JTWS

Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XXIV, Number 1: Spring 2007

TRANSNATIONAL CHALLENGES: ENVIRONMENT, INTEGRATION, AND SECURITY IN THE
THIRD WORLD

Foreword
 
7
Death Squads as Parallel Forces: Uruguay, Operation Condor, and the United States
By J. Patrice McSherry
 
13
The Impact of the U.S. Peace Corps at Home and Abroad
By Michael R. Hall
 
53

 

Understanding and Fighting Corruption in Sierra Leone: A Metaphorical Linguistic Approach
By Abdul Karim Bangura
 
59
Reining in the Military: Re-Democratization in Suriname
By Chaitram Singh
 
73
The Mystery of André Louis Marty
By Cecil B. Currey 
 
97
The US-Saudi Relationship and the Iraq War: The Dialectics of a Dependent Alliance
By Louisa Dris-Aďt-Hamadouche and Yahia H. Zoubir
 
109

Other Papers

Government Size, Political Freedom and Economic Growth in Nigeria, 1960-2000
By James S. Guseh and Emmanuel Oritsejafor
 
139
The Failure of the Modern Aesop in Anglophone Cameroonian Drama: The Example of Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh's The Inheritance
By Bate Besong
 
169
Low Grades for Petro-States in the Former Soviet Union
By Maureen S. Crandall
 
189
Cross-Cultural Environmental Lessons: An Indigenous Case-Study
By Selva J. Raj and Bindu Madhok
 
211
Egypt and the War on Iraq: Implications for Domestic Politics
By Abdennour Benantar 
 
227
Political Economy of Political Power of the Islamic Regime in Iran
By Siavash Abghari
 
247
Book Reviews
ASIA

SERAJUDDIN, ALAMGIR MUHAMMAD. Shari`a Law and Society: Tradition and Change in South Asia.
By Syed Serajul Islam

 269


GOOPTU, NANDINI. The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India.
By Steven C. Dinero

270


HILLEY, JOHN. Malaysia: Mahathirism, Hegemony and the New Opposition.
By James Biedzynski

272

 

JAYASURIYA, TAKSIRI. The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004,
By Mohammed Badrul Alam   

273

 

AFRICA

 

FONGE, FUABEH P., Modernization Without Development in Africa: Patterns of Change and Continuity in Post-Independence Cameroonian Public Service.
By Ngozi Caleb Kamalu 

276

 

IRELE, ABIOLA F. and SIMON GIKANDI (eds). The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature.
By Emilia Ilieva

278

 

MIDDLE EAST

 

SARTE, MAURICE. The Middle East Under Rome.
By James Biedzynski

284
 

FALK, AVNER. Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
By Muhammad M. Haque 

285
 

DOR, DANIEL. Intifada Hits The Headlines.
By Ishtiaq Hossain

288
 

QUIGLEY, JOHN. The Case for Palestine: An International Perspective.
By A.J. Abraham

291
 

DAVIDSON, CHRISTOPHER M.. The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival.
By Calvin H. Allen, Jr.

293
 

PERTHES, VOLKER (ed.). Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change.
By A.J. Abraham

295

 

LATIN AMERICA

 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM I. Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization.
By Michael R. Hall

297
 

ERLICK, JUNE CAROLYN. Disappeared, A Journalist Silenced; The Irma Flaquer Story.
By Joan Kruckewitt

299
 

KURTZ, MARCUS J. Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside.
By Lazarus F. O'Sako

301
 

PALACIOS, MARCO. Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002.
By Michael R. Hall

303
 

DIAZ, ARLENE J. Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904.
By Charlene T. Overturf

305
 

PÉREZ, LOUIS A, JR. To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society.
By Michael R. Hall

307
 

HART, ARMANDO. Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-1958, A Participant's Account.
By Charlene T. Overturf

309
 

TAUSSIG, MICHAEL. My Cocaine Museum.
By Derek A. Bentley

310

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

SAHA, SANTOSH C. (ed.), Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict.
By E. Ike Udogu 

313
 

OXHORN, PHILIP, JOSEPH S. TULCHIN and ANDREW D. SELEE (eds.). Decentralization, Democratic Governance. and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective - Africa. Asia. and Latin America.
By Garth N. Jones

319
 

ANDREWS, WALTER G. and MEHMET KALPAKH. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society.
By James Biedzynski

321
 

BAER, EVA. The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Inheritances and Islamic Transformations.
By Alfons H. Teipen

322
 

GOMEZ, MICHAEL A. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas.
By La Vonne Jackson Leslie

324
 

ALAKESON, V., T. ALDRICH, J. GOODMAN, B. JORGENSEN. Making The Net Work: Sustainable Development in a Digital Society.
By Shaun Ruggunan

326
 

Twenty-Fourth Annual ATWS Meeting

329
 

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

321
 

Books Available for Review

333

 

 

Volume XXIV, Number 2: Fall 2007

HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE THIRD WORLD

Foreword
 
7
Policy Advice During a Crisis
By Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Germano Mwabu
 
11
Fourth Generation Conflict? Local Social Formations and Insurgences in Post-Ba’ath Iraq
By Jason E. Strakes
 
27
Small Island States in Crisis: The Economic Impact of Lifestyle Diseases in the South Pacific
By Philip Szmedra and K.L. Sharma
 
45
Israel’s Lebanon War: Ariel Sharon and ‘Operation Peace for Galilee’
By Brian R. Parkinson
 
63
Human Resource Development (HRD) Theory and Thailand’s Sufficiency Economy Concept and Its “OTOP” Program
By Robert L. Curry, Jr., and Kanchana Sura
 
85
Social Democratization and Development Strategy: An Alternative to Neoliberalization in Latin America?
By Menno Vellinga
 
95
Political Islam: Untangling the Conceptual Muddle
By Rolin G. Mainuddin
 
109
   

Other Papers

The Antinomies of Samuel P. Huntington: Some Anthropological Reflections on the American Pundit
By Fethi Keles
 
131
Tensions Created by the Formal and Informal Use of Urban Space: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya
By Kimuthia Macharia
 
145
“One Country, Two Systems:” China’s Economic Policies Towards State & Township/Village-Owned Enterprises, 1978-1992
By Xun Wang
 
163
India and the Central Eurasian Space
By Leonard Stone
 
183
Book Reviews
ASIA
 

PAUL, T.V. (ed.). The India-Pakistan Conflict.
By Garth N. Jones

 199
 

PEEBLES, PATRICK. The History of Sri Lanka.
By A.R.M. Imtiyza

200
 

SMITH, HAROLD E., GAYLA S. NIEMINEN, and MAY KYI WIN. Historical Dictionary of Thailand.
By Michael J. Montesano

202
 

NATHAN, K.S., and MUHAMMAD HASHIUM KAMALI (eds.). Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century.
By Ishtiaq Hossain

205

 

AFRICA

 

JACKSON, MICHAEL. In Sierra Leone
By Peter A. Dumbuya

209

 

MIDDLE EAST

 

ROSEN, NIR. In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq
By Jason E. Strakes

213
 

SADIKI, LARBI. The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses
By George L. Simpson, Jr.

215
 

AHMED, MOHAMMED M.A. and MICHAEL M. GUNTER (eds.). The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraqi War
By Michael B. Bishku

216
 

BASS, WARREN. Support Any Friend:, Kennedy’s Middle East and The Making of the U.S. - Israeli Alliance
By A.J. Abraham

219
 

PETERS, F.E. The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition
By A.J. Abraham

220
 

FAWCETT, LOUISE (ed.). International Relations of the Middle East
By A.J. Abraham

220
 

AGHAIE, KAMRAN SCOT. The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi‘i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran
By Babak Rahimi

221

REVIEW ESSAY
LEBANON, THE CRUCIBLE

KAUFMAN, ASHER. Reviving Phoenicia, The Search for Identity in Lebanon; ATTIE, CAROLINE. Struggle in the Levant: Lebanon in the 1950s; GRAFTON, DAVID D. The Christians of Lebanon, Political Rights and Islamic Law; SHANAHAN, RODGER. The Shi'a of Lebanon, Clans, Parties, and Clerics; HARRIS, WILLIAM. The New Face of Lebanon, History's Revenge; and BLANFORD, NICHOLAS. Killing Mr Lebanon, The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its Impact on the Middle East
By A.J. Abraham

 

225

 

LATIN AMERICA

 

BROCKETT, CHARLES D. Political Movements and Violence in Central America
By Hector Perla Jr.

229
 

CHÁVEZ, LYDIA, (ed.). Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century
By Jane M. Rausch

231
 

PÉREZ, LOUIS A Jr. Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
By Michael R. Hall

233
 

WILKINSON, DANIEL. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
By Michael R. Hall

235
 

HUFBAUER, GARY CLYDE and JEFFREY J. SCHOTT, NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges
By Timothy J. White

236
 

HELMKE, GRETCHEN. Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina
By Michael R. Hall

238
 

REVIEW ESSAY
STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA
GRANDIN, GREG. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America and the Cold War; and LADUTKE, LAWRENCE MICHAEL. Freedom of Expression in El Salvador: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy
By William D. Stanley

241

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

BANGURA, ABDUL KARIM (ed). Islamic Peace Paradigms
By Muhammad M. Haque

247
 

SAHA, SANTOSH C. (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues
By Garth N. Jones

249
 

CONOVER, SARAH and FREDA CRANE, (eds.). Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents
By Alfons H. Teipen

253
 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM I. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World
By Matthew L. Perry

254
 

DAVID, WILFRED. The Humanitarian Development Paradigm: Search for Global Justice
By Lansana Keita

256
 

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

261
 

Books Available for Review

263

 

 

 

 

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