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The article analyzes the concept of soft power in East Asia as it relates to the so-called decline of U.S. power and the simultaneous increase of military and diplomatic power exercised by China in the region. The author reviews soft power survey data and argues for the benefits of analyzing public opinion data in determining political power and influence in East Asia. A broad survey is utilized by the author to measure soft power in East Asia and the overall soft power of China is compared to other regional powers in categories such as economics, culture, and politics. The author concludes that the data show that Chinese soft power is relatively weak in East Asia.

Focuses on the book 'The Papers of Woodrow Wilson.' Assumptions of the book; List of relevant manuscript collections; Failure of the author to recognize the limitations of the psychological model.

The article discusses the implications of leadership change in the Arab world. Leadership change in the Middle East is infrequent and seldom routinized. The region often seems frozen in time, with certain leaders like Muammar-el-Qaddafi of Libya, Yasir Arafat in the Palestinian Authority, and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, among others-ruling for decades. This paper first examines how to conceptualize the issue of regime change. It then assesses the implications of regime change in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. These countries were chosen because of their importance in the region and to the U.S.

One prominent stream of research examines the role that key intervening factors have in determining regime stability. This stream of research contends that regime stability is a function of the interplay of the specific distribution of powers between the legislative and executive branches and these other intervening factors. In this paper, authors identify a fourth important intervening factor constitutional courts. The article examines the constitutional court in the transitioning nation of Ukraine to demonstrate the role that judicial institutions can play in mediating legislative--executive conflict and thereby contributing to regime stability.

Briefly summarizes “great man” and “situationalist” theories of leadership, and difficulties with each. Argues, in the case of situationism, that the real nature of a group's situation often is not evident to the group's members themselves. Further argues that this is currently the case with most of humanity vis‐a‐vis what Tucker describes as a “crisis of survival”. Remainder of paper examines elements of this crisis and leadership qualities needed to respond appropriately, and ends by asking how —or whether—leaders of sufficient vision can gain popular support for the radical policy shifts which, in Tucker's opinion, are required if mankind is to survive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses several political issues in the U.S. Disclosure of Pentagon papers to former senator J. William Fulbright; Controversy of the meetings between national security adviser Henry Kissinger with senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee headed by Fulbright; Role of the press in disseminating information to the Congress.

Rules and Restraint: Government Spending and the Design of Institutions by David M. Primo. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2007. 216 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Many states have […]

Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries by Michael Tomz. Princeton, N J, Princeton University Press, 2007. 328 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $17.99. In an extraordinarily well-researched and […]

Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Future by James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2007. 197 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $24.95. Although politicians […]

The Truth about Patriotism by Steven Johnston. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2007. 283 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. Though not all its back cover purports it to be, this […]

All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy by Patricia Strach. Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 2007. 264 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Robert Nisbet once […]

State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation by Tanisha M. Fazal. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2007. 314 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $27.95. Realist theories posit […]

Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference by Katherine Cramer Walsh. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2007. 344 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. "All talk, no […]

The transmission of culture and identity across frontiers has become an important feature in the interaction between diasporas and their kin states. (1) This exchange is especially powerful in the […]

The world in the 1990s witnessed a dramatic change in the ways in which countries treat issues of intrafamily or domestic violence against women. (1) While most states once ignored […]

In 1997, the American press made note of a crisis over delay in filling vacancies in the lower federal bench. (1) President Bill Clinton was chastised for selecting nominees too […]

On the morning of 30 January 2002, wire reports, television news, and internet chat rooms throughout Asia were abuzz with speculation about phase two of the United States war against […]

The CIA was the only agency to dissent: on the eve of the ground war, it was still telling the President that we were grossly exaggerating the damage inflicted on […]

The 1994 elections set off a political earthquake that will send aftershocks rumbling through national politics for years to come. For the first time in forty-two years, Republicans captured the […]

Since the development of their academic discipline over a century ago, American political scientists have treated British parliamentary democracy as a benchmark in evaluating the American system.(1) For almost half […]

Moderator: Ira Katznelson Gillian Peele: I want to emphasize much more than Leon Epstein does the extent to which the British model of parliamentary democracy exhibits problems and the degree […]

Moderator: Demetrios Caraley Bill Green: Neither in the long perspective nor as one who has recently been in the congressional trenches do I see things as Ted Lowi does. I […]

Presidential democracy is not an alternative on an equal plane with parliamentarism. Presidential government is a reality. Presidential democracy is also a pathological condition we must seek to heal. The […]

After an intense flurry of research and publications on civil-military relations in the Middle East in the 1960s and the 1970s, recent studies on the subject are few and far […]

In November 1994, the American political landscape shifted in historic fashion. [1] Voters gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress, breaking the Democrats' forty-year hold on the House of […]

In many of the oldest and most stable democratic countries, citizens possess little confidence in some key democratic institutions. Yet most citizens continue to believe in the desirability of democracy. […]

A Culture of Deference: Congress, the President, and the Course of the U.S.-Led Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by E Ugboaja Ohaegbulam. New York, Peter Lang, 2007. 309pp. Cloth, $79.95; […]