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Literary forms of inquiry into politics range far beyond the
journal article and the scholarly monograph. Myron
Aronoff's monograph serves us well by respecting the novel
of international intrigue as an insightful form for analyzing
the politics of diplomacy, bureaucracy, covert action, and
international regimes. Aronoff targets the latter-day dean of
spy novelists, David Cornwell, who writes under the name of
John le Carre´.

The image of the apex of the Japanese legal system, as portrayed by file video clips on NHK evening news, has remained amazingly consistent over the years: poker-faced judges sit motionless in high-backed chairs, as if waiting to be taken to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. With such a stodgy and foreboding appearance, it is hard for us to imagine that exciting events might transpire within those solemn chambers. And yet occasionally a specific case does demand our attention, especially when the controversy at hand is thought to embody, represent, or challenge some of the most fundamental principles ordering the way society goes about its business.

Japanese New Religions in the West edited by Peter B. Clarke and Jeffrey Somers.