Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS)

Volume X, Number 1: Spring 1993

The Third World in the Post-Cold War Era:
Problems and Possible Solutions
Foreword 13
Obstacles to Peace and Development in the Post-Cold War Era
By Oscar Arias Sanchez
18
The Evolution of the Hong Kong Triads/Tongs into the Current Drug Market
By Sharon Tracy
22
Reflecting the Last War: The Persian Gulf and the "Vietnam Syndrome"
By George C. Herring
37
Socio-Political Change in the Republic of Congo: Political Dilemmas of Economic Reform
By John F. Clark
52
The Role of the Co-operative Movement in Socio-Economic Development: The Case of Equatoria Region, Sudan
By S.A.J. Dima
78
Food as a Human Right
By Gary Kline
92
Other Papers
The Current Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China
By Kong Chu
110
U.S.-China Relations in the Comparative Perspective
By Edwin G. Clausen
118
Vietnam: Smoothing the Way to Joint Venture Agreements
By Sesto E. Vecchi
136
The Perceptions of Pastoralism and Rural Change in Maasailand, Kenya
By Cleophas Lado
148
From Empire to British Commonwealth: Issues and Incentives Which Kept "Radical" African Leaders and Their Nations in the British Commonwealth of Nations as Bona Fide Members
By A.B. Assensoh
184
Competing Paradigms in the Search for a More Relevant Social Science in Nigeria
By Steven A. Nkom
196
The Political Transformation of Palestinian Women
By Jean L. Shultz
225
The Politics of Intervention: The "Underlying" Causes of United States Military Intervention in Central America
By Darin H. Van Tassell and G. Lane Van Tassell
252
Capital Imports and Endogenous Productive Capacity: A Proposal for Agrarian Development in Puerto Rico
By Martin J. Collo
306
Private Capital Flows and Developing Countries
By Hooshang Amirahmadi and Weiping Wu
327
Emerging Trading Blocs and Trade Policy Options for Third World LDCs
By Jong H. Park
358
From Nieo to Rio: The Continuing Crisis in North-South Relations
By James A. Mitchell
386
Designing Interdisciplinary/Transdisciplinary Courses on Third World Issues: Meeting the Needs of College and University Students in the United States
By Eugene B. Shultz, Jr.
406
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA

KENHAYA L. GUPTA. Budget Deficits and Economic Activity in Asia.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
426
CHONG-SIK LEE (ed.). In Search of a New World Order in East Asia.
By Donna Addkison-Simmons and Ralph B. Hare, Jr.
429
R. BATES GILL. Chinese Arms Transfers: Purposes, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World Order.
By Kenneth W. Berger
431
BEVIN ALEXANDER. The Strange Connection: U.S. Intervention in China, 1944-1972.
By Kenneth W. Berger
433
JOHN C. EVANS. Tea in China: The History of China's National Drink.
By Robert Lawless
435
SUNG-HWA CHEONG. The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea: Japanese-South Korean Relations Under American Occupation, 1945-1952.
By Key Ray Chong
436
EARL H. TILFORD, JR. Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why.
By Robert Lawless
439
NICO DEJONGE (ed.). Indonesia in Focus: Ancient Traditions-Modern Times.
By Garth N. Jones
442
J. STEPHEN LANSING. Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali.
By Stewart Sutley
443
SHARAD S. MARATHE. Regulation and Development: India's Policy Experience of Controls Over Industry.
By Winston E. Langley
448
JO-ANN GROSS. Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change.
By Martha Merrill
453
REVIEW ESSAY:
TOWARD MULTI-PARTY POLITICAL PLURALISM IN SINGAPORE
WALTER MAKEPEACE, GILGER E. BROOKE AND ROLAND ST.J. BRADDELL (eds.). One Hundred Years of Singapore.
EDWIN LEE. The British as Rulers: Governing Multiracial Singapore, 1867-1914.
ERNEST C.T. CHEW AND EDWIN LEE. A History of Singapore.
K.S. SANDHU AND PAUL WHEATLEY (eds.). Management of Success: The Molding of Modern Singapore.
T.S. SELVAN. Singapore: The Ultimate Island (Lee Kwan Yew's Untold Story).
ALAN CHONG. Goh Chok Tong: Singapore's New Premier.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
457

AFRICA

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP. Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology.
By Stephen B. Isabirye
471
PAUL STAUDINGER. In the Heart of the Hausa States.
By Erving E. Beauregard
474
MARGARET HASWELL AND DIANA HUNT (eds.). Rural Households in Emerging Societies: Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa.
By Thomas O'Toole
479
PETER WOODWARD. Sudan: 1898-1989.
By Robert E. Looney
481
WILLIAM R. OCHIENG' AND ROBERT M. MAXON (eds.). An Economic History of Kenya.
By David Moore-Sieray
484
BARBARA GROSH. Public Enterprise in Kenya: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why.
By Joseph K. Kimani
490
RAWSON MACHARIA. The Truth About the Trial of Jomo Kenyatta.
By William R. Ochieng'
494
SIMON KENYANCHUI. Nabongo Mumia.
By William R. Ochieng'
496
D. MAXWELL AND S.ZZIWA. Urban Farming in East Africa: The Case of Kampala, Uganda.
By William R. Ochieng'
499
CLIVE GRAY, JACQUES BAUDOUY, KELSEY MARTIN, MOLLY BANG, AND RICHARD CASH. Primary Health Care in Africa: A Study of the Mali Rural Health Project.
By Thomas O'Toole
502
AGNESS LEAKEY HOFMEYR. Beyond Violence.
By William R. Ochieng'
504
GIRMA KEBBEDE. The State and Development in Ethiopia.
By Assefaw Bariagaber
506
IVOR WILKS. Wa and Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana.
By Calvin L. Shirey
509
MICHAEL CLOUGH. Free At Last? U.S. Policy Toward Africa and the End of the Cold War.
By John F. Clark
511
OWEN ELLISON KAHN (ed.). Disengagement from Southwest Africa: Prospects for Peace in Angola and Namibia.
By Karl P. Magyar
514
PAUL P.IZAH. Continuity and Change in Nigerian Foreign Policy.
By John Amfani Ayam
519

MIDDLE EAST

ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East.
By Nader Entessar
523
GEOFFREY KEMP. The Control of the Middle East Arms Race.
By Sanford R. Silverburg
525
CHARLES F. DORAN AND STEPHEN W. BUCK (eds.). The Gulf, Energy, and Global Security: Political and Economic Issues.
By Manochehr Dorraj
527
DANIEL PIPES. Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition.
By Jacob Abadi
529
AMIKAM NACHMANI. Great Power Discord in Palestine: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine 1945-1946.
By Jacob Abadi
531
AVI SHLAIM. The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine 1921-1951.
By Tanweer Akram
534
ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL. Islam, An Introduction.
By Antoine J. Abraham
534
CHARLES LE GAI EATON. Islam, and the Destiny of Man.
By Antoine J. Abraham
535
HAMID ENAYET. Modern Islamic Political Thought.
By Antoine J. Abraham
537
JOYCE WILEY. The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Shi'as.
By Mustafah Dhada
537
ELIZABETH WARROCK FERNEA (ed.). Women and the Family in the Middle East.
By Antoine J. Abraham
541
SHIBLEY TELHAMI. Power and Leadership in International Bargaining.
By Samory Rashid
542
RICHARD W. COTTAM. Iran and the United States: A Cold War Case Study.
By Ali Kamali
545
KAIYAN HOMI KAIKOBAH. The Shatt-Al-Arab Boundary Question: A Legal Reappraisal.
By Sanford R. Silverburg
548

LATIN AMERICA

NELLY P. STROMQUIST. (ed.). Women and Education in Latin America: Knowledge, Power and Change.
By Anna Macias
550
COLIN CLARKE (ed.). Society and Politics in the Caribbean.
By Chitram Singh
552
K.LYNN STONER. From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Women's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940.
By Jeanne L. Friedman
555
SHELDON B. LISS. Radical Thought in Central America.
By Gordon P. Henderson
558
SHARON PHILLIPS COLLAZOS. Labor and Politics in Panama: The Torrijos Years.
By Calvin L. Shirey
561
MICHAEL JAMES HIGGINS AND TANYA LEIGH COEN. Oigame! Oigame! Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community.
By Robert P. Watson and Sean McCluskie
563
VOLODIA TEITELBOIM. Neruda, An Intimate Biography.
By Thomas K. Benedetti
567

MISCELLANEOUS

R. BRUCE McCOLM. Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1992-1993.
By John Mukum Mbaku
571
PAUL N. GOLDSTENE. The Bittersweet Century: Speculations on Modern Science and American Democracy.
By William Head
582
PAUL RABINOW AND WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN. Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look.
By, Robert Lawless
588
GEORGE W. STOCKING, JR. (ed.). Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge.
By Dane Kennedy
589
THOMAS G. WEISS AND MERYL A. KESSLER (eds.). Third World Security in the Post-Cold War Era.
By Mahmood Monshipouri
592
GUSTAV RANIS AND SYED MAHMOOD. The Political Economy of Development Policy Change.
By M. Bazlul Karim
599
KATHLEEN STAUDT. Managing Development: State, Society, and International Contexts.
By Mary Vanderlaan
604
KURT HOFFMAN AND RAPHAEL KAPLINSKI. Driving Force: The Global Restructuring of Technology, Labor, and Investment in the Automobile and Components Industries.
By Robert Lawless
606
RICHARD CRITCHFIELD. The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures.
By Mitali R. Pati
609
JANNE E. NOLAN. Trappings of Power: Ballistic Missiles in the Third World.
By Rolin Mainuddin
610
REVIEW ESSAY:
MEASURING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE SEARCH FOR A YARDSTICK
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Human Development Report, 1990.
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Human Development Report, 1991.
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Human Development Report, 1992.
By John Mukum Mbaku 613
Communications 619
Tenth Annual Meeting: Association of Third World Studies, Inc.
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
October 1 - 3, 1992
624
Books Available for Review 631

 


Volume X, Number 2: Fall 1993

Third World Problems and Issues
Foreword 9
India's Economic Policy Since Nehru: The Failure of Democratic Socialism and the March Toward Free Trade
By Jacob Abadi
12
The State and Academic Freedom in Africa: How African Academics Subvert Academic Freedom
By Julius Omozuanubo Ibonvbere
36
Brain Drain and African Development: A Descriptive Framework for Deriving Indirect Benefits
By Godson C. Obia
74
Unique Properties of Third World Political Leadership: Overcoming Tyrannies of Eurocentric Paradigms
By Festus Brotherson, Jr.
98
Military Factors and External Debt in Less Developed Countries: Evidence from Cross-Sectional and Panel Assessments
By Francis O. Adeola
126
Other Papers
The Self-Employed Women's Association: One Solution to Women's Continued Inequality in India
By Heather T. Frazer
160
Senegambia and the Confederation: History, Expectations, and Disillusions
By Edmun B. Richmond
172
Key Obstacles to the Development of African Universities
By Daniel N. Sifuna and Kilemi Mwiria
195
SADCC and South Africa: Regionalism or Dependence?
By Jeffrey M. Ebenstein
228
The Post-Ahidjo Era in Cameroon: Continuity and Change
By Joseph Takougang
268
The Relations Between Europe and Latin America: Rhetoric and Reality
By Menno Vellinga
303
Dual Nature of Sovereignty and Its Application to Foreign-Policy Making: The Case of the U.S. Intervention in the 1980s
By Korwa Gombe Adar and Catherine I. Harries
323
An Inquiry into War Conduct Ethics: Paradigmatic Interpretations of the Persian Gulf War
By Mahmood Monshipouri
343
Low-Intensity Conflicts: A Two Worlds Perspective
By Karl P. Magyar
377
The Bush Administration's View of the People's Republic of China's Legal Situation After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
By Daniel C. Turack
398
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA

E.M. ROSKIES (ed.) Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia: Essays in Interpretation.
By Garth N. Jones
416
PETER MACDONALD. Giap: The Victor in Vietnam.
By Cecil B. Currey
423
JANE HAMILTON-MERRITT. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.
By W.E. Fahey, Jr.
432
EARL H. TILFORD, JR. Crosswinds: The Air Force's Setup in Vietnam.
By William M. Leary
435
JAMES A. PUTZEL. A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines.
By James Birdzynski
437
JOHN DARGAVEL AND RICHARD TUCKER (eds.). Changing Pacific Forests: Historical Perspectives on the Forest Economy of the Pacific Basin.
By Robert Lawless
439
CHIH-YU SHIH. China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy.
By Kenneth W. Berger
440
KAILAS SARAP. Interlinked Agrarian Markets in Rural India.
By Marc Jason Gilbert
443
TAJ UL-ISLAM HASHMI. Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia: The Communalization of Class Politics in East Bengal, 1920-1947.
By Roger D. Long
445

AFRICA

KAMI RWEGASIRA. Administering Management Development Institutions in Africa.
By G.S. Namusonge
449
THOMAS G. WEISS (ed.). Humanitarian Emergencies and Military Help in Africa.
By Stephen E. Buggie
454
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF KENYA. Africa in the Debt Yoke: The Mission of the Church.
By Adalso Moga
456
FLORENCE DOLPHYNE. The Emancipation of Women: An African Perspective.
By Y.M. Alex and A.B. Assensoh
459
PAMELA REYNOLDS. Dance Civet Cat: Child Labour in the Zambezi Valley.
By Thomas O'Toole
462
BAHRU ZEWDE. A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974.
By Assefaw Bariagaber
464
CHRISTINE SYLVESTER. Zimbabwe: The Terrain of Contradictory Development.
By Thomas O'Toole
467
JULIUS AMIN. The Peace Corps in Cameroon.
By Joseph Takougang
469
ERICK MASINDE ASEKA. Ronald Ngala.
By William R. Ochieng'
472
H. ODERA ORUKA. Oginga Odinga: His Philosophy and Beliefs.
By William R. Ochieng'
475
REVIEW ESSAY:
AFRICAN WILDLANDS
JOHN A. MURRAY (ed.). Wild Africa: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Africa;
JONATHAN S. ADAMS AND THOMAS O. MCSHANE. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion.
By G.W. Burnett 479

MIDDLE EAST

ROGER OWEN. State, Power & Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
By Erika G. Alin
485
JOHN ESPOSITO. Islam: The Straight Path.
By Ali Kamali
488
JOSEPH S. ROUCEK AND MICHAEL V. BELOK. The U.S. and The Persian Gulf.
By Antoine J. Abraham
491
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN. After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East.
By Nader Entessar
492
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM. Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East.
By Christa Daryl Slaton
495
BERNARD LEWIS. The Muslim Discovery of Europe.
By Antonine J. Abraham
497
BERNARD LEWIS. Semites & Anti-Semites.
By Antonine J. Abraham
498
PHILIP G. KREYENBROEK AND STEFAN SPERL. The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview.
By Rudolf T. Zarzar
499
JOEL GORDON. Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution.
By Robert J. Bookmiller
502

LATIN AMERICA

HERALDO MUNOZ (ed.). Environment and Diplomacy in the Americas.
By Roy Arthur Glasgow
506
LESLIE BETHELL (ed.). Mexico Since Independence.
By George D. Beelen
508
ERROL MILLER. Education for All: Caribbean Perspectives and Imperatives.
By Daniel Good
510
HARRY E. VANDEN AND GARY PREVOST. Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua.
By Debra Sabia
513
MANZAR FOROOHAR. The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua.
By Paul L. Simon
516
ROBERT LAWLESS. Haiti's Bad Press.
By Cecil B. Currey
518
RONALD FERNANDEZ. The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
By Martin J. Collo
519
ZEE EDGELL. Beka Lamb: Belize's First Novel.
By Mary G. Parham
521
REVIEW ESSAY:
RECENT STUDIES ON BRAZILIAN DEVELOPMENT
RICHARD GRAHAM (ed.). Brazil and the World System;
MARSHALL C. EAKIN. British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine;
MAURICIO A. FONT. Coffee, Contention, and Change in the Making of Modern Brazil.
By Lydia M. Garner 528

MISCELLANEOUS

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO). World List of Social Science Periodicals, 1991.
By John Mukum Mbaku
537
A.S. BHALLA. Uneven Development in the Third World.
By Dominique N. Khactu
540
BRIAN L. JOB (ed.). The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States.
By Lt. Col. (Retd.) W.T. Luckett
545
W. RAYMOND DUNCAN AND CAROLYN MCGIFFERT EKEDAHL. Moscow and the Third World Under Gorbachev.
By Martha C. Merrill
549
LOUISE G. WHITE. Implementing Policy Reforms in LDCs: A Strategy for Designing and Effecting Change.
By Robert P. Watson and Sean McCluskie
552
SYLVIA WOODBY AND MARTHA COTTAM. The Changing Agenda: World Politics Since 1945.
By Jeffrey M. Ebenstein
556
REVIEW ESSAY:
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE ADRIFT
TONY KILLICK. A Reaction Too Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries;
PAUL MOSLEY, JANE HARRIGAN AND JOHN TOYE. Aid and Power: The World Bank & Policy-Based Lending.
By Christopher B. Barrett 558
REVIEW ESSAY:
POST-COLD WAR HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN. Geopolitics and Geoculture;
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA. The End of History and the Last Man.
By William R. Ochieng'
569
Books Available for Review
573

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