Books Received

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

Books Received

Advanced Democracies

American Exceptionalism and Human Rights. Edited by Michael Ignatieff. Princeton University Press, 2005. 353 pp.

If the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development. By Josiah Bartlett Lambert. Cornell University Press, 2005. 259 pp.

Popular Efficacy in the Democratic Era: A Reexamination of Electoral Accountability in the United States, 1828–2000. By Peter F. Nardulli. Princeton University Press, 2005. 266 pp.

Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11. By Robert Higgs. The Independent Institute, 2005. 252 pp.

Terms of Trust: Arguments Over Ethics in Australian Government. By John Uhr. University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 237 pp.

Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. By Brandice Canes-Wrone. University of Chicago Press, 2006. 192 pp.

Africa

The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development. By Timothy Murithi. Ashgate, 2005. 182 pp.

Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia. By Amos Sawyer. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 243 pp.

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. By Gerard Prunier. Cornell University Press, 2005. 212 pp.

Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. By Sheldon Gellar. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 222 pp.

We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999. By Gary Kynoch. Ohio University Press, 2005. 200 pp.

Asia

Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party State. By Ethan Scheiner. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 267 pp.

From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China. By Merle Goldman. Harvard University Press, 2005. 304 pp.

From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin: Two Decades of Political Reform in the People’s Republic of China. By Yiu-chung Wong. University Press of America, 2005. 356 pp.

Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. By Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler. Stanford University Press, 2005. 388 pp.

Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan. By Michael Hutt. Oxford University Press, 2005. 308 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Central Asia’s Second Chance. By Martha Brill Olcott. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. 250 pp.

Constraints and Opportunities of Leadership in Post-Communist Europe. By Tim Haughton. Ashgate, 2005. 186 pp.

Defending Rights in Russia: Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reforms in the Post-Soviet Era. By Pamela A. Jordan. University of British Columbia Press, 2005. 285 pp.

Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics. By M. Steven Fish. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 313 pp.

Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution. By Jonathan Wheatley. Ashgate, 2005. 258 pp.

Nations in Transit 2005: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia. Edited by Jeannette Goehring and Amanda Schnetzer. Freedom House, 2005. 731 pp.

A Quest for Political Integrity. By Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament. Polirom, 2005. 119 pp.

Serbia Since 1989: Politics and Society Under Milosevic and After. Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Vjeran Pavlokovic. University of Washington Press, 2005. 440 pp.

Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States. By Dovile Budryte. Ashgate, 2005. 244 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Características, Dinámicas y Condiciones de Emergencia: De las Pandillas en Bogotá. By Leandro Ramos. Georgetown University Press, 2005. 275 pp.

Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective. By Harold A. Trinkunas. University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 297 pp.

Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics. By Consuelo Cruz. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 281 pp.

Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization and the Rise of Consumer Protest. By Sybil Rhodes. SUNY Press, 2005. 228 pp.

Middle East

The Islam/West Debate: Documents from the World Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East. Edited by David Blankenhorn, et al. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 299 pp.

Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads. Edited by Raphael Cohen-Almagor. Routledge, 2005. 288 pp.

The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East. By Barry Rubin. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 296 pp...