Welfare Reform: Block Grants, Expenditure Caps, and the Paradox of the Food Stamp Program
Ronald F. King examines the connection between welfare policy and budget policy, analyzing block grants as a complex form of fiscal constraint. He shows why the food stamp program ultimately was not transformed into a block grant as part of the 1996 welfare reform, and he argues that the tension between entitlement protection and spending control has not yet been resolved.

Policy toward Cuba in the Clinton Administration
Walt Vanderbush and Patrick J. Haney examine the dynamics of making U.S.policy toward Cuba during the first Clinton administration. They argue that, rather than being dominated by the executive and a powerful ethnic interest group, in this period Cuba policy became enmeshed in electoral politics and a struggle for foreign policy power between the Congress and the president.

Israel's National Security and the Myth of Exceptionalism
Gil Merom challenges the Israeli belief in national security exceptionalism. He compares strategic and moral dimensions of Israeli security with those of other states and concludes that the notion of Israel's national security exceptionalism is unfounded.

Missing Boundaries of Comparison: The Political Community
Peter Juviler and Sherrill Stroschein reintroduce the recently neglected concept of the political community as a model in the comparative analysis of state formation, adaptation, and failure. They argue that regime stability and democratic consolidation depend upon the inclusiveness of community boundaries of shared allegiance and identity, rights, and commitments in the face of class, ethnic, and transnational differences.

Citizenship Issues in China's Internal Migration: Comparisons with Germany and Japan
Dorothy J. Solinger compares the migration regimes in China, Germany, and Japan, all of which have shared a xenophobic basis toward "foreign workers" (in China's case, including its own peasants) along with a drive to develop economically at almost any cost. She identifies common factors that have limited the application of rights for these people, and, through comparison, uncovers conditions that may make for improvements over the longer haul.

Neocolonialism and Neoliberalism in South Africa and Zambia
Margaret Hanson and James J. Hentz examine the negotiations over the ownership of neoliberal economic policy ideas diffused by international financial institutions in Zambia and South Africa. Domestic policy dialogues prove to be an important mechanism through which political coalitions identify with new policies and are a more effective mechanism for domestic policy change than is external financial coercion.

Correspondence

Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everday Life, Sheldon Garon
Reviewed by Akira Iriye

The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson
Reviewed by Robert Jervis

Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War, Campbell Craig
Reviewed by Robert A. Divine

The Roosevelt Presence: The Life and Legacy of FDR, Patrick J. Maney
Reviewed by Matthew J. Dickinson

Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking, Keith Krehbiel
Reviewed by L. Sandy Maisel

A World Transformed: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire, The Unification of Germany, Tiananmen Square, The Gulf War, Brent Scowcroft and George Bush
Reviewed by Thomas A. Schwartz

The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: Lessons from South Asia, Devin T. Hagerty
Reviewed by Jordan Seng

Pursuing Majorities: Congressional Campaign Committees in American Politics, Robin Kolodny
Reviewed by John R. Petrocik

The Sound of Money: How Political Interests Get What They Want, Darrell M. West and Burdett A. Loomis
Reviewed by Theodore J. Eismeier

Checked and Balanced: How Ticket-Splitters are Shaping the New Balance of Power in American Politics, Walter De Vries and V. Lance Tarrance, Jr.
Reviewed by John J. Pitney, Jr.

Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community, Steven Gregory
Reviewed by Wilbur C. Rich

The Continuing Storm: Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence, Avigdor Haselkorn
Reviewed by Gideon Rose

What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy, H. W. Brands, Jr.
Reviewed by James McAllister

Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Noah M. J. Pickus, ed. ; Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration, David M. Reimers
Reviewed by Peter Andreas

The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention, Paul S. Shoup and Steven L. Burg
Reviewed by Richard M. Wilcox

The Judicial Development of Presidential War Powers, Martin S. Sheffer
Reviewed by Louis Fisher

Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992, William M. Leo-Grande
Reviewed by Richard Stahler-Sholk

American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State, Stephen Hopgood
Reviewed by J. Samuel Barkin

The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, Paul Gordon Lauren
Reviewed by Kathryn Sikkink

Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970, Lawrence S. Wittner
Reviewed by Maurice Isserman

Public Health Policies and Social Inequality, Charles F. Andrain ; Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Antonia Maioni
Reviewed by Ann Lenhard Reisinger

The Republican Legacy in International Thought, Nicholas Greenwood Onuf
Reviewed by A. James Reichley

American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People, Jean M. Yarbrough
Reviewed by Jack P. Greene

Political Policing: The United States and Latin America, Martha K. Huggins
Reviewed by Mark Ungar

The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy, James L. Guth, John C. Green, Corwin E. Smidt, Lyman A. Kellstedt and Margaret M. Poloma
Reviewed by Clyde Wilcox

War and the Illiberal Conscience, Christopher Coker
Reviewed by David L. Blaney

The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward, Latif Abul-Husn
Reviewed by Fawaz A. Gerges

Challenge to the Nation-State, Christian Joppke ; A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity, Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay Winter
Reviewed by Mark J. Miller

Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: Issues and New Challenges, Guillermo O'Donnell and Victor E. Tokman, eds.
Reviewed by Howard J. Wiarda

The Transformation of Political Community, Andrew Linklater
Reviewed by Mark F. N. Franke