Rebuilding Bosnia: A Model to Emulate or to Avoid?
PATRICE C. McMAHON assesses international strategies for rebuilding Bosnia- Herzegovina. She contends that international involvement there has been a model to both emulate and avoid and that the successes and failures in Bosnia provide a timely test case for the efficacy of Western nation-building efforts.

The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective
EVA BELLIN draws on comparative historical analysis to explore the question can military occupation serve as the midwife to democracy? She challenges the relevance of America’s historically successful occupation of Germany and Japan to the current intervention in Iraq because of the cases’ fundamental incomparability. Broader comparison suggests that military occupation may improve the chances of democratization but overall, the outcome is largely shaped by other factors, domestic and international.

What Was the Cold War about? Evidence from Its Ending
John Mueller assesses the rhetoric and actions of important international actors and concludes that the Cold War essentially ended in the spring of 1989. This suggests that the Cold War was principally about an ideological conflict and not about the military, nuclear, or economic balance or about Communism as a form of government -issues that would be resolved later.

Presidents, Responsiveness, and Competence: Revisiting the "Golden Age" at the Bureau of the Budget
Matthew J. Dickinson and Andrew Rudalevige analyze the tension between neutrality and responsiveness in presidential staff agencies, focusing on the Bureau of the Budget (BoB) under President Harry S. Truman. They find that the BoB was very responsive to Truman’s political needs-but that those needs were best served by a neutrally competent BoB exhibiting professionalism, careerism, and administrative competence.

Blacks on the Bench
NANCY SCHERER analyzes the voting behavior of judges in the United States Courts of Appeals in criminal search and seizure decisions. She concludes that black judges appear more willing than white judges to accept claims by criminal defendants of police misconduct and that in certain cases, race may in fact impact judicial decision making.

Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War, John Prados ; A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, James Bamford
Reviewed by Robert Jervis

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, John Lewis Gaddis
Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, Michael Ignatieff
Reviewed by Jerome M. Slater

The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Reviewed by Richard Storatz

The Politics of Executive Privilege, Louis Fisher
Reviewed by Athan Theoharis

Islam without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists, Raymond William Baker
Reviewed by Samer Shehata

The First War on Terrorism: Counter-Terrorism Policy during the Reagan Administration, David C. Wills
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos

Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics, Dante J. Scala
Reviewed by Audrey A. Haynes

The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates, Paul S. Herrnson, Clyde Wilcox, Lynda W. Powell, John C. Green and Peter Francia
Reviewed by Burdett A. Loomis

The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy, Mark Clarence Walker
Reviewed by Jody Baumgartner

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution, Evan Gerstmann
Reviewed by Kenneth Sherrill

Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination, Timothy Macklem
Reviewed by Gordon A. Babst

White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliot Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer and Marjorie M. Shult
Reviewed by Richard M. Valelly

Immigration and Politics in the New Europe: Reinventing Borders, Gallya Lahav
Reviewed by Steven A. Weldon

Interest Representation in the European Union, Justin Greenwood
Reviewed by John K. Glenn

The European Parliament, David Judge and David Earnshaw
Reviewed by Erik Jones

The Future of NATO Expansion: Four Case Studies, Zoltan Barany
Reviewed by Robert E. Hunter

The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift, Geir Lundestad
Reviewed by Andreas W. Daum

Preserving Power through Coalitions: Comparing the Grand Strategy of Great Britain and the United States, Maria Sampanis
Reviewed by Jakub Grygiel

States and Markets: A Primer in Political Economy, Adam Przeworski
Reviewed by Macartan Humphreys

Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty, Judith Russell
Reviewed by Edward D. Berkowitz

Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present, Lawrence S. Wittner
Reviewed by David S. Meyer

Military Intervention: Cases in Context for the Twenty-First Century, William J. Lahneman, ed.
Reviewed by John F. Clark

The Geography of Ethnic Violence, Monica Duffy Toft
Reviewed by Steven L. Burg

Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order, Gerry Simpson
Reviewed by David A. Deese

The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil, Omar G. Encarnación
Reviewed by Bruce P. Chadwick

Collective Political Violence: An Introduction to the Theories and Cases of Violent Conflicts, Earl Conteh-Morgan
Reviewed by Ted Robert Gurr

The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now, Carnes Lord
Reviewed by Stacy Bergstrom Haldi

Thomas Jefferson, R. B. Bernstein
Reviewed by Jan Ellen Lewis

The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941, Edward M. Coffman
Reviewed by Jay M. Parker

Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology, Thomas Bernauer
Reviewed by Eugene B. Skolnikoff