Ostpolitik or Westpolitik? British Foreign Policy, 1968–75

Works reviewed:
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume I: Britain and the Soviet Union, 1968–1972
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume II: The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1972–1975     

FEATURE REVIEW

Feature reviews in this article
Michael L. Krenn. U.S. Policy toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America, 1917–1929 . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1990.
Gerald K. Haines. The Americanization of Brazil: A Study of U.S. Cold War Diplomacy in the Third World, 1945–1954 . Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1989.
Ruth Leacock. Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961–1969 . Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990.
Michael J. Cohen. Truman and Israel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Warren I. Cohen and Akira Iriye, eds. The Great Powers in East Asia, 1953–1960 . New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Rosemary Foot. A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.     

BOOK NOTES

Kenneth L. Adelman, African Realities
Davis B. Bobrow, Steve Chan, and John A. Kringen, Understanding Foreign Policy Decisions: The Chinese Case
Zsuzsa Ferge, A Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy 7945–75
Peter W. House and John McLeod, Large-Scale Models for Policy Evaluation
Michael Novak, ed., Democracy and Mediating Structures: A Theological Inquiry
Gareth Porter, Vietnam: The Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions, 2 vols.     

Trade Policy

Daniel Verdier. Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States. 1860–1990
Judith Goldstein. Ideas, Interests, and American Trade Policy
Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776     

Book reviews

The Persian Gulf: Iran's Role. By Rouhollah K. Ramazani. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1972. 157 pp. $7.50.

Patrick J. Hurley and American Foreign Policy. By Russell D. Buhite. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973. 342 pp. $14.50.     

Beyond the Vietnam Principle

K. Buchanan, Out of Asia: Asian Themes. 1958–66, Sydney University Press, 1968, pp. 320, $6.75. H. G. Gelber, The Australian American Alliance: Costs and Benefits, Penguin, 1968, pp. 160, 85c. G. Greenwood and N. Harper, Australia in World Affairs, 1961–1965, F. W. Cheshire for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1968, pp. viii + 503, $8.75. T. B. Millar, Australia's Foreign Policy, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1968, pp. xiv + 361, $4.95. T. B. Millar (ed.), Australian‐New Zealand Defence Co‐operation, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968, pp. ix + 125, $3.75. R. J. O'Neill, Indo China Tragedy, 1945–54, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 56. M. Teichmann (ed.), New Directions in Australian Foreign Policy: Ally Satellite or Neutral?, Penguin, 1969, pp. 212, $1.00. D. Vital, The Inequality of States: A Study of the Small Power in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 198, $5.10. A. Watt, Vietnam: an Australian Analysis, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. ix + 177, $3.50.     

Congress and Foreign Policy: Toward a More Functional Analysis

Crabb, Cecil V., Jr., and Pat Holt, eds. Invitation to Struggle: Congress, The President and Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1980. Pp. xii, 234. $9.75, paper. Franck, Thomas M. and Edward Weisband. Foreign Policy by Congress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. ix, 357. $15.95, hardbound. Spanier, John, and Joseph Nogee, eds. Congress, The Presidency and American Foreign Policy. New York: Pergamon Press, 1981. Pp. xxxii, 211. $30.00, hardbound; $10.95, paper. Whalen, Charles W., Jr. The House and Foreign Policy: The Irony of Congressional Reform. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. x, 207. $18.95, hardbound; $9.95, paper.     

Africa and the United States

Peter J. Schraeder. United States Foreign Policy toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis, and Change . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Tudor Ireland: Crown, Community and the Conflict of Cultures 1470–1603. By Steven G. Ellis.
The Reign of Elizabeth I . Edited by Christopher Haigh.
The Road to Revolution: Scotland under Charles I, 1625–37. By Maurice Lee, jr.
Dangerous Positions: Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the 'Answer to the XIX Propositions'. By Michael Mendle.
The Jewish Community in British Politics. By Geoffrey Alderman.
The Cross of Saint Patrick: The Catholic Unionist Tradition in Ireland. By John Biggs-Davison and George Chowdharay-Best.
English Society 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Regime. (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics). By J. C. D. Clark.
Goodwin Wharton. By J. Kent Clark.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue. By John Robertson.
Lord Grenville 1759–1834. By Peter Jupp.
Henry Brougham: His Public Career 1778–1868. By Robert Stewart.
The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics. By Bruce L. Kinzer.
'Orator Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism. By John Belchem.
Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O'Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy 1820–30. By Fergus O'Ferrall.
Gladstone, Politics and Religion: A Collection of Founder's Day Lectures Delivered at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 1967–83. Edited by Peter J. Jagger.
The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone. By Marvin Swartz.
Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics. By David Dutton.
The First Labour Party 1906–14. Edited by K. D. Brown.
Victor Grayson: Labour's Lost Leader. By David Clark.
Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912–1916. By John Grigg.
The Changing Constitution: Edited by Jeffrey Jowell and Dawn Oliver.     

Historians,the War of American Independence,and the Persistence of the Exceptionalist Ideal

Prince Kaunitz and the Balance of Power; Franz A.J. Szabo

The American Revolution in an International Perspective: Views from Bicentennial Symposia; Lawrence S. Kaplan

The Reign of Sir Edward Grey as British Foreign Secretary F.H. HINSLEY, ed. British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Grey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1977. Pp. 702; ZARA S. STEINER. Britain and the Origins of the First World War. New York: St Martins Press 1977. Pp. 305.; Samuel R. Williamson, Jr     

The Establishment Strikes Back

Book reviewed in this article:
William Bundy, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency     

Congress,the Presidency,and U.S. Foreign Policy

Gibson, Martha L. Conflict Amid Consensus in American Trade Policy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. Pp. 213. $55.00 hardbound; $17.95 softbound.

Henehan, Marie T. Foreign Policy and Congress: An International Relations Perspective. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. 248. $49.50 hardbound.

Brands, H.W. The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1999. Pp. 194. $29 95 hardbound.

McNamara, Robert S., James G. Blight, and Robert K. Brigham, with Thomas J. Biersteker and Herbert Y. Schandler. Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 1999. Pp. 512. $27.50 hardbound; $17.00 softbound.     

Sexual Politics and the Vietnam Quagmire

Robert Dean . Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy . Anhorst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press , 2002 , 304 pp. Illustrations. $ (hardcover), $ (paper).     

Someplace Else: The Tragedy of Korean-American Relations

Book reviewed:
Mitchell B. Lerner. The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy.     

Towards the Cold War

ROBERT DALLEK. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. ix, 657; DANIEL YERGIN. Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Pp. x, 526; JOHN H. BACKER. The Decision to Divide Germany: American Foreign Policy in Transition. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 212; ROBERT J. DONOVAN. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. Pp. xvii, 473; YONOSUKE NAGAI and AKIRA IRIYE, editors. The Origins of the Cold War in Asia. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 448; THOMAS G. PATERSON. On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. Pp. xii, 210.     

Could the People Decide?

Book reviewed in this article:
Eric Alterman, Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy     

SPECIAL INTERESTS AND THE POLICY PROCESS

Books reviewed in this article:
Jeffrey M. Berry, Feeding Hungry People: Rulemaking in the Food Stamp Program
Peter Navarro, The Policy Game: How Special Interests and Ideologues are Stealing America
Richard K. Scotch, From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy
Paul Y. Watanabe, Ethnic Groups, Congress, and American Foreign Policy: The Politics of the Turkish Arms Embargo     

Dixie's Power in War and Peace

Book reviewed:
Joseph A. Fry. Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations , 1789 – 1973.     

The Presidency and National Security: Presidential Foreign Policymaking, 1945-1999

Busby, Robert. Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential Recovery. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 222. $65.00, hardbound.

Garrison, Jean A. Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 192. $34.95, hardbound.

Hogan, Michael J. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. v, 525. $37.95, hardbound.

Hyland, William G. Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. Pp. i, 221. $24.95, hardbound.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) By L. J. Reeve Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623–1677. By Jonathan Scott The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution. By Philip Lawson Lord Grey 1764–1845. By E. A. Smith Whig Renaissance. Lord Althorp and the Whig Party 1782–1845. By Ellis Archer Wasson The Blind Victorian. Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism. ‘Pax Britannica’?: British Foreign Policy, 1789–1914. By Muriel E. Chamberlain British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. By C. J. Bartlett