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CIAO DATE: 03/03
Volume 117 No. 4 (Winter 2002-2003)
Abstracts
Limits of American Power
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. discusses the paradox of the United States having unparalleled military power, yet being unable to impose its will unilaterally on either its allies or its antagonists. He explains clearly why America must adopt a more cooperative engagement with the rest of the world.
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The Israeli Decision to Withdraw from Southern Lebanon: Political Leadership and Security Policy
Dalia Dassa Kaye argues that neither military-strategic considerations nor domestic pressure can adequately explain the Israeli decision to withdraw unilaterally from southern Lebanon. The key trigger for withdrawal was the reframing of the issue by the Israeli political leadership, particularly by Ehud Barak.
Organized Interests and American Political Development
Daniel J. Tichenor and Richard A. Harris present new findings about interest group lobbying in national politics from the 1830s to the 1920s, raising important questions about the theoretical presumptions and empirical arguments surrounding contemporary interest group scholarship. They conclude that modern, sophisticated, and national interest group politics emerged far earlier than political scientists have assumed.
Subregional Economic Zones and Integration in East Asia
Dajin Peng examines subregional economic zones (SREZs) as an emergent means of economic integration in East Asia. He argues that SREZs are quietly forming a new geoeconomic configuration in the region, although their pattern of development is different from the expectations of the proponents.
Urban Education Reform and Minority Political Empowerment
Stefanie Chambers STEFANIE CHAMBERS analyzes school politics in Chicago and the impact that two very different school reforms have had on those served by the school system: Chicago's minority student body and the community at large. Her findings are significant in terms of the future of minority inclusion in educational policy making, especially as other big cities wish to replicate Chicago-style school reform.
Book Reviews
Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
Reviewed by Michael Kazin
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Elizabeth Drew, Citizen McCain
Reviewed by Ross K. Baker
Stephen F. Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
Reviewed by Herbert Sloan
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Coundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion, Leis V. Baldwin; Against Us, But For Us: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the State, Michael G. Long
Reviewed by Derek C. Castam
Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000, Alan M. Dershowitz; The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election, Howard Gillman
Reviewed by Mark A. Graber
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Kenneth F. Warren, In Defense of Public Opinion Polling
Reviewed by Michael W. Traugott
Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres, Voting With Dollars: A New Paradign for Campaign Finance
Reviewed by Robert E. Mutch
Luigi Graziano, Lobbying, Pluralism, and Democracy
Reviewed by Anthony J. Nownes
John Rohr, Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
Reviewed by Louis Fisher
[Full Text, PDF Format, 3 pages, 56kbs]
Adela de la Torre, Moving from the Margins: A Chicana Voice on Public Policy
Reviewed by Rodolfo de la Garza
Milan J. Dulhy and Howard A. Frank, The Miami Fiscal Crisis: Can a Poor City Regain Prosperity?
Reviewed by Lorraine C. Minnite
Sonya Michel and Rianne Mahon, eds., Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
Reviewed by Frances Rosenbluth
John F. Galliher, Larry W. Koch, David Patrick Keys, and Teresa J. Guess, America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way
Reviewed by Robert L. Young
Katherine N. Probst, David M. Konisky, et al. Superfund's Future: What Will It Cost?
Reviewed by Steven Choen
Arthur P.J. Mol, Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy
Reviewed by David Vogel
Alexander DeConde, Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations
Reviewed by Richard M. Pious
Samantha Power, A Problem from hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Reviewed by Dipak K. Gupta
Thomas Graham, Jr., Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law
Reviewed by Ido Oren
Douglas Lemke, Regions of War and Peace
Reviewed by Jack S. Levy
John Darby, The Effects of Violence on Peace Processes
Reviewed by I. William Zartman
Newton R. Bowles, The Diplomacy of Hope: The United Nations Since the Cold War
Reviewed by James S. Sutterlin
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Rawi Abdelal, National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Societ States in Comparative Perspective
Reviewed by Alexander Cooley
Suzanna Michele Birgerson, After the Breakup of Multi-Ethnic Empire; Russia, Successor States, and Eurasian security
Reviewed by Stephen Blank
Stephen Gundle, Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-1991
Reviewed by Lucio Baccaro
Giuseppe Bertola, Tito Boeri, and Guiseppe Nicoletti, eds., Welfare and Employment in a United Europe
Reviewed by Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Philip Eldridge, Politics of Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Reviewed by Peter Juviler
Robert J. Myers, Korea in the Cross Currents: A Century of Struggle and the Crisis Reunification
Reviewed by Samuel S. Kim
Xiaohong Liu, Chinese Ambassadors: The Rise of Diplomatic Professionalism Since 1949
Reviewed by Taeku Lee
Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Protestants in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Reviewed by Brian H. Smith
Paul H. Lewis, Guerrillas and General: The "Dirty War" in Argentina
Reviewed by Donald C. Hodges
Lincoln Gordon, Brazil's Second Chance: En Route Toward the First World
Reviewed by Anthony W. Pererira
Vitoria Gonzalez and Karen Kampwirth, eds., Radical Women in latin America: Left and Right
Reviewed by Mala Htun
Marcus Franda, Launching Into Cyberspace: Internet Development and Politics in Five World Regions
Reviewed by Erik S. Heron
Lass Ringius, Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea: Public Ideas, Transnational Policy Entrpeneurs, and Environmental Regimes
Reviewed by Barry G. Rabe