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International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions, and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity

from the periphery. Analyzing the political economy of Turkey’s bid for EU membership, Keyder reinforces Gowan’s case for Europe as an alternative empire. Turkey’s accession to EU will speed up Turkey’s democratization, and will also help EU turn away from the “fortress Europe” model to become “a universalist empire espousing a clearly spelled out alternative project for governing globalization” (p. 162). In contrast, Nurse expresses a far more critical view on the U.S.EU competition by looking into the transatlantic “banana war” over the 1990s. For Nurse, the transatlantic controversy over how to govern the world banana market simply reflects the clash between U.S.’s and EU’s transnational corporations. No matter who wins, laborers in the global South are the losers. As a whole, Tabuk successfully assembles an array of cogent articles to remind us that U.S.’s current imperial turn is but the latest episode of U.S.’s protracted hegemonic decline since the 1970s, and that the turn is implicated with the rise of Europe and East Asia as contenders for global leadership. Of course, no one would expect a collective intellectual endeavor to be impeccable in all aspects. The last chapter about the general history of the environmental impact of interimperial rivalry, while ingenious in its own right, is poorly integrated with the rest of the book. While dealing with Southeast Asia in the context of East Asian regionalization and Africa as well as Latin America in the context of transatlantic competition, India, which is emerging as an economic powerhouse after China and is recently wooed by the U.S. as a counterbalance to China, is conspicuously absent throughout the book. These flaws, however, fade in comparison with the book’s overall merits, particularly so if we, as we should, treat the volume not as a final conclusion but as a starting point of elevating the empire debate to a more sophisticated level. Allies as Rivals is indispensable on the shelf of any scholar interested in global political economic transformation. It is also an ideal text for graduate or advanced undergraduate class on international politics and globalization. International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions, and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity, edited by Michael Bommes and Ewa Morawska. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. 298 pp. $99.95 cloth. ISBN: 0-7546-4219-4.