Volume XIX, Number 1: Spring 2002

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XIX, Number 1: Spring 2002

GLOBALIZATION AND THE THIRD WORLD

Foreword 7
Globalization Between the Market and the Military: A Third World Perspective By Ali A. Mazrui 13
Limits of Change: Legal Constraints to Political Reform in Iran By Nader Entessar 25
The Arab-Palestine, Israel Conflict, 53 Years On: Perceptions and an Assessment By Robert Olson 37
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOS) and Third World Development: An Alternative Approach to Development By J. Wagona Makoba 53
The Challenges to Pakistan’s Domestic Security By A.Z. Hilali 65
Playing Hide-and-Seek With the “Trail”: Operation Commando Hunt, 1968-1972 By William P. Head 101
Black Female Writers= Perspective on Religion: Alice Walker and Calixthe Beyala By Wirba Ibrahim Maïnimo 117
Review Article
Transformations in Africa After the Cold War By P. Godfrey Okoth 137

Other Papers

The Roots of Differential Development in Western Kenya: The Introduction of Arabica Coffee, 1930-1960 By Robert M. Maxon 153

“Nigeria or Lever-ia?”: Nationalist Reactions to Economic Depression and the “Menace of Mergers” in Colonial Nigeria By Ayodeji Olukoju

173

Socio-Economic and Political Policies in the 1990s and Status of Women in India By Padmaja A. Patil

195

Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA

LAZZERINI, EDWARD. The Chinese Revolution.
By Maryellen Russo
209
MATSUI, YAYORI. Women in the New Asia: From Pain to Power.
By R. Sooryamoorthy
210
MENASHRI, DAVID. Central Asia Meets The Middle East.
By A.Z. Hilali
212
MECOMS, CHARLES A. and MICHAEL D. WALLACE. East Asian Naval Weapons Acquisitions in the 1990s: Causes, Consequences and Responses.
By Larry M. Wortzel
216
ROCES, MINA. Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post-War Philippines
By Howard Giskin
218
AUSTIN, W. TIMOTHY. Banana Justice: Field Notes on Philippine Crime and Custom.
By Cecil B. Currey
220
JENNINGS, JOHN M. The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895-1945.
By Claire Mamola
222
CHEKKI, DAN A. Religion and Social System of the Virasaiva Community.
By Philip Thomas
224
KHALID, ADEEB. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia.
By A.J. Abraham
225
AFRICA
MALOBA, WUNYABARI O. Mau Mau and Kenya: An Anaysis of a Peasant Revolt.
By George L. Simpson, Jr
227
OKOTH, P.GODFREY and BETHWELL A. OGOT (eds.). Conflict in Contemporary Africa.
By Okelo Nyandong
231
RENWICK, ROBIN. Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa.
By Norman H. Murdoch
233
AUSTEN, RALPH A. and JONATHAN DERRICK. Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland c. 1600 – c. 1960.
By James Biedzynski
236
RANGER, TERENCE. Voices from the Rocks; Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe.
By G.W. Burnett
238
NEUMANN, RODERICK P. Imposing Wilderness, Struggles Over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa.
By A.J. Abraham
240
LATIN AMERICA
SKIDMORE, THOMAS E. Brazil: Five Centuries of Change.
By Michael R. Hall
241
CAMPBELL, BRUCE B. and ARTHUR D. BRENNER, (eds.). Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability.
By Mark Ungar
244
PURNELL, JENNIE. Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan.
By James Biedzynski
246
CATANESE, ANTHONY V. Haitians: Migration and Diaspora.
By Mario D. Fenyo
247
MIDDLE EAST
RODED, RUTH (ed.). Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader.
By Nasser Momayezi
250
ABU-HABIB, LINA (ed.). Gender and Disability: Women’s Experiences in the Middle East.
By Steven C. Dinero
252
KANAFANI, GHASSAN. Palestine’s Children, Returning to Haifa and Other Stories.
By Aida A. Bamia
254
TOTH, JAMES. Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992.
By Robert Looney
257
ALLEN, CALVIN, JR. and W. LYNN RIGSBEE II. Oman Under Qaboos. From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996.
By William D. Pederson
259
MISCELLANEOUS
ARNOLD, GUY. Mercenaries: The Scourge of the Third World.
By Cecil B. Currey
261
AGYEI-MENSAH, SAMUEL, comp. Fertility Decline in Developing Countries, 1960-1997: An Annotated Bibliography.
By Margaret McFadden
262
NOBLES, GREGORY H. American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest.
By William L. Cumiford
264
LIEBERFELD, DANIEL. Talking With the Enemy: Negotiaiton and Threat Perception in South Africa and Israel/Palestine.
By Robert Hazan
266
REVIEW ESSAY
THE WEST AND THE REST: REWRITING GLOBAL HISTORY
CURTIN, PHILIP D. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire; GRAN, PETER. Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History.
By Andrew F. Clark
269
Nineteenth Annual ATWS Meeting 274
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 276
Books Available for Review 278

Volume XIX, Number 2: Fall 2002

THIRD WORLD PROBLEMS AND ISSUES DURING THE LATE
19TH AND EARLY 21ST CENTURIES
Foreword 7
International Human Rights: Roots of a Progression
By Paul J. Magnarella
13
Fundi Wa Afrika: Toward a New Paradigm of the African State
By Mueni Wa Muiu
23
Postmodern Pan-Islamism?: The International Politics,
and Polemics, of Contemporary Islam
By Naveed S. Sheikh
43
Israel’s Quest for Normalization with Azebaijan
and The Muslim States of Central Asia
By Jacob Abadi
63
A Critical Look at Kenya’s Non-transition to Democracy
By Godwin Rapando Murunga
89
Embracing the Polar Bear?–Sino-Russian
Relations in the 1990s
By Peng Deng
113
Globalization of Financial Markets and The Asian
Crisis: Some Lessons For Third World Developing Countries
By Jong H. Park
141
Other Papers
The Military and Human Rights in The Gambia: 1994-1999
By Abdoulaye S. Saine
167
Otswana: Boipelego and Dependent Development
By Cathy Skidmore-Hess
189
An Examination of The Political and Economic
Transition of Mongolia Since the Collapse of
The Soviet Union
By Julia S. Bilskie and Hugh M. Arnold
205
Colonial Style and Colonial Legacies: Trade Patterns
in British and French Africa
By Brian Athow and Robert G. Blanton
219

Book Reviews and Review Essays

ASIA
PEIMANI, HOOMAN. The Caspian Pipeline Dilemma: Political Games and Economic Losses.
By Nader Entessar
245
BAYLY, SUSAN. Caste, Society and Politics in India: From The Eighteenth Century To The Modern Age.
By Mohammed B. Alam
247
JOHN, MARY E. and JANAKI NAIR, (eds.). A Question of Silence?: The Sexual Economies of Modern India.
By Sandya Hewamanne
249
JUN, MA. The Chinese Economy in the 1990s.
By Peng Deng
252
HU, SHAOHUA. Explaining Chinese Democratization.
By Weixing Chen
255
TEIWES, FREDERICK C. and WARREN SUN. China’s Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959.
By Ima J. Stephens
256
ZHAI, QIANG. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975.
By E. David Anderson
258
DENG, GANG. Maritime Sector, Institutions, and Sea Power of Premodern China.
By Wm. Thomas Howell
260
LUDDEN, DAVID. An Agrarian History of South Asia.
By Roger D. Long
262
OH, JOHN KIE-CHIANG. Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development.
By Shelley Rigger
264
REVIEW ESSAY
INDONESIA: ‘DALANG’ DEVELOPMENTALISTS AND THEIR ‘DYSPEPTIC’ SHADOW PLAYS”

HALL, HILL. The Indonesian Economy in Crisis, Causes, Consequences and Lessons; BANKER, RICHARD W., M. HADI SOESASTRO, J. KRISTIADI and DOUGLAS E. RAMAGE (eds.). Indonesia: The Challenge of Change; SCHRADER, HEIKO. Changing Financial Landscapes in India and Indonesia: Sociological Aspects of Monetization and Market Integration.
By Garth N. Jones
267
AFRICA
MARAH, JOHN K. African People in the Global Village: An Introduction to Pan-African Studies.
By Ager Dima
278
HOCHSCHILD, ADAM. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
By Norman H. Murdoch
282
RUTH WEISS, WITH JANE L. PARPART. Sir Garfield Todd and the Making of Zimbabwe.
By Norman H. Murdoch
287
HUXLEY, ELSPETH. Red Strangers.
By G.W. Bumett
289
KOINANGE, JEFF. Koinange – Wa-Mbiyu: Mau Mau’s Misunderstood Leader.
By William R. Ochieng’
291
REVIEW ESSAY
GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA
AMIN, SAMIR. Capitalism in the Age of Globalization; and MARAIS, HEIN. South Africa: Limits to Change.
By Daniel Skidmore-Hess

295
LATIN AMERICA
FAUSTO, BORIS. A Concise History of Brazil.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay-Thakur
300
TEDESCO, LAURA. Democracy in Argentina: Hope and Disillusion.
By Mark Ungar
304
ALVAREZ, SONIA E., EVELINA DAGNINO, and ARTURO ESCOBAR (eds.). Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay-Thakur
306
EDELMAN, MARK. Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica.
By Eugene Miller
309
JESUS, CAROLINA MARIA DE. I’m Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus.
By Ronald Young
312
CHOMSKY, AVIVA and ALDO LAURIA-SANTIAGO, (eds.). Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean.
By Julio Cèsar Pino
314
MIDDLE EAST
SHAHIN, WASSIM and GHASSAN DIBEH. Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North America.
By Robert Looney
319
ABUKHALIL, AS’AS. Historical Dictionary of Lebanon.
By A.J. Abraham
321
STARRETT, GREGORY. Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt.
By A.J. Abraham
322
SHARKANSKY, IRA. Ambiguity, Coping, and Governance: Israeli Experiences in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking.
By Robert Hazan
322
COBBAN, HELEN. The Israel-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-1996 and Beyond.
By P.R. Kumaraswamy
324
SHAHAK, ISRAEL and NORTON MEZVINSKY. Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.
By Steven C. Dinero
327
REVIEW ESSAY
LEBANON REVISITED

FARAH, CAESAR. The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830-1861; ZISSER, EYAL. Lebanon, The Challenge of Independence; KALAWOUN, NASSER. The Struggle for Lebanon, A Modern History of Lebanese-Egyptian Relations; and GATES, CAROLYN L. The Merchant Republic of Lebanon, Rise of An Open Economy.
By A.J. Abraham
331
MISCELLANEOUS
WAITES, BERNARD. Europe and the Third World: From Colonisation to Decolonisation, c. 1500-1998.
By Michael R. Hall
334
SHEPHERD, ALAN. Sustainable Rural Development.
By Tobias J. Lanz
335
SLUKA, JEFFREY A. (ed.). Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror.
By Ariel C. Armony
337
BASLAR, KEMEL. The Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind in International Law.
By Daniel C. Turack
339
DURAN, EDUARDO F. and BONNIE DURAN. Native American Postcolonial Psychology.
By Stephen Buggie
342
VICKERS, MIRANDA. The Albanians A Modern History.
By James Biedzynski
345
REVIEW ESSAY
WOMEN’S STUGGLES FOR EQUALITY, POWER AND VOICE IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

GRUENBAUM, ELLEN. The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective; GREEN, DECEMBER. Gender Violence in Africa: African Women’s Responses; and JOSEPH, SUAD and SUSAN SLYOMOVICS, (eds.). Women and Power in the Middle East.
By Diana J. Fox
347
Announcement 354
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 356
Books Available for Review 357