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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — August 2007
Arrangement is by title.

Journey into Islam; the crisis of globalization.

Ahmed, Akbar.
Brookings Institution Press, ©2007    323 p.    $28.95    BP163
978-0-8157-0132-3

Former high commissioner of Pakistan to Britain, Ahmed (Islamic studies, American U., and Brookings Institution) presents insights he gained from an anthropological excursion into the Muslim World. Among his perspectives are the struggle within Islam, who is defining Islam after 9/11 and why, and lifting the veil. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

A matter of faith; religion in the 2004 presidential election.

Ed. by David E. Campbell.
Brookings Institution Press, ©2007    308 p.    $26.95    JK526
978-0-8157-1327-2

Scholars — presumably of political science though they do not say so — from US universities and institutes analyze the religious dimension of the election from such perspectives as party elites and religion, evangelicals and moral values, gay marriage, the changing Catholic voter, Latinos, the Black church, and the religious left. The 14 papers are from a December 2005 conference at Notre Dame University. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Power and superpower; global leadership and exceptionalism in the 21st century.

Ed. by Morton H. Halperin et al.
Century Foundation, ©2007    440 p.    $19.95    JZ1480
978-0-87078-509-2

The editors (of the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation) present 15 papers laying out the liberal internationalist foreign policy alternative to the current neoconservative course currently being pursued by the George W. Bush administration. Premised on a "commitment to multilateralism, strong international institutions, and an international rule of law," the papers address the relationship between law and legitimacy, alternatives to traditional uses of military power, nuclear weapons proliferation, democracy promotion, the dangers of "War on Terror" illegalities of rendition and torture, trade policy, and climate change. Also included are remarks delivered at the eponymous conference that gave rise to the book by Clinton-era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Depute Secretary-General of the United Nations Mark Malloch Brown, former US Representative James A. Leach (R-Iowa), and liberal financier George Soros. Distributed in the US by the Brookings Institution Press. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Reducing global poverty; the case for asset accumulation.

Ed. by Caroline Moser.
Brookings Institution Press, ©2007    305 p.    $24.95    HC59
978-0-8157-5857-0

The proceedings of a Brookings Institution and Ford Foundation workshop argue that teaching and encouraging poor people to catapult their resources into private assets is a better way to alleviate poverty than providing social protection or decent income. The topics include social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America, Hurricane Katrina, and gender and trans-national asset accumulation in El Salvador. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Second-term blues; how George W. Bush has governed.

Ed. by John C. Fortier and Norman J. Ornstein.
Brookings Institution Press, ©2007    146 p.    $24.95    JK275
978-0-8157-2884-9

Fortier and Ornstein (respectively, a research fellow and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute) present the thoughts of political reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post and academics from the Brookings Institution and Princeton University on how President George W. Bush has governed during his second term and the challenges he has faced in enacting his agenda domestically and internationally. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)