Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XV, Number 1: Spring 1998

RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF THE
THIRD WORLD IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Foreword 7
Trends in the Foreign Policy of Revolutionary Iran
By Houman A. Sadri		 13
An Experiment in Sustainable Human Development: The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh
By Ishtiaq Hossain		 39
The Prospects for Cross-Strait Dialogue in Light of Domestic Political Factors
By David Tawei Lee		 57
Western Influences and Activities in Africa
By Mamadou Gaye		 65
The New Diaspora-African Immigration to The United States
By April Gordon		 79
The 1988 Brazilian Constitution and Its Authoritarian Legacy: Formalizing Democracy While
Gutting Its Essence
By Jorge Zaverucha		 105
Biodiversity and Development
By Gary Kline		 125
Other Papers
Directions in the Ethnic Politics of Kazakhstan: Concession, Compromise, or Catastrophe?
By Reuel R. Hanks		 143
Colonial Background to the Development of Autonomist Tendencies in Anglophone Cameroon, 1946-1961
By Nicodemus Fru Awasom		 163
Linguistic Standardization and State Rationalization in Kenya: A Move Towards Nation-Building
By Kembo-Sure		 185
Tourism Educational and Training Policies in Developing Countries: A Case Study of
The Cayman Islands (Caribbean)
By Shurland George and Andrew F. Clark		 205
United Nations: Critiques and Reforms
By Emad Mayer-Mruwat		 221
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA
VINAY BAHL. The Making of Indian Working Class: A Case of the Tata Iron and
Steel Company, 1880-1946.
By Santosh Saha		 241
CLIVE J. CHRISTIE. A Modern History of South-East Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism.
By James Biedzynski		 243
DAVIS WURFEL AND BRUCE BURTON (eds.). Southeast Asia in the New World Order:
The Political Economy of a Dynamic Region.
By Dominique N. Khactu		 246
IRENE NORLUND, CAROLYN L. GATES AND VU CAO DAM (eds.). Vietnam in a Changing World.
By Robert Lawless		 249
HAFEEZ MALIK (ed.). Central Asia: Its Strategic Importance & Future Prospects.
By Houman A. Sadri		 253
LIONEL CAPLAN. Warrior Gentlemen "Gurkhas" In the Western Imagination.
By James Biedzynski		 258

AFRICA
CLAUDE, AKE. Democracy and Development in Africa.
By P. Godfrey Okoth		 261
JAMES S. OLSON. The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary.
By Santosh Saha		 267
LOUISE M. BOURGAULT. Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa.
By Norman H. Murdoch		 269
HARVEY J. SINDIMA. Africa's Agenda: The Legacy of Liberalism and Colonialism in the Crisis of
African Values.
By Philip C. Aka		 271
HARVEY J. SINDIMA. Drums of Redemption: An Introduction to African Christianity.
By Opportune Zongo		 274
MWIRIA KILEMI AND SHEILA P. WAMAHIU. Issues in Educational Research in Africa.
By Nafukho F. Muyia		 278
LIISA H. MALKKI. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology Among Hutu
Refugees in Tanzania.
By Christopher Gray		 282
REVIEW ESSAY
TRANSITION FROM WAR TO PEACE IN AFRICA
NAT J. COLLETTA, MARKUS KOSTNER AND INGO WIEDERHOFER. The Transition
from War to Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa;
NAT J. COLLETTA, MARKUS KOSTNER AND INGO WIEDERHOFER WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
EMILO MONDO, TAIMI SITAQRI, AND TADESSE A. WOLDU. Case Studies in War-to-Peace Transition:
The Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Ethiopia, Namibia, and Uganda.
By Philip C. Aka 285

LATIN AMERICA
SARAH RADCLIFFE AND SALLIE WESTWOOD. Remaking the Nation: Place, Identity and
Politics in Latin America.
By Mario D. Fenyo		 295
WILLIAM GLADE AND ROSSANA CORONA (eds.). Bigger Economies, Smaller Governments:
The Role of Privatization in Latin America.
By Nasser Momayezi		 297
BRUCE M. BAGLEY AND WILLIAM O. WALKER, III (eds.). Drug Trafficking in the Americas.
By Dennis D. Murphy		 300
BRIAN LOVEMAN AND THOMAS M. DAVIES, JR. (eds.). The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military
in Latin America.
By J. Patrice MsSherry		 302
LUIZ CARLOS BRESSER PEREIRA. Economic Crisis & State Reform in Brazil: Toward a New
Interpretation of Latin America.
By David Covin		 305
KAREN McCARTHY BROWN. Tracing the Spirit: Ethnographic Essays on Haitian Art.
By Robert Lawless		 310
ROBERT F. ARNOVE. Education as Contested Terrain: Nicaragua, 1979-1993.
By Lewis A. Mennerick		 311

MIDDLE EAST
BERNARD LEWIS. Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery.
By Jacob Abadi		 315
ANN ELIZABETH MAYER. Islam and Human Rights.
By A.J. Abraham		 316
DAVID W. LESCH (ed.). The Middle East and the United States.
By A.J. Abraham		 317
HOUMAN A. SADRI. Revolutionary States, Leaders and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study
of China, Cuba, and Iran.
By Nader Entessar		 318
MICHAEL T. BENSON. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel.
By Jacob Abadi		 321

MISCELLANEOUS
LESLIE SPONSEL, THOMAS N. HEADLAND AND ROBERT BAILEY (eds.). Tropical Deforestation:
The Human Dimension.
By Robert Lawless		 323
D. MICHAEL RIVAGE-SEUL AND MARGUERITE K. RIVAGE-SEUL. A Kinder and Gentler Tyranny:
Illusions of a New World Order.
By James Biedzynski		 326
BARBARA FISTER. Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English.
By Mehrangiz Najafizadeh		 329
Fifteenth Annual Meeting of ATWS 331
Books Available for Review 333

 

Volume XV, Number 2: Fall 1998

Political, Economic, and Social Issues
in the Third World
Foreword 6
The Sino-Indian Conflict of 1962 - A Test Case for India's Policy of Non-Alignment
By Jacob Abadi		 11
Child Labour in Kerala: The Work and Working Ambience in the Capital City
By R. Sooryamoorthy		 31
The Confucian Capitalism: Impact of Culture and the Management System on Economic Growth in South Korea
By Chan Sup Chang		 53
The Significance of Local Communist Forces in Post-Tet Vietnam
By Peter Brush		 67
The National Question: Issues and Lessons of Boundary Adjustment in Nigeria - The Ndoki Case
By Okere Steve Nwosu		 79
The Evolution of Wildlife Conservation Policies in Kenya
By John S. Akama		 103
Multipartyism and Democratization in Cameroon
By Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong		 119

Review Article
The Development of Capitalism in Turkey
By Feroz Ahmad		 137

Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA
CURREY, CECIL B. Victory At Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Vo Nguyen Giap.
By Marc Jason Gilbert		 147
GUILLERMO, ARTEMIO R. AND MAY KYI WIN. Historical Dictionary of the Philippines.
By Michael Cullinane		 149
BAXTER, CRAIG AND SYEDUR RAHMAN. Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh.
By M. Bazlul Karim		 151
EDWARDS, PAUL M., comp. The Inchon Landing, Korea, 1950: An Annotated Bibliography.
By James Biedzynski		 154
FLANAGAN, JOHN F. Vietnam Above the Treetops: A Forward Air Controller Reports.
By Peter Brush		 155
CEDERROTH, SVEN. Survival and Profit in Rural Java: The Case of an East Javanese Village.
By Robert Lawless		 158
LOONEY, ROBERT E. The Pakistani Economy: Economic Growth and Structural Reform.
By M. Bazlul Karim		 161
HAGHAYEGHI, MEHRDAD. Islam and Politics in Central Asia.
By Rolin Mainuddin		 164

AFRICA
YANSANE, AGUIBOU (ed.). Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa.
By Philip C. Aka		 166
VANDEWALLE, DIRK J. (ed.). North Africa: Development and Reform in a Changing Global Environment.
By Weston F. Cook, Jr.		 172
ABEGAZ, BERHANU. Manpower Development Planning: Theory and an African Study.
By Getachew Metaferia		 174
VAN ONSELEN, CHARLES. The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985.
By David T. Jervis		 178
ENGLEBERT, PIERRE. Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa.
By Opportune Zongo		 180
PAZZANITA, ANTHONY G. Historical Dictionary of Mauritania.
By Mohameden Ould-Mey		 187
OBONDO, MARGARET AKINYI. From Trilingual to Bilinguals? A Study of the Social and Linguistic
Consequences of Language Shift on a Group of Urban Luo Children in Kenya.
By Francis Rew Owino		 188
JENNINGS, ANNE M. The Nubians of West Aswan: Village Women in the Midst of Change.
By Robert Lawless		 193
REVIEW ESSAY
AFRICAN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS
BOURDIER, JEAN PAUL. AND TRINH T. MINH-HA. Drawn from African Dwellings;
FIRMIN-SELLERS, KATHRYN. The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast [Ghana];
NNAEMEKA, OBIOMA. The Politics of Mothering;
NNAEMEKA, OBIOMA, (ed.). Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora;
JOHNSON, CHARLES AND JOHN MCCLUSKEY, JR. Black Men Speaking.
By Yvette Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh 195

LATIN AMERICA
MUÑOZ, HERALDO AND JOSEPH S. TULCHIN (eds.). Latin American Nations in World Politics.
By Joel S. Cleland		 200
LANGER, ERICK AND ROBERT H. JACKSON (eds.). The New Latin American Mission History.
By Carlos Pérez		 202
ARMONY, ARIEL C. Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984.
By J. Patrice McSherry		 206
SHERMAN, AMY L. The Soul of Development: Biblical Christianity and Economic Transformation in Guatemala.
By Joseph Cotter		 209
REVIEW ESSAY
VENEZUELAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS
ELLNER, STEVE. Organized Labor in Venezuela, 1958-1991;
SALAZAR-CARRILLO, JORGE. Oil and Development in Venezuela During the Twentieth Century.

By Lydia M. Garner 211

MIDDLE EAST
BRAIBANTI, RALPH. The Nature and Structure of the Islamic World.
By Rolin Mainuddin		 217
KAUFMAN, ILANA. Arab National Communism in the Jewish State.
By Jacob Abadi		 218
PICARD, ELIZABETH. Lebanon, A Shattered Country.
By A.J. Abraham		 221
COLLINGS, DEIRDRE. Peace for Lebanon? From War to Reconstruction.
By A.J. Abraham		 222
MEHO, LOKMAN I., compiler. The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography.
By Michael M. Gunter		 222

MISCELLANEOUS
RYRIE, WILLIAM. First World, Third World.
By Santosh Saha		 224
UL HAQ, MAHBUB. Reflections on Human Development.
By Garth N. Jones		 226
FAIRBANKS, MICHAEL AND STACE LINDSAY. Plowing the Sea: Nurturing Sources of Growth in the Developing World.
By Bernard D. Williams		 231
REVIEW ESSAY
BEYOND THE GREAT DIVIDE: DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AFTER THE COLD WAR
AUTY, RICHARD M. AND JOHN TOYE (eds.). Challenging the Orthodoxies;
MISHAN, E.J. The Costs of Economic Growth;
RICH, DAVID Z. The Economic Theory of Growth and Development;
YANSANE, AGUIBOU Y. (ed.). Development Strategies in Africa: Current Economic, Sociopolitical and Institutional Trends and Issues;
YANSANE, AGUIBOU Y. (ed.). Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa.
By Matthew J. Costello 235
Books Available for Review 241
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 259

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