Reviews

Bert van Selm, The Economics of Soviet Break‐up. London: Routledge, 1997, xii + 161 pp., £40.00.

Clifford G. Gaddy, The Price of the Past. Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarised Economy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1996, xiii + 250 pp., £20.95.

Mark Galeotti, Gorbachev and His Revolution. London: Macmillan, 1997, ix + 142 pp., £35.00 h/b, £9.99 p/b.

Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl & Melvin A. Goodman, The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze. London: Hurst & Company, 1997, xxiii +331pp., £29.50.

Justin Burke, Crimean Tatars: Repatriation and Conflict Prevention. New York: Open Society Institute, Forced Migrations Projects, 1996, 95 pp., distributed free.

Phil Williams (ed.), Russian Organized Crime. The New Threat? London: Frank Cass, 1997, 270 pp., £29.50 h/b, £16.50 p/b.

Karen Dawisha & Bruce Parrott (eds), Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xvii + 386 pp., £55.00 h/b, £19.95 p/b.

Joan Barth Urban & Valerii D. Solovei, Russia's Communists at the Crossroads. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997, xi + 209 pp., £14.00

Semyon Reznik, The Nazification of Russia: Antisemitism in the Post‐Soviet Era. Challenge Publications: Washington, DC, 1996.

Stephen J. Blank & Alvin Z. Rubinstein (eds), Imperial Decline. Russia's Changing Role in Asia. London: Duke University Press, 1997, vi + 296 pp. £14.95.

Miranda Vickers & James Pettifer, Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity. London: Hurst & Company, 1997, xii + 324 pp.

Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890–1990. From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, xviii + 445 pp. £52.50 h/b, £19.95 p/b.

Mark Harrison, Accounting for War. Soviet Production, Employment and the Defence Burden 1940–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xxxiv + 338 pp.

Arup Banerji, Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–30, Basingstoke; Macmillan, 1997, xxiv + 237 pp. £45.00.

Melissa Kirschke Stockdale, Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880–1918. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, xix + 379 pp., £29.95.

A. V. Buganov, Russkaya istoriya v pamyati krest'yan XIX veka i natsional'noe samosoznanie. Moscow: Institut etnologii i antropologii im. N. N. Minklukho‐Maklaya, 1992, 208 pp.     

Images,perceptions, and foreign policy: New directions in the study of Sino‐American relations

Harry Harding, A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972 (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1992).

Richard Madsen, China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995).

A. Owen Aldridge, The Dragon and the Eagle: The Presence of China in the American Enlightenment (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993).

David Shambaugh, Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972–1990 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Jie Chen, Ideology in US Foreign Policy: Case Studies in US China Policy (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1992).

Shu Guang Zhang, Deterrence and Strategic Culture: Chinese‐American Confrontations, 1949–1958 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).

Qiang Zhai, The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese‐British‐American Relations, 1949–1958 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1994).     

Book reviews

Cyril Smith, Marx at the Millennium, (Pluto Press, London 1996). 182pp. ISBN 0–7453–100–1 (pb).

Hans‐Henrik Holm and Georg Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War, (Westview Press, Boulder 1995). x.+246pp. ISBN 0–8133–2187–5 (pb).

David A.Smith and József Böröcz (eds), A New World Order? Global Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century, (Praeger, Westport 1995). xii+253pp. ISBN 0–275–95122–7.

Frank E. Manuel, A Requiem for Karl Marx, (Harvard University Press, 1995). 270pp. ISBN 0–674–76326–2.

Hanna Behrend (ed.), German Unification: the Destruction of an Economy, (Pluto Press, London 1995). 232pp. ISBN 0–7453–1003–6.

David Miller, On Nationality, (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995). 210pp. ISBN 0–19–828047–5.

Thom Keuhls, Beyond Sovereign Territory: The Space of Ecopolitics, (Borderlines Vol. 4, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1996). 168 pp. ISBN 0–8166–2467–4 (hb), 0–8166–2468–2 (pb).     

Term Limits: Causes and Consequences

This paper consults multiple literatures to specify andevaluate the economic rationales for term limitation,particularly on Congress. I first consider theories that aroseto explain, among related issues, why individual states mightunilaterally self-impose term limits on their own delegationsto Congress. Next I consider two main lines of argument foruniversal limits, both of which begin with the empiricalphenomenon of high and rising congressional tenure. First,supporters of term limits argue that higher tenure biaseslegislatures toward inefficiency big government (highspending). Second, higher tenure creates inefficient (anti-competitive) conditions in the legislative election market.Term limitation would remedy these inefficiencies by virtue ofdecreasing average tenure. These claims are then evaluated inlight of the evidence amassed in the literature. Based on theliterature reviewed, this paper finds that, while term limitswill reduce average tenure, there is no evidence to suggestthat term limits will affect the underlying causes of theseinefficiencies. Further research on a more general reform,which would strike deeper at these underlying causes, isimplied.     

Variables influencing the dating adjustment of university students

The author wished to determine the effect of selected variables on dating adjustment. Questionnaires were administered to 200 males and 130 females in introductory social science classes at a midwestern university. The results of stepwise regression indicated that the variables of frequency, commitment, and age of initial dating were the strongest influences on the dating adjustment of both sexes. Social orientation was found to be significant for the dating adjustment of males but not of females.Received his Ph.D. in sociology from Iowa State University. Current interest is the sociology of adolescence, particularly dating and sexual relations.