EXPLORING CONFLICTS AND CONFLICT
RESOLUTION IN THE CONTEMPORARY
THIRD WORLD

Third World Studies and Our Responsibilities as Researchers - 2004 Presidential Address

Lessons From History on The Limits of Imperialism: Successful Small State Resistance to Great Power Aggression

Globalization and the Development of Underdevelopment of the Third World

The West, Natural Resources and Population Control Policies in Africa in Historical Perspective

Postcolonial Angst and the Nigerian Scholarly Estate

Regional Geographic Influence on Two Khmer Polities

Encounters of Insurgent Youth Associations with the State in the Oil Rich Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Other Papers

Promoting French-English Individual Bilingualism Through Education in Cameroon

Fire: A Subaltern Existence?

"In Darkest Africa": Martyrdom &. Resistance To Colonialism in Rhodesia

BOLT, PAUL J. China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia.

SPONSEL, LESLIE E. (ed.). Endangered Peoples of Southeast & East Asia: Struggles to Survive and Thrive.

FEFFER, JOHN. North Korea South Korea: US Policy at a Time of Crisis.

LUONG, HY V. (ed.) Postwar Vietnam: Dynamics of a Transforming Society.

LU, XING; JIA,  WENSHAN; HEISEY, D. RAY. (eds).   Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons. 

LAVA, JESUS B. Memoirs of a Communist.

REVIEW ESSAY

CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTH KOREA

LEE, HY-SANG. North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress; FLAKE, L. GORDON and SCOTT SNYDER (eds.).  Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea; and CHA, VICTOR D. and DAVID C. KANG. Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies.

REVIEW ESSAY

THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS - REGIONAL CAPITULATION OR RE-DIRECTION?

MCKEE, DAVID L., GARNER, DON E., and MCKEE, YOSRA ABUAMARA. Crisis, Recovery, and the Role of  Accounting Firms in the Pacific Basin; RICHTER, FRANK-JÜRGEN.  Redesigning Asian Business; and RICHTER, FRANK-JÜRGEN (ed.). The Asian Economic Catharsis: How Asian Firms Bounce Back from Crisis.

AFRICA

CALLAGHY, THOMAS, RONALD KASSIMIR and ROBERT LATHAM (eds.). Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa. Global-Local Networks of Power.

MATUSEVICH, MAXIM. No Easy Row for a Russian to Hoe: Ideology and Pragmatism in Nigerian-Soviet Relations, 1960-1991.

Kruss, Glenda and Andre Kraak (eds.) A Contested Good? Understanding Private Higher Education in South Africa.

Besteman, Catherine. Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery.

REVIEW ESSAY

THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE REVISITED

Diene, Doudou (ed.) From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited; and Northrup, David (ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade.

MIDDLE EAST

KURAN, TIMUR. Islam & Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism.

OLSON, ROBERT. Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979-2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics.

MITCHELL, TIMOTHY. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity.

RON, JAMES. Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel.

REGEV, MOTTI and EDWIN SEROUSSI. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel.

REVIEW ESSAY

ORIENTALISM, OCCIDENTALISM, AND AMERICAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

BURUMA, IAN and AVISHAI MARGALIT. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies; LITTLE, DOUGLAS. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945; SAID, EDWARD W. Orientalism.

LATIN AMERICA

PION-BERLIN, DAVID (ed.). Civil-Military Relations in Latin America. New Analytical Perspectives.

MANZETTI, LUIGI (ed.). Regulatory Policy in Latin America: Post Privatization Realities.

LEWIS, LINDEN (ed.). The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean

WHITNEY, ROBERT..  State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940. 

KINGSTONE, PETER R. and TIMOTHY J. POWER, (eds.). Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions and Processes.

RIVAS, DARLENE. Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela.

BEATTY, EDWARD. Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911.

FRIEDMAN, MAX PAUL. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.

REVIEW ESSAY

UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN GUATEMALA

SANFORD, VICTORIA.  Buried Secrets, Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala; MAY, RACHEL.  Terror in the Countryside: Campesino Responses to Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954-1985; and MCCLEARY, RACHEL M.  Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution. 

MISCELLANEOUS

NEIDER, BEN ROSS and BLANCA HEREDIA (eds.) Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries.

CAIRNS, ED and MICHEAL D. ROE (eds.) The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict.

Twenty-Second Annual Meeting,

Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Macon, Georgia

AFRICAN PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN HISTORICAL
AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE

Other Papers

AFRICA

MIDDLE EAST

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEBANON
FIRRO, KASIS M. Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate; O'BALLANCE, EDGAR. Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92; SALEM, ELIE A. Violence & Diplomacy in Lebanon; and PICARD, ELIZABETH. Lebanon: a Shattered Country.
By A. J. Abraham

LATIN AMERICA

THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC HITS LATIN AMERICA
ABREU, ANABELA GARCIA, ISABEL NOGUER, and KAREN COWGILL. HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries: The Challenges Ahead; and BASTOS, CRISTINA. Global Responses to AIDS: Science and Technology.
By José de Arimatéia da Cruz

MISCELLANEOUS