JTWS

Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XXI, Number 1: Spring 2004

ADVANCING NEW DIMENSIONS IN THIRD WORLD STUDIES
IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Foreword 7
Where Do We Go From Here? Let Our Past Be Our Guide to the Future
By William P. Head
13
Lien Heng (1878-1936) and The General History of Taiwan
By Shu-hui Wu
17
Re-establishing Civilian Supremacy over Police Institutions:
An Analysis of Recent Attempted Reforms of the Security Sector in Chile
By Nibaldo H. Galleguillos
57
A Bootstrap Model for Microenterprise Development of a Distressed Community
By Olorundare E. Aworuwa
79
From Praetorianism to Democratic Institutionalization: Argentina’s Difficult Transition to Civilian Rule
By Enrique Peruzzotti
97
Indigenous Filipino Pasyon Defying Colonial Euro-Reason
By Jim Perkinson and S. Lily L. Mendoza
117
Evolution and Relevance of Autonomous Communities in Precolonial Igboland
By Godfrey N. Uzoigwe
139

Other Papers

Modernization and Cambodia
By Pamela Sodhy
153
Human Resources and Economic Development:The Case of Saudi Arabia
By Khalid Abdul aziz Alsahlawi and Edward P.M. Gardener
175
Azerbaijan Descending Into the Third World After a Decade of Independence
By Alec Rasizade
191
Political Transitions and Ethnic Conflict in Africa
By Eghosa E. Osaghae
221
“Motions of Support” and Ethno-Regional Politics in Cameroon
By Oben T. Mbuagbo and Robert M. Akoko
241
Book Reviews
ASIA
UDAYAKUMAR S.P., (ed.) Handcuffed to History: Narratives, Pathologies, and Violence in South Asia.
By Shubhra Deb Nag
261
MCFERSON, HAZEL M. (ed). Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines.
By Pamela Sodhy
262
STEINFATT, THOMAS M. Working at the Bar. Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand.
By Siti Kusujiarti
265
HILL, HAL and JOAO M. SALDANHA (eds). East Timor: Development Challenges to the World’s Newest Nation.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
267
HUTNYK, JOHN. The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation.
By Steven C. Dinero
268
DICK, H.W. Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000.
By Garth N. Jones
271
HAMILTON-MERRITT, JANE. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.
By Robert Lawless
273
SILLITOE, PAUL (ed.). Indigenous Knowledge Development in Bangladesh: Present and Future.
By Dipankar Sinha
278
BRAIBANTI, RALPH. Chief Justice Cornelius of Pakistan: An Analysis with Letters and Speeches.
By A.Z. Hilali
280

AFRICA

UDOGU, E. IKE. (ed.). The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa.
By A.B. Assensoh & Y. Alex-Assensoh
282
GHAI, DHARAM (ed.). Renewing Social and Economic Progress in Africa.
By Peter Wafula Wekesa
285
FICK, DAVID S. Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Success
By Norman H. Murdoch
288
NORTHRUP, DAVID . Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850.
By Matthew M. Heaton
289
MAGYAR, KARL P. (ed.). United States Interests and Policies in Africa: Transition to a New Era.
By Norman H. Murdoch
292
BACH, DANIEL C. (ed.), Regionalisation in Africa: Integration and Disintegration.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
295
SUBERI. ROTIMI T. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria.
By E. Ike Udogu
296
ROBERTSON, CLAIRE C. Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 – 1990 .
By P. Godfrey Okoth
300
MUNENE, MACHARIA. The Politics of Transition in Kenya, 1995-1998.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
302

LATIN AMERICA

ARCENEAUX, CRAIG. Bonded Missions: Military Regimes and Democratization in the Southern Cone and Brazil.
By Laura Tedesco
305
PAYNE, LEIGH A. Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America.
By Nibaldo H. Galleguillos
307
PRILLAMAN, WILLIAM C. The Judiciary and Democratic Decay in Latin America: Declining Confidence in the Rule of Law.
By Jorge Zaverucha
310
SIMMONS, DONALD C. Confederate Settlements in British Honduras.
By William D. Pederson
312
PÉREZ, LOUIS A. JR. Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
By Michael R. Hall
314
ALLAHAR, ANTON (ed.). Caribbean Charisma; Reflections on Leadership, Legitimacy and Populist Politics.
By Mario D. Fenyo
316
HOWARD, DAVID. Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic.
By Michael R. Hall
318
UGARTECHE, OSCAR. The False Dilemma – Globalization: Opportunity or Threat?
By Patrick Cannon
321

MIDDLE EAST

BERBOROGLU, BERCH Turmoil in the Middle East: Imperialism, War and Political Instability.
By P.R. Kumaraswamy
324
OLSON, ROBERT. Turkey’s Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia 1991-2000: The Kurdish and Islamist Questions.
By A.Z. Hilali
325
CLANCY-SMITH, JULIA (ed.). North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World.
By A.J. Abraham
327
JUERGENSMEYER, MARK. Terror in the Mind of God, the Global Rise of Religious Violence.
By A.J. Abraham
328
KIMMERLING, BARUCH and JOEL S. MIGDAL. The Palestinian People, A History.
By A.J. Abraham
329

MISCELLANEOUS

DHAOUADI, MAHMOUD. Globalization of the Other Underdevelopment: Third World Cultural Identities.
By Santosh C. Saha
330
KHUSRO, A.M. The Poverty of Nations.
By A.Z. Hilali
332
DAVIS, JOYCE M. Between Jihad and Saalm: Profiles in Islam.
By A.Z. Hilali
334
ROTBERG, ROBERT I. (ed.). Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective.
By Timothy J. White
336
CROCKER, CHESTER A., FEN OSLER HAMPSON, PAMELA AALL. (eds.) Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World.
By Norman H. Murdoch
339
SANGA, JAINA C. Salman Rushdie’s Postcolonial Metaphors: Migration, Translation, Hybridity, Blasphemy, and Globalization.
By James M. Ivory
343
HANSEN, HOLGER BERNT and MICHAEL TWADDLE (eds.). Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World.
By Garth N. Jones
345
Twenty-First Annual Meeting Association of Third World Studies, Inc.
Shreveport, Louisiana
November 6-8, 2003
349
Books Available for Review 351
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 371

 

Volume XXI, Number 2: Fall 2004

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND
ISSUES IN THE THIRD WORLD

Foreword 7
Fatal Amnesia: American Nation-building in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq
By Marc Jason Gilbert
13
Revolutionary Attempts in Late Cold War Settings: Nicaragua in the 1980s
By Carlos M. Vilas
45
The 2003 General Elections and Democracy in Nigeria: Views from a Policy Maker
By Chief T.A. Akinyele, OON
63
Everyday Forms of Illegal Coercion: Explaining Abuse of Police Powers in Argentina
By Ruth Stanley
83
From Political Dictatorship to Authoritarian Economism: Plural Politics and Free Market Reforms in Africa
By Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o
107
The Cancun Conundrum: What Future for the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
By Robert Looney
127

Other Papers

Capsid Pests as “Cocoa Mosquitoes:” A Study in Cash Crop Infestation and Control in Ghana, 1910-1965
By Frances Danquah
147
The Dynamics of Algeria’s Oil Supply: A Changing Influence Within OPEC
By Ali Abderrezak
167

Review Article

Communist Chinese and “Asian Values” Critiques of Universal Human Rights
By Paul J. Magnarella
179
Book Reviews
ASIA
STERN, ROBERT W. Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent.
By Santosh C. Saha
195
HENDERSON, CAROL E. Culture and Customs of India.
By Narasingha P. Sil
196
PATEL, JASHU and KRISHAN KUMAR. Libraries and Librarianship in India.
By Ernest Heard
198
LAM, MARIA LAI-LING. Working with Chinese Expatriates in Business Negotia tion s: Portraits, Issues, and Applications.
By E.R. Klein
200
SARKER, SONITA and ESHA NIYOGI DE (eds.). Tran-Status Subjects. Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia.
By Siti Kusujiarti
202
HAAS, MICHAEL (ed.). The Singapore Puz¬zle.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam
204
STERN, ROBERT W. Democracy and Dicta¬torship in South Asia: Dominant Classes and Political Outcomes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam
206
STOKES, LISA ODHAM and MICHAEL HOOVER. City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema.
By Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
209
REVIEW ESSAY
CRISES IN INDONESIA

FORESTER, GEOFF (ed.). Post Soeharto Indonesia-Renewal or Chaos?; MANNING, CHRIS and PETER VAN DIERMAN (eds.). Indonesia In Transition; and ABENG, TANRI. Indonesia, Inc.
By James Biedzynski
213

AFRICA

MBAKU, JOHN MUKUM and JULIUS OMOZUANVBO IHONVBERE (eds.). The Transition to Democratic Governance in Af¬rica: The Continuing Struggle.
By E. Ike Udogu
216
MAKOBA, J. WAGONA. Government Policy and Public Enterprise Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case Studies of Tanzania and Zambia, 1964-1984.
By S.C. Saxena
220
ADEBAJO, ADEKEYE. Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
224
HODGSON, DOROTHY L. (ed.). Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist.
By George L. Simpson, Jr.
227
JOHNSON, DOUGLAS H. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars.
By Santosh C. Saha
229
KURIMOTO, EISEI and SIMON SIMONSE, (eds.). Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition.
By George L. Simpson, Jr.
231
TROIN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS (ed.). Maroc – Regions, Pays, Territoires (Morocco – Regions, Places, Districts)
By Roger Levy
233
DUNN, KEVIN C. and TIMOTHY M. SHAW, (eds.). Africa’s Challenge to Inter¬national Relations Theory.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
235
NDEGE, O. GEORGE. Health, State, and Society in Kenya.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
238

MIDDLE EAST

GORDON, HAIM, RIVCA GORDON and TAHER SHRITEH. Beyond Intifada: Narra¬tives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip.
By Steven C. Dinero
242
ALI, TARIQ. Bush in Babylon: The Recolo ni sa ti on of Iraq.
By Tanweer Akram
244
LEWIS, BERNARD. What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Re¬sponse.
By Havva Karakas Keles
248
SHAFIR, GERSHON and YOAV PELED. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship.
By Steven C. Dinero
251
DERSHOWITZ, ALAN. The Case for Israel.
By A.J. Abraham
253
GELVIN, JAMES L. Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire.
By A.J. Abraham
254
HUMPHREYS, R. STEPHEN. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.
By A.J. Abraham
255

LATIN AMERICA

HECHT, TOBIAS (ed.). Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society.
By Michael R. Hall
256
STARK, JEFFERY (ed.). The Challenge of Change in Latin America and the Carib¬bean.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay Thakur
258
ARMUS, DIEGO (ed.). Disease in the His¬tory of Modern Latin America: From Ma¬laria to AIDS.
By Michael R. Hall
260
LEWIS, PAUL H. Guerrillas and Generals. “The Dirty War“ in Argentina.
By Ruth Stanley
263
MOUNT, GRAEME S. Chile and the Nazis: From Hitler to Pinochet.
By Thomas M. Leonard
264
REVIEW ESSAY
BRAZIL’S FOREIGN POLICY
BEHAVIOR IN THE POST-COLD
WAR INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

DE ALMEIDA, PAULO ROBERTO. Os Prime ir os Anos do Século XXI: O Brasil e as Relações Internacionais Contemporaneas;
CLOVIS BRIGAGÃO E DOMICIO PROENÇA, JUNIOR. Brasil e o Mundo: Novas Visões; and LAFER, CELSO. A Identidade Internacional do Brasil e a Politica Externa Brasileira: Passado, Presente e Fu¬turo.
By José de Arimatéua da Cruz and
Becky Kohler da Cruz 
267

MISCELLANEOUS

OLSON, KEITH W. Watergate: The Presiden¬tial Scandal That Shook America.
By Paul N. Goldstene 
277
FRESTON, PAUL. Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
By Norman H. Murdoch
279
MCCOY, ALFRED W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia.
By Robert Lawless
282
DINNERSTEIN, LEONARD, ROGER L. NICHOLS and DAVID M. REIMERS. Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans.
By Enrique Morales-Díaz
284
WOOD, ALAN T. What Does It Mean to be Human?: A New Interpretation of Freedom in World History.
By Carlos Pérez
286
Announcements 289
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 290
Books Available for Review 291

 

 

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