How Countries Democratize
Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the diverse political processes through which thirty-five countries have moved from authoritarianism toward democracy in the past fifteen years and derives guidelines from these experiences for future "democratizers."

The Urban Underclass and the Poverty Paradox
Paul E. Peterson discusses four different theories using the concept of underclass to explain poverty in the United States and summarizes the empirical evidence with respect to each of them. He is critical of some aspects of the recent major work on the urban underclass, William Julius Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged.

Another Look at The Truly Disadvantaged
William Julius Wilson recapitulates the major arguments he advanced in The Truly Disadvantaged and assesses issues raised by authors from different academic disciplines who addressed the major arguments in the book. Wilson reaffirms his own analysis of the causes of the urban underclass.

International Collaboration in Armaments Production: A Second-Best Solution
Ethan Barnaby Kapstein argues that international arrangements within NATO to produce advanced weapons systems represent a "second-best solution" to defense procurement. Rather than purchase arms off the shelf from the most efficient supplier, NATO members have used arms collaboration to maintain their domestic defense industrial bases. To the extent that arms collaboration has encouraged the global spread of defense-related technology, it has made conventional arms control more difficult to achieve.

Where Have All the Consumers Gone?
Loree Bykerk and Ardith Maney examine congressional hearing data to find that organized consumer interests remained active in Washington during the decade of business resurgence. Representatives of state and local officials also played prominent roles in consumer protection.

Diplomatic History--State Department Style
Wilbur Edel claims that the State Department has distorted post-World War II diplomatic history by deliberately omitting important facts in the record of American intervention in Iran and Guatemala while including documents that misrepresent the United States government's part in those events. He finds no justification for such misrepresentation in volumes of Foreign Relations of the United States that are published twenty or thirty years after the fact.

The Exemplary Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, Philip Abbott
Reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman, Warren F. Kimball
Reviewed by Michael E. Parrish

An American Life: The Autobiography, Ronald Reagan
Reviewed by Bert A. Rockman

The Dynamics of Domestic Politics and Arms Control: The SALT II Treaty Ratification Debate, Dan Caldwell
Reviewed by Raymond L. Garthoff

Falling Friends: The United States and Regime Change Abroad, Martin Staniland
Reviewed by Jorge I. Dominguez

The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism, Robert B. Reich
Reviewed by Vicki Smith

The Next Century, David Halberstam
Reviewed by Robert A. Divine

Television and the Crisis of Democracy, Douglas Kellner
Reviewed by Bruce A. Williams

Media Messages in American Presidential Elections, Diana Owen
Reviewed by Doris A. Graber

The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Reviewed by Richard M. Merelman

Churchill, the Great Game and Total War, David Jablonsky
Reviewed by Fraser Harbutt

Sheathing the Sword: The U.N. Secretary-General and the Prevention of International Conflict, Thomas E. Boudreau
Reviewed by Leon Gordenker

Gorbachev and His Enemies: The Struggle for Perestroika, Baruch A. Hazan
Reviewed by Martha Merritt

George Ball, Vietnam, and the Rethinking of Containment, David L. Di Leo
Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young

Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America, Abraham Lowenthal
Reviewed by Anthony Pereira

East-West Trade and the Atlantic Alliance, David A. Baldwin and Helen V. Milner
Reviewed by Bruce W. Jentleson

Sadat and After: Struggles for Egypt's Political Soul, Raymond William Baker
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

Party and Policy in Israel: The Battle between Hawks and Doves, Samuel J. Roberts
Reviewed by Shlomo Slonim

Echoes of the Intifada: Regional Repercussions of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Rex Brynen
Reviewed by Ann M. Lesch

America Insecure: Arms Transfers, Global Interventionism, and the Erosion of National Security, Miles D. Wolpin
Reviewed by Philip W. Dyer

After the Cold War: Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence, Charles W. Kegley, Jr. and Kenneth L. Schwab
Reviewed by Wade Huntley

America Recommitted: United States National Interests in a Restructured World, Donald E. Nuechterlein
Reviewed by John Spanier

Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990-1990, Charles Tilly
Reviewed by Thomas Ertman

Congress, Human Nature, and the Federal Debt: Essays on the Political Psychology of Deficit Spending, Cole S. Brembeck
Reviewed by Ross K. Baker

The Republic of Choice: Law, Authority and Culture, Lawrence Friedman
Reviewed by Frank J. Macchiarola

Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era, J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
Reviewed by Thomas Fleming

Crisis and Reform in Eastern Europe, Ferenc Fehér and Andrew Arato
Reviewed by Ellen Comisso

From Yalta to Glasnost: The Dismantling of Stalin's Empire, Ferenc Fehér and Agnes Heller
Reviewed by Stephen White

China's Changing Relations with the Middle East, John Calabrese
Reviewed by Steven I. Levine

Electing a President: The Markle Commission Research on Campaign '88, Bruce Buchanan
Reviewed by L. Sandy Maisel

Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America, Richard D. Alba
Reviewed by Andrew Greeley

Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America, G. William Domhoff and Richard L. Zweigenhaft
Reviewed by Leslie B. Inniss

Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement, Arthur B. Shostak
Reviewed by Sumner M. Rosen