Volume XXII, Number 1: Spring 2005

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Harold Isaacs, Editor

Volume XXII, Number 1: Spring 2005

EXPLORING CONFLICTS AND CONFLICT
RESOLUTION IN THE CONTEMPORARY
THIRD WORLD


Foreword


7
Third World Studies and Our Responsibilities as Researchers – 2004 Presidential Address
­By A.B. Assensoh
 
13
Lessons From History on The Limits of Imperialism: Successful Small State Resistance to Great Power Aggression
­By Rodney D. Anderson
 
21
Globalization and the Development of Underdevelopment of the Third World
­By Kema Irogbe
 
41
The West, Natural Resources and Population Control Policies in Africa in Historical Perspective
­By Guy Martin
 
69
Postcolonial Angst and the Nigerian Scholarly Estate
­By Peyi Soyinka-Airewele
 
109
Regional Geographic Influence on Two Khmer Polities
­By Chad Raymond
 
135
Encounters of Insurgent Youth Associations with the State in the Oil Rich Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
­By Augustine Ikelegbe
 
151

Other Papers


Promoting French-English Individual Bilingualism Through Education in Cameroon
­By Jean-Paul Kouega
 
185
Fire: A Subaltern Existence?
­By Rujuta Chincholkar-Mandelia
 
197
“In Darkest Africa”: Martyrdom &. Resistance To Colonialism in Rhodesia
­By Norman H. Murdoch
 
211
Book Reviews
ASIA


BOLT, PAUL J. China and Southeast Asia’s Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia.
By Steven F. Jackson
 
235
SPONSEL, LESLIE E. (ed.). Endangered Peoples of Southeast & East Asia: Struggles to Survive and Thrive.
By Howard Giskin
 
237
FEFFER, JOHN. North Korea South Korea: US Policy at a Time of Crisis.
By Tanweer Akram
 
238
LUONG, HY V. (ed.) Postwar Vietnam: Dynamics of a Transforming Society.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
 
240
LU, XING; JIA, WENSHAN; HEISEY, D. RAY. (eds). Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons.
By Jessica Stowell
 
242
LAVA, JESUS B. Memoirs of a Communist.
By Robert Lawless
 
244
REVIEW ESSAY
CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTH KOREA
LEE, HY-SANG. North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress; FLAKE, L. GORDON and SCOTT SNYDER (eds.). Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea; and CHA, VICTOR D. and DAVID C. KANG. Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies.
By Stephen Uhalley, Jr.
 
247
REVIEW ESSAY
THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS – REGIONAL CAPITULATION OR RE-DIRECTION?
MCKEE, DAVID L., GARNER, DON E., and MCKEE, YOSRA ABUAMARA. Crisis, Recovery, and the Role of Accounting Firms in the Pacific Basin; RICHTER, FRANK-JÜRGEN. Redesigning Asian Business; and RICHTER, FRANK-JÜRGEN (ed.). The Asian Economic Catharsis: How Asian Firms Bounce Back from Crisis.
By Sharon L. Bush
 
253

AFRICA


CALLAGHY, THOMAS, RONALD KASSIMIR and ROBERT LATHAM (eds.). Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa. Global-Local Networks of Power.
By Patrick Cannon
 
261
MATUSEVICH, MAXIM. No Easy Row for a Russian to Hoe: Ideology and Pragmatism in Nigerian-Soviet Relations, 1960-1991.
By Elizabeth Day
 
263
Kruss, Glenda and Andre Kraak (eds.) A Contested Good? Understanding Private Higher Education in South Africa.
By Ishmael I. Munene
 
266
Besteman, Catherine. Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
 
269
REVIEW ESSAY
THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE REVISITED


Diene, Doudou (ed.) From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited; and Northrup, David (ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade.
By Andrew F. Clark
 

273

MIDDLE EAST


KURAN, TIMUR. Islam & Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism.
By Calvin H. Allen, Jr
 
285
OLSON, ROBERT. Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979-2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics.
By Rolin Mainuddin
 
287
MITCHELL, TIMOTHY. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity.
By A.J. Abraham
 
289
RON, JAMES. Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel.
By A.J. Abraham
 
290
REGEV, MOTTI and EDWIN SEROUSSI. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel.
By MJ Sunny Zank
 
290
REVIEW ESSAY
ORIENTALISM, OCCIDENTALISM, AND AMERICAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
BURUMA, IAN and AVISHAI MARGALIT. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies; LITTLE, DOUGLAS. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945; SAID, EDWARD W. Orientalism.
By David T. Jervis
 
293

LATIN AMERICA


PION-BERLIN, DAVID (ed.). Civil-Military Relations in Latin America. New Analytical Perspectives.
By João R. Martins-Filho
 
299
MANZETTI, LUIGI (ed.). Regulatory Policy in Latin America: Post Privatization Realities.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay
 
301
LEWIS, LINDEN (ed.). The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean
By Maria McGarrity
 
304
WHITNEY, ROBERT.. State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940.
By Michael R. Hall
 
306
KINGSTONE, PETER R. and TIMOTHY J. POWER, (eds.). Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions and Processes.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay
 
309
RIVAS, DARLENE. Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela.
By Lazarus F. O’Sako
 
311
BEATTY, EDWARD. Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911.
By Michael R. Hall
 
314
FRIEDMAN, MAX PAUL. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II.
By Thomas M. Leonard
 
316
REVIEW ESSAY
UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN GUATEMALA
SANFORD, VICTORIA. Buried Secrets, Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala; MAY, RACHEL. Terror in the Countryside: Campesino Responses to Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954-1985; and MCCLEARY, RACHEL M. Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution.
By Edelberto Torres-Rivas
 
319

MISCELLANEOUS


NEIDER, BEN ROSS and BLANCA HEREDIA (eds.) Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries.
By Garth N. Jones
 
324
CAIRNS, ED and MICHEAL D. ROE (eds.) The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict.
By Carl McMahan and E. Ike Udogu
 
330
Twenty-Second Annual Meeting,
Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Macon, Georgia
October 7-9, 2004
335
Books Available for Review 337
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 359

Volume XXII, Number 2: Fall 2005

AFRICAN PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN HISTORICAL
AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE


Foreword


7
Ubuntugogy: An African Educational Paradigm that Transcends Pedagogy, Andragogy, Ergonagy and Heutagogy
­By Adbul Karim Bangura
 
13
Challenges in Developing and Testing HIV/AIDS Vaccines in Africa
-By Jonas E. Okeagu, Adegoke O. Ademiluyi, Joseph C. Okeagu, Chinyere I. Okeagu and Chinwe N. Onuoha
 
55
Still Relevant: Claude Ake’s Challenge to Mainstream Discourse on African Politics and Development
­By Kelly Harris
 
73
Westernism, Americanism, Unipolarism, Globalism and Africa’s Marginality
­By John Olushola Magbadelo
 
89
The United Nations, Decolonization, and Self-Determination in Cold War Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-1994
-By Christopher O’Sullivan
 
103
Democracy and Economic Growth in Africa: The Cases of Ghana and South Africa
­By James S. Guseh and Emmanuel Oritsejafor
 
121

Other Papers


Views from Turkey: Reasons for the United States War Against Iraq
­By Robert Olson
 
141
Torture 101: Lessons from the Brazilian Case
­By Martha K. Huggins
 
161
Development Authorities as Agents of Socio-Economic Change: An Historical Assessment of the Upper Nun Valley Development Authority in the Ndop Region of Cameroon, 1970-1995
-By Canute A. Ngwa
 
175
Linchpin for Democracy: The Critical Role of Civil Society in Iraq
-By Victoria Stanski
 
197
The Domain of Authority and Sphere of Influence of Wildlife Conservation and Management Policy in Kenya
­By Edmond Maloba Were
 
227
Book Reviews
ASIA


AHMAD, ABU TALIB, and TAN LIOK EE, (eds.) New Terrains in Southeast Asian History.
By Robert Lawless
 
251
ISLAM, SYED SERAJUL. The Politics of Islamic Identity in Southeast Asia.
By Fahimul Quadir
 
252
ADAMEC, LUDWIG W. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan
By Jeffrey Key
 
254
SEARBROOK, JEREMY. Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today.
By Santosh C. Saha
 
256
ROBERTS, DAVID W. Political Transition in Cambodia, 1991-1999: Power, Elitism and Democracy
By M. Bazlul Karim
 
259

AFRICA


ASOUZU, AMAZU A. International Commercial Arbitration and African States: Practice, Participation and Institutional Development.
By M. Bazlul Karim
 
261
MUGWANYA, GEORGE WILLIAM. Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System.
By Daniel C. Turack
 
263
ABRAHAMSEN, RITA. Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa.
By Frank Khachina Matanga
 
266
BAHEMUKA, JUDITH M. and JOSEPH L. BROCKINGDON, (eds,). East Africa in Transition: Images, Institutions and Identities.
By P. Godfrey Okoth
 
268
GLASER, CLIVE. Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976.
By John David Leaver
 
270

MIDDLE EAST


WASSERSTEIN, BERNARD. Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?
By Daniel Skidmore-Hess
 
273
WIESELTIER, MEIR. The Flower of Anarchy: Selected Poems.
By David Mesher
 
275
PETERS, F.E. Isalm, a Guide for Jews and Christians.
By A.J. Abraham
 
277
EL-SOLH, RAGHID. Lebanon and Arabism: National Identity and State Formation.
By A.J. Abraham
 
278
REVIEW ESSAYTHE IMPORTANCE OF LEBANON
FIRRO, KASIS M. Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate; O’BALLANCE, EDGAR. Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92; SALEM, ELIE A. Violence & Diplomacy in Lebanon; and PICARD, ELIZABETH. Lebanon: a Shattered Country.
By A. J. Abraham
 
280

LATIN AMERICA


WEYLAND, KURT (ed.). Learning from Foreign Policy Models in Latin American Policy Reform.
By Anil Hira
 
283
SERBIN, KENNETH S. Secret Dialogues: Church State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil.
By Jorge Zaverucha
 
285
ARCE, LUZ, trans. Stacey Alba D. Skar. The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile.
By J. Patrice McSherry
 
287
PAYNE, ANTHONY and PAUL SUTTON (eds.). Charting Caribbean Development.
By Francois Pierre-Louis
 
289
THOUMI, FRANCISCO E. Illegal Drugs, Economy and Society in the Andes.
By Menno Vellinga
 
291
REVIEW ESSAYTHE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC HITS LATIN AMERICA
ABREU, ANABELA GARCIA, ISABEL NOGUER, and KAREN COWGILL. HIV/AIDS in Latin American Countries: The Challenges Ahead; and BASTOS, CRISTINA. Global Responses to AIDS: Science and Technology.
By José de Arimatéia da Cruz
 
294

MISCELLANEOUS


RUTHVEN, MALISE and AZIM NANJI. Historical Atlas of Islam.
By James Biedzynski
 
300
REUSSE, EBERHARD. The Ills of Aids: An Analysis of Third World Development Policies
By Victor C. Ortloff and Saundra Casey
 
301
BERRÍOS, RUBÉN. Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Contractors in U.S. Foreign Development Assistance.
By Michael R. Hall
 
303
AXTELL, JAMES . Natives and New-comers: The Cultural Origins of North America.
By Zoly Zentella
 
305
Books Available for Review 311
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 332