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This review examines research about current levels and recent changes in ethnic and racial stratification in the United States. Research about ethnic inequality emphasizes that economic stagnation and restructuring are troubling impediments to progress toward equality, and it shows evidence that employers may still use racial and ethnic queues in hiring. A number of issues arise with respect to the incorporation of the new waves of immigrants who have arrived since immigration law reform in 1965. We discuss patterns of adaptation of new immigrants, including available evidence on the ethnic enclave economy and substitution in the labor market of immigrants for native minorities. We summarize new theories and hypotheses about the fate of the children of recent immigrants, and we point to topics in this area needing further research.

Argues that International relations has been ahistoric & Eurocentric, especially in relation to Ancient & Imperial China, which evolved independently of European influence until modern times. Three historical forms of international order in China are analyzed: a multi-state system in Ancient China with a comparison to the ideas & institutions in the modern European international system; the Imperial Chinese world order, Pax Sinica, which prevailed in China for two millennia; & the eventual encounter with European international society & the transformation of the Imperial China empire. Central to the empire was the tribute system of trade relations based on a hierarchy informed by Confucian values. This system could not survive in an age of European expansion & initiated the third great transformation of Chinese international relations that brings China into an emerging global society. The author concludes that the field of International relations needs to go beyond Eurocentrism by addressing the diversity & richness offered by an historical perspective of China. 1 Table. J. Moses

Barring the outbreak of internecine conflict in Central America, the greatest challenge to the Nicaraguan Revolution lies in rural Nicaragua. As in most developing countries, the severest poverty in Nicaragua has always been found in the rural areas. Somewhat paradoxically, however, the rural areas of the country are also the source of the nation's wealth: 90 percent of the foreign exchange, so necessary to a small state like Nicaragua, is derived from agriculture. Moreover, around 70 percent of the population earn their living from the land. Consequently, meeting the promises of the revolution depends crucially on the performance of the agricultural sector.