Harold Isaacs, Editor
Volume XIV, Number 1: Spring 1997
The Third World: On The Brink of the
Twenty-First Century
| Foreword | 7 |
| Challenges of Asymmetry Associated With Asean’s Evolution to a Larger-sized Group By Robert L. Curry, Jr. |
13 |
| Women, Sericulture and Development: A Case in South India By Anand Inbanathan and V. Vijayalakshmi |
37 |
| The U.S. and Mobutu Sese Seko: Waiting on Disaster By Osita G. Afoaku |
65 |
| The Struggle for Faculty Unionism in a Stalled Democracy: Lessons From Kenya’s Public Universities By Irungu Munene |
91 |
| Christianity and Traditional Reality in Kenjo Jumbam’s The White Man of God By Wilson Atem Ebot |
115 |
| Economic Growth and the Environment: Elite Perceptions of Development in Bolivia By H.C.F. Mansilla and Martin J. Collo |
133 |
Book Reviews and Review Essays |
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ASIA |
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| OSCAR CHAPUIS. A History of Vietnam: From Hong Bang to Tu Duc. By Cecil B. Currey |
165 |
| BERTIL LINTNER. Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948. By Thomas D. Reins |
167 |
| KEITH GRIFFIN, (ed.). Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia. By Stewart Sutley |
170 |
| BARBARA J. SINKULE, AND LEONARD ORTOLANO. Implementing Environmental Policy in China. By Yi Sun |
177 |
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AFRICA |
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| PATRICIA M.E. LORCIN. Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race In Colonial Algeria. By James Biedzynski |
180 |
| CRAWFORD YOUNG. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. By Cheedy Jaja |
182 |
| WORLD BANK. African Development Indicators, 1996. By John Mukum Mbaku |
187 |
| ANTHONY KIRK-GREEN AND DANIEL BACH (eds.). State and Society in Francophone Africa since Independence. By Christopher Gray |
190 |
| RUFAI AHMED ALKALI. Issues in International Relations and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy. By Victor Banlilon Tani |
196 |
| DONALD L. HOROWITZ. A Democratic South Africa?: Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society. By Thomas O’Toole |
201 |
| B.A. OGOT. Economic Adaptation and Change Among the Jii-Speaking Peoples of Eastern Africa. By P. Godfrey Okoth |
203 |
| LES SWITZER. Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa. By Rob Ehlers |
208 |
| ERIC MASINDE ASEKA. Africa in the 21st Century. By Pius Kakai Wanyonyi |
213 |
| REVIEW ESSAY THE QUEST FOR CIVIL SOCIETY IN AFRICA |
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| STEPHEN N. NDEGWA. The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in Africa; ANTHONY A. AKINOLA. Rotational Presidency; NOZAR ALAOLMOLKI. Struggle for Dominance in the Persian Gulf: Past, Present and Future Prospects; CHUDI UWAZURIKE. To Tangle With Tarzan: Seven Short Stores and an Epic; CHUDI UWAZURIKE. Yesterday Was Silent. |
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| By Yvette Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh | 218 |
| REVIEW ESSAY ECOLOGICAL CONTROL IN EAST AFRICA |
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| HELGE KJEKSHUS. Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History; GREGORY MADDOX, JAMES L. GIBLIN AND ISARIA N. KIMAMBO. Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania. |
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| By G. Wesley Burnett | 223 |
| REVIEW ESSAY CIVIL WARS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA |
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| W. MARTIN JAMES. A Political History of the Civil War in Angola 1974-1990; WILLIAM MINTER. Apartheid’s Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique. |
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| By Stephen A. Emerson | 231 |
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LATIN AMERICA |
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| RODERIC AI CAMP (ed.). Democracy in Latin America: Patterns and Cycles. By Joel S. Cleland |
237 |
| R. ANDREW NICKSON. Local Government in Latin America. By Roger P. Davis |
243 |
| CHARLES A. REILLY (ed.). New Paths to Democratic Development: The Rise of NGO-Municipal Collaboration. By Julio Cesar Pino |
248 |
| LOIS HECHT OPPENHEIM. Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development. By Norman H. Murdoch |
252 |
| FRANCISCO E. THOUMI. Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia. By Jane M. Rausch |
256 |
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MIDDLE EAST |
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| F.E. PETERS. Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. By A.J. Abraham |
260 |
| WALID PHARES. Lebanese Christian Nationalism the Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance. By A.J. Abraham |
261 |
| MAHMOUD A.T. ELKHAFIF. The Egyptian Economy: A Modeling Approach. By Robert Looney |
262 |
| WOLFGANG F. DANSPECKGRUBER, AND CHARLES R.H. TRIPP (ed.). Aggression Against Kuwait: Strategic Lessons and Implications for Europe. By Hubert P. van Tuyll |
266 |
| SAEED RAHNEMA AND SOHRAB BEHDAD (ed.). Iran After the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State. By Nader Entessar |
269 |
| MAHMOUD AL-BATAL (ed.). The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Issues and Directions. By Salah-Dine Hammoud |
272 |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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| B(RIAN) C(LIVE) SMITH. Understanding Third World Politics: Theories of Political Change and Development. By Michael M. Gunter |
276 |
| RICHARD K. BETTS (ed.). Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace. By Kakai P. Wanyonyi |
278 |
| THOMAS N. HEADLAND AND DARRELL L. WHITEMAN (eds.). Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Human Rights. By Robert Lawless |
284 |
| LOURDES ARIZPE, M. PRISCILLA STONE, AND DAVID C. MAJOR (eds.). Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate. By Robert Lawless |
291 |
| ROBIN LEVIN PENSLAR (ed.). Research Ethics: Cases and Materials. By Robert Lawless |
295 |
| WILBERT O. BASCOM. The Economics of Financial Reform in Developing Countries. By Dominque Khactu |
296 |
| JACQUES V. DINAVO. Privatization in Developing Countries: Its Impact on Economic Development and Democracy. By Dominque Khactu |
301 |
| JACQUES V. DINAVO. Privatization in Developing Countries: Its Impact on Economic Development and Democracy. By Nasser Momayezi |
305 |
| PHILIP MCMICHAEL (ed.). Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy. By Laura Bouden |
308 |
| MUKUR K. KHISHA. All That Glitters. By Santosh Saha |
312 |
| Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc.. Troy State University – Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama October 3-5, 1996 By Donald Simmons |
318 |
| Books Available for Review | 320 |
Volume XIV, Number 2: Fall 1997
Third World Development:
Past and Present
| Foreword | 7 |
| Western Influences and Images of China: The Persistent Efforts to Engage and Change China By T. Christopher Jespersen |
13 |
| Accommodation and Recipient Interest in Japan’s Foreign Aid By David M. Potter |
37 |
| The Military and Politics in Vietnam: The People’s Army and the 8th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party By Lewis M. Stern |
67 |
| Convergent and Divergent Ideals in the SADC Region By Lehlohonolo Tlou |
95 |
| Changing the Basis of Civilian Control Over the Military in Guyana By Chaitram Singh |
113 |
| Socio-Cultural Rights and Development By Winston E. Langley |
133 |
Book Reviews |
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ASIA |
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| JOHN D. MONTGOMERY AND DENNIS A. RONDINELLI (eds.) Great Policies: Strategic Innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin. By L. Shelton Woods |
163 |
| T. CHRISTOPHER JESPERSEN. American Images of China, 1931-1949. By Peng Deng |
166 |
| F. TOMASSON JANNUZI. India’s Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform. By Rolin Mainuddin |
170 |
| YASUKO MAKINO AND MIHOKO MIKI. Japan and the Japanese: A Bibliographic Guide to Reference Sources. By David M. Potter |
172 |
| ROGER WARNER. Back Fire: The CIA’s Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. By Paul A. Rodell |
175 |
| KRISHNA SEN. Indonesian Cinema: Framing the New Order. By Diane Carson |
178 |
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AFRICA |
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| THOMAS HALE (ed.) WITH NOUHOU MALIO. The Epic of Askia Mohammed. By Andrew F. Clark |
183 |
| ROBERT SHELL. Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope. By Andrew F. Clark |
184 |
| M. FORTES AND E.E. EVANS-PRITCHARD (eds.). African Political Systems. By Kathryn Firmin-Sellers |
187 |
| JULIUS O. IHONVBERE. Economic Crisis, Civil Society, and Democratization: The Case of Zambia. By Philip C. Aka |
190 |
| C. MAGBAILY FYLE (ed.). The State and the Provision of Social Services in Sierra Leone Since Independence, 1961-1991. By Alusine Jalloh |
199 |
| A.B.T. BYARUHANGA-AKIIKI AND REV. O.N.O. KEALOTSWE. Healers and Protective Medicine in Botswana. By Zacharia Wanakacha Samita |
202 |
| MACHARIA MUNENE. The Truman Administration and the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa. By P. Godfrey Okoth |
206 |
| REVIEW ESSAY LEADERSHIP IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT |
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| Report on the Inaugural Program; Recommendations by [sundry] Discussion Groups; Africa in Today’s World and the Challenges of Leadership; Leadership in an Interdependendent World and What is Expected from Africa; The Leadership Challenge for Improving the Economic and Social Situation of Africa; The Leadership Challenge in African Agricultural Production; The Challenge of Education; The Interest of the Private Sector in Leadership; Development Strategies: Lessons from Experience; Development and Culture; Case Studies of Nigeria. |
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| By Philip C. Aka | 213 |
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LATIN AMERICA |
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| R. DOUGLAS COPE. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720. By Carlos Perez |
243 |
| SUSAN KAUFMAN PURCELL AND FRANCOISE SIMON (ed.). Europe and Latin America in the World Economy. By David M. Schwam-Baird |
247 |
| OSCAR J. MARTINEZ (ed.). U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. By Paul L. Simon |
251 |
| YOUSSEF COHEN. Radicals, Reformers and Reactionaries: The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy in Latin America. By David H. Carwell |
253 |
| LOIS M. SMITH AND ALFRED PADULA. Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba. By Julio Cesar Pino |
255 |
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MIDDLE EAST |
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| FRED HALLIDAY. Islam and The Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East. By Nasser Momayezi |
260 |
| JULIA A. CLANCY-SMITH. Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1914). By F. Robert Hunter |
262 |
| BESHARA DOUMANI. Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900. By Hasan Kayali |
265 |
| MONA HEJAIEJ. Behind Closed Doors: Women’s Oral Narratives in Tunis. By Patricia Geesey |
269 |
| ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN AND ABRAHAM R. WAGNER. The Lessons of Modern War. By Nader Entessar |
273 |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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| VALENTINE UDOH JAMES (ed.). Sustainable Development in Third World Countries: Applied and Theoretical Perspectives. By Jefferson C. Boyer |
276 |
| MARK E. DENHAM AND MARK OWEN LOMBARDY. Perspectives on Third-World Sovereignty. By S.J. Raphalides |
277 |
| KAY MILTON (ed.). Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology. By Tobias J. Lanz |
281 |
| ERIC DUDLEY. The Critical Villager. By Tobias J. Lanz |
284 |
| BEN A. PETRAZZINI. The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries: Privatization and Liberalization in Comparative Perspective. By James Biedzynski |
287 |
| REVIEW ESSAY THE UNITED NATIONS: FIFTY YEARS OF CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS |
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| THE UNITED NATIONS.The United Nations and Apartheid, 1948-1994; THE UNITED NATIONS. The United Nations and El Salvador, 1990-1995; THE UNITED NATIONS. The United Nations and Cambodia, 1991-1995; THE UNITED NATIONS. The United Nations and Mozambique, 1992-1995; THE UNITED NATIONS. The United Nations and Nuclear Non-Proliferation. |
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| By Abdul Karim Bangura | 291 |
| REVIEW ESSAY THE END OF DEVELOPMENT AS WE KNOW IT? |
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| A.S. BHALLA. Facing the Technological Challenge; V. BHASKAR AND ANDREW GLYN (eds.). The North, the South and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy; VALENTINE UDOH JAMES (ed.). Sustainable Development in Third World Countries: Applied and Theoretical Perspectives; DAVID C. KORTEN. When Corporations Rule the World; COLIN LEYS. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory; DAVID B. MOORE AND GERALD J. SCHMITZ (eds.). Debating Development Discourse: Institutional and Popular Perspectives. |
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| By Robert Lawless | 303 |
| Books Available for Review | 313 |
