Volume XXVI, Number 1: Spring 2009

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Volume XXVI, Number 1: Spring 2009

VOICES OF THE SUBALTERN: IDENTITIES, HIERACHIES AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES IN A GLOBALIZING AGE

Foreword 7
Who Will Speak for the Voiceless?
By Gary Kline
 
11
The Colonial in the Global: Where Does the Third World Fit in?
By Marnia Lazreg
 
17
Settlement Patterns and Organizations Among African Immigrants in the United States
By Joseph Takougang and Bassirou Tidjani
 
31
Reconstituting the Neo-Colonial State in Africa
By George Klay Kieh, Jr.
 
41
The Alliance for Progress: Economic Warfare in Brazil (1962-1964)
By John DeWitt
 
57
Genocidal Rhetoric and Remembrance Concentrated on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as Contextualized in The United Nations
By Jason R. Tatlock
 
77
The Betrayed: An Exploration of the Acholi Opinion of the International Criminal Court
By Christian Noll
 
99

Other Papers

The Impact of Institutional Degradation on Pastoral Livelihoods in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Borana of Ethiopia
By Daniel G. Ogbaharya
 
123
Constitutional Designs and Democratization in the Third World
By Young-Choul Kim and Sangmook Lee
 
151
Book Reviews and Review Essays
ASIA
SWAIN, ASHOK (ed.). Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast Asia.
By Garth N. Jones
 
175
KUMARASWAMY, P.R (ed.). Security Beyond Survival: Essays for K. Subrahmanyam.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam
 
178
KUKREJA, VEENA and M.P. SINGH (ed.). Pakistan: Democracy, Development and Security Issues.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam
 
180

AFRICA

BEYAN, AMOS J. African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm and the American Civilizing Efforts.
By Peter A. Dumbuya
 
183
GELLAR, SHELDON. Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa.
By Jeggan C. Senghor
 
186

MIDDLE EAST

Nashif, Taysir N. Nuclear Weapons in Israel.
By James Biedzynski
 
189
NASR, VALI. The Shia Revival.
By A.J. Abraham
 
190
KARAMUSTAFA, AHMET T. Sufism: The Formative Period.
By A. J. Abraham
 
190
LOGEVALL, FREDERIK. Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader.
By A.J. Abraham
 
191
Review Essay
IRANIAN CONTROVERSIES

JAFARZADEH, ALIREZA. The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis.NAJI, KASRA. Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader; and PARSI, TRITA. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S.
By James Biedzynski
 
193

LATIN AMERICA

MARGHERITIS, ANA (ed.). Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy.
By Aparajita Gangopadhyay
 
197
BORZUTZKY, SILVIA and LOIS HECHT OPPENHEIM (eds.). After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Democracy and the Market.
By Laura Stephens
 
199

MISCELLANEOUS

COLLIER, PAUL. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.
By Jose de Arimatéia da Cruz
 
201
CAROTHERS, THOMAS Confronting the Weakest Link. Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies.
By Laura K. Stephens
 
204
PRAMANIK, ATAUL HUQ. Political Economy of Development: A Comparative Study of Regime Performance.
By Syed Serajul Islam
 
208
THE AGA KHAN. Where Hope Takes Root: Democracy and Pluralism in an Interdependent World.
By Nizar Motani
 
210
ZANIELLO, TOM. The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films About the New Economic Order.
By Michael R. Hall
 
213
STATLER, KATHRYN C. and ANDREW L. JOHNS. The Eisenhower Administration, The Third World and The Globalization of the Cold War.
By Sonny Lee
 
214
Twenty-Sixth Annual ATWS Meeting 217
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 219
Credit 221
Books Available for Review 223

Volume XXVI, Number 2: Fall 2009

Foreword 7
From Miracle to Mirage: Rethinking Asian Exceptionalism
Vis-á-Vis the Third World
By Songok Han Thornton

 
11
A Time Series Analysis of the African Growth and Opportunity
Act: Testing the Efficacy of Transnationalism
By Abdul Karim Bangura

 
31
Istana Stands Firm: Indonesia’s Quelling Islamic Terror”
Culture Matters
By Garth N. Jones
 
51
Oil, Insecurity, and Subversive Patriots in the Niger Delta:
The Ogoni as Agent of Revolutionary Change
By John Agbonifo
 
71
Globalization and Food Policy Dilemmas in Developing
Countries: Contextualizing the Indian Scenario
By B.N. Ghosh
 
107
The Poverty of Chinese Farmers’ Rights
By Zhaohui Hong
 
121
Power and Force: Libya’s Relations with the United States
By Veronica Nmoma
 
137
Social Background Characteristics as Determinants of
Political Behavior of the Arab Political Leadership of
Palestine Under the British Mandate
By Taysir Nashif
 
161
   
Other Papers
   
The Evolution and Relevance of Autonomous Communities
in Contemporary Igboland: An Essay in Local Governance
By G.N. Uzoigwe
 
177
Ending Impunity in Africa: The Charles Taylor Trial at the
Special Court for Sierra Leone
By Daniel C. Turack
 
191
Rethinking Economic Development and the Financial Crisis
in South Korea and the State in an Era of Globalization
By Ji Young Choi
 
203
Institutional Basis of Ethno-Regional Competition for
Resources in Nigeria
By V. Adefemi Isumonah and Festus O. Egwaikhide
 
277
Child Labor Dynamics in Punjab
By Ahmed F. Siddiqi
 
255
   
Book Reviews and Review Essays
ASIA
   
KANG RICHARD C. China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia.
By Mohammed Badrul Alam
 
275
KALI PRASAD, MUKHOPADHYAY Partition, Bengal and After: The Great Tragedy of India..
By Steven C. Dinero
 
277
HEWAMANNE, SANDYA. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka.
By John Schaefer
 
279
GO, JULIAN. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning.
By James Biedzynski
 
281
SOORYAMOORTHY, R. and ANTHONY PALACKAL (eds.) Managing Water and Water Users: Experiences from Kerala..
By Steven C. Dinero
 
283
KAGAN, RICHARD C. Taiwan’s Statesman: Lee Heng-Hui and Democracy In Asia.
By James Biedzynski
 
284
MOORE, CLIVE. Happy Isles In Crisis.
By James Biedzynski
 
285
   
AFRICA
   
KIEH, GEORGE K. Beyond State Failure and Collapse: Making the State Relevant in Africa.
By Jeggan C. Senghor
 
287
JACOBS, NANCY. Environment, Power and Injustice: A South African History.
By Yoly Zentella
 
289
POSNER, DANIEL N., Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa.
By William Ehwarieme
 
291
   
REVIEW ESSAY
THE REASONS WHY ROBERT MUGABE BECAME A TYRANT
   
HOLLAND, HEIDI. Dinner With Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant and
MEREDITH, MARTIN. Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe.
By David Jervis
 
293
   
MIDDLE EAST
   
SADRI, HOUMAN A. and DMITRI V. KATSY (eds.). Trends, Prospects and Challenges of Globalization.
By Nader Entessar
 
297
KUMARASWAMY, P.R. (ed.). Caught in Crossfire: Civilians in Conflicts in the Middle East.
By Michael B. Bishku
 
298
WHITE, JENNY B. Money Makes us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey
By Brian R. Parkinson
 
300
SLYOMOVICS, SUSAN (ed.). The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib
By Yoly Zentella
 
301
PAPPE, ILAN. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
By A.J. Abraham
 
303
TRIFKOVIC, SERGE. The Sword of the Prophet.
By A.J. Abraham
 
304
   
REVIEW ESSAY
JESUS WAS NOT JUST A GOOD MAN
   
LEVINE, AMY-JILL. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; KLINGHOFFER, DAVID. Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, and CHOPRA, DEEPAK. The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore.
By A.J. Abraham
 
307
   
LATIN AMERICA
   
TULCHIN, JOSEPH S. and MEG RUTHENBERG, (eds.). Toward a Society Under Law: Citizens and their Police in Latin America.
By Michael R. Hall
 
311
HENCK, NICK. Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask
By Michael R. Hall
 
312
STEPHEN, LYNN. Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca.
By Michael R. Hall
 
314
   
REVIEW ESSAY
MEXICO’S WARS
   
HENDERSON, TIMOTHY J. A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and its War With the United States; and HENDERSON, TIMOTHY J. The Mexican Wars for Independence.
By James Biedzynski
 
317
   
MISCELLANEOUS
   
CHATTERJEE, PARTHA. The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World.
By Santosh C. Saha
 
321
PRABHU, ANJALI. Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects.
By Santosh C. Saha
 
323
CURTAIN, DEANE. Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World.
By Laura Stephens
 
327
MCCARTHY, JULIE. Enacting Participatory Development: Theatre-Based Techniques.
By Kendle Wade
 
329
   
REVIEW ESSAY
DO WOMEN’S VOICES MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
   
BRAIG, MARIANNE and SONIA WOLTE. Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women’s Movements and International Relations; and O’NEILL, MAURA. Mending a Torn World: Women in Interreligious Dialogue.
By Janet M. Powers
333
   
REVIEW ESSAY
OILWEALTH: MORE A CURSE THAN A BLESSING
   
ALNASRAW, ABBAS. Iraq’s Burden: Oil Sanctions and Underdevelopment; and AMUZEGAR, JAHANGIR . Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC’s Windfalls and Pitfalls.
By James Biedzynski
 
337
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 339
Books Available for Review 341