Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire , by Patrick Seale. Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship , by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 1991: Israel and the Occupied Territories . Days of Honey, Days of Onion: The Story of a Palestinian Family in Israel , by Michael Gorkin. The Origins of Arab Nationalism , ed. by Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih, and Reeva S. Simon. The Political Language of Islam , by Bernard Lewis.     

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Book reviewed in this articles. Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy , by Andrew Cockburn. Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now , George McGovern and William R. Polk. What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat , by Louise Richardson. Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al‐Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today , by Marc Lynch. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967‐1977 , by Gershom Gorenberg. Aid, Diplomacy and Facts on the Ground: The Case of Palestine , by Michael Keating, Anne Le More and Robert Lowe. Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad , by Matthew Levitt. Academic Freedom after September 11 , edited by Beshara Doumani. Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities , by Khaldoun Samman. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World , by Stephen O'Shea.     

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Book reviewed in this article: MAKING THE BICENTENAR: A Special Issue of Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 91 (October 1988) Edited by S. Janson and S. Macintyre. GOOD MEN AND TRUE: The Aboriginal Police of the Port Phillip district 1937–1853 By Marie Hansen Fels. THE MAKING OF THE ABORIGINES By Bain Attwood. RACE RELATIONS INCOLONIAL QUEENSLAND: A History of Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination By Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders & Kathryn Cronin. THE PRESS IN COLONIAL QUEENSLAND: A Social and Political History 1845–75 By Denis Cryle. JAMES SMITH. The Making of a Colonial Culture By Lurline Stuart. COURAGE A GRACE: A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore By W. H. Wilde. BREAKER MORANT AND THE BUSHVELDT CARBINEERS Edited by Arthur Davey. BLOCKADE: The Queensland Loans Affair 1920 to 1924 By Tom Cochrane. THE LABOUR EXPERIMENT By Stuart Macintyre. DISPLACED PERSONS: CALWELL'S NEW AUSTRALIANS By Egon Kunz. LOCATIN AUSTRALIA'S PAST: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History By The Local History Coordination Project. AUSTRALIA IN MIND: Thirteen Influential Australian Thinkers By Mark Thomas. AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL FACTS By I. McAllister. M. Mackerras, A. Ascui, and S. Moss. AUSTALIA'S POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS By D. Aitkin, B. Jinks and J. Warhurst. POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA Edited by Rodney Smith and Lex Watson. AUSTRALIAN STUDIES: A Survey Edited by James Walter. THE RISE OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa First Assert Their nationalities Edited by John Eddy and Deryck Schreuder. THE IDEAL SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES. The Foundation of Modern New Zealand Society 1850–1900 By Miles Fairburn. ANTACTICA'S FUTURE: CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? Edited by R. A. Herr, H. R. Hall and M. G. Haward. PLES BLONG INUI: Solomon Islands: The Past Four Thousand Years Edited by Hugh Laracy NAMIBIA 1884–1984: Readings in Namibia's History and Society SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO US: A History of the African National Congress By Francis Meli. DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION IN ANTHENS By R. K. Sinclair. THE POLITICS OF PROGRESS: The Origins and Development of the Commerical Republic 1600–1835 By Hiram Caton. MODERNIZATION FRUSTRATED. The Politics of Industrial Decline in Britain Since 1900 By Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter. SELLING THE STATE: Privatisation in Britain By Cento Veljanovski with Mark Bentley. PRIVATISATION: Theory, Practice and Choice By Madsen Pirie. BRITAIN AND THE FALKLANDS WAR By Lawrence Freedman. NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE 1968 Paul Arthur and Keith Jeffrey. VLASOV AND THE RUSSIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT: Soviet reality and Emigre Theories By Catherine Andreyev. UNDERSTANDING SOVIET SOCIETY Edited by Michael Paul Sacks and Jerry G. Pankhurst. THE JEWS IN POLAND Edited by Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk and Antony Polonsky. THE GERMAN STUDENT CORPS IN THE THIRD REICH By R. S. G. Weber. GERMANY, AMERICA, EUROPE: FORTY YEARS OF GERMAN FOREIGH POLICY By Wolfram F. Hanrieder. THE MAFIA OF A SICILIAN VILLAGE, 1860–1960. A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs By Anton Blok. CINA AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Participation in Non-governmental Organizations Since 1971 By Gerald Chun. THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETMAN WAR By Anthony Short. COLD WAR ON CAMPUS: A Study of the Politics of Organizational Control By Lionel S. Lewis. HISTORY OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. Volume II. The Test of War 1950–1953. By Doris M. Condit. THE POSTMODERN PRESIDENT: The White House Meets the World By Richard Rose. RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES: Consequences of International Economic Disorder By Hans W. Singer and Javed A. Ansari. AGINS AND POLITICAL LEAERSHIP Edited by Angus McIntyre. IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE: The Future of Work and Power By Shoshana Zuboff. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION Edited by Ramesh Thokur. ARMS CONTROL By Michael J. Sheehan MEN, MACHINES AND WAR Edited by Ronald Haycock and Keith Neilson. THE POLITICS OF SCANDAL: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies Andrei S. Markovits and Mark Silverstein. THE RULE OF LAW: Foundations of Constitutional Democracy By Geoffrey de Q. Walker. TRADITIONS OF LIBERALISM: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill Edited by Knud Haakonssen. LIBERALISMS: Essays in Political Philosophy By John Gray. HUMAN RIGHTS Edited by Peter Davies. THE BITTERSWEET CENTURY: Speculations on Modern Science and American Democracy By Paul N. Goldstene. BIOLOGY AND FREEDOM: An Essay on the Implications of Human Ethology By S. A. Barnett. POWER, MODERNITY AND SOCIOLOGY: Selected Sociological Writings By Raymond Aron XPLANATION IN SOCIAL HISTORY By Christopher Lloyd.     

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AN ANALYSIS OF FULL EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA: Labour Market Studies No. 2. MIND THE CURVE! A history of the cable trams. By John D. Keating. COOK THE WRITER. By J. C. Beaglehole. CAPTAIN COOK: Navigator and Scientist. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, 1 May 1969. Edited by G. M. Badger. CAPTAIN COOK'S AUSTRALIAN LANDFALLS: Eyewitness accounts by members of the ship's company of H.M.S. Endeavour 1770. By W. D. Forsyth. THE SQUATTING AGE IN AUSTRALIA. By S. H. Roberts. THE CONVICT SETTLERS OF AUSTRALIA: An enquiry into the origin and character of the convicts transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1787–1852. By L. L. Robson. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, BOTANIST AND EXPLORER. By W. G. McMinn. ISLAM IN INDIA'S TRANSITION TO MODERNITY. By M. A. Karandikar. COMMUNALISM AND THE WRITING OF INDIAN HISTORY. By Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia and Bipan Chandra. LENIN THROUGH INDIAN EYES. By K. P. S. Menon. THE PARTITION OF AFRICA: Illusion or Necessity. Edited by Robert O. Collins. CONSUMERS IN POLITICS: A history and general review of the Co-operative Party. By Thomas F. Carbery. KANT'S POLITICAL WRITINGS. Edited with an introduction by Hans Reiss. SELF AND SOCIETY IN MEDIAEVAL FRANCE: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent (1064?-c1125). Edited with an introduction and notes by John F. Benton. UNDERSTANDING THE CONSTITUTION: Fifth edition of Edward S. Corwin and Jack W. Peltason's 1949 volume. By J. W. Peltason. MODERN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC: The Federal Budget and the Public Sector in National Economic Accounts. By Bruce F. Davie and Bruce F. Duncombe. POWER IN AMERICAN STATE LEGISLATURES: Case Studies of the Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma legislatures. Edited by Alex B. Lacy Jr. AMERICAN POLITICS: Research and Readings. Edited by Stephen V. Monsma and Jack Van Der Slik. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICS: A Reader. Edited by William J. Crotty. SUBNATIONAL POLITICS: Readings in State and Local Government. By Joseph F. Zimmerman. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. Edited by Michael Haas and Henry S. Kariel. MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: Octagon Lectures, 1969. Edited by R. T. Appleyard. A WORLD IN REVOLUTION? The University Lectures, 1970. Edited by Eugene Kamenka. THE PENDULUM YEARS: Britain and the Sixties. By Bernard Levin.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: SPACE ADRIFT: Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace. By John J. Costonis. POLITICS AND LAND USE PLANNING: The London Experience. By Stephen L. Elkin. THE POLITICS OF FINDING OUT: Environmental Problems in Australia. Edited by Rob Dempsey. EARLY MALAYSIA: Some Observations on the Nature of Indian Contacts With Pre-British Malaya. By K. S. Sandhu. KELANTAN: Religion, Society and Politics in a Malay State. Edited by W. R. Roff. DEPENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATION: The Economics of the Transition to Socialism. By Clive Y. Thomas. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE FUEHRER: National Socialism in Australia and New Zealand. By David Harcourt. PROFESSORS, UNIONS, AND AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION. By E. C. Ladd, Jr. and S. M. Lipset. PARTY AND OPPOSITION: Congressional Cliallengers in American Politics. By Jeff Fishel. CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL THEORY AND THE BEHAVIOUR OF STATES. By Joseph Frankel. CHRONOLOGY OF AFRICAN HISTORY. By G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. INCOMES POLICY AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR. By Campbell Balfour. THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC RECORD: 1964–1970. Edited by Wilfred Beckerman. WHAT MATTERS NOW. By Roy Jenkins. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT: Politics and Problems. Edited by A. B. Cherns, R. Sinclair and W. I. Jenkins. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. By J. R. V. Prescott. SYDNEY AT THE CENSUS, 1971: A Social Atlas. By J. R. Davis and Peter Spearitt. KENYATTA. By Jeremy Murray-Brown. MILITARY ROLE AND RULE: Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations. By Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Arthur K. Smith. LEARNING: A Survey of Psychological Interpretations. By Winfred F. Hill. CATHOLIC SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1788–1860. By James Waldersee. SOCIALISM AND AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION: The Soviet and Yugoslav Cases. By R. F. Miller. Occasional Paper Number Nine, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences. INDUSTRIAL AUSTRALIA 1975–2000: Preparing for Change. Edited by G. McCarthy. Papers read at the fortieth summer school of the Australian Institute of Political Science. PROVINCIAL POLITICS AND INDIAN NATIONALISM: Bombay and the Indian National Congress 1880–1915. By Gordon Johnson. THE MASS MEDIA IN AUSTRALIA: Use and Evaluation. By J. S. Western and Colin A. Hughes. EISENHOWER AS MILITARY COMMANDER. By E. K. G. Sixsmith. THE WARSAW RISING OF 1944. By Jan M. Ciechanowski. PLAYFORD TO DUNSTAN: The Politics of Transition. By Neal Blewett and Dean Jaensch. KENEALY AND THE TICHBORNE CAUSE: A Case Study in mid-Victorian Populism. By Michael Roe. FISCAL FEDERATION IN INDIA. By B. S. Grewal. Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Research Monograph No. 3 AUSTRALIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS. By M. Mackerras. JAPAN'S PARLIAMENT: An Introduction. By Hans I-I. Baerwald. THE BROKEN YEARS: Australian Soldiers in the Great War. By Bill Gammage. INDIVIDUALISM. By S. Lukes. A HISTORY OF POLITICAL THEORY. By G. H. Sabine. Fourth edition. Revised by T. L. Thorson. CABINET GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA by S. Encel. Second Edition. THE NEW ZEALAND BUREAUCRAT. By Thomas B. Smith. THE NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP, 1945–1965: A Study of Factionalism and Political Consolidation. By Koon Woo Nam.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Saudi Arabia: Guarding the Desert Kingdom, by Anthony H. Cordesman.
Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment, by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ahmed S. Hashim.
Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond, by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ahmed S. Hashim.
The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Ba'th Party, by Nikolaos van Dam.
Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel, by Yaron Ezrahi.
Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint, edited by Suha Sabbagh.
Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women of the Palestinian National Movement, by Amal Kawar
George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy, by James A. Bill.
Muslim Politics, by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Prevost, Gary, and Carlos Oliva Campos, eds. Neoliberalism and Neopanamericanism: The View from Lutin America.
Klein, Herbert S. A Concise Histo y of Bolivia. Revised edition of Bolivia, the Evolution of a Multi-ethnic Society
Sansone, Livio. Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil.
Goldstein, Donna. Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Iriolence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown.
Lawson, Chappell H. Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico.
Leiken, Robert S. why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolutionaries.     

Book Review Essays

Books reviewed in this article: Milton Viorst, What Shall I Do With This People? Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism Daryl Champion, The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform Simon Henderson, The New Pillar: Conservative Arab Gulf States and U.S. Strategy Akbar S. Ahmed, Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post‐honor World Nathan J. Brown, Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite , by Robert D. Kaplan. The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East , by Richard B. Parker. Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity , by Elmer Berger. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship , by Paul Findley Profits of War , by Ari Ben-Menashe. Americans and the Palestinian Question: The U.S. Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973–1978 , by Marianne van Leeuwen. Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society , by Robert B. Cunningham and Yasin K. Sarayrah. Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects , by J. E. Hartshorn. The Forgotten Queens of Islam , by Fatima Mernissi. Translated from French by Mary Jo Lakeland.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy , by John L. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation , by Barbara Slavin. Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies: A Reference Guide , by Joseph A. Kechichian. Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World , edited by marina Ottaway and Julia Choucair‐Vizoso. Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East , by Dietrich Jung, ed. Worlds at War: The 2,500‐Year Struggle between East and West , by Anthony Pagden.     

Book Notes

JAPAN AND NUCLEAR CHINA: Japanese Reactions to China's Nuclear Weapons. By John Welfield. THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF TIBET. By Ram Rahul with a foreword by The Dalai Lama. A HISTORY OF MODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Decolonization. By John Bastin and Harry J. Benda. THE ORGANIZATION OF THAI SOCIETY IN THE EARLY BANGKOK PERIOD, 1782–1873. By Akin Rabibhadaua. THAI STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES: A Study in Attitude Changes. By Jean Barry, S.J. Ithaca, N.Y. POLITICAL ATTITUDES OF INDIAN INDUSTRY: A case study of the Baroda business elite. By Howard L. Erdman. TENSION AREAS IN INDIA'S FEDERAL SYSTEM. By Amal Ray. STUDIES IN POLITICS, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. Edited by M. S. Rajan. THE IMPACT OF U.S. POLICY ON THE KASHMIR CONFLICT. By Louis D. Hayes. CHINA: Evolution of a Revolution 1959-66. By J. D. Simmonds. THE SIEGE OF THE PEKING LEGATIONS: A diary. By Lancelot Giles. INDICTMENT WITHOUT TRIAL: The Case of Liu Shao-Ch'i. By A. E. Kent. MODERN COMPARATIVE POLITICS. By Peter H. Merkl. BUREAUCRACY. By Martin Albrow. POLITICS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI: Protest and Cooperation, 1891–1909. By John A. Williams. Auckland AUSTRALIA'S WESTERN THIRD: A History of Western Australia from the first settlements to modern times. By F. K. Crowley. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY. By Geoffrey Sawer. HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF AUSTRALIA: A select list of official sources. By Jennifer Finlayson. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: An Introductory Survey. By J. D. B. Miller and Brian Jinks. ATLAS OF BUNDALEER PLAINS AND TATALA. By F. M. Rothery. Introduction by N. G. Butlin and J. N. Jennings. THE BITTER FIGHT: A Pictorial History of the Australian Labor Movement. By Joe Harris. THE CRUISE OF THE ROSARIO amongst the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz Islands, Exposing the Recent Atrocities connected with the Kidnapping of Natives in the South Seas. By Albert Hastings Markham R.N. AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN: Documents and Readings in Australian History. By W. MacMahon Ball. THE SOVIET UNION AND ARMS CONTROL: A superpower dilemma. By R. Kolkowicz, M. P. Gallagher and B. S. Lambeth. SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST. By Aaron S. Klieman. STRATEGIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE. Edited by Jerry M. Tinker with Andrew R. Molnar and John D. le Noir. THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND. By Alexander Wilson. PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT: Report of the Commission on International Development. By Lester B. Pearson THE ATLANTIC FANTASY: the U.S., NATO, and Europe. By David Calleo. PUBLIC OPINION, THE PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN POLICY: Four Case Studies from the Formative Years. By Doris A. Graber. THE AMERICAN RIGHT WING: Readings in Political Behavior. Edited by Robert A. Schoenberger. COMPETITION IN AMERICAN POLITICS: An Economic Model. By Andrew M. Scott. USUAL POLITICS: A Critique and Some Suggestions for an Alternative. By George D. Beam. TWO HUNDRED AMERICANS IN SEARCH OF A GOVERNMENT. By E. E. Schattschneider.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: WARRANT FOR GENOCIDE: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. By Norman THE HISTORY OF THE IRISH NEWSPAPER 1685–1760. By Robert Munter. THE PROCESS OF PLANNING: A Study of India's Five Year Plans 1950–1964. By A. H. Hanson. SUCCESSION IN INDIA: A Study in Decision-Making. By Michael Brecher. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU: The Struggle for Independence. By Lord Butler. INDONESIA. By Bruce Grant. WAR AND POLITICS IN NEW ZEALAND 1855–1870. By B. J. Dalton. THE QUEST FOR SECURITY IN NEW ZEALAND. By W. B. Sutch. GOVERNMENT BY PARTY: Parliament and Politics in New Zealand. By Austin Mitchell. THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY, vol. 1, no. 1. Auckland, The University of Auckland SEARCH FOR NEW GUINEA'S BOUNDARIES: From Torres Strait to the Pacific. By Paul W. van der Veur. DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE ON NEW GUINEA'S BOUNDARIES. Compiled by Paul W. van der Veur. THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE: How distance shaped Australia's history. By Geoffrey Blainey. STUDIES IN DEMOCRACY, By W. H. C. Eddy, J. D. B. Miller, D. H. Munro, R. N. Spann. MATTHEW FLINDERS 1774–1814. By James D. Mack. DICK BOYER: An Australian Humanist. By G. C. Bolton. AUSTRALIA AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS, By Anthony Clunics Ross and Peter King. THE PRIME MINISTER'S POLICY SPEECH: A Case Study in Televised Politics. By Colin A. Hughes and John S. Western.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Berrios, Ruben. Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Contractors in US. Foreign Development Assistance.
Brysk, Alison. From Tribal Village to Global village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America.
Peceny, Mark. Democracy at the Point of Bayonets.
Tulchin, Joseph S., and Allison M. Garland, eds. Social Development in Latin America: The Politics of Reform.
Tulchin, Joseph S., and Ralph H. Espach, eds. Combating Corruption in Latin America.
Kingstone, Peter R., and Timothy J. Power, eds. Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes.
Edelman, Marc. Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica.
Weintraub, Sidney. Financial Decision Making in Mexico: To Bet a Nation.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga, eds. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change.
Fabián Echegaray, Economic Crises and Electoral Responses in Latin America.
Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire.
Arie M. Kacowicz, The Impact of Norms in International Society: The Latin American Experience, 1881–2001.
Cristina Rojas and Judy Meltzer, eds., Elusive Peace: International, National, and Local Dimensions of Conflict in Colombia.
Mauricio Solaún, U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua.
Catherine M. Conaghan, Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere.
Moisés Arce, Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: DINGO MAKES US HUMAN: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture fly Deborah Bird Rose. WHITEFELLA COMIN': Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia By David S. Trigger. ALL OUR LABOURS: Oral Histories of Working Life in Twentieth Century Sydney Edited by John Shields. QUEEN'S COLLEGE: University of Melbourne By Owen Parnaby. A PASTORAL ROMANCE: The Tribulation and Triumph of Squatterdom By Maurice French. THOSE RAGGED BLOODY HEROES: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942 By Peter Brune. THE ABOLITION OF THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY: The Immigration Reform Movement Revisited Edited by Nancy Viviani. NO PAIN, NO GAIN? Sport and Australian Culture By Jim McKay. AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Ten Case Studies Edited by Ken Walker. THE LONG BLUE LINE: A History of the Queensland Police By W. Ross Johnston. POLITICAL CROSSROADS: The 1989 Queensland Election Edited by Rosemary Whip and Colin A. A LIFE OF SERVICE: A Biographical Sketch of Errol Solomon Meyers By Derek Meyers. CHARACTERS AND CARITAS: Vignettes of Community Health Care in Central Queensland Edited by H. Mercer, et al. HEALTH, HISTORY AND HORIZONS Edited by J. H. Pearn. SINGER IN A SONGLESS LAND: A Life of Edward Tregear 1846–1931 By K. R. Howe. LOVE IN THE TIME OF VICTORIA: Sexuality, Class, and Gender in Nineteenth Century London By Frangoise Barrel–Ducrocq, translated by John Howe. KOSSUTH AS AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST By Eva H. Haraszti. INNER CITY REGENERATION: The Demise of Regional and Local Government By Norman Lewis. THE RISE OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY: England Since 1880 By Harold Perkin. THE PRIME MINISTER SINCE 1945 By James Barber. PRIMARY SOURCES AND ORIGINAL WORKS INDUSTRY AND IDEOLOGY: IG Farben in the Nazi Era By Peter Hayes. JAPAN'S SOUTHWARD ADVANCE AND AUSTRALIA: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II By Henry P. Frei. CHINESE ATTITUDES TOWARD NUCLEAR WEAPONS: China and the United States During the Korean War By Mark A. Ryan. THE UGLY CHINAMAN AND THE CRISIS OF CHINESE CULTURE By Bo Yang, translated and edited by Don J. Conn and Jing Qing. MODERNIZATION AND REVOLUTION IN CHINA By June Grasso, Jay Corrin and Michael Kort. MORE'S UTOPIA By Dominic Baker-Smith. SEXUAL DEMOCRACY: Women, Oppression and Revolution By Ann Ferguson. CHOOSING JUSTICE: An Experimental Approach to Ethical Theory By Norman Frohlich and Joe A. ROBERT NOZICK: Property, Justice and the Minimal State By Jonathan Wolff. LABOUR'S UTOPIAS: Bolsevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy By Peter Beilharz. BEYOND POLITICS: An Outline of Systematic Ideology By George Walford. FRONTIERS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY By Guglielmo Carchedi.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: NEW FEDERATIONS: Experiments in the Commonwealth. By R. L. Watts. ASIA'S POPULATION PROBLEMS: With a Discussion of Population and Immigration in Australia. Edited by S. Chandrasekhar. THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN ASIA: A Study of Asian International Organizations. By Lalita Prasad Singh. CANADA AND ‘IMPERIAL DEFENSE’: A study of the origins of the British Commonwealth's defense organization, 1867–1919. By Richard A Preston. THE CONTROLLERS. By Hylda A. Rolfe. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire AUSTRALIA'S NORTH WEST. By Alex Kerr. COMMUNISM IN ASIA: a threat to Australia? Australian Institute of Political Science. Edited by John Wicke. POLICIES TOWARDS CHINA: Views from Six Continents. Edited by A. M. Halpern. JAPAN'S DECISION FOR WAR: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. Translated and edited by N. Ike. MALE CULTS AND SECRET INITIATIONS IN MELANESIA. By M. R. Allen. THE EVOLUTION OF AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1938–1966. By Alan Watt. ABORIGINES IN THE ECONOMY: Employment, Wages and Training. Edited by Ian G. Sharp and Colin M. Tatz.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: CHINA AND OURSELVES: Explorations and Revisions by a New Generation. Edited by Bruce Douglass and Ross Terrill. THE CHINESE ROAD TO SOCIALISM: Economics of the Cultural Revolution. By E. L. Wheelwright and Bruce McFarlane. MAO PAPERS: Anthology and Bibliography. Edited by Jerome Ch'en. CHINA'S WORLD: The Foreign Policy of a Developing State. By J. D. Simmonds. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNIST CHINA. By Jan S. Prybyla. LEARNING TO BE CHINESE: The Political Socialization of Children in Taiwan. By Richard W. Wilson. PARTY IN POWER: The Japanese Liberal-Democrats and Policy-Making. By Hahuhiro Fukui. THE STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF THE JAPANESE ECONOMY. By K. Bieda. THE PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY OF SINGAPORE: Emergence of a Dominant Party System. By Thomas J. Bellows. INDIANS IN MALAYA: Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786–1957). By Kernial Singh Sandhu. INDIANS IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE. By Sinnappah Arasaratnam. MALAYSIAN POLITICS. By Gordon P. Means. PHILIPPINE NATIONALISM: External Challenge and Filipino Response, 1565–1946. By Usha Mahajani. REGION OF REVOLT: Focus on Southeast Asia. By Milton Osborne. INDO CHINA TRAGEDY 1945–1954. By Robert J. O'Neill. THE EAGLE AND THE LOTUS: Western Intervention in Vietnam, 1847–1968. By J. F. Cairns. VIET CONG REPRESSION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. By Stephen T. Hosmer. THE FOURTH DIMENSION OF WARFARE: volume one: Intelligence, Subversion, Resistance. Edited by Michael Elliott-Bateman. THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST 1941-45: A Military History. By Basil Collier. THE WAR WITH JAPAN: By Charles Bateson. INDIA'S CHINA WAR. By Neville Maxwell. HARSHA: A Political Study. By D. Devahuti. GANDHI, INDIA AND THE WORLD: An International Symposium. Edited with an introduction by Sibnarayan Ray. POLITICS IN INDIA. By Rajni Kothari. THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION IN INDIA: Two case studies of how policy shapes politics. By Robert W. Stern. BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICS IN INDIA. By C. P. Bhambhri. THE POLITICS OF NEPAL: Persistence and Change in an Asian Monarchy. By Leo E. Rose and Margaret W. Fisher. THE POLITICS OF PAKISTAN: A Constitutional Quest. By Richard S. Wheeler. HOMO HIERARCHICUS: An essay on the caste system. By Louis Dumont, translated by Mark Sainsbury. ELITES IN SOUTH ASIA. Edited by Edmund Leach and S. N. Mukherjee. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDEPENDENT FIJI. By E. H. Fisk. BIG MEN AND CARGO CULTS. By Glynn Cochrane. AUSTRALIA IN NEW GUINEA. By L. P. Mair. NATIONAL INTEREST. By Joseph Frankel.     

An Illusion of Omnipotence: U.S. Policy Toward Guatemala, 1954–1960

Based primarily on declassified U. S. government documents, this study analyzes the U. S. effort to build a "showcase for democracy" in Guatemala following the U. S. -engineered regime change of 1954. The effort was doomed, for the U.S. government lacked both unity of purpose and the necessary continuous commitment at the top. The documents also demonstrate limited consideration of the sociopolitical constraints that U. S. policy objectives would face. This is clear from examining three key U. S. objectives: to eliminate the "communist threat"; to create a stable, legitimate, democratic government; and to develop a free, independent labor movement. Domination and the limits of power are equally central to understanding the relationship between the Eisenhower administration and Guatemala, a case study that also has more general utility.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THE OPPOSITION PRESS OF THE FEDERALIST PERIOD. By Donald H. Stewart. THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRATION. By K. Jones and A. D. Smith. PARIS AND LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Studies in Popular Protest. By George Rudé. NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE AUSSENPOLITIK 1933–1938. By Hans-Adolf Jacobsen. THE IMPACT OF LABOUR 1920–24: The Beginning of Modern British Politics. By Maurice Cowling. FRENCH POLITICIANS AND ELECTIONS, 1951–1969. By Philip M. Williams. FRANCE: The politics of continuity in change. By Lowell G. Noonan. POLITICAL INTEGRATION BY JURISPRUDENCE: The work of the Court of Justice of the European Communities in European political integration. By A. W. Green. THE GROWTH OF WHITE-COLLAR UNIONISM. By George Sayers Bain. LABOR ORGANIZATIONS: A Macro-Micro-Sociological Analysis on a Comparative Basis. By Mark van de Vail. THE EMERGENCE OF THE SUPER-POWERS: A short comparative history of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. By Paul Dukes. THE MEMOIRS OF MARSHAL ZHUKOV. Translated by Novosty Press Agency. THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Its government and politics. By Morley Ayearst. NORTHERN IRELAND: 50 Years of self-government. By Martin Wallace. THE FIRST A.I.F.: A Study of its Recruitment, 1914–1918. By L. L. Robson. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. By Norman A. Graebner, Gilbert C. Fitc, Philip L. White. REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM IN FRANCE: The direct action of its time. By F. F Ridley. FRENCH FINANCES 1770–1795: From Business to Bureaucracy. By J. F. Bosher. THE NEW POLITICS: Polarization or Utopia? Edited by Robert T. Golembiewski, Charles S. THE NEW LEFT: A Documentary History. Edited by Massimo Teodori. THE UKRAINE AND THE CZECHOSLOVAK CRISIS. By Grey Hodnett and Peter J. Potichnyj. THE COMMISSARIAT OF ENLIGHTENMENT: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921. By Sheila Fitzpatrick.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A DICTIONARY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Edited by Julius Gould and William L. Kolb. THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. By Harold D. Lasswell. A SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL LIFE. By David Easton. COMPARATIVE POLITICS: Notes and Readings. Edited by Roy C. Macridis and Bernard E. Brown. COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A Reader. Edited by Harry Eckstein and David E. Apter. POLITlCAL AUTHORITY AND MORAL JUDGMENT. By Glenn Negley. THE LIBERAL MIND. By K. R. Minogue. PAPERS ON MODERN JAPAN. Edited by D. C. S. Sissons. THE THIRD CHINA: The Chinese Communities in South-East Asia. By C. P. Fitzgerald. VIETNAM: A Diplomatic Tragedy. The Origins of United States Involvement. By Victor Bator. CONFLICT IN LAOS: The Politics of Neutralization. By Alfred J. GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN LAOS: A Study of Tradition and Innovation. By Joel M. Halpern. FROM ENMITY TO ALLIANCE: U.S.-Australian Relations 1931–1941. By Raymond A. Esthus. AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: A Sociological Introduction. Edited by A. F. Davie s and S. Encel WHITE COLLAR UNIONS IN AUSTRALIA. By R. M. Martin.