Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XIII, Number 1: Spring 1996

National Development, Imperialism, and
Religion in the Third World
Foreword 9
Turkmenistan: Political, Economic, and International Developments in the Wake of Soviet Imperialism
By Halil Ugur
15
China's Environmental Security and the Role of Non-National Actors
By John R. Handelman and Paul J. Smith
25
A Note on ASEAN as a Possible Model for Post-Apartheid SADC
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
41
Press Freedom, the Oral Tradition, and the Press in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Louise M. Bourgault
57
Training Cooperative Officers for Village Level Work: Traditional vs. Pedagogical Orientation
By Eurora Chikwendu
97
The Failure of the Authoritarian Developmentalist Regimes and the Emergence of Radical Protest Movements in the Middle East and Africa: The Case of Algeria
By Yahia H. Zoubir 127
Other Papers
Can Political Authoritarianism Go Hand-In-Hand With a Free Market System?
By Kong Chu
187
An Analysis of Brain-Drain and Its Impact on Manpower Development in Nigeria
By Bennett A. Odunsi
193
The Legislative History of Colonialism: Puerto Rico and the United States Congress, 1950 to 1990
By Martin J. Collo
215
Review Article
Is Islam A Threat to the West?
By Rolin G. Mainuddin
233
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA

ARSENIO M. BALISACAN. Perspectives on Philippine Poverty.
By James C. Biedzynski
249
STANLEY I. KUTLER (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War.
By William M. Leary
250
JAMES S. OLSON (ed.). The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research.
By Peter Brush
252
NORMAN L. RUSSELL. Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story.
By Peter Brush
255
DENNIS VAN VRANKEN HICKEY. United States-Taiwan Security Ties: From Cold War to Beyond Containment.
By Thomas D. Reins
258
B.M. JAIN. Nuclear Politics in South Asia.
By S.S. Gupta
262
GEOFFREY A. ODDIE. Hindu and Christian in South-East India.
By Robert Lawless
265
MANMOHINI ZUTSHI SAHGAL. An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life.
By Robert Lawless
267
DANIEL T. SICULAR. Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia.
By Robert P. Watson and Noah Zerbe
268
ROBERT M. ORR, JR. The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power.
By Shafik H. Hashmi
272

AFRICA

JOHN W. HARBESON AND DONALD ROTHCHILD (eds.). Africa in World Politics: Post-Cold War Challenges.
By John F. Clark
276
WILLIAM I.ZARTMAN AND WILLIAM MARK HABEEB (eds.). Polity and Society in Contemporary North Africa.
By Julia Clancy-Smith
279
MAHMOOD MAMDANI. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and The Legacy of Late Colonialism.
By James C. Biedzynski
282
PATRICIA ALDEN, DAVID LLYOD, AHMED I. SAMATAR (eds.). African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum.
By Opportune Zongo
285
G.A. BENAARS, J.E. OTIENDE, AND R. BOISVERT (eds.). Theory and Practice of Education.
By Daniel N. Sifuna
292
SADIG RASHEED AND DAVID F. LUKE (eds.). Development Management in Africa: Toward Dynamism, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship.
By P. Chukwuma Aka
295
CHARLES M. BECKER, ANDREW M. HAMER AND ANDREW R. MORRISON. Beyond Urban Bias in Africa: Urbanization in an Era of Structural Adjustment.
By Matthew J. Costello
299
PAUL L. MOORCRAFT. African Nemesis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa 1945-2010.
By Karl P. Magyar
303
STEPHEN JOHN STEDMAN (ed.). South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation.
By Thomas O'Toole
306
JEAN-MARIE GIBBAL. Genii of the River Niger.
By Opportune Zongo
308
COLIN LEYS AND JOHN S. SAUL. Namibia's Liberation Struggle: The Two-Edged Sword.
By Richard Dale
313
T. ABDOU MALIQALIM SIMONE. In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan.
By William C. Young
317
SAM MOYO. The Land Question in Zimbabwe.
By Daniel A. Umoweh
320
GERARD PRUNIER. The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide.
By Paul J. Magnarella
325
EDWARD C. GREEN. AIDS and STDs in Africa.
By Abdul Karim Bangura
327
DON C. OHADIKE. Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People.
By Andrew F. Clark
329
REVIEW ESSAY
FROM APARTHEID TO DEMOCRACY: PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTH AFRICA'S TRANSITION
PETER GASTROW. Bargaining for Peace: South Africa and the National Peace Accord;
DAVID OTTAWAY, Chained Together: Mandela, De Klerk, and the Struggle to Remake South Africa;
ALLISTER SPARKS. Tomorrow is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Negotiated Revolution.
By David T. Jervis 333

LATIN AMERICA

ROBERT P. WATSON AND DONALD C. SIMMONS, JR. (eds). Latin America and the Caribbean in Transition.
By Michael D. Phillips
343
IVELAW LLOYD GRIFFITH. The Quest For Security In The Caribbean: Problems And Promises in Subordinate States.
By Theopolis Fair
344
DAMIAN J. FERNANDEZ (ed.). Central America and the Middle East: The Internationalization of the Crises.
By Jacob Abadi
347
JAIME E. RODRIGUEZ O. (ed.). Mexico in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850.
By Joel S. Cleland
351
MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN. Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War."
By Nichols L. Biddle
354
JOSE O. MALDIFASSI AND PIER A. ABETTI. Defense Industries in Latin American Countries: Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
By David Schwam-Baird
357
STEPHEN MICHAEL FABIAN. Space-Time of the Bororo of Brazil.
By Robert Lawless
361
REVIEW ESSAY
WOMEN OF LATIN AMERICA: POBREZA, MARIANISMO, Y CORAJE
CAIPORA WOMEN'S GROUP. Women in Brazil;
MARIA HERRERA-SOBEK. The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis;
SARAH LEVINE. Dolor y Alegria: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico.
By James F. Hopgood 362
REVIEW ESSAY
HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS ON HAITI
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Paper Laws, Steel Bayonets: Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Haiti;
AMERICAS WATCH AND NATIONAL COALITION FOR HAITIAN REFUGEES. Silencing a People: The Destruction of Civil Society in Haiti.
By Robert Lawless 369

MIDDLE EAST

ELIE KEDOURIE. Democracy and Arab Political Culture.
By Vernon Egger
372
HAIFA A. JAWAD (ed.). The Middle East in the New World Order.
By Sanford R. Silverburg
373
FARHAD NOMANI AND ALI RAHNEMA. Islamic Economic Systems.
By A.J. Abraham
375
RUTH RODED. Women in Islamic Biographical Collections From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who.
By Julia Clancy-Smith
376
MANSOOR MOADDEL. Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution.
By Ali Kamali
379
MEHMET ALI BIRAND. Shirts of Steel: An Anatomy of the Turkish Armed Forces.
By Michael B. Bishku
384
YOUSSEF M. CHOUEIRI. State and Society in Syria and Lebanon.
By Curtis R. Ryan
387
LEILA TARAZI FAWAZ. An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.
By Shamil Jeppie
391
J.E. PETERSON. Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia.
By Calvin H. Allen, Jr.
393

MISCELLANEOUS

ZBIGNIEW BREZENSKI. Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century.
By Peter Faber
396
JOHN L.SEITZ. Global Issues: An Introduction.
By G.W. Burnett
398
GYAN PRAKASH (ed.). After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Post-Colonial Displacements.
By Q. Edward Wang
401
DAGMAR ENGELS AND SHULA MARKS (eds.). Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India.
By Andrew F. Clark
405
DALE F. EICKELMAN (ed.). Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis.
By Stephen E. Buggie
408
DAVID L. MCKEE (ed.). External Linkages and Growth in Small Economies.
By Robert E. Looney
410
VAN B. WEIGEL. Earth Cancer.
By G.W. Burnett
414
CLAUDE C. STURGILL. The Military History of the Third World Since 1945: A Reference Guide.
By Jacob Abadi
417
PARVIN GHORAYSHI (ed.). Women and Work in Developing Countries: An Annotated Bibliography.
By Audrey Thomas McCluskey
418
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM (ed.). Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies.
By Fred H. Lawson
420
JAN P. NEDERVEEN PIETERSE (ed.). Christianity and Hegemony: Religion and Politics on the Frontiers of Social Change.
By Robert Lawless
423
SARAH J. TISCH AND MICHAEL B. WALLACE. Dilemmas of Development Assistance: The What, Why, and Who of Foreign Aid in Dilemmas In World Politics Series.
By Christopher B. Barrett
427
WILLIAM KING. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.
By Y. Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh
429
COLIN POWELL AND JOSEPH E. PERSICO. My American Journey.
By Y. Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh
431
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc.
Events and Presidential Awards
435
Books Available for Review 438

 


Volume XIII, Number 2: Fall 1996

Third World Political, Economic, and
Intellectual Developments
Foreword 7
Regional Integration Efforts and Environmental Problems in the Third World
By Kong Chu
13
Towards a Decolonization of Scholarship in Africa and a Vision for the 1990s and Beyond
By David Moore-Sieray
25
Re-Positioning Africa: The Role of African-American Leaders in Changing Media Treatment of Africa
By Emmanuel U. Onyedike
51
Politics of Conflict and Containment: Ecuador's Labor Movement and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1944-1963
By Jon V. Kofas
61
The Role of the Administrative Council of Mount Lebanon in the Creation of Greater Lebanon: 1918-1920
By James J. Simon
119
Memory Process and Feminine Desire in Claire Denis's Chocolat and Brigitte Rouan's Outremer
By Celine Philibert 173
Expression of National Ethos in a Non-Native Language
By Kembo Sure
189
Book Reviews

ASIA

ERIC JAMES SCHROEDER. Vietnam, We've All Been There: Interviews with American Writers.
By Anthony O. Edmonds
211
CHAN SUP CHANG and NAHN JOO CHANG. The Korean Management System: Cultural, Political, Economic Foundations.
By Key Rey Chong
213
A.S. BHALLA. Uneven Development in the Third World: A Study of China and India.
By Dipankar Sinha
219
M. SRINIVAS CHARY. The Eagle and the Peacock: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward India Since Independence.
By Rolin G. Mainuddin
225
GREGORY ELIYU GULDIN. The Saga of Anthropology in China: Malinowski to Moscow to Mao.
By Charles Desnoyers
227
GEOFF SIMONS. Korea The Search for Sovereignty.
By James C. Biedzynski
230
HANS ANTLOV and SVEN CEDERROTH (eds.). Leadership on Java: Gentle Hints, Authoritarian Rule.
By Albert Dalmolen
233
SHIRIN AKINER (ed.). Political and Economic Trends in Central Asia.
By Nader Entessar
235
ROSS MALLICK. Development Policy of a Communist Government: West Bengal Since 1977.
By Santosh C. Saha
238
E. WAYNE NAFZINGER. Learning From the Japanese: Japan's Pre-War Development and the Third World.
By Roger W. Purdy
241
JOHN F. RIDDICK. A Guide to Indian Manuscripts: Materials from Europe and North America.
By Roger D. Long
244

AFRICA

SENYO B.S.K. ADJIBOLOSOO. The Human Factor in Developing Africa.
By E. Ike Udogu
247
BRENDALYN P. AMBROSE. Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa: Problems and Prospects.
By Paul J. Magnarella
253
BRENDALYN P. AMBROSE. Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa: Problems and Prospects.
By Andrew F. Clark
255
MAMADOU DIOUF and MAHMOUD MAMDANI (eds.). Academic Freedom in Africa.
By Kakai Wanyonyi
258
EVE SANDBERG (ed). The Changing Politics of Non-Government Organizations and African States.
By Norman H. Murdoch
261
CHARLES GURDON (ed.). The Horn of Africa.
By Philip C. Aka
266
KURT LOEB. White Man's Burden.
By Stephen E. Buggie
272
SAHR JOHN KPUNDEH. Politics and Corruption in Africa: A Case Study of Sierra Leone.
By Alusine Jalloh
275
WILLIAM A. MASTERS. Government and Agriculture in Zimbabwe.
By Francis X. Higdon
278
PAMELA REYNOLDS. Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe.
By Barbara A. Moss
280
MOHAMMED SAHNOUN. Somalia: The Missed Opportunities.
By Adinasir M. Abdulle
283
REVIEW ESSAY
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT QUAGMIRE
GIOVANNI ANDREA CORNIA and GERALD K. HELLEINER (eds.). From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus?;
JOHN SORENSON (ed.). Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa.
By Abdul Karim Bangura 289

LATIN AMERICA

SUSAN JONAS and EDWARD J. McCAUGHAN (eds.). Latin America Faces the Twenty-first Century; Reconstructing a Social Justice Agenda.
By Mario D. Fenyo
294
JOSEPH S. TULCHIN (ed.) with BERNICE ROMERO. The Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America.
By Brian Loveman
296
PETER RANIS. Class, Democracy & Labor in Contemporary Argentina.
By Nicholas L. Biddle
301
RICHARD C. JONES. Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico.
By Jose C. Moya
304
DAVID CLOSE (ed.). Legislatures and the New Democracies in Latin America.
By J. Patrice McSherry
307
JENNIFER McCOY, ANDRES SERBIN, WILLIAM C. SMITH AND ANDRES STAMBOULI (eds.). Venezuelan Democracy Under Stress.
By Norman Caulfield
311
IRMA T. de ALONSO (ed.). Trade, Industrialization, and Integration in Twentieth-Century Central America.
By Paul L. Simon
315
PATRICIA POWELL. A Small Gathering of Bones.
By John McCluskey, Jr.
317
REVIEW ESSAY
THE TAINOS: THE FIRST PEOPLE COLUMBUS MET IN THE NEW WORLD
WILLIAM F. KEEGAN. The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas;
IRVIN ROUSE. The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus.
By Robert Lawless 321

MIDDLE EAST

ROBERT O. FREEDMAN (ed.). The Middle East After Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait.
By James J. Simon
325
DONNA LEE BOWEN and EVELYN EARLY (eds.). Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East.
By Patricia Geesey
327
REVIEW ESSAY
THE TIES THAT BIND: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND ISRAEL
DONALD NEFF. Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945;
CAMILLE MANSOUR. Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy.
By A. J. Abraham 331

MISCELLANEOUS

TED C. LEWELLEN. Dependency and Development: An Introduction to the Third World.
By Paul J. Magnarella
335
ARTURO ESCOBAR. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
By Craig A. Lockard and Larry J. Smith
337
ANTHONY LEEDS. Cities, Classes and the Social Order.
By Robert Lawless
340
DALE F. EICKELMAN (eds.). Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis.
By Rolin Mainuddin
342
JAMES E. WINKATES, RICHARD J. WALSH and JOSEPH M. SCOLNICK, JR. (eds.). U.S. Foreign Policy in Transition.
By William L. Cumiford
344
SAYYID LARI. Western Civilization Through Muslim Eyes.
By Gerald Akatsa Okello
348
WILLIAM A. YOUNG. The Rashaayda Bedouin: Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan.
By Paul J. Magnarella
356
AMRITA BASU (ed.). The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective.
By Julio Cesar Pino
358
JANICE JIGGINS. Changing the Boundaries: Women-Centered Perspectives on Population and the Environment.
By Robert Lawless
360
MATTI MOOSA. The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: Images of Modern Egypt.
By Farida Abu-Haidar
361
Books Available for Review 365

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