority
Reviewed by Joel Schwartz
Maureen Moakley and Elmer Cornwell, Rhode Island Politics and Government
Reviewed by Hilary Silver
Negotiating NAFTA: Explaining the Outcome in Culture, Textiles, Autos, and Pharmaceuticals, Maryse Robert; Created from NAFTA: The Structure, Function, and Significance of the Treaty's Related Institutions, Joseph A. McKinney
Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes
Samuel P. Hays, A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
Reviewed by Christopher J. Bosso
Rebecca Neara Abers, Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Reviewed by Lisa Baldez
Michael P. Sullivan, Theories of International Relations: Transition vs. Persistence
Reviewed by Miriam Fendius Elman