Gorbachev's Program of Change: Sources, Significance, Prospects
Seweryn Bialer gives a comprehensive analysis of the changes going on in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Gorbachev. This article is part of PSQ's policy of occasionally publishing pieces by senior scholars and statesmen that argue a point of view based primarily on their long-term personal experience and insights.

Representation and Governance: The Great Legislative Trade-off
Kenneth A. Shepsle explores the importance of a legislative division of labor and power in the American Congress. He suggests that recent reforms, termed a "representational revolt," have compromised the capacity of Congress to play a role independent of the president.

Peacekeeping Operations and the Quest for Peace
Paul F. Diehl analyzes the conditions that make for success or failure in peacekeeping operations. He concludes that operations are more successful when all combatants, including third parties, cooperate and the conflict is not a civil war. He further argues that superpower behavior has a minimal role once the operation has begun, but the location of deployment and the neutrality of the peacekeeping troops are significant.

Misguided Morality: Ethics and the Reagan Doctrine
Robert H. Johnson examines the moral arguments for the U.S. policy of supporting guerrilla forces attempting to overthrow Marxist-Leninist regimes in the Third World. He argues that the moral case for that policy is not well grounded in Third World political reality and that most of the arguments made by its supporters relating to the morality of the ends, means, and consequences of the doctrine are not sustainable.

Who Talked to the President When? A Study of Lyndon B. Johnson
James J. Best examines the people with whom Lyndon Johnson interacted during the first twenty-five months of his presidency, using LBJ's presidential diaries as a data base. He finds significant changes over time in whom Johnson interacted with, how he interacted with them, and when.

Beyond American Hegemony: The Future of the Western Alliance, David P. Calleo
Reviewed by Stanley Hoffmann

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, Paul Kennedy
Reviewed by Harold James

Cold War or Detente in the 1980s: The International Politics of American- Soviet Relations, Peter Savigear
Reviewed by Alexander Dallin

Extended Deterrence: The United States and NATO Europe, Stephen J. Cimbala
Reviewed by Philip W. Dyer

The Limited Partnership: Europe, the United States, and the Burdens of Alliance, Josef Joffe
Reviewed by Philip Gordon

Chadha: The Story of an Epic Constitutional Struggle, Barbara Hinkson Craig
Reviewed by David Adamany

State Supreme Courts in State and Nation, G. Alan Tarr and Mary Cornelia Aldis Porter
Reviewed by Herbert Jacob

The Cult of the Court, John Brigham
Reviewed by Lettie Wenner

The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence, Bruce Cain, John Ferejohn and Morris Fiorina
Reviewed by William H. Flanigan

The Soviet Union and Ballistic Missile Defense, Bruce Parrott ; SDI and Industrial Technology Policy: Threat or Opportunity?, Walter Zegveld and Christien Enzing
Reviewed by Peter C. Sederberg

The Nuclear Fallacy: Dispelling the Myth of Nuclear Strategy, Morton H. Halperin
Reviewed by Robert P. Peschel, Jr.

March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present, Ronald E. Powaski
Reviewed by R. D. Sloan, Jr.

The Guarded Gate: The Reality of American Refugee Policy, Norman L. Zucker and Naomi Flink Zucker
Reviewed by John A. Scanlan

If I had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left, Maurice Isserman
Reviewed by Thomas L. Dumm

The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: United States Business and Public Policy in the 20th Century, Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt
Reviewed by Frank J. Macchiarola

Buying into America: How Foreign Money is Changing the Face of Our Nation, Martin Tolchin and Susan Tolchin
Reviewed by Jewel Bellush

Government by Proxy: (Mis?) Managing Federal Programs, Donald F. Kettl
Reviewed by Donna Wilson Kirchheimer

Reconstructing American Education, Michael B. Katz
Reviewed by Joseph P. Viteritti

The Grounding of Modern Feminism, Nancy F. Cott
Reviewed by Virginia Sapiro

Gender in the Workplace, Joseph A. Pechman and Clair Brown
Reviewed by Rosalind Rosenberg

The Rhetorical Presidency, Jeffrey K. Tulis
Reviewed by Richard A. Brody

The Nationalization of American Politics, William M. Lunch
Reviewed by Abigail M. Thernstrom

White House Ethics: The History of the Politics of Conflict of Interest Regulation, Robert N. Roberts
Reviewed by Michael Johnston

Qaddafi's Green Book: An Unauthorized Edition, Henry M. Christman
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

Japan, Disincorporated: The Economic Liberalization Process, Leon Hollerman
Reviewed by Edward J. Lincoln