Volume 123 · Number 3 · Fall 2008

JONATHAN KIRSHNER considers the consequences of globalization for American power and international conflict more generally. He argues that the processes of globalization are affecting the balance of power between states and creating new axes of international conflict. He posits that even though the United States is advantaged by globalization, the process also challenges some of its own interests.

STANLEY A. RENSHON analyzes the probable psychological baseline contours of a Barack Obama or John McCain presidency. He explores the psychology, worldview, and approach to leadership that are likely to inform and shape the presidency of each candidate in the context of his own developmental history and the psychology of public expectations and concerns.

OMAR G. ENCARNACIÓN examines Spain’s ongoing effort to reconcile the legacy of its dark past, including the mass killings of the Spanish Civil War and the repression of the Franco dictatorship, three decades after its celebrated transition to democracy. Key among his findings is that contrary to the widespread conventional wisdom promoted by the influential ‘‘transitional justice’’ movement, reconciliation is not a pre-condition for effective democratization.

MARK A. WOLFGRAM discusses the costs of early failures in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations mission in Kosovo after June 1999. The failure of NATO and the UN to secure basic human rights for Kosovo’s non-Albanian minorities raises serious questions about the future of similar militarized humanitarian interventions.

ROBERT J. BRYM and BADER ARAJ contest Mia Bloom’s out-bidding thesis, which holds that suicide attacks are a currency for outbidding rivals in the competition for popular support. They find that public opinion data are inconsistent with the outbidding thesis and argue that support for suicide bombing is more a function of social solidarity than competition within the Palestinian community.

Book reviews

Reviewed by Robert Jervis

Reviewed by Jorge I. Domínguez

Reviewed by Andrew Mertha

Reviewed by Richard L. Russell

Reviewed by Peter Juviler

Reviewed by Eric A. Heinze

Reviewed by John A. Scherpereel

Reviewed by Loch K. Johnson

Reviewed by John G. Matsusaka

Reviewed by Earl Sheridan

Reviewed by Sandra K. Danziger

Reviewed by Justin Phillips

Reviewed by Robert Speel

Reviewed by Brian Robert Calfano

Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield

Reviewed by Paul A. Djupe

Reviewed by Eric S. Heberlig

Reviewed by Robert A. Jackson

Reviewed by Priscilla Wohlstetter

Reviewed by L.A. Powe, Jr.

Reviewed by Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

Reviewed by Peter R. Moody, Jr.

Reviewed by Burcu Savun

Reviewed by Celeste A. Wallander

Reviewed by Valerie Sperling

Reviewed by Stephen J. King

Reviewed by Andrew Barnes

Reviewed by Suzanne Maloney

Reviewed by Youngshik D. Bong

Reviewed by J.J. Suh

Reviewed by Pierre Englebert

Reviewed by Anastasia Xenias

Reviewed by Robert C. Lowry

Reviewed by George Thomas

Reviewed by Jonathan O'Neill