Books Received

The books listed below were recently received by the editors. A listing here does not preclude a review in a future issue.

Advanced Democracies

African Americans and the Politics of Congressional Redistricting. By Dewey M. Clayton. Garland, 2000. 208 pp.

Ambivalent Embrace: America's Troubled Relations with Spain from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War. By Rodrigo Botero. Greenwood, 2001. 176 pp.

Citizenship and Immigration in Post-war Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation. By Randall Hansen. Oxford University Press, 2000. 301 pp.

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. By Mary L. Dudziak. Princeton University Press, 2000. 330 pp.

Congressional Abdication on War and Spending. By Louis Fisher. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 220 pp.

Democracy and the Information Society in Europe. Edited by the European Commision. Palgrave, 2000. 178 pp.

Direct Democracy or Representative Government?: Dispelling the Populist Myth. By John Haskell. Westview, 2001. 212 pp.

Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Edited by Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam. Princeton University Press, 2000. 362 pp.

Europe As I See It. By Romano Prodi. Translated by Allen Cameron. Polity, 2000. 152 pp.

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000. By Joel Schwartz. Indiana University Press, 2000. 376 pp.

George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency. Edited by Mark J. Rozell, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams. Praeger, 2000. 224 pp.

German Politics Today. By Geoffrey K. Roberts. Manchester University Press, 2000. 221 pp.

Global America: Imposing Liberalism on a Recalcitrant World. By David Mosler and Bob Catley. Praeger, 2000. 240 pp.

Governing Race: Policy, Process, and the Politics of Race. By Nina M. Moore. Praeger, 2000. 248 pp.

Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election. Edited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst. University of Queensland Press, 2000. 260 pp.

The Military Challenges of Transatlantic Coalitions. By James P. Thomas. Oxford University Press, 2000. 92 pp.

Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860. By Christopher J. Olsen. Oxford University Press, 2000. 266 pp.

Realism and American Foreign Policy: Wilsonians and the Kennan-Morgenthau Thesis. By Steven J. Bucklin. Praeger, 2000. 176 pp.

The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860. By Leonard L. Richards. Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 228 pp.

Africa

Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds. Edited by Jakkie Cilliers and Christian Dietrich. Institute for Security Studies, 2000. 370 pp.

Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent. By Herman J. Cohen. Palgrave, 2000. 268 pp.

Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy. By John L. Hirsch. Lynne Rienner, 2001. 171 pp.

The South African Truth Commission: The Politics of Reconciliation. By Dorothy Shea. United States Institute of Peace, 2000. 128 pp.

Asia

East Asian Democratization: Impact of Globalization, Culture, and Economy. By Robert W. Compton, Jr. Praeger, 2000. 208 pp.

Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia. Edited by Michael Jacobsen and Ole Bruun. Curzon, 2000. 330 pp.

Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors. Edited by David Shambaugh. M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 177 pp.

Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia. Edited by Louise Williams and Roland Rich. Asia Pacific Press at the Australian National University, 2000. 282 pp.

Nuclear Proliferation in the Indian Subcontinent: The Self-Exhausting "Superpowers" and Emerging Alliances. By Hooman Peimani. Praeger, 2000. 168 pp.

The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society. By Sunhyuk Kim. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 196 pp.

The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific. Edited by Hung-mao Tien and Tun-jen Cheng. M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 353 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin. By Eric Shiraev and Vladislav Zubok. Palgrave, 2000. 182 pp.

Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. By Stephen F. Cohen. W.W. Norton, 2000. 304 pp.

A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System. By Juliet...