Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict
Andrew Fenton Cooper, Richard A. Higgott, and Kim Richard Nossal take issue with the common view that the Gulf conflict provides an example of successful American leadership in international politics. They argue that if leadership is examined from the perspective of the follower instead of the leader, the American role in the Gulf war emerges in a different light.

A Palestinian State and Israeli Security
Jerome Slater argues that Israeli security would be enhanced rather than threatened by the creation of a Palestinian state, so long as there are appropriate safeguards against Palestinian irredentism or the use of the West Bank as a base for an attack on Israel by major Arab States.

Reassurance in International Conflict Management
Janice Gross Stein explores strategies of reassurance that can contribute to the prevention of the use of force among adversaries. She assesses their strengths and weaknesses and identifies the conditions under which strategies of reassurance can complement or supplement the threats that underlie deterrence.

Health Care Market Reform in Congress: The Uncertain Path from Proposal to Policy
Thomas R. Oliver looks at the national debate over health care reform of a decade ago and congressional policy decisions on the issue. He analyzes why Congress rejected proposals to stimulate broad competition in the financing and delivery of health care services and instead enacted a more narrow system to regulate hospital costs for the Medicare program.

Participation and Policy Making in Senate Committees
C. Lawrence Evans analyzes patterns of participation in U.S. Senate committees. Drawing on interviews with senators and Senate staff members, he concludes that influencing committee decisions tends to be selective, often including just three or four senators.

Corrrection: Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication.

President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Lou Cannon ; A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs, Theodore Draper ; The National Security Constitution, Harold Hongju Koh ; Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, Haynes Johnson
Reviewed by Richard M. Pious

Faces of Internationalism: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy, Eugene R. Wittkopf
Reviewed by Bruce Russett

The Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Gail Sheehy
Reviewed by Alexander Dallin

The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow, Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus
Reviewed by T. H. Rigby

Can Gorbachev Change the Soviet Union? The International Dimensions of Political Reform, Zdenek Mlynar ; Gorbachev in Power, Stephen White
Reviewed by Laurie P. Salitan

America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities, Jerry L. Mashaw, Theodore R. Marmor and Philip L. Harvey
Reviewed by Hugh Heclo

Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy, Michael Sherraden
Reviewed by Michael B. Katz

Rethinking the American Race Problem, Roy L. Brooks
Reviewed by Thomas F. Pettigrew

The Struggle for Auto Safety, Jerry L. Mashaw and David L. Harfst
Reviewed by Ralph Nader

The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective, Ronald M. Peters, Jr.
Reviewed by Joseph Cooper

The Insecure Alliance: Energy Crisis and Western Politics Since 1944, Ethan B. Kapstein
Reviewed by Charles Issawi

The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s, Henry R. Nau
Reviewed by Aaron L. Friedberg

Worldwide Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Government, William T. Golden
Reviewed by Sanford Lakoff

The Persian Gulf War: Lessons for Strategy, Law, and Diplomacy, Christopher C. Joyner
Reviewed by Efraim Karsh

The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, Marilyn Young ; Where the Domino Fell: American and Vietnam 1945 to 1990, James S. Olson and Randy Roberts
Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner

Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance, Donald MacKenzie
Reviewed by Scott D. Sagan

The Rise and Decline of the Nation State, Michael Mann
Reviewed by Charles Tilly

Political Reform in Post-Mao China: Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Leinist State, Barrett L. McCormick
Reviewed by David Strand

U.S. National Security Policy and the Soviet Union: Persistent Regularities and Extreme Contingencies, Richard J. Stoll
Reviewed by Melvin A. Goodman

The New Right and the Constitution: Turning Back the Legal Clock, Bernard Schwartz
Reviewed by Gary L. McDowell

In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action, Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
Reviewed by Raymond H. Gusteson

The President in the Legislative Arena, Richard Fleisher and Jon R. Bond
Reviewed by Jean Reith Schroedel

Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations: A Dialogue of the Deaf, Raymond Cohen
Reviewed by William B. Quandt

The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis, James G. Blight
Reviewed by James J. Wirtz

The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State...and Other Surprises, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Reviewed by Saul Landau

Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy, Louis A. Pérez, Jr. ; Cuba: The International Dimension, Georges Fauriol and Eva Loser
Reviewed by Juan Lindau

Socialism in Britain Since 1884, John Callaghan
Reviewed by Dennis Kavanagh

Bread and the Ballot: The United States and India's Economic Development, 1947-1963, Dennis Merrill
Reviewed by John Echeverri-Gent

The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective, Myron Weiner
Reviewed by Barbara D. Miller

A Street Is Not A Home: Solving America's Homeless Dilemma, Robert C. Coates
Reviewed by DeLysa Burnier

Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America, Frank Donner
Reviewed by Pamela D. Delaney

Policing As Though People Matter, Dorothy Guyot
Reviewed by Anthony Bouza

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980, Bruce J. Schulman
Reviewed by Deil S. Wright

Perspectives on Political Economy, James Alt and Kenneth Shepsle
Reviewed by William A. Niskanen

Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools, David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot
Reviewed by Guy B. Senese

The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America, G. William Domhoff
Reviewed by Sidney Plotkin

Preventing A Biological Arms Race, Susan Wright
Reviewed by David S. Thaler

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Warsaw, Ralf Dahrendorf
Reviewed by Dankwart A. Rustow

Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s: Collection, Analysis, Counterintelligence, and Covert Action, Roy Godson
Reviewed by Dalton A. West

Thailand and the United States: Development, Security, and Foreign Aid, Robert J. Muscat
Reviewed by Michael Leifer

Warpaths: The Politics of Partition, Robert Schaeffer
Reviewed by Douglas Little

The Ordeal of Hegemony: The United States and Latin America, Guy Poitras Boulder
Reviewed by David R. Mares

Cautious Revolution: The European Community Arrives, Clifford Hackett
Reviewed by Joseph Gibbs

Narcoterrorism: How Governments Around the World Have Used the Drug Trade t Finance and Further Their Terrorist Activities, Rachel Ehrenfeld
Reviewed by Sanya Popovic

Conflict: Resolution and Prevention, John Burton
Reviewed by Lewis A. Coser

Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics, Joshua S. Goldstein and John R. Freeman
Reviewed by Ethan B. Kapstein

New Soviet Thinking and U.S. Nuclear Policy, David B. Myers
Reviewed by James M. Goldgeier