The Political and Economic Forces Shaping Concentrated Poverty
William Julius Wilson examines the racial and nonracial political forces as well as the impersonal economic forces that have adversely impacted inner-city areas. He suggests a new policy agenda that reflects an awareness and appreciation of the effects of systemic changes on poor urban neighborhoods.

Multilateral Military Interventions: Theory and Practice
Sarah E. Kreps advances a two-level definition of multilateralism that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative attributes of cooperation. She argues that the relative decline in American power, rather than leading to more robust multilateralism, might instead make UN-authorized interventions less tenable and ad hoc “coalitions of the willing” a viable alternative.

George W. Bush and the Partisan Presidency
Richard M. Skinner challenges notions that the strong presidency of the modern era has proved incompatible with powerful political parties. Instead, he argues that, since 1980, the United States has seen a dramatic growth in presidential partisanship across a range of areas.

Saddam Hussein and the Sunni Insurgency: Findings from Values Surveys
Mansoor Moaddel, Mark Tessler, and Ronald Inglehart use findings from two national values surveys that were carried out in Iraq in 2004 and 2006 to determine the attitudes of the Sunni Arabs toward Saddam Hussein, which they use as a proxy measure of their attitudes toward the Sunni insurgency and American-led coalition forces.

War, Intelligence, and Honesty: A Review Essay
Robert Jervis analyzes what the memoirs of George Tenet and Douglas Feith tell us about themselves and about the Bush administration’s war on terror and war in Iraq. He argues that as accounts of failures, they have the difficult task of defending without seeming defensive, and in the end are as important for what they reveal inadvertently as for the information they mean to convey.

American Juries: The Verdict, Valerie P. Hans and Neil Vidmar
Reviewed by Geoffrey R. Stone

Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond, Abdulkader H. Sinno
Reviewed by Kimberly Marten

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Parag Khanna
Reviewed by Evan Resnick

Nations, States, and Violence, David D. Laitin
Reviewed by Tonya L. Putnam

On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society, Andrew Hurrell
Reviewed by Robert M. Pallitto

The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States, Michael L. Levin
Reviewed by Mikhail A. Alexseev

On the Ethics of War and Terrorism, Uwe Steinhoff
Reviewed by Jerome Slater

A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise, Tony Smith
Reviewed by Lloyd Gardner

Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, Keith T. Poole, Nolan McCarty and Howard Rosenthal
Reviewed by Peter K. Enns

Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, Janet Abu-Lughod
Reviewed by Wilbur Rich

State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace, Christian Davenport
Reviewed by Ronald A. Francisco

Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, Amitai Etzioni
Reviewed by Stanley A. Renshon

Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor, Colleen M. Grogan and Michael K. Gusmano
Reviewed by Michael Givel

The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy, Brian Steensland
Reviewed by Daniel Béland

God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America, Michael Leo Owens
Reviewed by Ted G. Jelen

The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation?, Craig A. Rimmerman
Reviewed by Donald P. Haider-Markel

Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government, Steven P. Croley
Reviewed by Philip J. Cook

Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective, Mark J. White
Reviewed by Matthew J. Dickinson

The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Present Age, Mark Hulliung
Reviewed by Mark Button

Statutory Default Rules: How to Interpret Unclear Legislation, Einer Elhauge
Reviewed by Frank B. Cross

American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time, John McGowan
Reviewed by Kevin Boyle

Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Reviewed by Kirk A. Hawkins

Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon, Steve Ellner
Reviewed by Kurt Weyland

Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States, Susan Bibler Coutin
Reviewed by Hector Perla, Jr.

Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence, John Duffield
Reviewed by Patrick M. Morgan

Turning Point: The Arab World's Marginalization and International Security after 9/11, Dan Tschirgi
Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson

Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen
Reviewed by James H. Lebovic

The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, Nina Tannenwald
Reviewed by Peter Liberman

The Disaster Gypsies: Humanitarian Workers in the World's Deadliest Conflicts, John Norris
Reviewed by Josh Busby

Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict, Marc Howard Ross
Reviewed by Myra A. Waterbury

Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity, Will Kymlicka
Reviewed by Harvey Waterman

Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China, Kellee S. Tsai
Reviewed by Martin Dimitrov

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa, Robert H. Bates
Reviewed by William Reno

Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence, Leigh A. Payne
Reviewed by Monika Nalepa