Doves, Hawks, and U.S. Public Opinion
Bruce Russett uses public opinion polls to illustrate some of the ways in which popular attitudes moderate the extreme positions of elites on national security policy.

The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics
Paul E. Peterson identifies the way in which budget summits have worked to the advantage of interests closely identified with the two major political parties and to the disadvantage of more specialized interests.

The Superpowers and an Arab-Israeli Political Settlement: The Cold War Years
Jerome Slater reviews the U.S.-Soviet negotiations for an Arab-Israeli political settlement during the cold war. He argues that the record demonstrates surprisingly that the Soviet Union sought a genuine political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict since the late 1960s, and that the U.S. policy of excluding the Soviets from the Middle East thwarted opportunities to reach such a settlement.

The Brazilian Defense Industry and the International System
Ethan B. Kapstein discusses the rise and fall of the Brazilian weapons production industry. He argues that the industry's growth in the 1970s and 1980s was due to a propitious set of circumstances in the international economic security environments. Changes in these environments in the 1990s, however, are likely to constrain the industry's future development.

Ghosts of Arms Control Past
PAUL E DIEHL analyzes the impact that the SALT II treaty had on Reagan administration arms control policy during the period 1981-1984. Using an agenda setting model, he argues that SALT II had only a lingering impact on policy formulation, most often as a negative precedent.

Interest Group Litigation to Enforce Human Rights
Howard Tolley, JR. examines the litigation strategies of human rights public interest lawyers challenging judicial restraint. He concludes that frequent losses and occasional victories depend heavily on factors beyond the litigators' immediate control - support by executive agencies and the political orientation of the deciding judge.

Reform and Reaction in Twentieth Century American Politics, John J. Broesamle
Reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Reagan Paradox: American Foreign Policy in the 1980s, Coral Bell
Reviewed by Joseph L. Nogee

Reagan and the World, David E. Kyvig
Reviewed by Fareed Zakaria

Race: Twentieth Century Dilemmas -- Twenty-first Century Prognoses, Winston A. Van Horne
Reviewed by Dale Rogers Marshall

Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America, Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter
Reviewed by Roland Anglin

Democracy in Black Africa: Survival and Revival, John A. Wiseman
Reviewed by Crawford Young

Democracy and Its Critics, Robert A. Dahl
Reviewed by G. Bingham Powell, Jr.

China and the Challenge of the Future: Changing Political Patterns, Carol Lee Hamrin
Reviewed by Joyce K. Kallgren

Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It, James Q. Wilson
Reviewed by Frank J. Macchiarola

Home Style and Washington Work: Studies of Congressional Politics, David W. Rohde and Morris P. Fiorina
Reviewed by Nelson W. Polsby

New Ways and Means: Reform and Change in a Congressional Committee, Randall Strahan
Reviewed by Burdett Loomis

Constitutional Diplomacy, Michael J. Glennon
Reviewed by Richard M. Pious

Age, Class, Politics, and the Welfare State, John B. Williamson and Fred C. Pampel
Reviewed by Jennifer Hochschild

Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin, Dusko Doder and Louise Branson
Reviewed by Allen Lynch

The Bloc That Failed: Soviet-East European Relations in Transition, Charles Gati ; The Soviet-East European Relationship in the Gorbachev Era: The Prospects for Adaptation, Aurel Braun
Reviewed by Paul Midford

Soviet Briefing: Gorbachev and the Reform Period, Ben Eklof
Reviewed by Jane Shapiro Zacek

Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland Since 1968, David Ost
Reviewed by David S. Mason

Israeli Visions and Divisions, Myron J. Aronoff
Reviewed by Zvi Gitelman

Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians, Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv
Reviewed by Don Peretz

Democracy and Disorder: Protest and Politics in Italy 1965-1975, Sidney Tarrow
Reviewed by Alan S. Zuckerman

Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany, John Gimbel
Reviewed by William T. Golden

Industry and Politics in West Germany: Toward the Third Republic, Peter J. Katzenstein
Reviewed by Peter H. Merkl

A Marriage of Convenience: Relations Between Mexico and the United States, Sidney Weintraub
Reviewed by H. Carl Camp

Foundations of American Constitutionalism, David A. J. Richards
Reviewed by Herbert Sloan

The Presidential Odyssey of John Glenn, Richard F. Fenno, Jr.
Reviewed by Linda L. Fowler

Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi after 1965, Frank Parker
Reviewed by Alex Willingham

From Patrician to Professional Elite: The Transformation of the New York City Bar Association, Michael J. Powell
Reviewed by Victor Futter

NATO's Southern Allies: Internal and External Challenges, John Chipman
Reviewed by Ted Greenwood

Dissent and the State, C. E. S. Franks
Reviewed by Joseph LaPalombara