Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XVI, Number 1: Spring 1999

RHETORIC VERSUS ACTION: THE CHALLENGE
OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Foreword 7
Turkey and Iran During the Cold War
By Michael B. Bishku
13
Azerbaijan, the U.S., and Oil Prospects on the Caspian Sea
By Alec Rasizade
29
The Political Report to the 8th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party:
An Anatomy of the Writing Process
By Lewis Stern
49
The Military and Democratization in Africa
By Philip C. Aka
71
The Role of Universities in Promoting Cooperation Between Social and Pure
Scientists for Human Development in Kenya
By Fredrick Muyia Nafukho
87
Growth by Debt: Foreign Borrowing and Dependent Capitalism in Chile, 1958-1970
By Jon V. Kofas
101
Other Papers
Doctrinal Model for PKO
By Albert Mitchum
139
Bilingual Education on an Uneven Playfield: The Kenyan Case
By Kembo Sure
147
The Origin of the Marginalization of Former Southern Cameroonians (Anglophones),
1961-1966: An Historical Analysis
By Victor Julius Ngoh
165
Technology-Transfer and Public Transportation Functioning in Less
Developed Countries: An Exploratory Study
By Ambe J. Njoh
187
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA

R. SOORYAMOORTHY. Consumption to Consumerism in the Context of Kerala.
By Santosh Saha
211
ANEK LAOTHAMATAS, (ed.). Democratization in Southeast and East Asia.
By Pamela Sodhy
213
MILTON LEWIS, SCOTT BAMBER, AND MICHAEL WAUGH (eds.). Sex,, Disease, and Society: A
Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

By Philip C. Aka
218
CARL H. LANDE. Post Marcos Politics: A Geographical and Statistical Analysis
of the 1992 Presidential Election.

By James Biedzynski
221
MARC JASON GILBERT, (ed.). The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources.
By Robert Lawless
224
HEIKE KRIEGER, (ed.). East Timor and the International Community: Basic Documents.
By Daniel C. Turack
226

AFRICA

JOHN MUKUM MBAKU. Institutions and Reform in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective.
By Philip C. Aka
228
STEPHEN L. WEIGERT. Traditional Religion and Guerilla Warfare in Modern Africa.
By Christopher Gray
234
B.A. OGOT. Africa and the Caribbean.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
236
TOYIN FALOLA. Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria.
By E. Ike Udogu
240
LAURENT C.W. KAELA. The Question of Namibia.
By James Biedzynski
243
WANGARI WA NYATETU-WAIGAWA. The Limited Novel: Studies in the
Francophone African Novel as Bildungsroman.

By Opportune Zongo
245
ANDREW P. DAVIDSON. In the Shadow of History: The Passing of Lineage Society.
By Robert Lawless
247
REVIEW ESSAY
AFRICA'S SECOND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION
By Femi Vaughan 251
REVIEW ESSAY
AFRICA AND THE REST OF THE BLACK WORLD IN PERSPECTIVE

JOHN MUKUM MBAKU with a forward by Gordon Tullock. Institutions and Reform in Africa: The Public
Choice Perspective; PHYLLIS M. MARTIN AND PATRICK O'MEARA (eds.). Africa; GODWIN O.
OHIWEREI. Developing Strategies for Excellence in Urban Education; KENNELL JACKSON.
America Is Me: 170 Fresh Questions and Answers on Black American History.
By Y. Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh 257
REVIEW ESSAY
QUAKERS IN AFRICA

ANE MARIE BAK RASMUSSEN. A History of the Quaker Movement in Africa; ANE MARIE BAK
RASMUSSEN. Modern African Spirituality: The Independent Holy Spirit Churches in East Africa, 1902-1976.
By Robin Johnson and Cecil B. Currey 261
REVIEW ESSAY
AFRICA'S "DEVELOPMENT CRISIS:" A FAILURE OF ECONOMICS OR IDEOLOGY?

STEPHEN McCARTHY. Africa: The Challenge of Transformation; HARVEY J. SINDIMA. Africa's
Agenda: The Legacy of Liberalism and Colonialism in the Crisis of African Values.
Andrew F. Clark 265

LATIN AMERICA

WILLIAM C. THIESENHUSEN. Broken Promises: Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino.
By Carlos Perez
271
LARRY SAWYERS. The Other Argentina: The Interior and National Development.
By Claudia A. Pavone Watson and Robert P. Watson
273
MIGUEL ANGEL CENTENO and MAURICIO FONT (eds.). Towards a New Cuba? Legacies of a Revolution.
By Darien J. Davis
275
TOMMIE SUE MONTGOMERY. Revolution in El Salvador: From Civil Strife to
Civil Peace;
TOMMIE SUE MONTGOMERY. Revolution in El Salvador: Origins and Evolution.
By Joel S. Cleland
278

MIDDLE EAST

PAUL J. MAGNARELLA. Anatolia's Loom: Studies in Turkish Culture, Society, Politics and Law.
By Robert Olson
281
NAJI ABI-AAD AND MICHEL GRENON. Instability and Conflict in the Middle
East: People, Petroleum and Security Threats.

By Rolin Mainuddin
285
MARSHA PRIPSTEIN POSUSNEY. Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring.
By Robert Looney
287
NAFEZ Y. NAZZAL and LAILA A. NAZZAL. Historical Dictionary of Palestine.
By Jacob Abadi
289
HILAL KHASHAN. Inside the Lebanese Confessional Mind.
By J. Abraham
290
WILLIAM HARRIS. Faces of Lebaon, Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions.
By A.J. Abraham
291
CAROL J. RIPHENBURG. Political Development in a Changing World.
By Calvin H. Allen, Jr.
292
REVIEW ESSAY
THE KURDISH QUESTION AND THE MIDDLE EAST

DAVID McDOWALL. A Modern History of Kurds; MICHAEL M. GUNTER. The Kurds
and the Future of Turkey:
ROBERT OLSON. The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian
Relations;
ROBERT OLSON (ed.). The Kurdish National Movement in the 1990s.
By Paul J. Magnarella
295

MISCELLANEOUS

PAUL N. GOLDSTENE. Revolution American Style: The Nineteen-Sixties and Beyond.
By William Head
299
NOAM CHOMSKY. Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature
and the Social Order.

By Tanweer Akram
300
RICHARD J. PAYNE. The Clash With Distant Cultures: Values, Interests,
and Force in American Foreign Policy.

By William C. Cumiford
304
DAVID HULME and MICHAEL EDWARDS (eds.). NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?
By R. Sooryamoorthy
308
Sixteenth Annual Meeting of ATWS 316
Books Available for Review 317

 


Volume XVI  Number 2   Fall 1999

THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT ON THE
EVE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM:
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Foreword

7

Preparing the Third World for the New Millennium
By John Mukum Mbaku

13

An Islamic Perspective on Non-Alighment: Iranian Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice
By Houman A. Sadri

29

Managing Rapid Urbanization in Africa: Some Aspects of Policy
By Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr.

47

Rethinking Current Explanations of Political Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa
By J. Wagona Makoba

61

Examining The Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Development
By Shannon Lindsey Blanton

75

Pragmatism and Rhetoric in Yemen's Policy Toward Israel
By Jacob Abadi

95

Other Papers


The Situation of the Bedouin of Jordan's Karak Pleateau
By G.W. Burnett, Rair Naim al Baqain, and Murl Dirksen

121

The Impact of Religious, Social, and Economic Forces Upon the Development of Management Education in Latin America
By John D. Theodore

133

The Military and the (Re)making of African Postcolonial Identity in Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy and Manuel Rui's Yes, Comrade!
By Sandra Meek

141

Review Article


United States-Latin American Relations: Recent Historiography
By Thomas M. Leonard

163

Book Reviews and Review Essays


ASIA


BRANSCOMB, LEWIS M. and YOUNG-HWAN CHOI (eds.). Korea at the Turning Point: Innovation-Based Strategies for Development.
By James Biedzynski

183

LEE, KENNETH B. Korea and East Asia: The Story of a Phoenix.
By Stephen Uhalley, Jr.

184

NORDELL, JOHN R. JR. The Undetected Enemy: French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu, 1953.
By Cecil B. Currey

186

BONGA, DIEUWKE WENDELAAR. Eight Prison Camps: A Dutch Family in Japanese Java.
By Paul A. Rodell

187

HEYZER, NOELEEN, JAMES V. RIKER and ANTONIO B. QUIZON (eds.). Government-NGO Relations in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for People-Centered Development.
By Dipankar Sinha

190

STEIN, HOWARD (ed.). Asian Industrialization and Africa: Studies in Policy Alternatives to Structural Adjustment.
By Santosh Saha

193

REVIEW ESSAY
VIETNAM: FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICIES

PALMUJOKI, EERO. Vietnam and the World: Marxist-Leninist Doctrine and the Challenges in International Relations, 1975-93; HARVIE, CHARLES and TRAN VAN HOA. Vietnam's Reforms and Economic Growth.
By Cecil B. Currey

197

AFRICA

MBAKU, JOHN MUKUM (ed.). Corruption and the Crisis of Institutional Reforms.
By Philip C. Aka

199

PATTON, ADDELL JR. Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa.
By Amos J. Beyan

204

PERRINGS, CHARLES. Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Sharan Africa: The Case of Botswana.
By Daniel Skidmore-Hess

206

MAROPE, P.T.D. and S.G. WEEKS (eds.). Educational and National Development in Southern Africa.
By Hannington Ochwada

208

MUNGAZI, DICKSON A. and L. KAY WALKER. Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa.
By Anne Nangulu-Ayuku and David J. Cranmer

211

BROWN, JUDITH M. and MARTIN PROZESKY (eds.) Gandhi and South Africa: Principles and Politics.
By Aran MacKinnon

214

DECALO, SAMUEL, VIRGINIA THOMPSON and RICHARD ADLOFF. Historical Dictionary of Congo.
By John F. Clark and François Sita

217

OFCANSKY, THOMAS P. AND RODGER YEAGER. Historical Dictionary of Tanzania.
By James Biedzynski

220

LATIN AMERICA

PINO, JULIO CÉSAR. Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro .
By Michael R. Hall

223

SERNAU, SCOTT. Economies of Exclusion: Underclass Poverty and Labor Market Change in Mexico.
By Nasser Momayezi

224

MCSHERRY, J. PATRICE. Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argengina.
By David Schwam-Baird

227

WRIGHT, BRUCE E. Theory in the Practice of the Nicaraguan Revolution.
By Carlos Pérez

229

MIDDLE EAST

LEE, ROBERT D. Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity.
By Emad T. Mayer-Mruwat

233

DAVIDSON, LAWRENCE. Islamic Fundamentalism.
By Vernon Egger

235

LESCH, ANN M. and DAN TSCHIRGI. Origins and Development of the Arab-Israeli Dispute.
By Rudof T. Zarzar

237

GIL, MOSHE. A History of Palestine, 634-1099.
By A.J. Abraham

239

GILSENAN, MICHAEL. Lords of the Lebanese Marches.
By A.J. Abraham

240

SABBAGH, SUHA (ed.). Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank.
By Aida A. Bamia

241

MISCELLANEOUS

ABJIBOLOSOO, SENYO B-S.K. (ed.). International Perspectives on the Human Factor in Economic Development.
By Philip C. Aka

243

GREEN, ANDREW and ANN MATTHIAS. Non-Governmental Organizations and Health in Developing Countries.
By R. Sooryamoorthy

250

GOLDTHORPE, J.E. The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies: Economic Disparity, Cultural Diversity, and Development.
By Timothy J. White

254

SANCHEZ, VICENTE and CALESTOUS JUMA (eds.). Biodiplomacy: Genetic Resources and International Relations.
By P. Godfrey Okoth

255

UIMONEN, PETER and JOHN WHALLEY. Environmental Issues in the New World Trading System.
By Jose Boban K.

259

SCOTT, CATHERINE V. Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory.
By Carlos Pérez

262

RAI, S.M. and G. LIEVESLEY (eds.). Gender, Change and Society: Women and the State.
By Basilida A. Mutoro

264

ANDREWS, PEGGY. Sisters Listening to Sisters: Women of the World Share Stories of Personal Empowerment.
By Margaret McFadden

269

HEALEY, JOHN and WILLIAM TORDOFF (eds.). Votes and Budgets: Comparative Studies in Accountable Governance in the South.
By Daniel Skidmore-Hess

270

MABRY, JONATHAN B. (ed.). Canals and Communities: Small Scale Irrigation Systems.
By Garth N. Jones

274

CLARENCE-SMITH, WILLIAM GERVASE (ed.). Cocoa Pioneer Fronts Since 1800: The Role of Smallholders, Planters and Merchants.
By William E. Allen

277

REVIEW ESSAY:
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS

DUDLEY, WILLIAM (ed.) The Middle East; PETRIKIN, JONATHAN S. (ed.) The Third World; and WINTERS, PAUL A. (ed.) Islam.
By A.J. Abraham

281

Books Available for Review

284

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

299

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