VII Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus
| Date | 01 October 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020834519880807 |
| Published date | 01 October 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Other |
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BOOK REVIEWS
COMPTES RENDUS
69.6839 ABERNATHY, Scott F. — Problems in educational production. Journal of Politics 81(2), Apr. 2019 : e33-e37.
Review essay of Daniel KORETZ, The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better (University of Chicago Press, 2017); Nicholas TAMPIO, Com-
mon Core: National Standards and the Threat to Democracy (Johns Hopkins U. P., 2018); Bryan CAPLAN, The Case against Education: Why the Education
System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton U. P., 2018).
69.6840 ABRAHMS, Max — Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Military History (Oxford U. P., 2018). International Affairs 95(3), May 2019 :
714-715.
Reviewed by Alex J. BELLAMY.
69.6841 ABRAMS, Elliott — Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy after the Arab Spring (Cambridge U. P., 2017). Review of Politics
81(2), Spring 2019 : 328-332.
Reviewed by Karl WALLING.
69.6842 AHMAD, Aisha — Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power (Oxford U. P., 2017). Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 : 619-620.
Reviewed by Anne STENERSEN.
69.6843 AHRAM, Ariel I. ; KÖLLNER, Patrick ; SIL, Rudra, eds. — Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional
Applications (Oxford U. P., 2018). Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 : 597-598.
Reviewed by Jefferey M. SELLERS.
69.6844 ALIYEV, Huseyn — When Informal Institutions Change: Institutional Reforms and Informal Practices in the Former Soviet Union (Uni-
versity of Michigan Press, 2017). Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 : 613-615.
Reviewed by Scott G. FEINSTEIN.
69.6845 ALLEN, Bentley B. — Scientific Cosmology and International Orders (Cambridge U. P., 2018). Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 :
521-523.
Reviewed by Nicholas Greenwood ONUF. See the reply by the author, p. 523.
69.6846 ANDREAS, Peter — Crime, violence, and illicit economies in regional and global perspective. Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 :
485-491.
Review essay of Marcelo BERGMAN, More Money, More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America (Oxford U. P., 2018); Benjamin LESSING,
Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America (Cambridge U. P., 2017); Louise SHELLEY, Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit
Economy Is Threatening Our Future (Princeton U. P., 2018); Deborah YASHAR, Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin Ameri-
ca (Cambridge U. P., 2018).
69.6847 ARATO, Andrew — The Adventures if the Constituent Power (Cambridge U. P., 2018). Constellations 26(1), March 2019 : 163-165.
Reviewed by Melissa S. WILLIAMS.
69.6848 ARCHIBUGI, Daniele ; PEASE, Alice — Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment (Polity Press, 2018). Ethics
and International Affairs 33(1), Spring 2019 : 99-100.
Reviewed by Mark A. DRUMBL.
69.6849 ARIELLI, Nir — From Byron to Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers (Harvard U. P., 2017). International Affairs 95(3), May
2019 : 723-724.
Reviewed by Tim WILLASEY-WILSEY.
69.6850 BALZACQ, Thierry ; DOMBROWSKI, Peter ; REICH, Simon — Is grand strategy a research program? Security Studies 28(1), Jan.-March
2019 : 58-86.
A review essay on Hal BRANDS, What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
(Cornell U. P., 2015); Stephen B ROOKS and William WOHLFORTH, America Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century (Oxford U. P.,
2016); Lukas MILEVSKI, The Evolution of Modern Grand Strategic Thought (Oxford U. P., 2016); Barry POSEN, Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S.
Grand Strategy (Cornell U. P., 2014).
69.6851 BARKER, Chris — Educating Liberty: Democracy and Aristocracy in J. S. Mill’s Political Thought (University of Rochester Press, 2018).
Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 : 552-553.
Reviewed by Menaka PHILIPS.
69.6852 BARTA, Zsófia — In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries (University of Michigan Press, 2018).
Perspectives on Politics 17(2), June 2019 : 598-599.
Reviewed by Matthias MATTHIJS.
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