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Why does the academic study of international relations have limited
impact on the policy community? When research results are
inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly
consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and
other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR
research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz
and Bruce Russett identify differences in methods of analysis as
one cause of these problematic results. They discuss the problem
and set the stage for nine chapters by diverse scholars to
demonstrate innovative new developments in IR theory and creative
new methods that can lay the basis for greater consensus. Looking
at areas of concern such as the relationship between lawmaking and
the use of military force, the challenge of suppressing extremists
without losing moderates, and the public health effects of civil
conflict, contributors show how international relations research
can generate reliable results that can be, and in fact are, used in
the real world.
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from
the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot
deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the
dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects,
including polarization and the rise in campaign spending. But what
if the roots go much deeper, to the nation's founding?In Relic ,
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe point to the Constitution as the
main culprit. The framers designed the Constitution some 225 years
ago for a simple, agrarian society. But the government they
created, with a parochial Congress at its centre, is ill-equipped
to address the serious social problems that arise in a complex,
postindustrial nation. We are prisoners of the past, burdened with
an antiquated government that cannot make effective policy, and
often cannot do anything at all.The solution is to update the
Constitution for modern times. This can be accomplished, Howell and
Moe argue, through reforms that push Congress and all its
pathologies to the periphery of the lawmaking process, and bring
presidents,whose concern for their legacy drives them to seek
coherent policy solutions,to the centre of decision making. As
Howell and Moe reveal, the key to effective government for modern
America is a more powerful presidency. Relic is a provocative and
essential book for our era of political dysfunction and popular
despair. It sheds new light on what is wrong with our government
and what can be done about it, challenging us to reconsider the
very foundation of the American experiment.
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