Book Reviews

S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 2: the Intermediate Ages
S. E. Finer, The History of Government, Volume 3: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: the Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. I: the Rise of the Network Society
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. II: the Power of Identity
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. III: End of the Millennium
Shane O'Neill, Impartiality in Context: Grounding Justice in a Pluralist World
Onora O'Neill, Towards Justice and Virtue: a Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning
Richard English and Graham Walker (eds), Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture
Norman Porter, Rethinking Unionism: an Alternative for Northern Ireland
James Mayall, The New Interventionism, 1991–1994
Ramesh Thakur (ed), The United Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect
Philip Pettit, Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government
David Arter, Parties and Democracy in the Post-Soviet Republics: the Case of Estonia
V. Stanley Vardys and Judith B. Sedaitis, Lithuania: the Rebel Nation
Clifford W. Brown Jr, Linda W. Powell and Clyde Wilcox, Serious Money: Financial Power Bases in the Presidential Nomination Process
Thomas M. Holbrook, Do Campaigns Matter?
Harvey L. Schantz (ed.), American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, and Political Change
Susan J. Tolchin, The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
The New Gender Agenda , edited by Anna Coote
Money, Markets and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918 , by Ton Notermans
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States , by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations , by John S. Dryzek
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 , by Peter Hennessy
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh , by Toby Harnden
The IRA 1968–2000: Analysis of a Secret Army , by J. Bowyer Bell
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics , by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach , by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering , by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics , by John Dunn
Trouble-maker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor , by Kathleen Burk     

Eco‐citles and red green politics

Jay Gould: The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

Don Fitz, ed.: Dioxin: The Orange Resource Book (A special issue of Synthesis/Regeneration), 1995.

David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.

Sheldon Krimsky and Roger Wrubel: Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy and Social Issues. Urbana/Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Jeremy Rifkin: The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post‐Market Era. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.

Roy Morrison: Ecological Democracy. Boston: South End Press, 1995.

Andrew Rowell: Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Richard Rose: Ordinary People in Public Policy: A Behavioural Analysis .
Bernt Aardal & Henry Valen: Velgere, partier og politisk avstand (Voters, parties, and political distance) .
Ebba Dohlman: National Welfare and Economic Interdependence: The Case of Sweden's Foreign Trade Policy .
David Arter: Politics and Policy-Making in Finland .
Arthur Gould: Conflict and Control in Welfare Policy.
Carol M. Mueller (ed.): The Politics of the Gender Gap. The Social Construction of Political Influence .
Christopher Coker: Reflections on American Foreign Policy Since 1945 .     

The Model of Europe and Other Contributions to the Study of European Political Development

Flora, P., Kuhnle, S. and Urwin D. (1999) State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bartolini, S. (2000) The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980: The Class Cleavage . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Caramani, D. (2004) The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bartolini, S. (2005) Restructuring Europe: Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ferrera, M. (2005) The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bozo, F. (2001) Two Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance . Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield.     

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.     

because they are forbidden but forbidden because they are

Carolyn Merchant: Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York/London: Routledge, 1992.

David Pepper: Eco‐Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice. New York/London: Routledge, 1993.

Kirkpatrick Sale: The Green Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Paul Hawken: The Ecology of Commerce. New York: Harper and Row, 1993

Vincente Navarro: Dangerous to Your Health. Capitalism in Health Care. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Peter J. Williamson: Corporatism in Perspective .
Norman M. Bradburn & Seymour Sudman: Polls and Surveys. Understanding What They Tell Us.
Erik Damgaard, Peter Gerlich & J. J. Richardson (eds.): The Politics of Economic Crisis.
Risto Alapuro: State and Revolution in Finland .
Cranford Pratt (ed.): Internationalism under Strain: The North-South Politics of Canada, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden .
Leif Lewin: Det gemensamma bästa. Om egenintresset och allmänintresset i västerländsk politik .
Brian Girvin (ed.): The Transformation of Contemporary Conservatism .     

God, Mammon and the Rise of Nationalism

Books reviewed in this article:
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes (eds.), Recasting European Welfare States
Evelyn Huber and John Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets
Paul Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of the Welfare State
Duane Swank, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
John Ramsden (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics
Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
Giles Radice, Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey
Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire     

Modernising Old Labour?

Books reviewed:
John O'Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better
Philip Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party
Colin Hay, The Political Economy of New Labour
J. E. Mortimer, Life on the Left
George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism
Natasha Walter, The New Feminism
John Tusa, Art Matters: Reflecting on Culture
David Seawright, An Important Matter of Principle: The Decline of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Peter Hall, Cities in Civilisation: Culture, Innovation and the Urban Order
Tamar Liebes and James Curran (eds), Media, Ritual and Identity
Alan Wilkinson, Christian Socialism: Scott Holland to Tony Blair
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, True Colours: Public Attitudes to Multi-Culturalism and the Role of the Government
Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
David Mckay, Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience
Adrienne Héritier et al., Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policymaking,
Montserrat Guibernau (ed.), Governing European Diversity
Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz and Neil Fligstein (eds.), The Institutionalization of Europe
David Calleo, Rethinking Europe's Future
by Simon Walters, Tory Wars: Conservatives in Crisis
Boris Johnson, Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump
Edward Vaizey, Nicholas Bore and Michael Gove (eds.), A Blue Tomorrow: New Visions for Modern Conservatives
Victor Davis Hanson, Why the West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam
Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order
Ulrich Beck, The Brave New World of Work
Ian Gough, Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies: Selected Essays 1994–99
Roland Axtmann (ed.), Balancing Democracy
Richard Vernon, Political Morality: A Theory of Liberal Democracy
Paul Ward, The Red Flag and the Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881–1924
Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
James Ellison, Threatening Europe: Britain and the Creation of the European Economic Community 1955–58
Murray Edelman, The Politics of Misinformation
Nicholas Jones, Campaign 2001
James Stanyer, The Creation of Political News: Television and British Party Political Conferences     

Book Reviews

Duff, Andrew, Reforming the European Union
Duff, Andrew, The Treaty of Amsterdam
Newman, Michael, Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union
Sperling, James and Kirchner, Emil, Recasting the European Order: Security Architectures and Economic Cooperation
Edwards, Geoffrey and Pijpers, Alfred (eds), The Politics of European Treaty Reform: The 1996 Intergovernmental Conference and Beyond
Salmon, Trevor and Nicoll, Sir William (eds), Building European Union: A Documentary and Historical Analysis
Urban, Michael, Igrunov, Vyacheslav and Mitrokhin, Sergei, The Rebirth of Politics in Russia
Truscott, Peter, Russia First: Breaking with the West
Mandelbaum, Michael (ed), Post Communism: Four Perspectives
Offe, Claus, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience
Ramsden, John, The Age of Churchill and Eden: The Conservative Party 1840–1957
Ramsden, John, Winds of Change: The Conservative Party 1957–1975
Thorpe, Andrew, A History of the British Labour Party
Francis, Martin, Ideas and Policies under Labour 1945–1951
Foote, Geoffrey , The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History , 3rd edn
Lipow, Arthur, Political Parties and Democracy: Explorations in History and Theory
Khilnani, Sunil, The Idea of India
Strachan, Hew, The Politics of the British Army
Phillips, Melanie, All Must Have Prizes
Evans, Richard J., In Defence of History
Finer, S.E., The History of Government , Volume 1:, Ancient Monarchies and Empires; Volume 2:, The Intermediate Ages
Volume 3:, Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State
Cowling, Maurice, A Conservative Future     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ari Salminen: Organized Welfare: The Case of Finland's Welfare Bureaucracy - A Nordic Comparison
Göran Djupsund og Lars Svåsand (red.): Partiorganisasjoner: Studier i struktur og processer i finske, norske, og svenske partier
Leif Lewin: Samhället och de organiserade intressena
Christopher Hood & Michael Jackson: Administrative Argument
Bob Deacon (ed.): The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy Past, Present and Future
Marja Keranen (ed.): Gender and Politics in Finland     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Sydney D. Bailey (ed.), Human Rights and Responsibilities in Britain and Ireland: A Christian Perspective .
Istvan Pogany, The Arab League and Peacekeeping in the Lebanon .
Avner Yaniv, Dilemmas of Security: Politics, Strategy and the Israeli Experience in Lebanon .
Halim Barakat (ed.), Toward a Viable Lebanon .
Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell (eds), Feminism as Critique .
R. W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, The Person and Sexual Politics .
Anne Phillips (ed.), Feminism and Equality .
Terrell Carver, Marx and Engels: The Intellectual Relationship .
Paul Q. Hirst, Marxism and Historical Writing .
Derek Sayer, The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytical Foundations of Historical Materialism .
Alan Clarke, The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Republic: A History of The South Yorkshire County Council .
Martin Loney (ed.), The State or the Market: Politics and Welfare in Contemporary Britain .
David Blunkett and Keith Jackson, Democracy in Crisis: The Town Halls Respond .     

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

Books reviewed:
Glyn, Davis and Michael, Keating, The Future of Governance: Policy Choices
Geoffrey, Bolton, Edmund Barton: The One Man for the Job
John, Halligan and Roger, Wettenhall, A Decade of Self-government in the Australian Capital Territory
Christopher, Sheil, Water's Fall: Running the Risks with Economic Rationalism
Gerard, Carney, Members of Parliament: Law and Ethics
Stephen, Hamnett and Robert, Freestone, The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History
Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision (SCRCSSP), Linking Inputs and Outputs: Activity Measurement by Police Services: Research Paper     

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     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Chrystia Freeland, Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution
Federico Varese, The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy
Alexander Lukin, Political Culture of Russian 'Democrats'
David Hooper, Reputations under Fire
Alan Milne, Politics, Wellbeing and the Market
Sir Con O'Neill, Britain's Entry into the European Community: Report on the Negotiations of 1970–1972
Gennady Chufrin, The Security of the Caspian Sea Region
Andrew Glyn, Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980
Ton Notermans, Social Democracy and Monetary Union
Gerassimos Moschonas, In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention
Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter–Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Peter Catterall, Colin Seymour–Ure and Adrian Smith, Northcliffe's Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896–1996     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Robert Brenner, The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy
Anthony Forster, Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour Parties since 1945
Martin Holmes (ed.), The Eurosceptic Reader
Dick Leonard and Mark Leonard (eds.), The Pro–European Reader
Ben Pimlott and Nirmala Rao, Governing London
Jean L. Cohen, Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm
Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left
Kate Berridge, Vigor Mortis: The End of the Death Taboo
Peter Clarke, The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps
Tom Bentley and Daniel Stedman Jones (eds.), The Moral Universe
Richard Lindley, Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia
Gøsta Esping–Andersen with Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck and John Myles, Why We Need a New Welfare State
Reinhard Heinisch, Populism, Proporz, Pariah: Austria Turns to the Right. Austrian Political Change, its Causes and Repercussions     

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.