Democracy Books & Reviews

Prudence and the Prince

Fred E. Baumann | Jun 01, 2004
Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.

Zakaria's Complaint

Thomas Carothers | Jun 01, 2003
It's a mistake, argues Fareed Zakaria, to conflate constitutional liberalism with democracy. It's a mistake, says Thomas Carothers, to exaggerate the extent to which that mistake actually characterizes U.S. policy.

The Four Schoolmasters

H. W. Brands | Dec 01, 2001
Walter Russell Mead's new book deploys the ideas and heirs of Hamilton, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson to illuminate the future of U.S. foreign policy.

Hyphenating Foreign Policy

James Schlesinger | Dec 01, 2000
The new game of ethnic politics in foreign polics is a curious development--no less than American leaders' support of it.

Good Intentions

John Patrick Diggins | Sep 01, 2000
Yes, the road to hell is often paved with good intentions.

Through the Garbage Can, Darkly, Review of David Williams's Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science

Eric Jones | Sep 01, 1996
This is a work of criticism ranging over the more fashionable social sciences and humanities, assessing and mostly rejecting them as unsuitable for elucidating the Japanese political system and berating their exponents for ignoring that system in

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