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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 Battle for Florida: An Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election. Edited by Lance deHaven-Smith. University Press of Florida, 2005. 323 pp.
Building Europe’s Parliament: Democratic Representation Beyond the Nation-State. By Berthold Rittberger. Oxford University Press, 2005. 234 pp.
A Democratic Audit of the European Union. By Christopher Lord. Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. 256 pp.
John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. By Jeffrey H. Morrison. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 220 pp.
The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course. By Richard N. Haas. PublicAffairs, 2005.
Organizing U.S. Foreign Aid: Confronting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century. By Carol Lancaster and Ann Van Dusen. Brookings, 2005. 78 pp.
Partners or Rivals? European-American Relations After Iraq. Edited by Matthew Evangelista and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi. Vita e Pensiero, 2005. 350 pp.
Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion (vols. 1 and 2). Edited by Samuel J. Best and Benjamin Radcliff. Greenwood, 2005. 927 pp.
The Supreme Court in the American Legal System. By Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Sara C. Benesh. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 409 pp.
True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism. By Noah Pickus. Princeton University Press, 2005. 257 pp.

Africa

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence. By Martin Meredith. PublicAffairs, 2005. 752 pp.

Asia

Deepening Democracy: Challenges of Governance and Globalization in India. By Madhu Purnima Kishwar. Oxford University Press, 2005. 333 pp.
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. By Husain Haqqani. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. 175 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe. By David Ost. Cornell University Press, 2005. 238 pp.
Developments in Russian Politics. Edited by Stephen White, Zvi Gitelman, and Richard Sakwa. Duke University Press, 2005. 284 pp.
Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform, and the Theft of a Nation. By Tom Gallagher. New York University Press, 2005. 428 pp.
Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Cas Mudde. Taylor and Francis, 2005. 314 pp.
Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet to Post-Soviet Russia, 1985–2000. By Marc Garcelon. Temple University Press, 2005. 328 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes. By Kathleen O’Neill. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 275 pp.
Fujimori’s Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere. By Catherine M. Conaghan. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 328 pp.
The Impact of Norms in International Society: The Latin American Experience, 1881–2001. By Arie M. Kacowicz. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 232 pp.
The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America. Edited by Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 413 pp.
Transforming Latin America. By Craig Arceneaux and David Pion-Berlin. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 267 pp.

Middle East

Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance. Edited by Marsha Pripstein Posusney and Michele Penner Angrist. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 275 pp.
Engagement Through Disengagement: Gaza and the Potential for Renewed Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking. By David Makovsky. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2005. 139 pp.
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. By Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson. University of Chicago Press, 2005. 345 pp.
The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. Edited by Brendan O’Leary, et al. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 384 pp.
Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse. By Mansoor Moaddel. University of Chicago Press, 2005. 424 pp.
The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration’s Second Term. Edited by Flynt Leverett. Brookings, 2005. 107 pp.
Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians. By Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley. Temple University Press, 2005. 224 pp.
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times. 4th ed. By Margaret K. Nydell. Intercultural, 2005. 202 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology: Value, Theory and Evidence in Historical Sciences. By Mohammad Nafissi. Institute of Classical Studies, 2005. 325 pp...

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