Volume 127 - Number 2 - Summer 2012

The China Card: Playing Politics with Sino-American Relations
Peter Trubowitz and Jungkun Seo examine how and when China emerged as a “hot button” issue in American politics. They show that the politicization of Sino-American relations has had as much to do with electoral strategizing and gamesmanship in the United States as it did with geopolitical considerations in dealing with Beijing.

American Public Opinion and Health Care, Robert J. Blendon
Reviewed by Robert Y. Shapiro

Asiaʼs Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan, Walter F. Hatch
Reviewed by Akira Iriye

Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle, Stuart Altman
Reviewed by Daniel Skinner

Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions, Elizabeth N. Saunders
Reviewed by David A. Crockett

Volume 127 - Number 1 - Spring 2012

Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama's Presidency
Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs assess the policy accomplishments and shortfalls of President Barack Obama since 2009. They highlight the obstacles with which Obama and his political allies have had to contend and challenge commentators who claim that Obama has accomplished little. They explain why conservative and Republican opposition to Obama?s presidency has been fierce and unremitting.

U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes,Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security, Stephen G. Walker
Reviewed by Robert Jervis

Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia, Thomas J. Christensen
Reviewed by David Kang

China in 2020: A New Type of Superpower, Hu Angang
Reviewed by Andrew Scobell

Americanism in the Twenty-First Century: Public Opinion in the Age of Immigration, Deborah J. Schildkraut
Reviewed by Robert Y. Shapiro

Volume 126 - Number 4 - Winter 2011-12

Peace Before Freedom: Diplomacy and Repression in Sadat's Egypt
JASON BROWNLEE assesses the foundations of the contemporary U.S.– Egyptian alliance, which was consolidated in 1979 by the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. He concludes that the bold diplomacy of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was matched by fierce repression at home. Moreover, Egypt's foreign interlocutors presupposed that authoritarianism inside Egypt would help guarantee the country's new foreign policy alignment.

How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle, Gideon Rose
Reviewed by Robert S. Litwak

Why Parties? A Second Look, John H. Aldrich
Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Stonecash

China, the United States, and Global Order, Rosemary Foot
Reviewed by Allen Carlson

Why Iowa? How the Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process, David P. Redlawsk
Reviewed by Christopher C. Hull

Volume 126 - Number 3 - Fall 2011

The Costs and Benefits of Immigration
Darrell M. West seeks to reframe the public debate over immigration policy by arguing that the benefits of immigration are much broader than popularly imagined and the costs more confined. He contends that in spite of legitimate fear and anxiety over illegal immigration, immigrants bring a “brain gain” of innovation and creativity that outweighs real or imagined costs.

Discrepancies in Perceptions of Corruption, or Why Is Canada So Corrupt?
MICHAEL M. ATKINSON demonstrates that public opinion polling has established a clear gap between what Canadians expect and what they believe they are receiving in terms of ethical conduct from their leaders. The author claims that this major discrepancy has its roots in the ways in which elites and the public employ the concept of corruption.

Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz, Richard H. Immerman
Reviewed by Barak Mendelsohn

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Theda Skocpol
Reviewed by Shanna Rose

East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, David C. Kang
Reviewed by Morris Rossabi

Volume 126 - Number 2 - Summer 2011

The Drug War’s Impact on Executive Power, Judicial Reform, and Federalism in Mexico
Juan D. Lindau examines the impact of the drug war on critical aspects of Mexican democratization, namely the expansion in the scope of certain features of executive power, judicial reform, and the construction of substantive federalism. He concludes that the drug war has increased the power of the least-transparent, least-accountable institutions tied to the executive branch. It has also preserved practices that impinge on civil and human rights, while complicating judicial reform and the deepening of federalism.

The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, Bruce Ackerman
Reviewed by Rogers M. Smith

Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China, Benjamin Page
Reviewed by Andrew Scobell

America's Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout, and Representation in City Politics, Zoltan Hajnal
Reviewed by Wilbur C. Rich

Britain's War on Poverty, Jane Waldfogel
Reviewed by James Midgley