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  • 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

The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism. By Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh. University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 266 pp.
American Government: Readings and Cases. By Karen O’Connor. Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 475 pp.
Before Equal Suffrage: Women in Partisan Politics from Colonial Times to 1920. By Robert J. Dinkin. Greenwood, 1995. 166 pp.
Cautious Revolution: The European Union Arrives. By Clifford Hackett. 2nd ed. Praeger, 1995. 237 pp.
Democracy, Education, and the Schools. Edited by Roger Soder. Jossey-Bass, 1996. 293 pp.
Disintegration or Transformation? The Crisis of the State in Advanced Industrial Societies. Edited by Patrick McCarthy and Erik Jones. St. Martin’s, 1995. 202 pp.
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-Five: Union Without Unity. Edited by Peter H. Merkl. New York University Press, 1995. 500 pp.
Is NAFTA Constitutional? By Bruce Ackerman and David Golove. Harvard University Press, 1996. 129 pp.
Japan and Germany in the Modern World. By Bernd Martin. Berghahn Books, 1995. 303 pp.
Japan’s Role in the Post–Cold War World. By Richard D. Leitch Jr., Akira Kato, and Martin E. Weinstein. Greenwood, 1995. 223 pp.
Two Centuries of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Documentary Record. Edited by Stephen J. Valone. Praeger, 1995. 188 pp.
The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy. By James S. Fishkin. Yale University Press, 1995. 204 pp. [End Page 175]

Africa

African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking. Edited by David R. Smock and Chester A. Crocker. United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995. 176 pp.
Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa. Edited by Harvey Glickman. African Studies Association Press, 1995. 484 pp.
The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa. By Barbara Callaway and Lucy Creevey. Lynne Rienner, 1995. 219 pp.
Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy: Gender and Development in Africa. By April A. Gordon. Lynne Rienner, 1996. 218 pp.

Asia

Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform. By Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Stanford University Press, 1995. 366 pp.
The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines. By Mark R. Thompson. Yale University Press, 1996. 258 pp.
Corazon Aquino and the Brushfire Revolution. By Robert H. Reid and Eileen Guerrero. Louisiana State University Press, 1995. 260 pp.
Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia: The Winds of Change. By Clark D. Neher and Ross Marlay. Westview, 1996. 220 pp.
Government-NGO Relations in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for People-Centred Development. Edited by Noeleen Heyzer, James V. Riker, and Antonio B. Quizon. St. Martin’s, 1996. 247 pp.
Human Rights and Chinese Values. Edited by Michael C. Davis, Oxford University Press, 1995. 216 pp.
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford University Press, 1995. 446 pp.
Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization. By Alan M. Wachman. M.E. Sharpe, 1994. 294 pp.
Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia. By Daniel A. Bell, David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David Martin Jones. St. Martin’s, 1995. 197 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Adam Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on Radical Reform. By Walter Adams and James W. Brock. Princeton University Press, 1993. 179 pp.
Challenges for Russian Economic Reform. Edited by Alan Smith. Brookings Institution, 1995. 275 pp.
Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. By Timothy J. Colton. Harvard University Press, 1996. 939 pp.
Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. Edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu. M.E. Sharpe, 1995. 384 pp.
Radical Reform in Yeltsin’s Russia: Political, Economic, and Social Dimensions. By Lynn D. Nelson and Irina Y. Kuzes. M.E. Sharpe, 1995. 256 pp.
The Regional Dimension of Transformation in Central Europe. By Grzegorz Gorzelak. Regional Studies Association, 1996. 152 pp.
Remaking Russia: Voices from Within. Edited by Heyward Isham. M.E. Sharpe, 1995. 330 pp. [End Page 176]
The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. By John B. Dunlop. Princeton University Press, 1993. 388 pp.
The Russian People Speak: Democracy at the Crossroads. By Nikolai...

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