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Rezension von: Allitt, Patrick: The Conservatives: ideas and personalities throughout American history. - New Haven/Conn. : Yale Univ. Press, 2009

Book review of authors John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy and Tatjana Muravska: EU Cohesion Policy. Reassessing performance and direction, London and New York, Routledge, 2017, 345 pp. ; Recensión de la monografía de John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy y Tatjana Muravska: EU Cohesion Policy. Reassessing performance and direction, Londres y Nueva York, Routledge, 2017, 345 pp.

Rezension von: Holmes, Stephen: The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2007. - 384 S

Rezension von: The war on terror and the laws of war: a military perspective / by Michael Lewis ... - Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009

"For quite a while," Peter Berkowitz notes, "leading aca-
demic liberals and their best-known critics formed an unwit-
ting alliance, promulgating the view that liberal political
theory" ignores the whole subject of virtue and cultivation (p.
170). If that view is correct, this neglect not only would spawn
"fatal theoretical lacunae" (p. 4) but also would raise serious
doubts about liberalism's capacity to sustain the "qualities of
mind and character" (p. 172) required for "the operation and
maintenance" of "free and democratic institutions" (p. 6).
In recent years, however, a new generation of liberals have
challenged this widely held view. Thinkers such as William
Galston and Stephen Macedo acknowledge that liberal re-
gimes depend "upon a specific set of virtues," which "they do
not automatically produce" (pp. 27­8). Their work points
toward the "dependence" of liberal societies on "extraliberal
and nongovernmental sources of virtue" (p. 28), such as "the
family, religion and the array of associations in civil society"
(p. 6). Simultaneously, they insist that "limited government is
not the same as neutral government" (p. 173), and they affirm
"that the liberal state, within bounds, ought to pursue liberal
purposes" and, thus, "may, within limits, foster virtues" that
serve these purposes (p. xii).

Rezension von: Miller, Aaron David: The much too promised land: America's elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace. - New York/N.Y. : Bantam, 2008

Rezension von: Halperin, Mark ; Harris, John F.: The way to win : taking the White House in. - New York/N.Y. : Random House, 2006. - 454 S

Berkowitz reviews Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different by Gordon Wood.

Berkowitz reviews Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral.

Berkowitz reviews Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America by Robert B. Reich.

A review essay on a book by George Weigel, Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism: A Call to Action (Doubleday Religious, 2007).