Book reviews.

Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size of Nations (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003), 261 pages. Andrew MacIntyre, The Power of Institutions: Political Architecture and Governance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003),189 pages. M.R. Narayanswamy, Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabbakaran (New Delhi: Konark Publishers, XXXX), pp xviii+290. Miranda A. Schreurs, Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany and the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Strobe Talbott, Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy and the Bomb (XXXX: Penguin/ Viking, XXXX), 268 pages. Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman (eds.), War and the Media; Reporting Conflict 24/7 (New Delhi: Vistaar Publications - a division of SAGE Publications, 2003). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]