Volume XXI, Number 1: Spring 2004

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XXI, Number 1: Spring 2004

ADVANCING NEW DIMENSIONS IN THIRD WORLD STUDIES
IN THE 21ST CENTURY


Foreword


7
Where Do We Go From Here? Let Our Past Be Our Guide to the Future
By William P. Head


13
Lien Heng (1878-1936) and The General History of Taiwan
By Shu-hui Wu


17
Re-establishing Civilian Supremacy over Police Institutions:
An Analysis of Recent Attempted Reforms of the Security Sector in Chile
By Nibaldo H. Galleguillos


57
A Bootstrap Model for Microenterprise Development of a Distressed Community
By Olorundare E. Aworuwa


79
From Praetorianism to Democratic Institutionalization: Argentina’s Difficult Transition to Civilian Rule
By Enrique Peruzzotti


97
Indigenous Filipino Pasyon Defying Colonial Euro-Reason
By Jim Perkinson and S. Lily L. Mendoza


117
Evolution and Relevance of Autonomous Communities in Precolonial Igboland
By Godfrey N. Uzoigwe
139

Other Papers


Modernization and Cambodia
By Pamela Sodhy


153
Human Resources and Economic Development:The Case of Saudi Arabia
By Khalid Abdul aziz Alsahlawi and Edward P.M. Gardener


175
Azerbaijan Descending Into the Third World After a Decade of Independence
By Alec Rasizade


191
Political Transitions and Ethnic Conflict in Africa
By Eghosa E. Osaghae


221
“Motions of Support” and Ethno-Regional Politics in Cameroon
By Oben T. Mbuagbo and Robert M. Akoko


241
Book Reviews
ASIA

UDAYAKUMAR S.P., (ed.) Handcuffed to History: Narratives, Pathologies, and Violence in South Asia.
By Shubhra Deb Nag


261
MCFERSON, HAZEL M. (ed). Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines.
By Pamela Sodhy


262
STEINFATT, THOMAS M. Working at the Bar. Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand.
By Siti Kusujiarti


265
HILL, HAL and JOAO M. SALDANHA (eds). East Timor: Development Challenges to the World’s Newest Nation.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.


267
HUTNYK, JOHN. The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation.
By Steven C. Dinero


268
DICK, H.W. Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000.
By Garth N. Jones


271
HAMILTON-MERRITT, JANE. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.
By Robert Lawless


273
SILLITOE, PAUL (ed.). Indigenous Knowledge Development in Bangladesh: Present and Future.
By Dipankar Sinha


278
BRAIBANTI, RALPH. Chief Justice Cornelius of Pakistan: An Analysis with Letters and Speeches.
By A.Z. Hilali


280

AFRICA


UDOGU, E. IKE. (ed.). The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa.
By A.B. Assensoh & Y. Alex-Assensoh


282
GHAI, DHARAM (ed.). Renewing Social and Economic Progress in Africa.
By Peter Wafula Wekesa


285
FICK, DAVID S. Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Success
By Norman H. Murdoch


288
NORTHRUP, DAVID . Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850.
By Matthew M. Heaton


289
MAGYAR, KARL P. (ed.). United States Interests and Policies in Africa: Transition to a New Era.
By Norman H. Murdoch


292
BACH, DANIEL C. (ed.), Regionalisation in Africa: Integration and Disintegration.
By P. Godfrey Okoth


295
SUBERI. ROTIMI T. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria.
By E. Ike Udogu


296
ROBERTSON, CLAIRE C. Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 – 1990 .
By P. Godfrey Okoth


300
MUNENE, MACHARIA. The Politics of Transition in Kenya, 1995-1998.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
302

LATIN AMERICA


ARCENEAUX, CRAIG. Bonded Missions: Military Regimes and Democratization in the Southern Cone and Brazil.
By Laura Tedesco


305
PAYNE, LEIGH A. Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America.
By Nibaldo H. Galleguillos


307
PRILLAMAN, WILLIAM C. The Judiciary and Democratic Decay in Latin America: Declining Confidence in the Rule of Law.
By Jorge Zaverucha


310
SIMMONS, DONALD C. Confederate Settlements in British Honduras.
By William D. Pederson


312
PÉREZ, LOUIS A. JR. Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
By Michael R. Hall


314
ALLAHAR, ANTON (ed.). Caribbean Charisma; Reflections on Leadership, Legitimacy and Populist Politics.
By Mario D. Fenyo


316
HOWARD, DAVID. Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic.
By Michael R. Hall


318
UGARTECHE, OSCAR. The False Dilemma – Globalization: Opportunity or Threat?
By Patrick Cannon
321

MIDDLE EAST


BERBOROGLU, BERCH Turmoil in the Middle East: Imperialism, War and Political Instability.
By P.R. Kumaraswamy


324
OLSON, ROBERT. Turkey’s Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia 1991-2000: The Kurdish and Islamist Questions.
By A.Z. Hilali


325
CLANCY-SMITH, JULIA (ed.). North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World.
By A.J. Abraham


327
JUERGENSMEYER, MARK. Terror in the Mind of God, the Global Rise of Religious Violence.
By A.J. Abraham


328
KIMMERLING, BARUCH and JOEL S. MIGDAL. The Palestinian People, A History.
By A.J. Abraham
329

MISCELLANEOUS


DHAOUADI, MAHMOUD. Globalization of the Other Underdevelopment: Third World Cultural Identities.
By Santosh C. Saha


330
KHUSRO, A.M. The Poverty of Nations.
By A.Z. Hilali


332
DAVIS, JOYCE M. Between Jihad and Saalm: Profiles in Islam.
By A.Z. Hilali
334
ROTBERG, ROBERT I. (ed.). Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective.
By Timothy J. White


336
CROCKER, CHESTER A., FEN OSLER HAMPSON, PAMELA AALL. (eds.) Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World.
By Norman H. Murdoch


339
SANGA, JAINA C. Salman Rushdie’s Postcolonial Metaphors: Migration, Translation, Hybridity, Blasphemy, and Globalization.
By James M. Ivory


343
HANSEN, HOLGER BERNT and MICHAEL TWADDLE (eds.). Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World.
By Garth N. Jones


345
Twenty-First Annual Meeting Association of Third World Studies, Inc.
Shreveport, Louisiana
November 6-8, 2003
349
Books Available for Review
351
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 371

Volume XXI, Number 2: Fall 2004

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND
ISSUES IN THE THIRD WORLD


Foreword


7
Fatal Amnesia: American Nation-building in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq
By Marc Jason Gilbert


13
Revolutionary Attempts in Late Cold War Settings: Nicaragua in the 1980s
By Carlos M. Vilas


45
The 2003 General Elections and Democracy in Nigeria: Views from a Policy Maker
By Chief T.A. Akinyele, OON


63
Everyday Forms of Illegal Coercion: Explaining Abuse of Police Powers in Argentina
By Ruth Stanley


83
From Political Dictatorship to Authoritarian Economism: Plural Politics and Free Market Reforms in Africa
By Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o


107
The Cancun Conundrum: What Future for the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
By Robert Looney
127

Other Papers


Capsid Pests as “Cocoa Mosquitoes:” A Study in Cash Crop Infestation and Control in Ghana, 1910-1965
By Frances Danquah


147
The Dynamics of Algeria’s Oil Supply: A Changing Influence Within OPEC
By Ali Abderrezak


167

Review Article


Communist Chinese and “Asian Values” Critiques of Universal Human Rights
By Paul J. Magnarella


179
Book Reviews
ASIA

STERN, ROBERT W. Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent.
By Santosh C. Saha


195
HENDERSON, CAROL E. Culture and Customs of India.
By Narasingha P. Sil


196
PATEL, JASHU and KRISHAN KUMAR. Libraries and Librarianship in India.
By Ernest Heard


198
LAM, MARIA LAI-LING. Working with Chinese Expatriates in Business Negotia tion s: Portraits, Issues, and Applications.
By E.R. Klein


200
SARKER, SONITA and ESHA NIYOGI DE (eds.). Tran-Status Subjects. Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia.
By Siti Kusujiarti


202
HAAS, MICHAEL (ed.). The Singapore Puz¬zle.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam


204
STERN, ROBERT W. Democracy and Dicta¬torship in South Asia: Dominant Classes and Political Outcomes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam


206
STOKES, LISA ODHAM and MICHAEL HOOVER. City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema.
By Joseph Tse-Hei Lee


209

REVIEW ESSAY
CRISES IN INDONESIA

FORESTER, GEOFF (ed.). Post Soeharto Indonesia-Renewal or Chaos?; MANNING, CHRIS and PETER VAN DIERMAN (eds.). Indonesia In Transition; and ABENG, TANRI. Indonesia, Inc.
By James Biedzynski

213

AFRICA


MBAKU, JOHN MUKUM and JULIUS OMOZUANVBO IHONVBERE (eds.). The Transition to Democratic Governance in Af¬rica: The Continuing Struggle.
By E. Ike Udogu


216
MAKOBA, J. WAGONA. Government Policy and Public Enterprise Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case Studies of Tanzania and Zambia, 1964-1984.
By S.C. Saxena


220
ADEBAJO, ADEKEYE. Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.
By P. Godfrey Okoth


224
HODGSON, DOROTHY L. (ed.). Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist.
By George L. Simpson, Jr.


227
JOHNSON, DOUGLAS H. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars.
By Santosh C. Saha


229
KURIMOTO, EISEI and SIMON SIMONSE, (eds.). Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition.
By George L. Simpson, Jr.


231
TROIN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS (ed.). Maroc – Regions, Pays, Territoires (Morocco – Regions, Places, Districts)
By Roger Levy


233
DUNN, KEVIN C. and TIMOTHY M. SHAW, (eds.). Africa’s Challenge to Inter¬national Relations Theory.
By P. Godfrey Okoth


235
NDEGE, O. GEORGE. Health, State, and Society in Kenya.
By P. Godfrey Okoth


238

MIDDLE EAST


GORDON, HAIM, RIVCA GORDON and TAHER SHRITEH. Beyond Intifada: Narra¬tives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip.
By Steven C. Dinero


242
ALI, TARIQ. Bush in Babylon: The Recolo ni sa ti on of Iraq.
By Tanweer Akram


244
LEWIS, BERNARD. What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Re¬sponse.
By Havva Karakas Keles


248
SHAFIR, GERSHON and YOAV PELED. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship.
By Steven C. Dinero


251
DERSHOWITZ, ALAN. The Case for Israel.
By A.J. Abraham


253
GELVIN, JAMES L. Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire.
By A.J. Abraham


254
HUMPHREYS, R. STEPHEN. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.
By A.J. Abraham


255

LATIN AMERICA


HECHT, TOBIAS (ed.). Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society.
By Michael R. Hall


256
STARK, JEFFERY (ed.). The Challenge of Change in Latin America and the Carib¬bean.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay Thakur


258
ARMUS, DIEGO (ed.). Disease in the His¬tory of Modern Latin America: From Ma¬laria to AIDS.
By Michael R. Hall
260
LEWIS, PAUL H. Guerrillas and Generals. “The Dirty War“ in Argentina.
By Ruth Stanley


263
MOUNT, GRAEME S. Chile and the Nazis: From Hitler to Pinochet.
By Thomas M. Leonard


264

REVIEW ESSAY
BRAZIL’S FOREIGN POLICY
BEHAVIOR IN THE POST-COLD
WAR INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

DE ALMEIDA, PAULO ROBERTO. Os Prime ir os Anos do Século XXI: O Brasil e as Relações Internacionais Contemporaneas;
CLOVIS BRIGAGÃO E DOMICIO PROENÇA, JUNIOR. Brasil e o Mundo: Novas Visões; and LAFER, CELSO. A Identidade Internacional do Brasil e a Politica Externa Brasileira: Passado, Presente e Fu¬turo.
By José de Arimatéua da Cruz and
Becky Kohler da Cruz

267

MISCELLANEOUS


OLSON, KEITH W. Watergate: The Presiden¬tial Scandal That Shook America.
By Paul N. Goldstene
277
FRESTON, PAUL. Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
By Norman H. Murdoch


279
MCCOY, ALFRED W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia.
By Robert Lawless


282
DINNERSTEIN, LEONARD, ROGER L. NICHOLS and DAVID M. REIMERS. Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans.
By Enrique Morales-Díaz


284
WOOD, ALAN T. What Does It Mean to be Human?: A New Interpretation of Freedom in World History.
By Carlos Pérez


286
Announcements 289
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 290
Books Available for Review 291