Books: International Relations

D. Allen and A. Pijpers (eds), European Foreign Policy-Making and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984)
Sydney D. Bailey (ed.), The Making of Resolution 242 (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1985
David Howard Bain, Sitting in Darkness, Americans in the Philippines (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984
C. Coker, The Future of the Atlantic Alliance (London, Macmillan, with the Royal United Services Institute, 1985)
C. Rose, Campaigns Against Western Defence (London, Macmillan, with the Royal United Services Institute, 1985)
G. R. Berridge and A. Jennings (eds), Diplomacy at the UN (London, Macmillan, 1958)
John Burton, Global Conflict: The Domestic Sources of International Crisis (Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books for The Center for International Development, University of Maryland, 1984)
B. J. C. Kercher and D. J. Moss (eds), Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy 1895–1939 (Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1984)
D. Holloway and J. M. 0. Sharp (eds), The Warsaw Pact (London, Macmillan, 1984)
W. R. Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Brian Murphy, The World Wired Up: Unscrambling the New Communications Puzzle (London, Comedia, 1983)
Steve Smith (ed.), International Relations: British and American Perspectives (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, in association with the British International Studies Association, 1985)
I. Wallerstein, The Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)     

Book Reviews

Classes and Cultures: England 1918–1951 (Ross McKibbin) Richard Hoggart
London Conference on Nazi Gold: Lancaster House, 2–4 December 1997 (Foreign and Commonwealth Office); Switzerland and Gold Transactions in the Second World War: Interim Report (Independent Commission of Experts on Switzerland in the Second World War); Nazi Gold: The British and Allied Attempts to Deal with Loot from the Second World War and the Implications for the Tripartite Gold Commission (Holocaust Education Trust); Ex-Enemy Jews: The Fate of the Assets in Britain of the Holocaust Victims and Survivors (Holocaust Education Trust); Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives ; Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives, Part II ; British Policy towards Enemy Property during and after the Second World War (Foreign and Commonwealth Office); Hitler's Secret Bankers: How Switzerland Profited from Nazi Genocide (Adam Lebor); Blood Money: The Swiss, the Nazis and the Looted Billions (Tom Bower); The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Financed the Nazi War Machine (Jean Ziegler, trans. John Brownjohn); The Rape of Europa (Lynn Nicholas); The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Seize the World's Greatest Works of Art (Hector Feliciano); Treasure Hoard: A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard (William H. Honan) Donald Cameron Watt
The Politics of Risk Society (edited by Jane Franklin); Social Policy and Social Justice (edited by Jane Franklin) Leonard Tivey
The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style (Tom Paulin) Mark Garnett
The Open Cage: The Ordeal of the Irian Jaya Hostages (Daniel Start) Donald Cameron Watt
The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany since 1800 (Stefan Berger) Joyce Crick     

Books: British Politics

P. Cosgrave, Thatcher: the First Term (London, The Bodley Head, 1985)
A. King (ed.), The British Prime Minister (second edition) (London, Macmillan, 1985)
A. Ranney (ed.) Britain at the Polls 1983 (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1985)
D. S. Bell (ed.), The Conservative Government 1979–84: an Interim Report (London, Croom Helm, 1985
S. Fothergill and J. Vincent, The State of the Nation (London, Pan, 1985
Philip Norton (ed.), Parliament in the 1980s (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985
Leo Pliatzky, Paying and Choosing: the Intelligent Person's Guide to the Mixed Economy (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
John Grieve Smith (ed.) Strategic Planning in Nationalised Industries (London, Macmillan, 1984)
E. Durbin, New Jerusalem (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985)
Geofrey Foote, The Labour Party's Political Thought (London, Croom Helm, 1985)
D. Selbourne, Against Socialist Illusion: a Radical Argument (London, Macmillan, 1985)
J. Grigg, Lloyd George—From Peace to War (London, Methuen, 1985)
David Dutton, Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics (Bolton, Ross Anderson Publications 1985)
Norman Flynn, Steve Leach and Carol Vielba, Abolition or Reform? The GLCand the Metropolitan County Councils (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985)     

Books: Political Theory and Methodology

Neal Wood, John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984)
John W. Yolton, Locke: an Introduction (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
N. Tarcov, Locke's Educationfor Liberty (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984)
F. G. Whelan, Order and Artifice in Hume's Political Philosophy (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1985)
J. Robertson, The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue (Edinburgh, John Donald, 1985)
J. R. Dinwiddy, (ed.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 6, January 1798 to December 1801 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Alvin W. Gouldner, Against Fragmentation: the Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of Zntellectuals (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985)
Bruce Mazlish, The Meaning of Karl Marx (New York, Oxford University Press, 1984)
Edmond Preteceille and Jean-Pierre Terrail, Capitalism, Consumption and Needs (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
F. R. Dallmayr, Polis and Praxis (Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1985)
J. L. Talmon, The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution (London, Secker and Warburg, 1980)
L. J. Macfarlane, The Theory and Practice of Human Rights (London, Temple Smith, 1985)
Jeremy Waldron (ed.), Theories of Righfs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Bill Jordan, The State: Authority and Autonomy (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985)
Franlin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference: Liberal Theories of Independent Associations (Chicago, University of Chicago Press)
Ted C. Lewellen, Political Anthropology: an Introduction (South Hadley, Mass., Bergin and Garvey, 1983)
Ilkka Heiskanen and Sakari Hanninen (eds), Exploring the Basis of Politics (The Finnish Political Science Association, 1983)
Christopher G. A. Bryant, Positivism in Social Theory and Research (London, Macmillan, 1985)     

Change and Decay

Books reviewed:
Tivey, Leonard (edited by Robert Hazell). Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years
Seyd, Ben (edited by Robert Blackburn and Raymond Plant). The Politics of the British Constitution; Constitutional Reform: The Labour Government's Constitutional Reform Agenda
Klein, Rudolf (Bill Jordan). The New Politics of Welfare
O'Brien, David (edited by Dick Leonard). Crosland and New Labour
Parker, Noel (Maurice Keens-Soper). Europe in the World: The Persistence of Power Politics
Arnsel, Anja (Peter Gay). My German Question
Archard, David (edited by Richard Bellamy and Martin Hollis). Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality
Vosper, Susan Saunders (Robert Service). A History of Twentieth-century Russia
Garnett, Mark (Luisa Passerini). Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars
Jenkinson, Sally L (Bruce Hoffman). Inside Terrorism     

Book Reviews

Book reviews: Barkan, Peter, The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historcal Injustices (reviewed by Matthew Dodd); Tokar, Brian (ed.), Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering (reviewed by John Dupré); Powell, Lawrence N., Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, The Holocaust, and David Dukes's Louisiana (reviewed by Clive Webb); Pinto, António Costa, The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State (reviewed by Alexander G. Nesterov); Kershen, Anne J. (ed.), Language, Labour and Migration (reviewed by Mike Cole); Holt, Thomas C., The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (reviewed by Andrew M. Kaye); Kline, Wendy, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (reviewed by Dan Stone)     

Book review

D. K. Adams (ed.), Britain and Canada in the 1990s: Proceedings of a UK/Canada Colloquium (Aldershot, Dartmouth Publishing, 1992)
Ramsay Cook, Canada, Quebec, and the Uses of Nationalism (Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, distributed by UCL Press Ltd., 1986)
Garth Stevenson (ed.), Federalism in Canada: Selected Readings (Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, distributed by UCL Press Ltd., 1989)
R. Kent Weaver (ed.), The Collapse of Canada? (Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution, 1992)
Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver and Peter Mair, Representative Government in Western Europe (London, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992)
Jurg Steiner, European Democracies (New York and London, Longman, 2nd edn, 1991)
Michael D. Kennedy, Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: a Critical Sociology of Soviet-type Societies (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991)
David Ost, Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968 (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1990)
George Sanford, (ed.) and translated, The Solidarity Congress, 1991: the Great Debate (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1990)
George Sanford (ed.) and translated, Democratization in Poland, 1988-90: Polish Voices (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1992)
Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Firbank (eds), The Cambridge History of China, Volume 15 The People's Republic, part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution 1966-1982 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992)     

Book Reviews

David J. Smith and Gerald Chambers, Inequality in Northern Ireland (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991)
Wolfgang Rüdig (ed.), Green Politics One: 1990 (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990)
Edward M. Spiers, Chemical Weaponry: a Continuing Challenge (Basingstoke, Macmillan 1989)
Thomas Stock and Ronald Sutherland (eds), National Implementation of the Future Chemical Weapons Convention (Oxford, Oxford University Press/SIPRI, 1990)
Susan Wright (ed.), Preventing a Biological Arms Race (Cambridge, MA and London, The MIT Press, 1990)
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr, Power and Conflict: Toward a General Theory (London, Sage, 1989)
Kenneth E. Boulding, Three Faces of Power (London, Sage, 1989)
Agnes Heller and Ferenc Feher, The Postmodern Political Condition (Oxford, Polity Press, 1988)
Andrew Milner, Philip Thompson and Chris Worth (eds), Postmodern Conditions (New York, Oxford and Munich, Berg, 1990)
Jonathan Boston and Martin Holland (eds), The Fourth Labour Government: Radical Politics in New Zealand (Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1987)
Martin Myant, The Czechoslovak Economy 1948-1988: the Battle for Economic Reform (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Ivan T. Berend, The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990) x + 347 pp., |SL40.00 ISBN 0 521 38037 5.     

Iraq: A 'Never-Ending Nightmare'?

Malone, D. (2006) The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980–2005 . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tyner, J. (2006) The Business of War . Aldershot: Ashgate.
Herring, E. and Rangwala, G. (2006) Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and its Legacy . London: Hurst & Co.
Parsi, V. E. (2006) The Inevitable Alliance: Europe and the United States beyond Iraq . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dumbrell, J. and Ryan, D. (eds) (2007) Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts . London: Routledge.     

Books: Comparative Politics and Area Studies

R. Banton, P. Clifford, S. Frosh, J. Lousada and J. Rosenthal, The Politics of Mental Health (London, Macmillan, 1985)
T. Forester (ed.), The Information Technology Revolution (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985
Philip Green, Retrieving Democracy: in Search of Civic Equality (Totawa, N. J., Rowman & Allanheid 1985)
Joseph J. Houska, Influencing Mass Political Behaviour: Elites and Political Subcultures in the Netherlands and Austria (Berkeley, Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1985)
R. Kuhn (ed.), The Politics of Broadcasting (Beckenham, Croorn Helm, 1984)
G. E. Lang and K. Lang, Politics and Television Reviewed (Berkeley, Sage, 1984)
A. Organski, J. Kugler, J. Johnson and Y. Cohen, Births, Deaths and Taxes (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984)
W. E. Styler, Adult Education and Political Systems (Nottingham, Publications Unit, Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, 1985)
David Robertson, A Dictionary of Modern Politics (London, Europa Publications, 1985)
J. T. Morley, Secular Socialists: The CCF/NDP in Ontario , A Biography (Toronto, McCill-Queen's University Press, 1984)
H. S. Parmet, JFK: the Presidency of John F. Kennedy (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984)
R. H. K. Vietor, Energy Policy in America Since 1945 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985)
G. T. Mazuzan and J. S. Walker, Controlling the Atom (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984)
A. Figueroa, Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Harvey B. Feigenbaum, The Politics of Public Enterprise: Oil and the French State (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985)
Eckhard Jesse, Wahlrecht zwischen Kontinuitat und Reform 1949–1983 (Dusseldorf, Droste, 1985)
H. Lydall, Yugoslav Socialism: Theory and Practice (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Paul A. B. Clarke, The Autonomy of Politics .
Nevil Johnson, The Limits of Political Science .
William B. Quandt (ed.), The Middle East: Ten Years after Camp David .
Hisham Sharabi (ed.), The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures .
Emile Sahliyeh, In Search of Leadership: West Bank Politics Since 1967 .
John Dreijmanis (ed.), Karl Jaspers on Max Weber .
Wolfgang J. Mommsen, The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber .
Geoffrey Marshall (ed.), Ministerial Responsibility .
Marie-Laurence Netter, La Révolution Française n'est pas Terminée .
Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality .
Maurizio Viroli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society .
Mark Poster (ed.), Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings .     

Humanitarian Intervention: Past, Present and Future

Bellamy, A. (2006) Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq . London: Polity Press.
Weiss, T. (2007) Humanitarian Intervention . London: Polity Press.
Reed, C. and Ryall, D. (eds) (2007) The Price of Peace: Just Wars in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Seybolt, T. B. (2007) Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heazle, M. and Islam, I. (eds) (2007) Beyond the Iraq War: The Promises, Pitfalls and Perils of External Interventionism . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.     

Book Reviews

Book Reivew in this Article
Philip Pettit, The Common Mind: an Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics
David A. Lake (ed.), The International Political Economy of Trade. Volumes I & II
Mark W. Zacher (ed.), The International Political Economy of Natural Resources, Volumes I & II
Alec Cairncross, The British Economy since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance
Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross (eds), The Legacy of the Golden Age: the 1960s and their Economic Consequences
David Albright, Frans Berkhout and William Walker, World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1992
Edward J. Laurance, Siemon T. Wezeman and Herbert Wulf, Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms
SIPRI Yearbook 1993, World Armaments and Disarmament
Herbert Wulf (ed.), Arms Industry Limited
Andrew Geddes, Britain in the European Community
Ole Nφrgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Nikolaj Peterson (eds), The European Community in World Politics
Neill Nugent (ed.), The European Community 1992: Annual Review of Activities
Lincoln Allison (ed.), The Changing Politics of Sport
Giovanni Giorgini, La città e il tiranno. Il concetto di tirannide nella Grecia del VH-IV secolo a.C
Antonella Besussi, La società migliore: principi e politiche del New Deal     

Another UK General Election: More Books!

Kavanagh, D. and Butler, D. (2005 ) The British General Election of 2005. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bartle, J. and King, A. (eds) (2005 ) Britain at the Polls 2005. Washington DC: CQ Press.
Geddes, A. and Tonge, J. (eds) (2005 ) Britain Decides: The UK General Election 2005. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Worcester, R., Mortimer, R. and Baines, P. (2005 ) Explaining Labour's Landslip: The 2005 General Election. London: Methuen.     

Michels Revisited: Autonomous Cliques in a Small Political System: The Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy (IFA), 1949-79

Elite autonomy is often discussed in relation to oligarchic tendencies within organizations. The article demonstrates how autonomy of elites may have a more stable basis if it rests on inter-elite support. The focus is on the role of autonomous, tightly coupled, and exclusive elite networks characterized by jointly held perceptions and reciprocity – cliques – in a small political system, such as in Norway. The argument is based on a study of the Norwegian Institute of Atomic Energy and its political environment, 1949–79. The formation and survival of autonomous cliques are stimulated by properties of small and tightly knit political systems: (1) transciency, (2) scarcity of qualified personnel, (3) consensus on national goals, and (4) elites' need to protect themselves from judgements based on strong egalitarian norms. The existence of autonomous cliques in a policy area has important implications for: (1) political entrepreneurship, (2) organizational development, and (3) legitimacy in relation to the environment. The management and control via informal clique organization have received little attention. Thus, this study serves as a supplement to the literature on bureaucratic politics and organization theory.     

Sick but not Dying

Cable, V. (2009) The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means . London: Atlantic Books.
Peston, R. (2008) Who Runs Britain ... and Who's to Blame for the Economic Mess We're In? London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Krugman, P. (2008) The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 . London: Allen Lane.
Gamble, A. (2009) The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession . Basingstoke: PalgraveMacmillan.     

Incentivizing Fiscal Transfers in the Indian Federation

The sharp deterioration in the fiscal health of the states hasbeen a matter of concern for policymakers. The remedial measuresrecently taken include the institution of the Medium Term FiscalRestructuring Policy (MTFRP), stipulating performance requirementsfor borrowing from the World Bank and the Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB), and the Accelerated Power Development and ReformProgram (APDRP). This article evaluates these schemes. The importantconclusions are that (1) incentive-linked transfers are toosmall to make any difference to fiscal performances, (2) multipleschemes create segmented incentives, (3) there are serious problemsof design, and (4) the schemes do not address the basic causesof deterioration in the states 'fiscal performance.     

The Path Not Taken: Leonard White and the Macrodynamics of Administrative Development

Leonard White , The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History ( New York: Macmillan , 1948).
Leonard White , The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801–1829 ( New York: Macmillan , 1951).
Leonard White , The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1829–1861 ( New York: Macmillan , 1954).
Leonard White , The Republican Era, 1869–1901: A Study in Administrative History ( New York, Macmillan , 1958).
This is a review of four books by Leonard White: The Federalists (1948), The Jeffersonians (1951), The Jacksonians (1954), and The Republican Era (1958). In these books, White develops an approach to the study of administrative development that accounts for a broad range of considerations, including political and economic structure, the organization of the international order, popular culture, the stock of available communication and organizational technologies, and executive talent. White also offers an early argument about the significance of path dependence in institutional evolution. White's approach is largely concerned with the macrodynamics of administrative development. It has been neglected within the field of public administration over the last half century. A literature that builds on White's work would improve the field's ability to explain and anticipate failures in state building and administrative reform.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
ALF RATTIGAN, Industry Assistance: the inside story
B. HEAD(ed.), The Politics of Development in Australia
A. PATIENCE (ed.), The Bjelke-Petersen Premiership 1968–1983: Issues in Public Policy
DONALD C. ROWAT, The Ombudsman Plan: The Worldwide Spread of an Idea
P. R. HAY, J. HALLIGAN, J. WAR-HURST and B. COSTAR (eds), Essays on Victorian Politics
BEDE NAIRN, The 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891–1949
JIM HAGAN, Australian Trade Unionism in Documents
ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, J. R. NETHER-COTE, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1983: Essays in Review
J. R. NETHERCOTE, ALEXANDER KOUZMIN, ROGER WETTENHALL (eds), Australian Commonwealth Administration 1984: Essays in Review     

‘Intelligence,Public Confidence and Security’

Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover (New York: The Free Press, 1987). Pp. 624; $27.95.

Jeffrey Richelson, American Espionage and the Soviet Target (New York: William Morrow, 1987).

John Keegan, The Mask of Command (New York; Viking Penguin 1987). Pp. 368; $18.95.

Major General Rygor Slowikowski, In the Secret Service: The Lighting of the Torch (London: The Windrush Press, 1988). Pp. 285; £16.95.

Alexandre de Marenches and Christine Ockrent, The Evil Empire: The Third World War Now (London: Sidgwick &; Jackson, 1988), Pp. 224, £13.95

Robert Marshall, All the King's Men (London: Collins, 1988). Pp.314; £12.95. Brendan M. Murphy, Turncoat (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987). Pp. 301; $19.95.

Ray Godson (ed.), Comparing Foreign Intelligence: The U.S., the USSR, the U.K. and the Third World (New York: Pergamon Brasseys, 1988), Pp. 157; $18.95.

Stephen J. Cimbala (ed.). Intelligence and Intelligence Policy in a Democratic Society (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Transnational Publishers Inc., 1987). Pp. 262. $37.50.