Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism . By Robert Gooding-Williams. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz . By Campbell Craig. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).
Hans J. Morgenthau und der weltpolitische Realismus . By Christoph Rohde. (Wiesbaden: Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2004).
'Society Must be Defended': Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976 . By Michel Foucault. Translated by David Macey. (New York: Picador, 2003).     

Reviews & notes

Pierre Rosanvallon L'âge de l'autogestion (Paris, 1976, Editions du Seuil).

Daniel Zwerdling, Democracy at Work: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation and Self‐Management Experiments in the United States and Europe (Washington, D.C.: Daniel Zwerdling, 1978). Distributed by Association for Self‐Management, c/o 1414 Spring Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20010 ($5.50 for individuals/$10.50 for institutions).

Benjamin I. Page, Choices and Echoes in Presidential Elections: Rational Man and Electoral Democracy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 336 pp. $17.50).

Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974)

Giovanni Arrighi, “International Corporations, Labor Aristocracies and Economic Development in Tropical Africa,” in Arrighi and Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (New York: Monthly Review, 1973).

Henry Landsberger, “The Labor Elite: Is it Revolutionary?,” in Lipset and Solari (eds.), Elites in Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).

Jürgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv, 239. $5.95 paper).

Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xi, 252. $4.95 paper).

Leszek Kolakowski's long‐awaited survey of Marxism [Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution, 3 volumes, translated from the Polish by P. S. Falla, Oxford University Press, 1978].     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000 . By Geoff Eley. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) .
Foucault, Subjectivity, and Identity . By Robert Strozier. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002) .
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action . By Albert O. Hirschman. Twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Robert H. Frank. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002) .     

To Russia and back again: Intellectuals in postwar France

Political Traditions in Modern France. By SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp.viii+355, £35 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback) ISBN 0–19–878074–5 and 0–19–878075–2.

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944–1956. By TONY JUDT. Berkeley/ Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1992. Pp.348. £24. ISBN 0–520–0792.

Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France. By SUNIL KHILNANI. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp.viii+262. £19.95 (hardback), ISBN 0–300–05745–8.

Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization. By RICHARD KUISEL. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1993. Pp.xiii+296. £20. ISBN 0–520–07962–0.

Extrême‐Occident: French Intellectuals and America. By JEAN‐PHILIPPE MATHY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp.307, £13.50. ISBN 0–226–51064–6.

Face au scepticisme: Les Mutations du paysage intellectuel ou l'invention de I'intellectuel democratique. By OLIVIER MONGIN. Paris: Editions La Décou‐verte, 1994. Pp.400. FF180 (paperback). ISBN 9–782707–12308–4.

La Tribu des clercs: Les intellectuels sous la Ve République. By RÉMY RIEFFEL. Paris: Calmann‐Lévy, 1993. Pp.691. FF250 (paperback), ISBN 2–7021–2276–0.     

Left docudrama 2004

Ernst Bloch, the principle of hope (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 198$).

Ernst Bloch, natural law and human dignity (Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 1986).

Steven Lukes, marxism and morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Nancy S. Love, marx, nietzsche, and modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).

Michael E. Brown, the production of society—a Marxian foundation for social theory (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman &; Littlefield, 1986).

William DiFazio, longshoremen—community and resistance on the Brooklyn waterfront, introduction by Stanley Aronowitz (South Hadley: Bergin &; Garvey, 1985).

Adam Przeworski and John Sprague, paper stones, a history of electoral socialism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

Noam Chomsky, turning the tide: U.S. intervention in central America and the struggle for peace (Boston: South End Press, 1985).

John Gerassi, the premature antifascists: north American volunteers In The Spanish civil war, 1936–1939: an oral history (New York and Westport, CT: Praeger, 1986).     

Chicago political economy: A public choice perspective

George J. Stigler (Ed.), Chicago studies in political economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pages xviii + 641.     

Resources: Left Listservs and Websites

Gerald Meyer, VITO MARCANTONIO: RADICAL POLITICIAN 1902–1954 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989)

Charney, George, A Long Journey (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968).

Gallagher, Dorothy. All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988).

Lader, Lawrence. Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1946 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1979).

Lagumina, Salvatore J. “Case Studies in Ethnicity and Italo‐American Politicians.” The Italian Experience in the United States, eds. Silvano H. Tomasi and Madeline H. Engel. (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1970), pp. 143–61.

Luthin, Reinhard H. American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Smith, 1954).

Mills, C. Wright; Senior, Clarence; and Goldsen, Rose Kohn. The Puerto Rican Journey: Newest Migrants (New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1950).

Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

Riesman, David. Faces in the Crowd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

Rolle, Andrew. The Italian Americans: Troubled Roots. (New York: The Free Press, 1980).

Sasuly, Richard. “Vito Marcantonio: The People's Politician,” in American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities, ed. Harvey Goldberg (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957), pp. 115–59.

Schaffer, Alan. Vito Marcantonio, Radical in Congress (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966).

Starobin, Joseph. American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Walzer, Kenneth. “The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party.” Radical History Review; 23 (Spring 1980), pp. 104–35.

Herbert G. Gutman, POWER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987)

Peter H. Rossi, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS (Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1989). Charles Hoch and Robert A. Slayton, NEW HOMELESS AND OLD: COMMUNITY AND THE SKID ROW HOTEL (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, John Ahrens eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1989), CAPITALISM and Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene eds. ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM‐STUDIES IN MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Michael Walzer, INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

Andrew Gamble, THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Fateful Split: Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary , by Chris Ryder. Methuen. 360pp. £17.99.
The IRA at War 1916–1923 , by Peter Hart. Oxford University Press. 290pp. £25.00.
Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas , by Richard Bourke. Pimlico. 462pp. £10.00 (pb).
War and Genocide, Organised Killing in Modern Society , by Martin Shaw. Polity. xii + 257pp. £15.99 (pb) and £55.00 (hb).
The Spectre of Genocide. Mass Murder in Historical Perspective , edited by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan. Cambridge University Press. x + 396pp. £16.95.
New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and its Discontents , by James E. Cronin. Pearson Longman. 497 pp. £25.00
The Long Search for a Third Way—The British Labour Party and the Italian Left since 1945 , by Ilaria Favretto. Palgrave. 233pp. £47.50.
Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy , edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert. Routledge. xiv + 238pp. £ 65.00.
The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997 , edited by Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch. Manchester University Press. 272 pp. £14.99.
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History , James A. Marone. Yale University Press. xii + 575 pp. £25.00.
Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement. A Comparative Study of Amsterdam, London and Paris, 1870–1914 , by Karin Hofmeester. Ashgate. xv + 346 pp. £ 57.50.
In Search of Revolution. International Communist Parties in the Third Period , edited by Matthew Worley. I.B. Tauris. 400 pp. £45.00.
Cold War, Crisis and Conflict. The CPGB 1951–68 , by John Callaghan. Lawrence & Wishart. 320 pp. £14.99.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less , by Barry Schwartz. Harper Collins (USA). 266 pp. US$23.95.     

Resistance,compliance, adulation: Life in the third Reich and afterwards

Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer (eds.), Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933–1990. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii+357pp. Notes. Ind. £12.75 (pbk.).

Martin Kitchen, Nazi Germany at War. London: Longman, 1994. 329pp. Bibl. Ind. £13.99 (pbk).

Tim Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, ed. Jane Caplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x+361 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.95 (pbk).     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome . Yehzkel Dror. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. 264 pp. $67.00 (hardback).
Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security. Paul C. Light. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 200 pp. $19.95 (hardcover).
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America. Donald F. Kettl. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $17.95 (paperback). Reviewed by MARK CARL ROM, Georgetown University
Politics and the Russian Army: Civil–Military Relations, 1689–2000. Brian D. Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 355 pp. $25.00 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback). Reviewed by DONALD ABENHEIM, Naval Postgraduate School
Defending Europe: The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy . Jolyon Howorth and John T. S. Keeler, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 247 pp. $55.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by MICHAEL BAUN, Valdosta State University
Migration and the Externalities of European Integration . Sandra Lavenex and Emek M. Uçarer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 240 pp. $24.95 (paperback), $75.00 (hardback). Reviewed by SEBASTIEN GAGNON-MESSIER, University of Maryland
Government: A Public Administration Perspective . Jos C. N. Raadschelders. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. 464 pp. $39.95 (paperback), $ 79.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by MARGARET F. REID, University of Arkansas
Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the 21^st Century. Lisa Anderson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 158 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Reviewed by ROBERT W. RYCROFT, George Washington University     

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)     

Taking disability rights seriously

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames, The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001, xxix +278 pp. Ruth O'Brien, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, xiv +288 pp. Paul K. Longmore, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003, ix +278 pp. Mary Johnson, Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve, and the Case against Disability Rights, Louisville: Avocado Press, 2003, xvii +296 pp. Old political science is characterized by exclusion: exclusion of people who “don't matter,” sometimes on account of where they live, on account of gender, on account of ethnicity, and sometimes on account of other factors. One such factor, disability, has too often been neglected by political scientists and our students.     

On Biehl's Defense of Bookchin's Immanent Dialectic

Stephen G. Bunker. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985.

Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn: The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. Harper Perennial, New York, 1990.

Chico Mendes: Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words. (Additional material by Tony Gross). Latin American Bureau, London, 1989; distributed in U.S. by Monthly Review Press.     

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)     

The Complexity of 'Political Islamism'

Books reviewed
The Future of Political Islam , by Graham Fuller. Palgrave. 228pp. £19.99.
Secularism, Islam and Modernity: Selected Essays of Alam Khundmiri , edited by M. T. Ansari. Sage. 308pp. £29.99.
Law and Power in the Islamic World , by Sami Zubaida. I. B. Tauris. 248pp. £35.00.
Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power , by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr. Oxford University Press. 220pp. £33.99.
False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy , by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Verso. cxxix + 661pp. £28.00.
Preachers of Hate: The Rise of the Far Right , by Angus Roxburgh. Gibson Square Books. 312pp. £18.99.
A Mandarin's Tale , by Roy Denman. Politico's. 282pp. £20.00.
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950–1957 , edited with an introduction by Peter Catterall. Macmillan. 676pp. £25.00.
Memoirs from the Left , by John Saville. Merlin. 197pp. £14.95 (pb).
Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East , by Vassilis Fouskas. Pluto Press. 177pp. £45.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb).     

Book Reviews

Ben Agger, Fast Capitalism: A Critical Theory of Significance (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 191 pp.

Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 1991, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0–415–90387–4

Timothy W. Luke, Screens of Power. Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society: (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), pp. 265.

Andre Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason. London: Verso. 1989. pp. 250.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: The New Wars. By Herfried Münkler. (Cambridge: Polity, 2005). Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political. By William Rasch. (London: Birkbeck Law Press, 2004). The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. By Duncan Kelly. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.)     

The judicialisation of politics: Contemporary trends in research on European and other courts

Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective. By Herbert Jacob, Erhard Blankenburg, Herbert M. Kritzer, Doris Marie Provine and Joseph Sanders. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp.408, index. $20 (paper). ISBN 0–300–06379–2.

The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2nd ed. By Donald P. Kommers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp.617, notes, sources, index. $75 (cloth), $34.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8223–1838–5.

The Global Expansion of Judicial Power. Edited by C. Neal Tate and Torbjörn Vallinder. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Pp.556, index. $25 (paper). ISBN 0–8147–8227–2.

Judicial Misconduct, A Cross‐National Comparison. Edited by Mary Volcansek. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Pp.163, index. $56 (cloth). ISBN 0–8130–1421–2.

Law Above Nations, Supranational Courts and the Legalization of Politics. Edited by Mary Volcansek. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp.177, index. $50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8130–1537–5.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed
Wiring Europe . Giorgio Natalicchi. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. 260 pp. $27.00 (paperback), $72.00 (hardback).
Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States . Susan Giaimo. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. 307 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia . Richard Common. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2001. 273 pp. $42.50.
Governance, Corruption, & Economic Performance . George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta, eds. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2002. 564 pp. $37.50 (paper).
Common Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance . Adrienne Héritier, ed. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 352 pp. $29.95 (paper), $74.00 (cloth).     

Politics without a centre

The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. By SUSAN STRANGE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xvii + 218, biblio., index. £14.95 (paper). ISBN 0–521–56440–9.

Uncertain Boundaries: The Social and Political Construction of European Economies. By MARINO REGINI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.x + 164, biblio., index. £30 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–47371–3

Internationalization and Domestic Politics. Edited by ROBERT O. KEOHANE and HELEN V. MILNER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 308, biblio., index. £14.95 (paper). ISBN 0–521–565587–1.

Balancing State Intervention: The Limits of Transatlantic Markets. Edited by ROGER BENJAMIN, C. RICHARD NEU and DENISE QUIGLEY. Pp. xiv + 274, index. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995. £40 (cloth). ISBN 0–333–64162–0.

Cash, Crisis, and Corporate Governance: The Role of National Financial Systems in Industrial Restructuring. By VICTORIA MARKLEW. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp.viii +260, biblio, index. $44.40 (cloth). ISBN 0–472–10504–3.