The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared
ERIC A. HEINZE compares the U.S. response to the crisis in Darfur to that of the Rwandan genocide ten years earlier. He concludes that prevailing domestic and international political realities during the debate over the Darfur crisis allowed U.S. administration officials to use the rhetoric of genocide as a substitute for taking more forceful action to stop the killings.

The State Secrets Privilege: Relying on Reynolds
Louis Fisher analyzes the state secrets privilege, which permits the executive branch to withhold certain documents requested in litigation. In examining United States v. Reynolds (1953), the first Supreme Court case to recognize and uphold the privilege, he concludes that the decision presented an incoherent policy leading to judicial abdication and that the executive branch misled the Court on the content of key documents.

The UN Security Council’s Response to Terrorism: Before and After September 11, 2001
HILDE HAALAND KRAMER and STEVE A. YETIV argue that the UN Security Council’s response to global terrorism has been more forceful and comprehensive since September 11 and that it has broken some new ground. The authors posit that although the UN remains controversial in the United States, Washington benefited from its response to September 11, as imperfect as it was.

Sustaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa
STEPHEN J. KING focuses on how incumbent elites in the Arab world create political support during periods of authoritarian transformation. His argument highlights how these elites use certain institutions to sustain authoritarian rule.

On the Crossing of Rubicons: Norm Dissemination and Policy Idiosyncrasy in the UK
KENDALL W. STILES and DEBORAH WELLS posit that patterns with respect to international law endorsement hold in the case of Britain’s endorsement of the European Convention on Human Rights. They argue that this, however, conceals a much more complex and counter-intuitive set of causal dynamics below the surface.

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, Ron Suskind
Reviewed by Akira Iriye

China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World, John W. Garver
Reviewed by ANDREW J. NATHAN

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter
Reviewed by Jerome Slater

Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder, Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley
Reviewed by Dipak Gupta

Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis, Patrick James, David Carment and Zeynep Taydas
Reviewed by Aysegul Aydin

State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, Bob Woodward
Reviewed by Stanley A. Renshon

The America that Reagan Built, J. David Woodard
Reviewed by Andrew Rudalevige

Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future, Geoffrey Perret
Reviewed by Melvin Small

The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, Chris Tudda
Reviewed by Jay M. Parker

The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents, Colleen J. Shogan
Reviewed by Adam L. Warber

A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen, Scott Keeter, Cliff Zukin, Michael X. Delli Carpini, Molly Andolina and Krista Jenkins
Reviewed by David E. Campbell

At the Front Lines of the Welfare System: A Perspective on the Decline in Welfare Caseloads, Irene Lurie
Reviewed by Sanford F. Schram

Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy, Diana C. Mutz
Reviewed by Benjamin I. Page

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, Sarah Igo
Reviewed by Ken Dautrich

The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform, John Samples
Reviewed by James E. Campbell

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil, Mark A. Graber
Reviewed by Richard M. Valelly

Images, Issues, and Attacks: Television Advertising by Incumbents and Challengers in Presidential Elections, E.D. Dover
Reviewed by Stephen J. Farnsworth

Mandate Politics, James A. Stimson, Lawrence J. Grossback and David A.M. Peterson
Reviewed by Raymond Tatalovich

The Presidential Agenda: Sources of Executive Influence in Congress, Roger T. Larocca
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Peake

The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004, Daron R. Shaw
Reviewed by Michael John Burton

Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power, Randall Schweller
Reviewed by Richard Rosecrance

Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States, Susan B. Hansen
Reviewed by Duane Swank

National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945, Christopher Rudolph
Reviewed by Steve J. Mazurana

Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Derek D. Smith
Reviewed by Andrew H. Kydd

Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics, Carol Lancaster
Reviewed by Phyllis R. Pomerantz

China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, Minxin Pei
Reviewed by David Bachman

Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism, Steven Kent Vogel
Reviewed by Dennis Patterson

Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico, Matthew Cleary and Susan Carol Stokes
Reviewed by Chappell Lawson

Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico, Beatriz Magaloni
Reviewed by David A. Shirk

Rotten States? Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism, Leslie Holmes
Reviewed by Graeme B. Robertson

The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don’t Get, Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton
Reviewed by Lauren Cohen Bell

The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present, Christopher Layne
Reviewed by Chaim Kaufmann

The Politics of AIDS in Africa, Amy S. Patterson
Reviewed by Josh Busby