Volume X, Number 1: Spring 1993

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Volume X, Number 1: Spring 1993

The Third World in the Post-Cold War Era:
Problems and Possible Solutions
Foreword 13
Obstacles to Peace and Development in the Post-Cold War Era
By Oscar Arias Sanchez		 18
The Evolution of the Hong Kong Triads/Tongs into the Current Drug Market
By Sharon Tracy		 22
Reflecting the Last War: The Persian Gulf and the “Vietnam Syndrome”
By George C. Herring		 37
Socio-Political Change in the Republic of Congo: Political Dilemmas of Economic Reform
By John F. Clark		 52
The Role of the Co-operative Movement in Socio-Economic Development: The Case of Equatoria Region, Sudan
By S.A.J. Dima		 78
Food as a Human Right
By Gary Kline		 92
Other Papers
The Current Economic Reform in the People’s Republic of China
By Kong Chu		 110
U.S.-China Relations in the Comparative Perspective
By Edwin G. Clausen		 118
Vietnam: Smoothing the Way to Joint Venture Agreements
By Sesto E. Vecchi		 136
The Perceptions of Pastoralism and Rural Change in Maasailand, Kenya
By Cleophas Lado		 148
From Empire to British Commonwealth: Issues and Incentives Which Kept “Radical” African Leaders and Their Nations in the British Commonwealth of Nations as Bona Fide Members
By A.B. Assensoh		 184
Competing Paradigms in the Search for a More Relevant Social Science in Nigeria
By Steven A. Nkom		 196
The Political Transformation of Palestinian Women
By Jean L. Shultz		 225
The Politics of Intervention: The “Underlying” Causes of United States Military Intervention in Central America
By Darin H. Van Tassell and G. Lane Van Tassell		 252
Capital Imports and Endogenous Productive Capacity: A Proposal for Agrarian Development in Puerto Rico
By Martin J. Collo		 306
Private Capital Flows and Developing Countries
By Hooshang Amirahmadi and Weiping Wu		 327
Emerging Trading Blocs and Trade Policy Options for Third World LDCs
By Jong H. Park		 358
From Nieo to Rio: The Continuing Crisis in North-South Relations
By James A. Mitchell		 386
Designing Interdisciplinary/Transdisciplinary Courses on Third World Issues: Meeting the Needs of College and University Students in the United States
By Eugene B. Shultz, Jr.		 406
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA
KENHAYA L. GUPTA. Budget Deficits and Economic Activity in Asia.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.		 426
CHONG-SIK LEE (ed.). In Search of a New World Order in East Asia.
By Donna Addkison-Simmons and Ralph B. Hare, Jr.		 429
R. BATES GILL. Chinese Arms Transfers: Purposes, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World Order.
By Kenneth W. Berger		 431
BEVIN ALEXANDER. The Strange Connection: U.S. Intervention in China, 1944-1972.
By Kenneth W. Berger		 433
JOHN C. EVANS. Tea in China: The History of China’s National Drink.
By Robert Lawless		 435
SUNG-HWA CHEONG. The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea: Japanese-South Korean Relations Under American Occupation, 1945-1952.
By Key Ray Chong		 436
EARL H. TILFORD, JR. Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why.
By Robert Lawless		 439
NICO DEJONGE (ed.). Indonesia in Focus: Ancient Traditions-Modern Times.
By Garth N. Jones		 442
J. STEPHEN LANSING. Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali.
By Stewart Sutley		 443
SHARAD S. MARATHE. Regulation and Development: India’s Policy Experience of Controls Over Industry.
By Winston E. Langley		 448
JO-ANN GROSS. Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change.
By Martha Merrill		 453
REVIEW ESSAY:
TOWARD MULTI-PARTY POLITICAL PLURALISM IN SINGAPORE
WALTER MAKEPEACE, GILGER E. BROOKE AND ROLAND ST.J. BRADDELL (eds.). One Hundred Years of Singapore.
EDWIN LEE. The British as Rulers: Governing Multiracial Singapore, 1867-1914.
ERNEST C.T. CHEW AND EDWIN LEE. A History of Singapore.
K.S. SANDHU AND PAUL WHEATLEY (eds.). Management of Success: The Molding of Modern Singapore.
T.S. SELVAN. Singapore: The Ultimate Island (Lee Kwan Yew’s Untold Story).
ALAN CHONG. Goh Chok Tong: Singapore’s New Premier.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.		 457

AFRICA
CHEIKH ANTA DIOP. Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology.
By Stephen B. Isabirye		 471
PAUL STAUDINGER. In the Heart of the Hausa States.
By Erving E. Beauregard		 474
MARGARET HASWELL AND DIANA HUNT (eds.). Rural Households in Emerging Societies: Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa.
By Thomas O’Toole		 479
PETER WOODWARD. Sudan: 1898-1989.
By Robert E. Looney		 481
WILLIAM R. OCHIENG’ AND ROBERT M. MAXON (eds.). An Economic History of Kenya.
By David Moore-Sieray		 484
BARBARA GROSH. Public Enterprise in Kenya: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why.
By Joseph K. Kimani		 490
RAWSON MACHARIA. The Truth About the Trial of Jomo Kenyatta.
By William R. Ochieng’		 494
SIMON KENYANCHUI. Nabongo Mumia.
By William R. Ochieng’		 496
D. MAXWELL AND S.ZZIWA. Urban Farming in East Africa: The Case of Kampala, Uganda.
By William R. Ochieng’		 499
CLIVE GRAY, JACQUES BAUDOUY, KELSEY MARTIN, MOLLY BANG, AND RICHARD CASH. Primary Health Care in Africa: A Study of the Mali Rural Health Project.
By Thomas O’Toole		 502
AGNESS LEAKEY HOFMEYR. Beyond Violence.
By William R. Ochieng’		 504
GIRMA KEBBEDE. The State and Development in Ethiopia.
By Assefaw Bariagaber		 506
IVOR WILKS. Wa and Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana.
By Calvin L. Shirey		 509
MICHAEL CLOUGH. Free At Last? U.S. Policy Toward Africa and the End of the Cold War.
By John F. Clark		 511
OWEN ELLISON KAHN (ed.). Disengagement from Southwest Africa: Prospects for Peace in Angola and Namibia.
By Karl P. Magyar		 514
PAUL P.IZAH. Continuity and Change in Nigerian Foreign Policy.
By John Amfani Ayam		 519

MIDDLE EAST
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East.
By Nader Entessar		 523
GEOFFREY KEMP. The Control of the Middle East Arms Race.
By Sanford R. Silverburg		 525
CHARLES F. DORAN AND STEPHEN W. BUCK (eds.). The Gulf, Energy, and Global Security: Political and Economic Issues.
By Manochehr Dorraj		 527
DANIEL PIPES. Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition.
By Jacob Abadi		 529
AMIKAM NACHMANI. Great Power Discord in Palestine: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine 1945-1946.
By Jacob Abadi		 531
AVI SHLAIM. The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine 1921-1951.
By Tanweer Akram		 534
ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL. Islam, An Introduction.
By Antoine J. Abraham		 534
CHARLES LE GAI EATON. Islam, and the Destiny of Man.
By Antoine J. Abraham		 535
HAMID ENAYET. Modern Islamic Political Thought.
By Antoine J. Abraham		 537
JOYCE WILEY. The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Shi’as.
By Mustafah Dhada		 537
ELIZABETH WARROCK FERNEA (ed.). Women and the Family in the Middle East.
By Antoine J. Abraham		 541
SHIBLEY TELHAMI. Power and Leadership in International Bargaining.
By Samory Rashid		 542
RICHARD W. COTTAM. Iran and the United States: A Cold War Case Study.
By Ali Kamali		 545
KAIYAN HOMI KAIKOBAH. The Shatt-Al-Arab Boundary Question: A Legal Reappraisal.
By Sanford R. Silverburg		 548

LATIN AMERICA
NELLY P. STROMQUIST. (ed.). Women and Education in Latin America: Knowledge, Power and Change.
By Anna Macias		 550
COLIN CLARKE (ed.). Society and Politics in the Caribbean.
By Chitram Singh		 552
K.LYNN STONER. From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Women’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940.
By Jeanne L. Friedman		 555
SHELDON B. LISS. Radical Thought in Central America.
By Gordon P. Henderson		 558
SHARON PHILLIPS COLLAZOS. Labor and Politics in Panama: The Torrijos Years.
By Calvin L. Shirey		 561
MICHAEL JAMES HIGGINS AND TANYA LEIGH COEN. Oigame! Oigame! Struggle and Social Change in a Nicaraguan Urban Community.
By Robert P. Watson and Sean McCluskie		 563
VOLODIA TEITELBOIM. Neruda, An Intimate Biography.
By Thomas K. Benedetti		 567

MISCELLANEOUS
R. BRUCE McCOLM. Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1992-1993.
By John Mukum Mbaku		 571
PAUL N. GOLDSTENE. The Bittersweet Century: Speculations on Modern Science and American Democracy.
By William Head		 582
PAUL RABINOW AND WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN. Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look.
By, Robert Lawless		 588
GEORGE W. STOCKING, JR. (ed.). Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge.
By Dane Kennedy		 589
THOMAS G. WEISS AND MERYL A. KESSLER (eds.). Third World Security in the Post-Cold War Era.
By Mahmood Monshipouri		 592
GUSTAV RANIS AND SYED MAHMOOD. The Political Economy of Development Policy Change.
By M. Bazlul Karim		 599
KATHLEEN STAUDT. Managing Development: State, Society, and International Contexts.
By Mary Vanderlaan		 604
KURT HOFFMAN AND RAPHAEL KAPLINSKI. Driving Force: The Global Restructuring of Technology, Labor, and Investment in the Automobile and Components Industries.
By Robert Lawless		 606
RICHARD CRITCHFIELD. The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures.
By Mitali R. Pati		 609
JANNE E. NOLAN. Trappings of Power: Ballistic Missiles in the Third World.
By Rolin Mainuddin		 610
REVIEW ESSAY:
MEASURING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE SEARCH FOR A YARDSTICK
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Human Development Report, 1990.
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Human Development Report, 1991.
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Human Development Report, 1992.
By John Mukum Mbaku 613
Communications 619
Tenth Annual Meeting: Association of Third World Studies, Inc.
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
October 1 – 3, 1992		 624
Books Available for Review 631

Volume X, Number 2: Fall 1993

Third World Problems and Issues
Foreword 9
India’s Economic Policy Since Nehru: The Failure of Democratic Socialism and the March Toward Free Trade
By Jacob Abadi		 12
The State and Academic Freedom in Africa: How African Academics Subvert Academic Freedom
By Julius Omozuanubo Ibonvbere		 36
Brain Drain and African Development: A Descriptive Framework for Deriving Indirect Benefits
By Godson C. Obia		 74
Unique Properties of Third World Political Leadership: Overcoming Tyrannies of Eurocentric Paradigms
By Festus Brotherson, Jr.		 98
Military Factors and External Debt in Less Developed Countries: Evidence from Cross-Sectional and Panel Assessments
By Francis O. Adeola		 126
Other Papers
The Self-Employed Women’s Association: One Solution to Women’s Continued Inequality in India
By Heather T. Frazer		 160
Senegambia and the Confederation: History, Expectations, and Disillusions
By Edmun B. Richmond		 172
Key Obstacles to the Development of African Universities
By Daniel N. Sifuna and Kilemi Mwiria		 195
SADCC and South Africa: Regionalism or Dependence?
By Jeffrey M. Ebenstein		 228
The Post-Ahidjo Era in Cameroon: Continuity and Change
By Joseph Takougang		 268
The Relations Between Europe and Latin America: Rhetoric and Reality
By Menno Vellinga		 303
Dual Nature of Sovereignty and Its Application to Foreign-Policy Making: The Case of the U.S. Intervention in the 1980s
By Korwa Gombe Adar and Catherine I. Harries		 323
An Inquiry into War Conduct Ethics: Paradigmatic Interpretations of the Persian Gulf War
By Mahmood Monshipouri		 343
Low-Intensity Conflicts: A Two Worlds Perspective
By Karl P. Magyar		 377
The Bush Administration’s View of the People’s Republic of China’s Legal Situation After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
By Daniel C. Turack		 398
Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA
E.M. ROSKIES (ed.) Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia: Essays in Interpretation.
By Garth N. Jones		 416
PETER MACDONALD. Giap: The Victor in Vietnam.
By Cecil B. Currey		 423
JANE HAMILTON-MERRITT. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.
By W.E. Fahey, Jr.		 432
EARL H. TILFORD, JR. Crosswinds: The Air Force’s Setup in Vietnam.
By William M. Leary		 435
JAMES A. PUTZEL. A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines.
By James Birdzynski		 437
JOHN DARGAVEL AND RICHARD TUCKER (eds.). Changing Pacific Forests: Historical Perspectives on the Forest Economy of the Pacific Basin.
By Robert Lawless		 439
CHIH-YU SHIH. China’s Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy.
By Kenneth W. Berger		 440
KAILAS SARAP. Interlinked Agrarian Markets in Rural India.
By Marc Jason Gilbert		 443
TAJ UL-ISLAM HASHMI. Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia: The Communalization of Class Politics in East Bengal, 1920-1947.
By Roger D. Long		 445

AFRICA
KAMI RWEGASIRA. Administering Management Development Institutions in Africa.
By G.S. Namusonge		 449
THOMAS G. WEISS (ed.). Humanitarian Emergencies and Military Help in Africa.
By Stephen E. Buggie		 454
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF KENYA. Africa in the Debt Yoke: The Mission of the Church.
By Adalso Moga		 456
FLORENCE DOLPHYNE. The Emancipation of Women: An African Perspective.
By Y.M. Alex and A.B. Assensoh		 459
PAMELA REYNOLDS. Dance Civet Cat: Child Labour in the Zambezi Valley.
By Thomas O’Toole		 462
BAHRU ZEWDE. A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974.
By Assefaw Bariagaber		 464
CHRISTINE SYLVESTER. Zimbabwe: The Terrain of Contradictory Development.
By Thomas O’Toole		 467
JULIUS AMIN. The Peace Corps in Cameroon.
By Joseph Takougang		 469
ERICK MASINDE ASEKA. Ronald Ngala.
By William R. Ochieng’		 472
H. ODERA ORUKA. Oginga Odinga: His Philosophy and Beliefs.
By William R. Ochieng’		 475
REVIEW ESSAY:
AFRICAN WILDLANDS
JOHN A. MURRAY (ed.). Wild Africa: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Africa;
JONATHAN S. ADAMS AND THOMAS O. MCSHANE. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion.
By G.W. Burnett 479

MIDDLE EAST
ROGER OWEN. State, Power & Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
By Erika G. Alin		 485
JOHN ESPOSITO. Islam: The Straight Path.
By Ali Kamali		 488
JOSEPH S. ROUCEK AND MICHAEL V. BELOK. The U.S. and The Persian Gulf.
By Antoine J. Abraham		 491
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN. After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East.
By Nader Entessar		 492
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM. Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East.
By Christa Daryl Slaton		 495
BERNARD LEWIS. The Muslim Discovery of Europe.
By Antonine J. Abraham		 497
BERNARD LEWIS. Semites & Anti-Semites.
By Antonine J. Abraham		 498
PHILIP G. KREYENBROEK AND STEFAN SPERL. The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview.
By Rudolf T. Zarzar		 499
JOEL GORDON. Nasser’s Blessed Movement: Egypt’s Free Officers and the July Revolution.
By Robert J. Bookmiller		 502

LATIN AMERICA
HERALDO MUNOZ (ed.). Environment and Diplomacy in the Americas.
By Roy Arthur Glasgow		 506
LESLIE BETHELL (ed.). Mexico Since Independence.
By George D. Beelen		 508
ERROL MILLER. Education for All: Caribbean Perspectives and Imperatives.
By Daniel Good		 510
HARRY E. VANDEN AND GARY PREVOST. Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua.
By Debra Sabia		 513
MANZAR FOROOHAR. The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua.
By Paul L. Simon		 516
ROBERT LAWLESS. Haiti’s Bad Press.
By Cecil B. Currey		 518
RONALD FERNANDEZ. The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
By Martin J. Collo		 519
ZEE EDGELL. Beka Lamb: Belize’s First Novel.
By Mary G. Parham		 521
REVIEW ESSAY:
RECENT STUDIES ON BRAZILIAN DEVELOPMENT
RICHARD GRAHAM (ed.). Brazil and the World System;
MARSHALL C. EAKIN. British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine;
MAURICIO A. FONT. Coffee, Contention, and Change in the Making of Modern Brazil.
By Lydia M. Garner 528

MISCELLANEOUS
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO). World List of Social Science Periodicals, 1991.
By John Mukum Mbaku		 537
A.S. BHALLA. Uneven Development in the Third World.
By Dominique N. Khactu		 540
BRIAN L. JOB (ed.). The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States.
By Lt. Col. (Retd.) W.T. Luckett		 545
W. RAYMOND DUNCAN AND CAROLYN MCGIFFERT EKEDAHL. Moscow and the Third World Under Gorbachev.
By Martha C. Merrill		 549
LOUISE G. WHITE. Implementing Policy Reforms in LDCs: A Strategy for Designing and Effecting Change.
By Robert P. Watson and Sean McCluskie		 552
SYLVIA WOODBY AND MARTHA COTTAM. The Changing Agenda: World Politics Since 1945.
By Jeffrey M. Ebenstein		 556
REVIEW ESSAY:
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE ADRIFT
TONY KILLICK. A Reaction Too Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries;
PAUL MOSLEY, JANE HARRIGAN AND JOHN TOYE. Aid and Power: The World Bank & Policy-Based Lending.
By Christopher B. Barrett 558
REVIEW ESSAY:
POST-COLD WAR HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN. Geopolitics and Geoculture;
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA. The End of History and the Last Man.
By William R. Ochieng’		 569
Books Available for Review
 573