BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. ‘Special’ yes, but when and why? Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America, by Kathleen Burk. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead. Judicial corruption Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems, by Transparency International. Internet crimes Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, by David S. Wall. $$ and €€€ in the global world The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy, edited by Joaquín Roy and Pedro Gomis‐Porqueras. The engagement of media citizens Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention, by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham. Scotching the Scots The Scots and the Union, by Christopher Whatley. The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707, by Michael Fry. The Union of 1707: Why and How, by Paul Henderson Scot. Citizens and supercapitalists Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life, by Robert Reich. More Blair effects Blair's Britain, 1997–2007, edited by Anthony Seldon. Carl Schmitt: a scholarly Nazi Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The ‘Jewish Question’, The Holocaust and German Legal Theory, by Raphael Gross. Ein gefährlicher Geist. Carl Schmitts Wirkung in Europa, by Jan‐Werner Müller. Carl Schmitt, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Briefwechsel 1918–1935, edited by Rolf Rieß. Hans Blumenberg, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel, edited by Alexander Schmitz and Marcel Lepper. Gretha Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel (1934–1953), edited by Ingeborg Villinger and Alexander Jaser.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Uniting the United Kingdom? The Making of British History, edited by Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485–1725, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Sarah Barber. A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707, edited by John Robertson. The British Problem, c.1534–1707, edited by Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill. Macmillan. Three Nations—A Common History? England, Scotland, Ireland and British History c.1600–1920, edited by Ronald G. Asch. Brockmeyer. Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603, edited by Roger A. Mason. The Monarchy and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor. The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution, by Peter Hennessy. Prime Minster, Cabinet and Core Executive, edited by R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy. SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King. Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age, by John Gray. The Way We Live Now, by Richard Hoggart. Arts and Cultures: The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain, by Andrew Sinclair. The Faber Book of Science, edited by John Carey. But is it True? by Aaron Wildavsky. Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of the European Union 1973–95, by Keith Middlemas. Living Islam:From Samarkand to Stomoway, by Akbar S. Ahmed. Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet is both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy, by Benjamin Barber. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age by Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman. National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War edited by Craig Eisendrath.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Multiculturalism and Britishness BERNARD CRICK Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain, by Tariq Modood No Rock ‘n’ Roll for Joschka Fischer Arne Hofmann Die Rückkehr der Geschichte: Die Welt nach dem 11. September und die Erneuerung des Westens (The Return of History: The World after September 11 and the Reconstruction of the West), by Joschka Fischer Russia and the Kosovo Crisis Vassilis Fouskas Collision Course: NATO, Russia and Kosovo, by John Norris with a Foreword by Strobe Talbott Patten's Progress Mark Garnett Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs, by Chris Patten Civil Society: The Historian's View Matthew Grant Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions, edited by Jose Harris Not Quite Lawless Pavlos Eleftheriadis Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, by Philippe Sands The Meanings of Genocide Lars Fischer The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century, by Manus Midlarsky The Meaning of Genocide (Genocide in the Age of the Nation State I), by Mark Levene. I. B. Tauris The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (Genocide in the Age of the Nation State IT), by Mark Levene. I. B. Lauris Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, edited by Johannes‐Dieter Steinert and Inge Weber‐Newth Down with Political Parties? Paul Webb The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution, by Keith Sutherland What To Do with the USA? Richard Briand Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy, by Stephen M. Walt. Norton Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War, by Carl Boggs The 2005 Election Reassessed Richard S. Grayson The British General Election of 2005, by Dennis Kavanagh and David Butler Britain Votes 2005, edited by Pippa Norris and Christopher Wlezien Neither Left nor Right? The Liberal Democrats and the Electorate, by Andrew Russell and Edward Fieldhouse The Importance of the Opponent Yannis Stavrakakis On the Political, by Chantal Mouffe     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Nineteen Men and One Woman DICK LEONARD The 20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century, twenty volumes, general editor Francis Beckett. Britain's Prime Ministers, by Roger Ellis and Geoffrey Treasure. Contra Blair Richard Briand Yo, Blair!: Tony Blair's Disastrous Premiership, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft. The columnist's progress Mark Garnett What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way, by Nick Cohen. The neo‐con and Iraq Martin Durham The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq, edited by Gary Rosen. The road to hell … Dick Pountain The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order, by David Runciman.     

Book Reviews

Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 252 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, edited by Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001, 268 pp., $42.95. Reviewed by Daniel H. Weinberg Red Tape and Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by Thomas Bier Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 310 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan‐Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $40.00. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, by David G. Victor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 178 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Falkner Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Stephen Van Evera, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 270 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Erik Gartzke Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, by T. V. Paul. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2000, 227 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Leonard S. Spector The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 650 pp., $11.87 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. The End of the Nation‐state: The Rise of the Regional Economies, by Kenichi Ohmae, New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1995, 214 pp., $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, 386 pp., $18.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.     

Review Essay

Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Toward a Comprehensive Perspective, edited by Gregory A. Daneke. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1982.

Nuclear Power: Both Sides. The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology, edited by Michio Kaku and Jennifer Trainer. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Bush's Indecisive Decisions
GIANFRANCO PASQUINO Decision Points, by George W. Bush. Anger, pessimism and community
Richard Mullender The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton. Forever learning
Brian Groombridge Remaking Adult Learning, edited by Jay Derrick, Ursula Howard, John Field, Peter Lavender, Sue Meyer, Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein and Tom Schuller. The ‘good’ migrant
Anne Kershen Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London, by Maritsa V. Poros. Imagining migrants
Tiziana Caponio Migration, Public Opinion and Politics: The Transatlantic Council on Migration, edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung and Migration Policy Institute. Dissenting communists
Maud Anne Bracke L'appuntamento mancato. La sinistra italiana e il dissenso nei regimi comunisti, 1968–1989, by Valentine Lomellini. Not a rose‐tinted view
Richard Briand Ages of Reform: Dawns and Downfalls of the British Left, by Kenneth O. Morgan. The people's flag is deepest green
Dick Pountain The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth, by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Conciliating the Irish Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789–2006, by Paul Bew. The lobby of all lobbies? The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, by John J. Meirsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Algeria's dead—does anyone care? Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed, by Martin Evans and John Phillips. Patriotic intentions Patriotism and Other Mistakes, by George Kateb. Tony Benn, Human Being More Time for Politics: Diaries, 2001–2007, by Tony Benn, selected and edited by Ruth Winstone. Churchill the Zionist Churchill and the Jews, by Martin Gilbert. British communists under the microscope Communists and British Society, 1920–1991, by Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn. The Romanian revolution revisited The Romanian Revolution of December 1989, by Peter Siani‐Davies. Comrades of the world: you are history! Comrades: A World History of Communism, by Robert Service.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. A breed apart: the Waziristan model
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Thistle and the Drone. How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, by Akbar Ahmed. Inventing history or inventing Israel?
Dennis Marks The Invention of the Land of Israel, by Shlomo Sands. Explaining the Congo wars
Sara Hellmüller Congo, by Thomas Turner. Not so right‐wing after all
Richard Briand Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–1965, by Michael Burleigh. Caucasian problems and old Russian questions
Andrew Wachtel The Fire Below. How the Caucasus Shaped Russia, edited by Robert Bruce Ware. Capitalism versus democracy?
Gianfranco Pasquino Politics in The Age of Austerity, edited by Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck. Anti‐colonialism with a hint of nostalgia
Arifa Akbar From the Ruins of the Empire. The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra. What to do with the toffs and the not‐so‐toffs
Meg Russell The House of Lords 1911–2011: A Century of Non‐Reform, by Chris Ballinger. How liberal was John Stuart Mill?
Duncan Kelly Mill and Paternalism, by Gregory Claeys. Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations, by Georgios Varouxakis. War on terror: ‘Collateral damage’ in Britain
Laleh Khalili Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror, by Victoria Brittain.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule by Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas. The e‐Connected World: Risks and Opportunities edited by Stephen Coleman.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

Time warp in American politics

Among her books are Conflict in Africa: Concepts and Realities; The Future of Law in a Multicultural World;and Strategic Intelligence and Statecraft;and Politics and Culture in International History: From the Acient Near East to the Opening of the Modern Age,a new edition of which has been published by Transaction.     

The Peculiarities of Neo-Cons

Books reviewed What's the Matter with America?, by Thomas Frank. Secker & Warburg. 306 pp. £12.99. Neoconservatism, edited by Irwin Stelzer. Atlantic Books. 328 pp. £19.99. Capital Resurgent. Roots of the Neo‐liberal Revolution, by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy. Harvard University Press. 288pp. £35.95. The Suffering of the Immigrant by Abdelmalek Sayad ; preface by Pierre Bourdieu . Polity Press. xvii + 340 pp. £19.99 and £55.00. The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty‐First Century, by Barry Buzan. Polity. 256 pp. £15.99 and £55. Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb. A Memoir, by Strobe Talbott. Brookings Institute Press. 270 pp. £21.50. America Alone: The Neo‐Conservatives and the Global Order, by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. Cambridge University Press. xii + 369 pp. £20.     

Marine biologist on a white horse

Modern Japan: A Historical Survey, by Mikiso Hane. Westview Press, Boulder CO, San Francisco and Oxford, 2nd edn. 1992. xiii + 473 pp., maps. £13.50 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–1368–6.

The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After: A Study of National Growth and Expansion, by Nazli Choucri, Robert North and Susumu Yamakage. Routledge, London and New York, 1992. xxix + 383 pp., maps, figs., tables. £45. ISBN 0–415–07589–0.

Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A political biography, by Stephan S. Large. Routledge, London and New York, 1992. xi + 249 pp. £30. ISBN 0–415–03203–2.

Showa: The Japan of Hirohito, edited by Carol Gluck and Stephan R. Graubard. W. W. Norton, New York and London, 1992. lxii + 315 pp. ISBN 0–393–02984–0.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: America's Choice 2000: Entering a New Millenium edited by William Crotty. The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election by James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch.     

Book Reviews

European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Refugees and migrants: the globalisation of indifference
 VICTORIA BRITTAIN Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control, by Bridget Anderson. Borderline Justice. The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights, by Frances Webber. Bad News for Refugees, by Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald. The Walking, by Laleh Khadivi. North Korea: as mysterious as ever
 Seung‐Young Kim Only Beautiful, Please. A British Diplomat in North Korea, by John Everard. World government and realistic utopianism
 Richard Mullender Governing the World: The History of an Idea, by Mark Mazower. Good ol’1970s
 Patrick Diamond Reassessing 1970s Britain, edited by Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton and Pat Thane. Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice, by David Sainsbury. Oh why, oh why, oh why?
 Dick Leonard The Blunders of our Governments, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. The social basis of electoral reform
 Geoff Kennedy Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth‐Century West, by Dennis Pilon. Context rules over electoral rules
 Gianfranco Pasquino Electoral Systems and Political Context, by Robert G. Moser and Ethan Scheiner. Lacan et al. in post‐apartheid South Africa
 Saul Dubow (Post)Apartheid Conditions. Psychoanalysis and Social Formation, by Derek Hook. The expansion of same‐sex marriage
 Donna Smith The Same Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies. International Norms and Domestic Policy Change, by Kelly Kollman. Hollywood and the politics of stars
 Mark Glancy Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, by Steven J. Ross. Gladstone in the left corner, Disraeli in the right
 Richard Briand The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli, by Dick Leonard. Loving the Lords?
 Lord Lipsey (David Lipsey) The Contemporary House of Lords. Westminster Bicameralism Revived, by Meg Russell.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A. B. Atkinson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment, by Paul Pierson. Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water, by William A. Maloney and Jeremy Richardson. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, by Stanley Fish. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, by Will Kymlicka. The Rights of Minority Cultures, edited by Will Kymlicka. Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Economic Growth and Political Change in Asia, by Graham Field. American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword, by Seymour Martin Lipset. Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, by Zeev Sternhell, trans. David Maisel. Strategies for Self-Govemment: The Campaigns for a Scottish Parliament, by James Mitchell. The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Norbert Elias, edited by Michael Schröter, translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Chinning and Stephen Mennell.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Social democracy: Is there any hope left?
 HELEN THOMPSON Making Capitalism Fit for Society, by Colin Crouch. And once again: Social democracy, what is to be done?
 Michele Di Donato Progressive Politics after the Crash. Governing from the Left, edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan. The surge of ‘post‐ism’: no more comprehensive solutions?
 Derek Hook Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement. Interpretation and Action, by Uri Hadar. A voice from Wales: Unionism, Scotland and the case for federalism
 Jonathan Bradbury The Reformed Union, The UK as a Federation, by David Melding. Democracies don't bluff
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Confidence Trap. A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman. The revolutionary Pankhurst
 June Hannam Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire, by Katherine Connelly. Orwell, the patriotic rebel
 Lindsay Duguid George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls. Getting on and getting old
 Brian Groombridge Out of Time. The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing, by Lynne Segal. Alan Johnson: the genuine (working‐class) article?
 D. J. Taylor This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood, by Alan Johnson.