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Book SynopsisThe financial crisis that swept across East Asia during 19971998 was devastating not only in its economic impact but also in its social and political effects. The explosive growth and sociopolitical modernization that had powered the region for much of the preceding decade suddenly were dramatically interrupted. East Asia is economically outperforming the rest of the developing world once again and has become a leading force in the global economy. In the wake of the crisis, East Asia changed in important ways. Crisis as Catalyst contains assessments of these changes-both ephemeral and permanent- by a wide range of specialists in Asian economics and politics.The crisis, as the contributors to this volume show, catalyzed changes across political, corporate, and social arenas both in the countries hit hard by the crisis and in others throughout the region. The authors of Crisis as Catalyst examine what has changed (as well as what has not changed) in East Asia since the crisis, Trade Review"Crisis as Catalyst is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic study of political economic changes in East Asia since the financial crisis in 1997. Chapters in the volume are analytically rigorous and empirically penetrative, with rich policy implications. This is must reading for those who are interested in East Asia, including policy makers and businesspeople."—Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University"In Crisis as Catalyst, expert authors cogently exploit hindsight to generate foresight made all the more timely by what the current American downturn could mean for Asia."—Donald Emmerson, Stanford University"The financial crisis and subsequent drive toward greater regional integration have induced reforms that are necessary to maintain East Asia's dynamism. The danger is that they are losing steam. Perhaps market forces remain the strongest drive for reform.This book explores these important problems."—Hadi Soesastro, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta"Crisis as Catalyst is well conceived and well organized—it provides a rich vein of data and analysis that will be of value to international political economists who have an interest in East Asia."—Richard Stubbs, McMaster University

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Book SynopsisWhy would states ever give up their independence to join federations? While federation can provide more wealth or security than self-sufficiency, states can in principle get those benefits more easily by cooperating through international organizations...Trade Review"Federations is a joy to read and provides an extremely useful framework for understanding why countries choose this form of alliance. Chad Rector's clear explanation builds on the broad literature on cooperation and the narrower literature on institutional choice and federalism and adds the exquisite dimension of elucidating not simply why countries federate but why they choose this option over self-sufficiency or joining an international organization."—Carol S. Weissert, LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar and Professor of Political Science, Florida State University, and editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism"This book represents an important new and distinctive voice in the burgeoning literature on federalism's origins. Deploying a powerfully parsimonious theory to explain why states federate rather than form international alliances or organizations, Chad Rector's careful case analysis places federalism firmly on the agenda of International Relations scholarship. Federations is a real contribution to the study of the important nexus of domestic and international politics."—Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, author of Structuring the State

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Book SynopsisCharli Carpenter explores how advocacy elites in nongovernmental and transnational organizations help determine which issues get more global policy attention than others.Trade ReviewLike all valuable books do, Lost Causes leaves us with many ideas to think about.... Carpenter has opened doors for new thinking on these and other research questions and on creative ways to marshal evidence that can answer them. -- Wayne Sandholtz * Political Science Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisInsider accounts of how policymakers reacted to dramatic developments in recent history.Trade ReviewThe invaluable perspective provided by the authors, both of whom actually participated in the strategic policy building of the time, as well as the detailed research and rigorous analysis contributed by the academic scholars, is beyond reproach or comparison to any other works on this subject.... This book is a must read for those interested in U.S foreign policy and its development. It is also an informative read for mid-grade to senior-level military officers and government officials, who may find themselves involved in policy shaping activities. -- Dr. David A. Anderson * Military Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Navigating the Unknown Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro1. The Wall Comes Down: A Punctuational Moment Mary Elise Sarotte2. An Architecture of U.S. Strategy after the Cold War Robert B. Zoellick3. Shaping the Future: Planning at the Pentagon, 1989–93 Paul Wolfowitz4. The Strange Career of the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance Eric S. Edelman5. A Crisis of Opportunity: The Clinton Administration and Russia Walter B. Slocombe6. U.S. Strategic Planning in 2001–02 Philip Zelikow7. Questing for Monsters to Destroy John Mueller8. The Assumptions Did It Bruce Cumings9. Faulty Learning and Flawed Policies in Afghanistan and Iraq Odd Arne Westad10. How Did the Experts Do? William C. WohlforthConclusion: Strategy in a Murky World Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. LegroNotes Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFew would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six cases since 1815 in which an outside power seized control of a territory where the occupying party had no long-term claim on sovereignty. In a book that has implications for present-day policy, he draws evidence from such historical cases as well as from four current occupationsBosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraqwhere the outcome is not yet known. Occupation is difficult, in Edelstein''s view, because ambitious goals require considerable time and resources, yet both the occupied population and the occupying power want occupation to end quickly and inexpensively; in drawn-out occupations, impatience grows and resources dwindle. This combination sabotages the occupying power''s abiliTrade ReviewOccupational Hazards is one of those rare books that seamlessly blends theory, historical case studies, and policy relevance. For all of those reasons, this is a very good book. I really hope that it attracts the attention it deserves from U.S. policymakers, the ones who most need to do so before they embark on future military occupations. * Perspectives on Politics *Military occupations are inherently risky affairs. According to David Edelstein, only seven of the twenty-six international military occupations conducted since 1815 have succeeded. Occupational Hazards attempts to explain not only this high failure rate for military occupations but also what distinguishes a successful occupation from an unsuccessful one. Given the challenges the United States faces in its recent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, this broad analysis is a welcome addition to the literature. * Military Review *This is an excellent work that is also a groundbreaking piece of scholarship. Occupation, especially after a dictatorial regime, often gives rise to nationalistic and ethnic groups who may have been oppressed and have incentive to organize and resist foreign troops. Also, without internal controls such groups may declare war on one another, hence the probability of civil strife and war. Therefore, chaos usually is the result because the occupiers want to impose new political institutions and cultural values. This is a powerful work that should be required reading in all of the military academies and war colleges. Policymakers in the Bush administration may have learned a thing or two had the book been available five or six years ago. Policymakers of the present and future should put it on their must-read list. Essential. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWhen President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so without the explicit approval of the Security Council. His father''s administration, by contrast, carefully funneled statecraft through the United Nations and achieved Council authorization for the U.S.-led Gulf War in 1991. The history of American policy toward Iraq displays considerable variation in the extent to which policies were conducted through the UN and other international organizations.In Channels of Power, Alexander Thompson surveys U.S. policy toward Iraq, starting with the Gulf War, continuing through the interwar years of sanctions and coercive disarmament, and concluding with the 2003 invasion and its long aftermath. He offers a framework for understanding why powerful states often work through international organizations when conducting coercive policies-and why they sometimes choose instead to work alone or with ad hoc coalitions. The conventional wisdom holds that becauseTrade ReviewThompson's books adds to the small but growing body of work addressing why powerful countries would channel foreign policies through IOs. A major strength of Channels of Power is that it pays serious attention to theory development, generating falsifiable hypotheses about state behavior and international reaction to activity at the Security Council. Channels of Power is very well written and researched and its an important contribution to the literature on international organizations and security policy. -- Terrence Chapman * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Power of International Organizations IOs and Information Transmission Statecraft and IOs The United Nations and the Legitimation of Force Case Selection and OutlineChapter 2. Coercion, Institutions, and Information The Politics and Costs of Coercion Institutions and Information Coercion through IOs Two Pathways of Information Transmission Institutional Variation and the Security Council Alternative Arguments Observable Implications and Research DesignChapter 3. The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990–1991 Background and Events Choosing (How) to Intervene Signaling Intentions to State Leaders Transmitting Policy Information to Foreign Publics Assessing the Role of LegitimacyChapter 4. Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar Years Channeling Power between the Wars The Postwar Honeymoon Cracks in the Coalition The Decline of UN Inspections Desert Fox and Its Aftermath The Evolution of U.S. Coercive Strategy Reviving Inspections: A Divided CouncilChapter 5. The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002–2003 From September 11 to Iraq Appealing to the General Assembly Back to the Council: Resolution 1441 Renewed Inspections A Second Resolution? Explaining U.S. MotivationsChapter 6. The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security Council Was It a "Unilateral" Policy? The Costs of Working through the UN Sensitivity to IO Constraints Regional Options: Constrained Forum Shopping International Reactions to Iraq 2003 The International Political Costs of the WarChapter 7. Conclusion: How the Security Council Matters Multilateralism in U.S. Foreign Policy Beyond the Superpower The Security Council as a Political InstitutionAppendix: Selected Security Council ResolutionsBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSinger provides both a theory of the effects of domestic pressures on international regulation and a detailed analysis of regulators' attempts at international rulemaking in banking, securities, and insurance.Trade ReviewDavid Andrew Singer focuses on the financial regulatory process in major industrial countries; the tensions between regulatory prudence and international competitiveness; the constant possibility of a legislative intervention, especially after financial crises; and the efforts by national regulators to preserve their autonomy through, paradoxically, the international negotiation of common norms. He discusses well the attempts of major countries over the past two decades to frame common positions, which were partially successful in the case of banking, less so for the securities and insurance industries. * Foreign Affairs *Singer offers a refreshing approach to the analysis of regulatory issues in international financial markets. Recommended. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Financial Regulators and International Relations2. Capital Regulation: A Brief Primer3. Regulators, Legislatures, and Domestic Balancing4. Banking: The Road to the Basel Accord5. Securities: Financial Instability and Regulatory Divergence6. Insurance: Domestic Fragmentation and Regulatory Divergence7. Conclusion: The Future of International Regulatory HarmonizationNotes Reference Index

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Book SynopsisAfter World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present.The modernization project rarely went as its architects anticipated. Nationalist leaders in postcolonial states such as India, Ghana, and Egypt pursued their own independent visions of development. Attempts to promote technological solutions to development problems also created unintended consequences by increasing Trade ReviewThe Right Kind of Revolution opens a window on the variety of new scholarship on the issue in this excellent primer on the place of modernization in U.S. foreign relations. Writing with clarity and verve, Latham makes complicated topics accessible and diverse situations comparable. His précis of the origins of modernization theory and its rapid spread across the American social sciences is fluent and does much to explicate why the concepted seemed like an attractive solution to so many problems for policymakers and scholars alike. He makes clear that modernization was not just an activity conducted by the American state. It had considerable support from a collection of nongovernmental advocates that included universities, foundations, and missionary groups. Latham also gives room to the governments and leaders of those countries the United States sought to modernize, reminding readers of their agency. Latham has captured and synthesized the fresh and exciting scholarship on this rich issue while adding to it in a manner accessible to students and stimulating for scholars. -- David Ekbladh * American Historical Review *Michael E. Latham has provided a very interesting and useful synthesis of the rise and decline (and eventual reappearance) of modernization theory in the United States, exploring both its intellectual roots and its deep connections to the country's foreign policy. -- Michele Alacevich * Technology and Culture *Michael Latham's The Right Kind of Revolution will for the foreseeable future be the textbook synthesis on the impact of ideas of modernization on American foreign affairs during the twentieth century.... It toggles artfully between discussions of U.S. foreign policy in the Global South, how ideas of modernization were used both to understand and to guide those policies, and how these policies and ideas were received by political elites in target countries. -- Nils Gilman * H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *Since the end of the Cold War there has been an enormous increase in scholarship by historians of U.S. foreign relations on American efforts to 'modernize' or develop the poorest areas of the world after World War II. Michael E. Latham has been at the forefront of this research.... This is an exceptionally well-written synthesis that will become a staple in college and graduate classrooms for years to come.... Latham has provided an excellent book on an important topic. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Setting the Foundations: Imperial Ideals, Global War, and Decolonization 2. Take-Off: Modernization and Cold War America 3. Nationalist Encounters: Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana 4. Technocratic Faith: From Birth Control to the Green Revolution 5. Counterinsurgency and Repression: Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran 6. Modernization under Fire: Alternative Paradigms, Sustainable Development, and the Neoliberal Turn 7. The Ghosts of Modernization: From Cold War Victory to Afghanistan and IraqBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposition groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. Internal wars often spill across national boundaries, rebel organizations frequently find sanctuaries in neighboring countries, and insurgencies give rise to disputes between states. In Rebels without Borders, which will appeal to students of international and civil war and those developing policies to contain the regional diffusion of conflict, Idean Salehyan examines transnational rebel organizations in civil conflicts, utilizing cross-national datasets as well as in-depth case studies. He shows how external Contra bases in Honduras and Costa Rica facilitated the Nicaraguan civil war and how the Rwandan civil war spilled over into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fostering a regional war. He also looks at oTrade ReviewThis well-written book adds another layer to the archetypal analysis of modern warfare, focusing on the influence of transnational insurgencies on conflict from a geopolitical perspective. Salehyan discusses the use that insurgents make of sanctuaries away from the battlefield and the complications this poses for intelligence gathering, counterinsurgency ops, and peacekeeping. * Soldier: Magazine of the British Army *What happens when rebel organizations operate in more than one country? Idean Salehyan argues that although transnational rebels often benefit from interstate conflicts, they also can exacerbate or even create international disputes. Rebels without Borders significantly contributes to our understanding of the interactions between civil and interstate conflicts. * Comparative Political Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Global Context of Civil War 1 A Theory of Transnational Rebellion 2 Transnational Rebels and Civil Violence 3 Transnational Rebels and International Conflict 4 The Nicaraguan Civil War 5 The Rwandan Civil War Conclusion: Improving Theory and Policy

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Book SynopsisIdo Oren challenges American political science's definition of itself as an objective science attached to democracy. The material Oren unearthed in his research into the discipline's ideological nature may discomfit many: Woodrow Wilson's admiration...Trade Review"In this fascinating critical history of American political science, Ido Oren notes that the image of the profession that emerges from its own discourse is 'one of an objective science that investigates politics yet remains outside politics, and whose question and conceptual constructs are not embedded in any historical or national context.' Oren outright rejects this dispassionate, objective image... Oren concludes that while political science is predominately a body of thought with an American national and historical perspective, the profession rarely acknowledges that perspective.'-Virginia Quarterly Review "This provocative book is certain to stir up controversy at the next round of political science conventions... This carefully reasoned work confronts the very identity of political science."-Library Journal "In this important and courageous book, Oren engages in a research activity in which few American political scientists dare to venture, namely a critical investigation of the history of the discipline... Critics of mainstream political science will find that this book supports many of their intuitions about the ideological nature of the American science of politics, while those in the mainstream may be left shocked and horrified. Whatever the case, Oren's factually based account of the development of American political science provides a wealth of thought-provoking material that all serious scholars can ill afford to ignore."-International Affairs "Despite the evidence accumulated by Oren, and in the numerous other studies he cites, political science's self-image remains that of a detached, objective, and scientific discipline, untouched by the powers that be. Its principal texts-theoretical, methodological, historical-do not consider it worthy of note that the discipline is steeped in the political and ideological structures of the American system of power, and that it is vital to consider ways to overcome the limitations on freedom of thought that such a condition imposes. As the 'war on terror' gathers pace, Oren remains skeptical as to whether political science has any chance of retaining its detachment from American state policy and thought. For once the words of praise on the dust jacket of a book-in this case from the varied voices of Noam Chomsky and David Easton-reflect the contents of what is within its covers."-Inderjeet Parmar, University of Manchester, Journal of American Studies, 38 (2004), I. "Oren's book forces readers to reflect on the complex ways that disciplinary canons, institutions, and broader cultural norms interact to produce scholarship. Our Enemies and US is a theoretically informed history of the knowledge/power nexus in political science but it is also a very timely book."-Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences "Oren's is a thoughtful and compelling addition to the growing literature on the history of political science, and must reading for political scientists who want to better grasp the genesis and development-and the limitations as well as the potential-of their own inquiries."-Journal of Politics "Ido Oren challenges 'the self-image of American political science as a detached science that is somehow attached to democracy.' His provocative and enlightening book should, in his closing words, 'provoke a long-overdue debate on the identity of American political science.'"-Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Our Enemies and US is an exciting and timely addition to the growing literature on the development of American political science. It should be critical reading for all social scientists, new and old. It compels us to reassess the degree to which we have fulfilled our own aspirations to objectivity. It invites us to recognize the extent to which, in the past, time and place have only too often imposed unsuspected but serious limits on the presumed objectivity of scholarship in our discipline. Even more unsettling, there appears to be little reason to believe that such constraints are not actively at work in shaping much of our research today."-David Easton, University of California, Irvine "This book represents the new generation of research in the history of political and social science and demonstrates that critical reflection can be grounded in objective scholarship. Ido Oren has undertaken a study of the past of political science that no one with a serious concern about the evolution of the discipline can ignore." -John G. Gunnell, Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Albany "Ido Oren has written a fascinating and provocative book. His courageous and clear-minded account of the socially and politically constructed foundations of American political science is a critical milestone in the developing critique of the discipline, and should be widely read."-Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Committee on International RelationsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction. American Political Science as Ideology Chapter 1. Imperial Germany Chapter 2. Nazi Germany Chapter 3. Stalin's Soviet Union Chapter 4. Cold War Politics Conclusion. Toward a Reflexive Political Science Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy, as well as its strengths: rapid and flexible responses, generally pragmatic decision-making, and effective planning.Trade ReviewZion's Dilemmas is the most detailed analysis to date of the inner workings of Israel's national security establishment. It presents seven case studies: the two Lebanon wars (1982 and 2006); the peace processes with Egypt and the Palestinians; the unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon, in 2000, and Gaza, in 2005; and the failed Lavi fighter jet project, an ambitious attempt to build an indigenous warplane with U.S. funding, which was canceled in 1987. -- Aluf Benn * Foreign Affairs *Freilich's book, which furnishes a unique glimpse into the Israeli national security decision-making process, is sure to become the 'go to' work on the subject. It is a must read for anyone interested in how and why Israeli governments have made—and continue to make—the national security decisions that they do. -- David Rodman * Israel Affairs *How often is a reviewer assigned a book he or she can confidently predict will become not only an indispensable reference work but the essential reference point for future research on a given subject? Zion's Dilemmas is one such instance, and its author is to be congratulated for his outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of contemporary Israel studies writ large, and more specifically to the analysis of the country’s internal policymaking processes and status as a highly controversial yet formidable Middle Eastern and global state actor. * Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs *The author... presents a very informative account of how Israel formulates its national security policy.... The book also presents an in-depth analysis of the DMP in several major case studies in Israel's national security history. -- Efraim Inbar * Political Science Quarterly *This volume is by one of the foremost analysts of Israel's national security policy (NSP).... It analyzes seven case studies dealing with NSP toward the Palestinians, Gaza, and Lebanon, and the building of the Lavi jet fighter.... Freilich argues that it is imperative for Israel to correct its NSP failures in order to meet expected strong challenges in the future. Those interested in Israel's NSP and its foreign policies will benefit greatly from this study.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. The Setting1. Constraints and Players: The External Environment, Proportional Representation System, and National Security Establishment Israel's National Security Environment The Proportional Representation System The National Security Establishment2. The Decision-Making Process: How the System Actually Works Pathology 1: An Unplanned Process Pathology 2: A Highly Politicized Process Pathology 3: Semi-organized Anarchy; or, Is Anyone at the Helm? Pathology 4: An Uninstitutionalized Process Pathology 5: Primacy of the Defense Establishment Something Must Be Good: Strengths of the Israeli SystemPart II. The Case Studies3. Camp David I: Making Peace with Egypt, 1977–19794. The Makings of a Young Lion: The Lavi Combat Aircraft, 1980–19875. The Invasion of Lebanon, 19826. Leaving Lebanon: The Unilateral Withdrawal, 20007. Camp David II: The Israeli- Palestinian Negotiations, 1999–20008. Disengaging from Gaza, 20059. Back Again: The Second Lebanon War, 2006Part III. Final ThoughtsConclusions and Recommendations The Case Studies in Comparative Perspective Key Findings Past Attempts at Reform Failings Tolerable No Longer Future ReformsAppendix 1: The INSC Law, 2008 Appendix 2: Recommendations of the Winograd Commission and the Shahak CommitteeList of Interviews Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewShelef (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) expertly employs a multiple case study approach (Germany, Palestine, Italy) in this methodologically sound, rigorously researched analysis of the nexus of territoriality, borders, and conflicts as applied to the amorphous definition of homeland. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Understanding Homelands 2. The Shifting Contours of the German Homeland 3. Italy's Forgotten Partition 4. Homelands and Change in a Stateless Nation 5. The Withdrawal of Homeland Territoriality in a Cross-National Perspective 6. Losing Homelands and Conflict Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIan Lustick... has written a valuable study concerning the changing relationship of Britain to Ireland (1834-1922); France to Algeria (1936-62) and Israel to the West Bank/Gaza (since 1967). This richly detailed and thoroughly documented book can be read on a number of different levels and therefore has much to offer to a wide variety of audiences. -- Robert Bookmiller * Middle East Policy *In a major study that moves between path-breaking theorizing and analysis that is relevant to today's headlines, the author examines the process by which states expand and contract.... He develops a useful model of state expansion and contraction, focusing on how the issue of incorporating outlying territories is dealt with in the political arena.... While written before the recent Israeli-PLO agreement, this book has been made more, not less, timely by events that could only be guessed at when the author was writing this stimulating, often difficult, but ultimately very rewarding study. * Foreign Affairs *

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Trade ReviewProvocative. Collectively, the material in this book serves as a persuasive reminder that state behavior, strategic or otherwise, cannot be satisfactorily explained solely on the basis of 'structural realism.' * Perspectives on Political Science *A sustained and convincing attack on the 'realist' mode of thought which argues that grand strategy is mainly determined by the foreign relations of states. * International Affairs *Editors Rosecrance and Stein present a focused and disciplined set of empirical critiques of structural realism. The book is a useful entry in the literature of theoretical debate, and it is less soporific than the usual exegeses of competing paradigms. * The American Political Science Review *Each essay is well-written, and most are relatively persuasive on a stand-alone basis. In generating their various puzzles, these essays seemingly provide further evidence against the explanatory and predictive power of structural realism. They call into question both that theory's operating assumptions and its analysis of state behavior. And while many of the critiques fault neorealism for claims it never makes, some essays raise serious questions that must be confronted by realist scholars if they wish to continue defending the theory's utility. * International Organization *The book deserves to be praised for its brave attempt to challenge Realism in a typical Realist arena and for the thoroughness of its case studies. * Political Studies *A superb collection of essays that together present an exceptional picture of the importance of the domestic factor in the grand strategic decision-making process. Making skillful use of both theory and historical precedent, the collective authors of this volume show that any nation's development of a grand strategy, without full consideration of its own and others' domestic influences, is a blunder of potentially enormous proportions. * Military Review *The principle value of [this] book is to place realism as an explanation of grand strategy into proper perspective. It will be of interest primarily to graduate students, analysts, and professors who are interested in the debate over realist theory and its applicability to grand strategy. * Mershon International Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisHow can the global environment be safeguarded in the absence of a world government? In the vanguard of efforts to address this critical question, Oran R. Young draws on environmental issues to explore the nature of international governance. Young''s analysis invokes the distinction between governance, a social function involving the management of interdependent individuals or groups, and government, a set of formal organizations that makes and enforces rules.Trade ReviewAny reader interested in gaining an understanding of international cooperation, and especially why states have joined together frequently during the past few decades to address environmental problems, will find this a worthwhile book. -- Donald R. Rothwell, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney * Arctic *

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Book SynopsisRevolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so, and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the future. In doing so, he explores one of the basic questions of international relations: What are the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy?Walt begins by exposing the flaws in existing theories about the relationship between revolution and war. Drawing on the theoretical literature about revolution and the realist perspective on international politics, he argues that revolutions cause wars by altering the balance of threats between a revolutionary state and its rivals. Each state sees the other as both a looming danger and a vulnerable adversary, making war seem both necessary and attractive.Walt traces the dynamics of this argument through detailed studies of the French, Russian, and IrTrade ReviewAcademic tradition separates revolution and war.... Walt defies that tradition in his sober, well-reasoned new book. The result is a worthy exploration of these two most important, and most dangerous, political events—and particularly of how revolution can lead to war. * New Leader *Walt finds balance-of-threat theory the most plausible explanation for the wars that follow... large-scale upheavals.... In his concluding policy recommendations, Walt argues that with revolution, neither appeasement nor intervention is appropriate for foreign leaders. Revolutions are practically impossible to export and very difficult to reverse. Optimism that liberal capitalism means an end to revolution is unwarranted, Walt observes, given religious fundamentalism, cultural diversity, and the emergence of protest movements. A detailed, valuable work. * Choice *Walt has written a book to ponder, and to value. It enriches our understanding of the causes of war, and suggests how—in conditions still relevant to us—we might hope to avoid it. * Security Studies *

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Book SynopsisHow does globalization change national economies and politics? Are rising levels of trade, capital flows, new communication technologies, and deregulation forcing all societies to converge toward the same structures of production and distribution...

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Book SynopsisThis book examines regional dynamics in contemporary east and southeast Asia, scrutinizing the effects of Japanese dominance on the politics, economics, and cultures of the area. The contributors ask whether Japan has now attained, through sheer...Trade ReviewRemarkably coherent and thoughtful.... Intellectually solid and lively essays.... Begins and ends with a bang.... Network Power contributes enormously to the field of Japanese studies.... It is must-reading for those interested not only in area studies of Japan and Asia, but also in the diverse, complex processes of regionalization and regionalism. * Journal of Japanese Studies *A crucial issue in the nature of regional integration is the terms under which the integration process takes place. This edited volume explores this issue by focusing on the character of Asian regionalism and the economic, security, political and cultural aspects of Japanese power and leadership roles in Asian regionalism... The result is an excellent book that extends our empirical knowledge of network-style integration and power, and provides an exceptionally valuable springboard for further debate on this important topic. * Asian Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisComrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the newly independent India of Jawaharlal Nehru from a unique perspective—that of culture, broadly defined. In a departure from the usual way of doing...Trade ReviewAndrew Rotter has written an original and thoughtful book on United States-Indian relations during the cold war.... This book should be read widely by diplomatic historians; it offers a model for future research and analysis and breakes important new ground in the study of international history. * International Journal *An agreeable read, Rotter's book provides a great many probing observations on such varying matters as smell, space, family, and truth, along with assessments of their effect on the way policy was conceived and carried out.... What Rotter's fascinating work amounts to is really less a causal account than.... a myriad of vignettes, snapshots, details, and striking insights that forces one precisely not to conclude but to think. -- Anders Stephanson, Columbia University * American Historical Review *In this original, imaginative and informative study, Rotter argues that cultural perceptions, perhaps more than any other factor, have affected policy makers in both America and the subcontinent when formulating policy toward each other. The result is a fascinating book.... Virtually every facet of culture is discussed and explained in masterly detail. * Choice *Comrades at Odds illustrates both the virtues and the shortcomings of the new history. Rotter offers a subtle reading of heretofore-neglected source materials, and he adds to our understanding of the cultural side of this difficult relationship.... This book provides valuable insights. -- Robert M. Hathaway * Wilson Quarterly *Rotter's study is as sophisticated and, at the same time, as commonsensical as the new approach gets. He dons theory but wears it lightly.... He interrogates such usual suspects as race and gender but adds religion, family, and folkways of economy and governance.... He has a good ear for anecdote and a good eye for the detail that illuminates the landscape. -- H.W. Brands, Texas A&M University * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisThe traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the United Kingdom has the pound, the United States has the dollar. But the disparity between...Trade ReviewThe Geography of Money ventures far beyond economics and concerns itself with much more than American public policy. It is a sustained engagement with the literature devoted to monetary relations from the disciplines of economics, politics, international relations, and geography, and it does so on a genuinely world scaled. For this alone it must be applauded.... An ambitious book.... Benjamin Cohen has provided a valuable service by alerting us to the need to sketch a new mental map of monetary geography. * International Affairs *Cohen explosively challenges the conventional wisdom of our time.... Cohen's new road map provides a fresh explanation for the existence of... tensions between the currency interest groups, and more importantly, it indicates where the opportunities for cooperation are to be found.... The book is clearly written and tells a story well. The relatively minimal use of 'jargon' makes it eminently readable, even by those with no formal training in economics. * Monash MT Eliza Business Review *I found The Geography of Money enjoyable and would recommend it to both general readers and economists, with the caveat to the former that its treatment of the topics is not the typical treatment of an economist. -- Omotunde E.G. Johnson * Finance and Development *This book is refreshing in its approach, which steadfastly refuses to see the globalization of finance as either cancer or panacea.... Scholars and policy makers will need a 'new mental map,' according to Cohen, if they are to understand money today, and this book is a good beginning. The excellent bibliography is the icing on the cake. * Choice *Cohen shows how the widespread use of the U.S. dollar outside its borders, the push for a common European currency, and growing cross-border competition worldwide require a new consideration of 'the role that money plays in today's world. He looks at the historical antecedents for monetary sovereignty and at the alternatives that might arise when currency domains are no longer defined by territorial frontiers, and he provides a complex analysis of the political and economic implications of any changes that might take place. * Booklist *This original and exciting book by Benjamin Cohen is devoted to exposing the bankruptcy of orthodox views and to laying outh a new intellectual framework for the geography of money that directly addresses the new reality of cross-border currency flows and competition... Cohen synthesizes a vast literature... into eight meaty but readily comprehensible chapters that are nothing like the typical grim writing of the average exponent of the dismal science. By using relevant examples and telling anecdotes, Cohen makes the world of money positively explode with interest and meaning for anyone minimally concerned about current trends in the world economy. -- John Agnew, UCLA * The Annals of the American Academy *

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Book SynopsisApplying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns. Norms can play a crucial role in the formation of global policy.After forty years of protest against apartheid, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela''s inauguration as South Africa''s first democratically elected president. Klotz considers why racial discrimination in South Africa became a global concern and whyin a remarkable change of practicenations and international organizations adopted sanctions against the Pretoria regime. By explaining how the world community actively came to condemn apartheid, Norms in International Relations contributes to broader debates on the role of norms in global politics.Klotz rehearses a fascinating history, combining the power politics of economic sanctions and the normative politics of racial equaTrade ReviewKlotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors. * Foreign Affairs *The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of international organizations and states adopted sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which other scholars should build. * World Politics *

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Book SynopsisSeveral hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive situation. Through an investigation of the strategies of German and Russian decision-makers, Celeste A. Wallander explores what conditions facilitate or hinder international cooperation in security matters.Wallander spent the months and years after the fall of the Berlin Wall interviewing officials and politicians from Germany and Russia. She reveals how these individuals assessed and responded to potential flashpoints: the withdrawal of Russian military forces from Germany, the implementation of arms control treaties, the management of ethnic and regional conflicts. She also examines the two states'' views on the enlargement of NATO.The first detailed account from both countries'' perspectives of the extraordinary contracTrade ReviewCeleste Wallander has written an excellent book, one that will appeal to Europeanists, post-Soviet scholars, and especially theorists of international relations... The issue is no longer whether institutions matter (we know they do) but how they have effects. Do they constrain state strategies or constitute core state properties? Wallander's book should be a model for both rationalists and constructivists as they debate these issues in the years ahead. -- Jeffrey T. Checkel, Universitetet i Oslo * American Political Science Review *Recommended for international and security relations collections in larger public and academic libraries. * Library Journal *Relying mainly on interviews with senior politicians and foreign and defense officials in Germany and Russia, Wallander also takes advantage of the opportunity to assemble the public record of the range of issues in German-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War. The reader will find concise, informative presentations of the following: withdrawal of Russian forces from the former East Germany, renegotiation of the CFE to accommodate Russian demands for larger forces in the troubled North Caucasus, Russia's relations with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, problems of migration with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, problems of migration into both countries, NATO enlargement, international aspects of Russian economic and financial reform, and (all too briefly) Russian and German policy toward the breakup of Yugoslavia....Wallander has written a fine book. -- Richard Anderson * Slavic Review *

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Book SynopsisIt is often said economics has become as important as security in international relations, yet we work with much less than full understanding of what goes on when government negotiators bargain over trade, finance, and the rules of international economic organizations. The process of economic negotiation shapes the world political economy, John S. Odell says, and this essential process can be understood and practiced better than it is now.His absorbing book compares ten major economic negotiations since 1944 that have involved the United States. Odell gives the inside stories, targeting the strategies used by the negotiators, and explaining strategy choice as well as why the same strategy gains more in some situations and less in others. He identifies three broad factorschanging market conditions, negotiator beliefs, and domestic politicsas key influences on strategies and outcomes. The author develops an insightful mid-range theory premised on bounded rationality, setting itTrade ReviewIt has the merit to illuminate the key elements which any negotiator or scholar should consider and to help us to understand basic relations among them. As such, it should definitely contribute to a better knowledge and practice of international negotiation. * World Trade Review *With this book, John Odell confirms his place as one of the most eminent scholars of international political economy at work today. There is much to learn from this nuanced and clearly conceived study about the often black box of economic negotiation.... This work, drawing on twenty-five years of first-rate scholarship, should be read by all graduate students, scholars, and more reflective practitioners who want to develop understanding of the processes that give rise to the often unexpected outcomes of international economic negotiation. * International Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisDoes the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. Transforming Europe traces the...Trade ReviewThis book... has been eagerly awaited, and the results do not disappoint. The reader is offered a sophisticated blend of careful building of a conceptual framework with rich empirical studies that carefully trace processes of change.... The result is a sensitive, nuanced portrait of the complex relationships between European integration and domestic change not just across different policy sectors but also with the same sector.... The editors are to be highly commended for putting together such an ambitious project, for giving it coherence and for seeking to challenge and provoke. They succeed admirably. -- Kenneth Dyson, University of Bradford * Journal of European Area Studies *Transforming Europe provides a very clear and well-written exploration of the mechanisms underpinning the Europeanization of member states' domestic structures.... This volume provides an insightful contribution to our understanding of these processes and serves as a valuable starting point for students of the field. -- Avril Keating, University of Cambridge * The Journal of European Affairs *Europe has been uniting for about half a century.... Integration may be slow in overcoming fierce national identities, but the authors emphasize that Europeanization is unlikely to mean homogenization in the future. * The Futurist *The theme of this transatlantic-edited collection is the impact of 'Europeanization' upon the domestic structures of the member states of the European Union. The essays are a contribution to long-running scholarly debates about the nature of the European Union, how it generates and is receptive to change, and how it creates pressure for change within its fifteen member states. Whilst this may seem a rather inward-looking subject for investigation, the book is a contribution to broader debates about the nature of the European integration; and indeed of the role of the United States, of global economic pressures, and of systematic change upon states. -- Anne Deighton, Oxford University * The International History Review *Transforming Europe is a book containing rich empirical studies on a wide-ranging number of issues related to the general question of the transformation of the nation-state under pressure from European integration. The open-ended conclusions signify that the research agenda of Europeanization is still in its preliminary stages, and that much more work needs to be done. Most importantly, this book is driven by an elaborate theoretical framework that will set the tone for such future work on Europeanization. It is sure to become a classic in the field of European integration studies. -- Maarten Vink * Acta Politica *

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Book SynopsisSynthesizing different understandings of trust and mistrust from the theoretical traditions of economics, psychology, and game theory, Larson analyzes five cases that might have been turning points in U.S.-Soviet relations.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to revisionist explorations of Cold War history.... Beyond their clear academic value, the findings of this book should serve as a lesson to policy makers: those who wish to build trust in a hostile climate must first build a reputation for conciliatory consistency in the eyes of their opponents. * Political Science Quarterly *An excellent book arguing that excessive mistrust, rather than irreconcilable conflicts of interest or differences in domestic systems, best explains the superpowers' failure to reach mutually beneficial agreements and their difficulty in negotiating even minor accords, as well as the severity and duration of the Cold War.... Larson has done an outstanding job of showing that the Cold War need not have developed, endured, or ended precisely as it did. * Choice *By carefully combining traditional primary sources, conventional histories of the period, and newly available Soviet-era documents, Larson has produced a scholarly and eminently readable work. Readers prepared to delve into the underlying psychology of the Cold War will benefit from reading this book. * Military Review *Deborah Larson gives the problem of trust a fresh treatment, combining psychology with original historical research to demonstrate that, contrary to many popular assumptions, there were missed opportunities for mitigating, if not ending, the Cold War. * Lingua Franca *Larson's introduction provides a sophisticated basis for understanding how the psychology, ideology, and political domestic situation of decision makers affects their perception of opponents' motives and offers.... Larson concisely but comprehensively presents the context of negotiation and establishes confidence in the counterfactual exercises to which her general topic necessarily leads.... Anatomy of Mistrust is an excellent, original, and substantially useful book for readers and instructors seeking an intelligent conceptual overview of crucial Cold War episodes. * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisShibley Telhami and Michael Barnett, together with experts on Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Syria, explore how the formation and transformation of national and state identities affect the foreign policy behavior of Middle Eastern states.Trade ReviewBy addressing the question of the role of identity in foreign policy-making, this volume places itself at the heart of one of the great IR debates at the moment, and this is by no means incidental. -- Morton Valbjorn * Corporation and Conflict: Journal of the Nordic International Studies Association *

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Book SynopsisChina began opening to the outside world in 1978. This process was designed to remain under the state's control. But the relative value of goods and services inside and outside China drove cities, enterprises, local governments, and individuals with...Trade ReviewIn... his helpfully organized, largely plain-speaking and enlightening book, Mr. Zweig calls for far-sighted leaders and public-spirited citizens to struggle against the 'crony capitalism' that can undermine China's growth. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Bookshelf *Zweig has brought intellectual order to the chaotic process of China's opening to the world. * Foreign Affairs *Internationalizing China will appeal heavily to scholars and social scientists bent on dissecting the complex phenomena that swept over the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s. And for businesspeople who lived and worked their way through these transformations.... Zweig's book will offer valuable insights and perspectives. -- Robert A. Kapp * The China Business Review *Zweig shows how China avoided the disruptive Big Bang reforms that have proved so damaging in Russia and Eastern Europe. Zweig's study is also a warning to those in the West who naively imagine that China's market opening is going to lead inevitably to political reform. -- Mark L. Clifford * BusinessWeek *Zweig's goal is 'to explain the how and why of China's internationalization over the last two decades of the twentieth century' (p. 22). His efforts result in both a wealth of factual data and a model of internationalization that is suitable for use by other China scholars as well as by those studying other liberalizing societies. -- Norton Wheeler * H-Net Reviews *Zweig's study provides a helpful analysis and documentation of China's gaige kaifeng policies of the last quarter century, offering useful insights into the pull-push dynamics of local and external forces in the fields of local economic development, education, and development aid. -- Peter Harris * The China Journal *

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Book SynopsisHow exactly do countries negotiate major international agreements? Until now, reliably impartial accounts of how deals are made have been rare and usually describe only one side of a multiparty process. Here, Maxwell Cameron and Brian Tomlin provide...Trade Review"Cameron and Tomlin have written an excellent book on the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), arguably the most successful foreign policy initiative of the Clinton Administration. . . . This volume provides a blow-by-blow account of the deal itself and how it was done. . . . Excellent index; comprehensive bibliography. Highly recommended for college and university library collections, lower-division undergraduate and up."—Choice, December 2000"Cameron and Tomlin have written the best book so far on the substantive negotiations themselves."—Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 2"In The Making of NAFTA, Cameron and Tomlin ambitiously undertake explaining not just what happen by why. . . . In addition to standard archival research, they conducted more than one hundred interviews, mostly with individuals directly involved in the negotiations. The first-person information permitted them to describe so much in the NAFTA process that went on behind the scenes and is not available from other sources. . . A remarkable accomplishment. . . "—David Yetman, University of Arizona. American Studies, Spring/Summer 2001"This is an excellent book that is a must-read for all students of Canadian, Mexican, and United States political economy, as well as those interested in broader questions of international trade negotiations."—Strom Thacker, Boston University, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2003"The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal Was Done . . . provides a theoretically informed, accessibly written narrative of the negotiation process. . . Cameron and Tomlin provide a . . . comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of all three negotiating governments."—Jonathan Fox, University of California at Santa Cruz, Latin American Research Review 39:1, February 2004"An outstanding account of the landmark NAFTA negotiations, The Making of NAFTA is gripping in its details and broad-ranging in its theoretical implications. This book will make an excellent case study for teaching at all levels and will be of particular interest to scholars of international political economy." —Robert D. Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, and author of Bowling Alone: Collapse and Revival of American Community"Drawing on extensive personal interviews in all three NAFTA countries, The Making of NAFTA provides the best explanation yet as to why this trade agreement took the form it did. The authors carefully weigh a wide spectrum of factors, concluding with the important insight that domestic political features and the flexibility of each country's leaders patterned negotiating style and, ultimately, outcome."—Judith Teichman, University of Toronto"In The Making of NAFTA, we now have our first fully trinational account of the NAFTA negotiations. This engaging, suspenseful, and beautifully written book brings the negotiations to life in a way that has simply not been done before."—Carol Wise, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University"This is a powerful book. Cameron and Tomlin open a window on the behind-the-scenes drama of the NAFTA process. Viewing the case through the lens of key theories from international politics and negotiation, the authors provide a deeper understanding of the complex process. A major triumph for theory and analysis, this book is a must read for scholars and practitioners alike."—Daniel Druckman, Professor of Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

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Book SynopsisThroughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote...Trade ReviewSo if the mighty steel of US military strength did not tame the Russian bear, what did? Matthew Evangelista's answer to this question should pique the interest of argumentation scholars.... Evangelista's findings raise serious questions about realpolitik models of international relations that explain US Cold War victory over the Soviet Union in terms of one mammoth billiard ball smashing into and destroying its more fragile counterpart. His impressive empirical research illustrates how threats, policies, and norms were constructed and deconstructed by argumentation conducted in transnational channels of communication. If the significance of this finding for students of argumentation is not already apparent, it becomes obvious in Evangelista's final case study, which examines the influence of transnational activism on post-Soviet policy. * Argumentation and Advocacy *Matthew Evangelista's Unarmed Forces fills a key gap in Cold War historiography and international relations theory by examining how transnational actors (TNAs) affected Soviet and Russian security policies from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.... The book's most important theoretical contribution is its demonstration that, contrary to standard models, TNAs can affect security issues.... The book's remarkable empirical detail and clear theoretical argument will be invaluable for Cold War historians, arms control experts, international relations theorists, and aspiring transnational actors. -- Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University * Slavic Review *This is a highly detailed but readable book, punctuated by photographs and entertaining chapter captions.... Evangelista's book makes valuable reading for scholars interested in expanding their views about the end of the Cold War, as well as for those who will be inspired by the fact that transnational citizen influence could bring some amount of pressure to bear on one of the most brutal and tyrannical regimes of the twentieth century. -- Valerie Sperling, Clark University * Journal of Cold War Studies *This book will help educate those who think the course of the Cold War and its end—or for that matter any important dimension of international politics—were driven only by governments, national leaders, and vast political forces.... This is a smart, well-argued, and unassuming book. * Foreign Affairs *At the core of this book lies a thesis unsettling for conventional explanations of the cold war and its end: in terms of its professed aims of moderating Soviet conduct, U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union was a resounding failure.... At one level, this book functions as a massive indictment, sotto voce, of the U.S. security establishment, its government officials, allied academics, and media publicists. Evangelista cuts through their bluff, bluster, and baloney to reveal an astounding intellectual bankruptcy.... This is a powerful, path-breaking study. -- Michael Urban * Political Science Quarterly *To his credit, Matthew Evangelista has developed in Unarmed Forces a powerful argument that transnational movements of the past half century were able to influence the policies and decisions of a rigid, totalitarian USSR and a bureaucratized US foreign policy establishment.... He carefully marshals his arguments and provides a wealth of source material as an important dividend for the interested reader. -- Herbert L. Abrams, Stanford University * Physics Today *

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Book SynopsisHumanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand. Terry was the head of the French section of Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire because aid intended for refugees actualTrade ReviewAn insider's searching critique of the humanitarian aid system.... The result, Terry concludes, is a deep paradox at the heart of humanitarian action: The international community's good intentions have created structures of aid and protection that, when injected into disintegrating states without authoritative rule, often fuel violence rather than reduce suffering. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Noting that governments have various nonhumanitarian policies that are manifested in dealing with refugee flows, including allowing refugee camps to be used for military purposes, Terry concludes that aid agencies must necessarily contribute to these governmental maneuvers.... She concludes that the best aid agencies can do in the real world of governmental realpolitik is to try to minimize undesirable political impact that inheres in humanitarian assistance. * Choice *Terry has written a compelling book about the failure of international humanitarian organizations to take into consideration a wider political context before providing aid.... In clear and concise analysis, she begins with the controversial claim that the aid agencies respond in knee-jerk fashion to any conflict without further investigating or even considering the ramifications of their aid. * Library Journal *The book makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on humanitarian action. The historical research is detailed, the arguments are cogent and precise, and Terry's findings are alarmingly relevant.... Although the book is an appeal to relief agencies to enter into emergency situations with more caution and greater awareness of the ramifications of their actions, the study would certainly serve as a valuable pedagogical tool for graduate courses. It is also accessible to undergraduates and a general adult reading audience. -- Eric A. Heinze * Perspectives on Political Science *This is a provocative, analytical treatment of the inevitable dilemmas that arise when humanitarian action is undertaken in a militarized environment. Fiona Terry writes with the authority that comes from several years of working in emergency relief programs in different parts of the world. The book's main contribution is its identification, discussion, and analysis of the predictable negative consequences of humanitarian intervention. -- David L. Cingranelli * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Humanitarian Action and Responsibility 2. The Afghan Refugee Camps in Pakistan 3. The Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Refugee Camps in Honduras 4. The Cambodian Refugee Camps in Thailand 5. The Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire 6. Humanitarian Action in a Second-Best WorldAppendix: Documents from the Rwandan Refugee Camps Index

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Book SynopsisExploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen...Trade ReviewConverging Divergences is an important addition to the growing literature on comparative industrial relations.... Katz and Darbishire are to be congratulated on their meticulous and wide-ranging study.... This is a carefully researched and well-argued book. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Examines the increasing diversity of employment systems... with a special focus on the automobile and the telecommunications industries. * Future Survey *Katz and Darbishire write about convergence with a decided twist. Not only has the monistic version of convergence towards the 'one best way' been replaced with 'four best ways', but the authors also discover three other kinds of variation.... In sum... this study will be a valuable addition to the comparativist's bookshelf. It successfully charts a number of key common trends that are evident across most advanced capitalist societies and it provides us with much insight into developments within two key industries.... Its larger message about patterns of commonality intersecting with national and local institutions and strategies deserves a wide audience. -- Anthony Giles, Universite Laval * The Journal of Industrial Relations *This important book examines changing employment relations in a global context. The dominant theme is the erosion of collective bargaining as a means of managing employment. Recommended for labor studies collections, upper-division undergraduate through faculty. * Choice *This comparative study will be of use to educators and activists alike. The prior claims of convergence-thesis advocates, of societies characterized by strong trade-union representation and institutionalization, did not envisage the deregulated product and labor markets and the declining union representation of the present global economy. For activists, the book clearly outlines the challenges presented to unions by the decentralization of collective bargaining and global economic integration. * Labor Studies Journal *

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Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of...Trade ReviewThis insightful book explores one of the great dramas of the twentieth century: how imperial powers left their colonial territories. * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisIn Awkward Dominion, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War...Trade ReviewCostigliola's book is required reading for all serious students of American-European relations from Versailles to 1933. * The Historian *The great virtue of this book—and Costigliola desrves congratulations for it— is the intensive use and careful evaluation of new materials. It has intelligent, often acute comments about arms limitation, reparations, and the Kellogg-Briand pact.... This is a fine piece of research by a scholar from whom much will be heard. * International History Review *This is a subtle and imaginative contribution to the increasingly accepted view that American foreign relations in the 1920s do not fit a clownish, isolationist stereotype. The author succeeds in going beyond the formal actions of governments to deal with the ambivalent response to American culture and economic power. * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisSurveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of national policy in a changing world.Trade ReviewThe body of the work comprises very good summaries of the ways Germany, France, Britain, Japan and the United States have handled their steel, auto and semiconductor industries. With these comparisons as evidence, Professor Hart argues that differences in national performance are largely shaped by the contrasts in the distribution of power among governments, business and labor.... This is a thought-provoking book, rich in material and clearly written. * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisNow available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.Trade ReviewA provocative collection. -- David C. Unger New York TimesTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: Approach and AssumptionsChapter 2. Perceiving and Coping with ThreatChapter 3. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence I: The View from CairoChapter 4. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence II: The View from JerusalemChapter 5. Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: The Origins of the Falklands WarChapter 6. Saving Face for the Sake of Detterence Chapter 7. Perceptions of the Security Dilemma in 1914Chapter 8. The Deterrence Deadlock: Is There a Way Out?Chapter 9. ConclusionsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisLowenthal, The United States and Latin American Democracy: Learning from History.Trade ReviewThis book helps explain why the U.S. government has such a dismal record in promoting democratic reform in Latin America. Political Science Quarterly

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Book SynopsisLowenthal, The United States and Latin American Democracy: Learning from History.Trade ReviewThis book helps explain why the U.S. government has such a dismal record in promoting democratic reform in Latin America. Political Science Quarterly

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Book Synopsismilitary action is raised anew-from Iraq to Bosnia-the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.Trade ReviewA balanced and insightful presentation of valuable historical data, and a very fine analysis of the process which produced the U.S. intervention, in which Lowenthal sheds much new light on developments in both Santiago and Washington. American Political Science Review The intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic in 1965 has inspired several books, and this one is clearly the best. Review of Politics

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Book SynopsisOutside intervention in these conflicts will be costly.Trade ReviewAn interesting approach to the question of why wars are started. Friday Review of Defense Literature A wide-ranging and intelligent appraisal... On the recent past [Weltman] impresses with his balance and powers of observation. He is illuminating, for example, on the way in which geography had a different effect on the stake and the conduct of the Korean War compared to the Vietnam War. -- Geoffrey Blainey International History Review

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Book SynopsisWeiss.Trade ReviewCan scholars and students of international relations and world politics concentrate their studies on a different set of theoretical questions than those that were preeminent from 1648 until the end of the Cold War? This book does an excellent job of raising that very issue, with significant contributions from case studies and, more important, interesting theoretical essays. American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and AcknoledgmentsAbbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction: INternational Intervention, State Sovereignty, and the Future of International SocietyPart I. ConceptsChapter 2. Sovereignty as Dominium: Is There a Right of Humanitarian Intervention?Chapter 3, Interveention for the Common GoodChapter 4. International COmmunity beyond the Cold WarPart II. CasesChapter 5. Sovereignty under Siege: From Intervention to Humanitarian SpaceChapter 6. State Sovereignty and International Intervention: The Case of Human RightsChapter 7. Environmental Protection, International Norms, and State Sovereignty: The Case of the Brazilian AmazonChapter 8. Sovereignty and Collective Intervention: Controlling Weapons of Mass DestructionPart III. SynthesesChapter 9. Sovereignty in a Turbulent WorldChapter 10. Sovereignty and InterventionChapter 11. State Sovereignty and International Intervention: Reflections on the Present and Prospects for the FutureNotesContributorsIndex

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