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Toward Sustainable Communities, Second Edition

Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy
Edited by Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft

This analysis of U.S. environmental policy offers a conceptual framework that serves as a valuable roadmap to the array of laws, programs, and approaches developed over the last four decades. Combining case studies and theoretical discussion, the book views environmental policy in the context of three epochs: the rise of command-and-control federal regulation in the 1970s, the period of efficiency-based reform efforts that followed, and the more recent trend toward sustainable development and integrated approaches at local and regional levels.

Incentives and Choice in Health Care

Edited by Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper

A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers expect on their investments in research and development, or disincentives, such as increases in the copayments patients must make when they visit physicians or are admitted to hospitals.

Polarized America

The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
By Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal

Reshaping Rogue States

Preemption, Regime Change, and US Policy toward Iran, Iraq, and North Korea
Edited by Alexander T.J. Lennon and Camille Eiss

In January 2002, President George W. Bush declared Iran, Iraq, and North Korea constituents of an "axis of evil." US strategy toward each of these countries has clearly varied since, yet similar issues and policy options have emerged for US relations with all three. Reshaping Rogue States seeks to improve our understanding of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as well as of current and future policy options to combat the threats these nations pose.

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks
Edited by Alexander T.J. Lennon

Although military operations have dominated media coverage of the war on terrorism, a much broader array of policy options may hold the key to reducing the appeal of global terrorist networks, particularly in economically destitute areas. These strategies involve the use of "soft power," a term first used by political scientist Joseph Nye in a 1990 article in Foreign Policy to describe nonmilitary strategies to shape international relations and behavior.

Terrorism, Freedom, and Security

Winning Without War
By Philip B. Heymann

On September 11, 2001, the United States began to consider the terrorist threat in a new light. Terrorism was no longer something that happened in other countries on other continents but became a pressing domestic concern for the US government and American citizens. The nation suddenly faced a protracted struggle.

What Does the World Want from America?

International Perspectives on US Foreign Policy
Edited by Alexander T.J. Lennon

The United States is the only superpower in the world today. Although the media are filled with prescriptions for how Washington might best wield its power, rarely are other countries asked what role they would like the United States to play.

America's Strategic Choices, Revised Edition

Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but the United States has yet to reach a consensus on a coherent approach to the international use of American power. The essays in this volume present contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy. US policy options include primacy, cooperative security, selective engagement, and retrenchment. This revised edition includes additional and more recent analysis and advocacy of these options.

Public-Private Policy Partnerships

Edited by Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau

Partnerships between the public and private sectors to fulfill public functions are on the increase at every level of government. In the United States and Canada they currently operate in most policy areas, and in the U.S. trial programs are planned by the Internal Revenue Service, the Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration.

America's Achilles' Heel

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack
By Richard A Falkenrath, Robert D Newman and Bradley A Thayer


Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons delivered covertly by terrorists or hostile governments pose a significant and growing threat to the United States and other countries. Although the threat of NBC attack is widely recognized as a central national security issue, most analysts have assumed that the primary danger is military use by states in war, with traditional military means of delivery. The threat of covert attack has been imprudently neglected.

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