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  • A PEGS ReaderRecent and Recommended Books
Bellamy, Richard. Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defense of the Constitutionality of Democracy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Bohman, James. Democracy Across Borders: From Demos to Demoi. (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2007).
Bonner, David. Executive Measures, Terrorism and National Security: Have the Rules of the Game Changed? (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007).
Briggs, Xavier de Souza. Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacities in Communities Across the Globe. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
Buckley, Jack and Mark Schneider. Charter Schools: Hope or Hype? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
Gellar, Sheldon. Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Goodman, Len E. and Robert Talisse. (Eds.) Aristotle's Politics Today. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007).
Howard, Christopher. The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
Isin, Engin F. (Ed.) Recasting the Social in Citizenship. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Jackson, Robert. Sovereignty: The Evolution of an Idea (Polity Press, 2007).
Kalyvas, Andreas and Ira Katznelson. Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Lebow, Richard Ned. Coercion, Cooperation, and Ethics in International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2007).
Little, Richard. The Balance of Power in International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Loury, Glenn C. Race, Incarceration, and American Values. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
McBride, Keally. Punishment and Political Order. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007).
Rahe, Paul A. Against Throne and Alter: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic. (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Savoie, David J. Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Schwartzberg, Melissa. Democracy and Legal Change. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Slaughter, Anne-Marie. The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. (New York: Basic Books, 2007).
Sunstein, Cass R. Worst-Case Scenarios. (Harvard University Press, 2007).
Tribe, Lawrence H. The Invisible Constitution. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Vandeheiden, Steve (Ed.) Political Theory and Global Climate Change. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
Varnelis, Kazys. (Ed.) Networked Publics. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
Williams, Melissa S. and Jeremy Waldron. Toleration and Its Limits. (New York: NYU Press, 2008).

Recent and Recommended Articles

Adler, Emanuel. "The Spread of Security Communities: Communities of Practice, Self-Restraint, and NATO's Post Cold War Transformation." European Journal of International Relations, 14:2 (2008): 195-230.
Beardsworth, Richard. "Tragedy, World Politics and Ethical Community." International Relations, 22:1 (March 2008).
Dorf, Michael C. "The Detention and Trial of Enemy Combatants: A Drama in Three Branches." Political Science Quarterly, 122:1 (Spring 2007): 47-58.
Esquith, Stephen L. "The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership." Perspectives on Politics, Volume 5, Issue 4 (December 2007): 804-805. [End Page 80]
Heinze, Eric A. "The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared." Political Science Quarterly, 122:3 (Fall 2007): 359-383.
Hemmer, Christopher. "The Lessons of September 11, Iraq, and the American Pendulum." Political Science Quarterly, 22:2 (Summer 2007): 207-238.
Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War." American Political Science Review, 100:3 (2006).
Krebs, Ronald R. and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. "Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms: The Power of Political Rhetoric." European Journal of International Relations, 13:1 (2007): 35-66.
La Caze, Marguerite. "At the Intersection: Kant, Derrida, and the Relation between Ethics and Politics." Political Theory, 35 (2007): 781-805.
Muthu, Sankar. "Adam Smith's Critique of International Trading Companies: Theorizing "Globalization" in the Age of Enlightenment." Political Theory, 36 (2008): 185-212.
Perry, Elizabeth J. "Chinese Conceptions of "Rights": From Mencius to Mao—and Now." Perspectives on Politics...

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