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Patrick Kollner takes a critical look at Ronald Dore's Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism. Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2000), which explores the increasing commonalities in industrialized nations with regard to production style & economic organization, & whether convergence of economic systems is imminent. Dore argues that changes effected by neoliberalism promote inequality & competition & undermine cooperation; & that the attentiveness to the stock market & such issues as shareholder value has dangerously adverse effects. Martin Manzke reviews Neue deutsche Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik? Eine friedenswissenschaftliche Bilanz zwei Jahre nach dem rot-grunen Regierungswechsel ([New German Foreign and Security Policy? A Scientific Peace Balance Two Years after the Red-Green Government Change] Vol. 27, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001), a collection of studies edited by Christian Lammers & Lutz Schrader examining & evaluating the changes wrought by the new administration, notes few positives. The administration's failures include issues such as nuclear weapons & NATO, the peace movement, &, on the international front of the EU, an inclination toward the Germanization of Europe rather than a Europeanization of Germany. C. Houle

How can an escalation of conflict lead to negotiation? In this systematic study, Zartman and Faure bring together European and American scholars to examine this important topic and to define the point where the concepts and practices of escalation and negotiation meet. Political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and war-making and peace-making strategists, among others, examine the various forms escalation can take and relate them to conceptual advances in the analysis of negotiation. They argue that structures, crises, turning points, demands, readiness and ripeness can often define the conditions where the two concepts can meet and the authors take this opportunity to offer lessons for theory and practice. By relating negotiation to conflict escalation, two processes that have traditionally been studied separately, this book fills a significant gap in the existing knowledge and is directly relevant to the many ongoing conflicts and conflict patterns in the world today

One would not ordinarily think of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as of particular importance to the less developed countries. Nevertheless, in recent years the less developed coun-tries have come to have a very high regard for the IMF; and the IMF, in turn, has become the great defender of the interests of the less developed countries. This entente has evolved out of the course of events. In the current discussions on international monetary reform the IMF has be-come the spokesman for universal participation in reserve creation. This suits the institutional interests of the IMF. At the same time it makes the IMF the advocate of the interests of the less developed countries