Harold Isaacs, Editor
Volume XXIV, Number 1: Spring 2007
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TRANSNATIONAL CHALLENGES: ENVIRONMENT, INTEGRATION, AND SECURITY IN THE
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| Foreword
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| Death Squads as Parallel Forces: Uruguay, Operation Condor, and the United States By J. Patrice McSherry |
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| The Impact of the U.S. Peace Corps at Home and Abroad By Michael R. Hall |
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| Understanding and Fighting Corruption in Sierra Leone: A Metaphorical Linguistic Approach By Abdul Karim Bangura |
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| Reining in the Military: Re-Democratization in Suriname By Chaitram Singh |
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| The Mystery of André Louis Marty By Cecil B. Currey |
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| The US-Saudi Relationship and the Iraq War: The Dialectics of a Dependent Alliance By Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche and Yahia H. Zoubir |
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Other Papers
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| Government Size, Political Freedom and Economic Growth in Nigeria, 1960-2000 By James S. Guseh and Emmanuel Oritsejafor |
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| The Failure of the Modern Aesop in Anglophone Cameroonian Drama: The Example of Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh’s The Inheritance By Bate Besong |
169 |
| Low Grades for Petro-States in the Former Soviet Union By Maureen S. Crandall |
189 |
| Cross-Cultural Environmental Lessons: An Indigenous Case-Study By Selva J. Raj and Bindu Madhok |
211 |
| Egypt and the War on Iraq: Implications for Domestic Politics By Abdennour Benantar |
227 |
| Political Economy of Political Power of the Islamic Regime in Iran By Siavash Abghari |
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| Book Reviews | |
| ASIA
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| SERAJUDDIN, ALAMGIR MUHAMMAD. Shari`a Law and Society: Tradition and Change in South Asia. By Syed Serajul Islam |
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| GOOPTU, NANDINI. The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India. By Steven C. Dinero |
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| HILLEY, JOHN. Malaysia: Mahathirism, Hegemony and the New Opposition. By James Biedzynski |
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| JAYASURIYA, TAKSIRI. The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004, By Mohammed Badrul Alam |
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AFRICA
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FONGE, FUABEH P., Modernization Without Development in Africa: Patterns of Change and Continuity in Post-Independence Cameroonian Public Service.
By Ngozi Caleb Kamalu |
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| IRELE, ABIOLA F. and SIMON GIKANDI (eds). The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. By Emilia Ilieva |
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MIDDLE EAST
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| SARTE, MAURICE. The Middle East Under Rome. By James Biedzynski |
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| FALK, AVNER. Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. By Muhammad M. Haque |
285 |
| DOR, DANIEL. Intifada Hits The Headlines. By Ishtiaq Hossain |
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| QUIGLEY, JOHN. The Case for Palestine: An International Perspective. By A.J. Abraham |
291 |
| DAVIDSON, CHRISTOPHER M.. The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival. By Calvin H. Allen, Jr. |
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| PERTHES, VOLKER (ed.). Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change. By A.J. Abraham |
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LATIN AMERICA
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| ROBINSON, WILLIAM I. Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization. By Michael R. Hall |
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| ERLICK, JUNE CAROLYN. Disappeared, A Journalist Silenced; The Irma Flaquer Story. By Joan Kruckewitt |
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| KURTZ, MARCUS J. Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside. By Lazarus F. O’Sako |
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| PALACIOS, MARCO. Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002. By Michael R. Hall |
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| DIAZ, ARLENE J. Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904. By Charlene T. Overturf |
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| PÉREZ, LOUIS A, JR. To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. By Michael R. Hall |
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| HART, ARMANDO. Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-1958, A Participant’s Account. By Charlene T. Overturf |
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| TAUSSIG, MICHAEL. My Cocaine Museum. By Derek A. Bentley |
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MISCELLANEOUS
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| SAHA, SANTOSH C. (ed.), Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict. By E. Ike Udogu |
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| OXHORN, PHILIP, JOSEPH S. TULCHIN and ANDREW D. SELEE (eds.). Decentralization, Democratic Governance. and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective – Africa. Asia. and Latin America. By Garth N. Jones |
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| ANDREWS, WALTER G. and MEHMET KALPAKH. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. By James Biedzynski |
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| BAER, EVA. The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Inheritances and Islamic Transformations. By Alfons H. Teipen |
322 |
| GOMEZ, MICHAEL A. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. By La Vonne Jackson Leslie |
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| ALAKESON, V., T. ALDRICH, J. GOODMAN, B. JORGENSEN. Making The Net Work: Sustainable Development in a Digital Society. By Shaun Ruggunan |
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| Twenty-Fourth Annual ATWS Meeting | 329 |
| Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts | 321 |
| Books Available for Review | 333 |
Volume XXIV, Number 2: Fall 2007
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HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
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| Foreword
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| Policy Advice During a Crisis By Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Germano Mwabu |
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| Fourth Generation Conflict? Local Social Formations and Insurgences in Post-Ba’ath Iraq By Jason E. Strakes |
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| Small Island States in Crisis: The Economic Impact of Lifestyle Diseases in the South Pacific By Philip Szmedra and K.L. Sharma |
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| Israel’s Lebanon War: Ariel Sharon and ‘Operation Peace for Galilee’ By Brian R. Parkinson |
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| Human Resource Development (HRD) Theory and Thailand’s Sufficiency Economy Concept and Its “OTOP” Program By Robert L. Curry, Jr., and Kanchana Sura |
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| Social Democratization and Development Strategy: An Alternative to Neoliberalization in Latin America? By Menno Vellinga |
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| Political Islam: Untangling the Conceptual Muddle By Rolin G. Mainuddin |
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Other Papers
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| The Antinomies of Samuel P. Huntington: Some Anthropological Reflections on the American Pundit By Fethi Keles |
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| Tensions Created by the Formal and Informal Use of Urban Space: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya By Kimuthia Macharia |
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| “One Country, Two Systems:” China’s Economic Policies Towards State & Township/Village-Owned Enterprises, 1978-1992 By Xun Wang |
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| India and the Central Eurasian Space By Leonard Stone |
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| Book Reviews | |
| ASIA
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| PAUL, T.V. (ed.). The India-Pakistan Conflict. By Garth N. Jones |
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| PEEBLES, PATRICK. The History of Sri Lanka. By A.R.M. Imtiyza |
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| SMITH, HAROLD E., GAYLA S. NIEMINEN, and MAY KYI WIN. Historical Dictionary of Thailand. By Michael J. Montesano |
202 |
| NATHAN, K.S., and MUHAMMAD HASHIUM KAMALI (eds.). Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century. By Ishtiaq Hossain |
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AFRICA
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JACKSON, MICHAEL. In Sierra Leone
By Peter A. Dumbuya |
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MIDDLE EAST
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| ROSEN, NIR. In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq By Jason E. Strakes |
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| SADIKI, LARBI. The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses By George L. Simpson, Jr. |
215 |
| AHMED, MOHAMMED M.A. and MICHAEL M. GUNTER (eds.). The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraqi War By Michael B. Bishku |
216 |
| BASS, WARREN. Support Any Friend:, Kennedy’s Middle East and The Making of the U.S. – Israeli Alliance By A.J. Abraham |
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| PETERS, F.E. The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition By A.J. Abraham |
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| FAWCETT, LOUISE (ed.). International Relations of the Middle East By A.J. Abraham |
220 |
| AGHAIE, KAMRAN SCOT. The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi‘i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran By Babak Rahimi |
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| REVIEW ESSAY LEBANON, THE CRUCIBLE KAUFMAN, ASHER. Reviving Phoenicia, The Search for Identity in Lebanon; ATTIE, CAROLINE. Struggle in the Levant: Lebanon in the 1950s; GRAFTON, DAVID D. The Christians of Lebanon, Political Rights and Islamic Law; SHANAHAN, RODGER. The Shi’a of Lebanon, Clans, Parties, and Clerics; HARRIS, WILLIAM. The New Face of Lebanon, History’s Revenge; and BLANFORD, NICHOLAS. Killing Mr Lebanon, The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its Impact on the Middle East By A.J. Abraham |
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LATIN AMERICA
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| BROCKETT, CHARLES D. Political Movements and Violence in Central America By Hector Perla Jr. |
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| CHÁVEZ, LYDIA, (ed.). Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century By Jane M. Rausch |
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| PÉREZ, LOUIS A Jr. Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution By Michael R. Hall |
233 |
| WILKINSON, DANIEL. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala By Michael R. Hall |
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| HUFBAUER, GARY CLYDE and JEFFREY J. SCHOTT, NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges By Timothy J. White |
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| HELMKE, GRETCHEN. Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina By Michael R. Hall |
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| REVIEW ESSAY STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA GRANDIN, GREG. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America and the Cold War; and LADUTKE, LAWRENCE MICHAEL. Freedom of Expression in El Salvador: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy By William D. Stanley |
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MISCELLANEOUS
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| BANGURA, ABDUL KARIM (ed). Islamic Peace Paradigms By Muhammad M. Haque |
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| SAHA, SANTOSH C. (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues By Garth N. Jones |
249 |
| CONOVER, SARAH and FREDA CRANE, (eds.). Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents By Alfons H. Teipen |
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| ROBINSON, WILLIAM I. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World By Matthew L. Perry |
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| DAVID, WILFRED. The Humanitarian Development Paradigm: Search for Global Justice By Lansana Keita |
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| Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts | 261 |
| Books Available for Review | 263 |
