JTWS Vol.23

GLOBALIZATION, PRIVATIZATION, AND NEO-LIBERALISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY THIRD WORLD
Foreword	7
The Transition From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Dominican Republic By Michael R. Hall	13
Juan Bosch: The Construction of Dominican Democracy By Matias Bosch	17
From Outcasts to Honored Guests: The Changing Fortune of Private Entrepreneurs in China and the Struggle for CCP Legitimacy By Peng Deng	23
"Participation? My Blood and Flesh Is Being Sucked Dry": Market-Based Development and Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone Women Workers By Sandya Hewamanne	51
A Research Agenda for the NEPAD Initiative: A Note By Benjamin F. Bobo	75
Suicide Terrorism: Martyrdom for Organizational Objectives By Jim Winkates	87

Other Papers
Pakistan Army and Regional Peace in South Asia By Thathiah Ravi	119
"Lift up Your Head, My Brother": Nationalism and The Genesis of the Non-aligned Movement By Kristin S. Tassin	147
Round 2 of the Liberian Civil Crisis: US and Liberia, Presumed Historical Ties By Veronica Nmoma	169
The Environmental and Social Impact of Petroleum and Natural Gas Exploitation in Nigeria By Jonas E. Okeagu, Joseph C. Okeagu, Ademiluyi O. Adegoke, and Chinwe N. Onuoha	199
The Ombudsman Institution and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Third World Societies By Najmul Abedin	219
Book Reviews
ASIA
BOUDREAU, VINCENT. Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia. By Robert Lawless	237
GREENOUGH, PAUL and ANNA L. TSING,. (eds). Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia. By Muhammad M. Haque	239
DUNHAM, MIKEL. Buddha's Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet. By Joseph Tse-Hei Lee	241
ISAACS, T.M. THOMAS, and RICHARD W. FRANKE. Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning. By Mathew Zachariah and R. Sooryamoorthy	243
LARSON, GERALD JAMES (ed.). Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment. By Santosh C. Saha	245
ZAGORIA, DONALD S. (ed.) with the assistance of Chris Fugarino. Breaking the China-Taiwan Impasse. By Wei-chin Lee	248
ZHU, YING. Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System. By Matthew Johnson	251
AFRICA
HARRISON, GRAHAM. Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance. By Santosh C. Saha	254
GIBSON, JAMES L. and AMANDA GOUWS. Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion. By Gariba B. Abdul-Korah	256
DILLMAN, BRADFORD, L. State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-seeking and Failed Development. By Ali Abderrezak	260
FAIR, LAURA. Pastimes & Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945. By James Biedzynski	262
MIDDLE EAST
HOURANI, ALBERT. A History of the Arab Peoples. By Rolin Mainuddin	264
GUNTER, MICHAEL M., Historical Dictionary of the Kurds By Paul J. Magnarella	266
KURZMAN, CHARLES. The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran By Seyfi Tashan	267
RABINOVICH, ITAMAR. Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003. By A.J. Abraham	268
MCALISTER, MELANI. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. By A.J. Abraham	270
GHANNAM, FARHA. Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation and the Politics of Identity in Global Cairo. By A.J. Abraham	271
KIMMERLING, BARUCH. Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians. By A.J. Abraham	272
DARWISH, MAHMOUD. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. By Najat Rahman	273
LATIN AMERICA
GILL, LESLEY. The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. By Pablo Policzer	276
BIRCH, MELISSA H. and JERRY HAAR, (eds). The Impact of Privatization in the Americas. By Charlene T. Overturf	278
MORLEY, MORRIS and CHRIS MCGILLION. Unfinished Business: America and Cuba After the Cold War, 1989-2001. By Virginia W. Leonard	281
RITTER, ARCHIBALD R. M. (ed.). The Cuban Economy. By Curtis Skinner	283
SAGÁS, ERNESTO and SINTIA E. MOLINA (eds.). Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives. By Jorge A. Brea	285
FISCHER, SIBYLLE. Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. By Robert Lawless	288
MISCELLANEOUS
ZARSKY, LYUBA (ed.). Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World. By Paul J. Magnarella	291
SUTCLIFFE, BOB. 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World. By Roseanna Almaee	292
CLARENCE-SMITH, WILLIAM GERVASE and STEVEN TOPIK, (eds). The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989. By Michael R. Hall	294
ARIF, NASR. M. The Disenchantment of Political Development: Epistemes, Cultures, and Policies. By Frank Khachina Matanga	296
Twenty-Third Annual ATWS Meeting	299
Announcements	301
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts	302
Books Available for Review	303

THIRD WORLD PROBLEMS AND ISSUES: 21^ST CENTURY PERSPECTIVES
Foreword	7
United Nations Peace Operations in Africa: A Cookie-Cutter Approach? By Assefaw Bariagaber	11
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Civil Society and Effective Food Aid (EFA) in the Republic of Georgia By B. I. Logan	31
Fighting Terrorism While Promoting Democracy: Competing Priorities in US. Defense Policy Toward Latin America By Gregory Weeks	59
The "Capability Approach" and Human Development in Turkey By Didem Gurses	79
The Political Sociology of Sect and Sectarianism in Iranian Politics: 1960-1979 By Manochehr Dorraj	95
Meeting in San Salvador: President Lyndon B. Johnson and The 1968 Central American Summit Conference By Thomas M. Leonard	119

Other Papers
Villavicencio, Colombia, 1940-2005: From Frontier Town to Frontier Metropolis By Jane M. Rausch	149
Multiracialism and Nationalisms: A Political Retrospective on 1950s Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe) By John David Leaver	167
Regional Ethnic Difusion, State Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Post-Colonial Reconstruction In Côte D'Ivoire. By Femi N. O. Mimiko	189
The Effects of Public School Expenditure and Parental Education on Youth Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa By Amon Okpala, and Comfort Okpala	203
Book Reviews
ASIA
DITTMER, LOWELL, (ed.) South Asia's Nuclear Security Dilemma: India, Pakistan, and China. By Zhiqun Zhu	215
ENGLAND, ROBERT STOWE. Aging China: The Demographic Challenge to China's Economic Prospects. By Xiansheng Tian	217
KARLIN, WAYNE. War Movies: Scenes and Out-Takes. By Robert Lawless	219
BHATNAGER, RASHMI DUBE, RENU DUBE, AND REENA DUBE. Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History. By Steven C. Dinero	221
AFRICA
FALOLA, TOYIN. A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir. By J. Charles Taylor	224
WAUGH, COLIN M. Paul Kagame and Rwanda: Power, Genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front. By Lara Crook and E. Ike Udogu	227
CONNAH. GRAHAM. African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective. By James Biedzynski	231
BRATTON, MICHAEL, ROBERT MATTES, AND E. GYIMAH. Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa. By David Jervis	232
HEYWOOD, LINDA. Contested Power in Angola: 1840s to the Present. By David Jervis	235
MIDDLE EAST
KAMRAVA, MEHRAN. The Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War. By Santosh C. Saha	239
DAVIS, ERIC. Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. By A.J. Abraham	243
FARBER, DAVID. Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam. By Peter O. Hefron	244
Cordesman, Anthony H. Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century: The Military and International Security Dimensions. By Mohammed Badrul Alam	246
Cordesman, Anthony H. Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century: The Political, Foreign Policy, Economic, and Energy Dimensions. By Mohammed Badrul Alam	248
Salamandra, Christa. A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. By Ann Dunn	250
Levine, Mark. Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and The Struggle for Palestine 1880-1948. By A.J. Abraham	254
Lust-Okar, Ellen. Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions. By Brian R. Parkinson	254
LATIN AMERICA
SANDERS, JAMES E. Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. By Michael R. Hall	256
SHAYNE, JULIE D. The Revolution Question: Feminism in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba. By Jo - Marie Burt	257
de la CADENA, MARISOL. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. By Derek A. Bentley	260
STERN, STEVE J. Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. By Michael R. Hall	262
SELVERSTON-SCHER, MELINA Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy. By Charlene T. Overturf	264
SAWYER, SUZANA. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberlism in Ecuador. By Lazarus F. Osake	265
REVIEW ESSAY STATE REPRESSION IN LATIN AMERICA MCSHERRY, J. PATRICE. Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America; and MENJÍVAR, CECILIA AND NÉSTOR RODRÍGUEZ (eds.) When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror. By Ruth Stanley	269
MISCELLANEOUS
Paris, Roland. At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict. By Paul J. Magnarella	273
Bangura, Abdul Karim. The Holy Quran and Contemporary Issues. By Saneta Maiko	274
Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nińo Famines and the Making of the Third World. By Charlene T. Overturf	276
Gross, Jan T. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. By Jonathan H. L'Hommedieu	278
Roudometof, Victor. Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question. By Jonathan H. L'Hommedieu	280
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts	283
Books Available for Review	285

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