Recently added articles from Journal of Third World Studies:
THE CIA AND JACOBO ARBENZ: HISTORY OF A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The covert operation by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to forcibly oust Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954 has been almost completely documented now, thanks to the near-total declassification of the operation's records. It is now clear that this event ...
ECOWAS MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SIERRA LEONE: ANGLOPHONE-FRANCOPHONE BIPOLARITY OR MULTIPOLARITY?
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION On May 25, 1997, a military junta led by Major Johnny Paul Koroma overthrew President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's one-year old government of national unity. The 33-year old major had been held at the Pademba Road Prison pending trial for his alleged involvement in the September ...
FOREWORD
Oct 01, 2008; ... In order to provide an international structure for the humane and scientific study of Third World peoples, problems and issues, with the ultimate goal of improving quality of life, Dr. Harold Isaacs, Professor Emeritus of History at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, GA, founded ...
COLONIAL BACKGROUND TO THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION OF AFRICANS: THE CASE OF THE BAMILÉKÉ OF THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS, 1920-1950
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The area referred to as the Grassfields1 in Cameroon lies astride the former Anglo-French border in colonial Cameroon. It is home to a multitude of ethnic groups, many of whom share common cultural and linguistic characteristics. The Bamiléké, one of these ethnic entities, ...
CONSENSUS BUILDING, DIALOGUE AND SPIRITUALITY PRINCIPLES OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION PARADIGM: IMPLICATIONS FOR KENYA'S PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM AGENDA
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION "Kenya's public service is today faced with tremendous challenges including uncertain economy, political changes, globalized markets, privatization and outsourcing of services, mergers, takeovers, rapidly advancing technology, and uncertain change. Change is not new to ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA-U.S. RELATIONS
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The emergence of Nigeria as an independent country in 1960 and its admission into the United Nations Organization (UN) signaled the beginning of the development of foreign policy positions on key issues of international significance. Nigeria-U.S. relations began within the ...
ON IBN KHALDUN'S CRITIQUE OF THE MARKET ECONOMY WITH SOME LESSONS TO THE ARAB WORLD
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The economics of the free market was actually developed by the Arab historian Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami who was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in Cairo, Egypt in 1406. Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah (the Prolegomena or An Introduction to History), a ...
ETHNO-POLITICAL CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION "Why?" That was the key question shared by many Western observers when they were astonished by the wave of Tamil Tiger suicide bombing in the 1980's and 1990's that ripped through Sri Lanka, a state of approximately 20 million people that previously considered a model of ...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT IN SELECTED MENA COUNTRIES AND TURKEY
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Despite strong global economic growth in 2006, the global unemployment rate remained unchanged from the previous year at 6.3 percent. According to the International Labour Organization, in 2006, there were more people in work than the year before, but at the same time there ...
RESTORING HARMONY TO GUJARAT: PEACE BUILDING AFTER THE 2002 RIOTS
Oct 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION In January 1948, shortly after India gained its Independence from Great Britain, the world was shocked by the assassination of one of the world's great peace builders, Mahatma Gandhi. His assassin, Nathuram Godse, a Brahmin member of the Hindu Mahasabha (founded 1915), ...
Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia
Oct 01, 2008; ... Kingsbury, Damien (ed.). Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia. clayton, Australia: Monash University Press and Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, 2005, 325 pp. Violence throughout archipelagic southeast Asia is ancient, persistent and ...
Islam After Communism, Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Oct 01, 2008; ... Khalid, Adeeb.Islam After Communism, Religion and Politics in Central Asia. CA: University of California Press, 2007. 241 pp. Central Asia, a long forgotten area of interest in U.S. foreign policy, has recently been rediscovered as a consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union and ...
One Malay Village: A Thirty Year Community Study
Oct 01, 2008; ... Yoshihiro, Tsubouchi. One Malay Village: A Thirty Year Community Study. (Translated by Peter Hawkes) Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2001. 297 pp. Rural life has long been important in Southeast Asian societies, but in recent times many rural folk have moved to large urban areas. Rustic ...
The Archaeology of Southern Africa
Oct 01, 2008; ... Mitchell, Peter. The Archaeology of Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 515 pp. Africa is regarded by many as the cradle of the human race. Archaeological research on the continent has been spectacular at times, but uneven. Difficult political conditions and ...
VIETNAM? THE WRITINGS CONTINUE
Oct 01, 2008; ... VIETNAM? THE WRITINGS CONTINUE Harris, Ronald. The War Within the War. San Jose, California: Writer's Club Press, 2000. Gillam, James T. War in the Central Highlands, 1968-1970: An Historian's Experience. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Rambo, A. Terry ....
The Role of National Human Rights Institutions at the International and Regional Levels: The Experience of Africa
Oct 01, 2008; ... Murray, Rachel. The Role of National Human Rights Institutions at the International and Regional Levels: The Experience of Africa. Oxford, U.K. & Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2007. 137pp. A National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) is a body, either established by a government ...
THE VIOLENCE PLAGUING SOUTHERN THAILAND
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE VIOLENCE PLAGUING SOUTHERN THAILAND Aphornsuvan, Thanet. Rebellion in Southern Thailand: Contending Histories. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center and Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007. 90 pp. Sidel, Joel. The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment ....
South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Hentz, James. South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005, 276 pp. This book examines the policy debate and policy action on the role played by post-apartheid South Africa (SA) in economic cooperation and integration in the southern ...
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Wars
Oct 01, 2008; ... Overdale, Ritchie. The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Wars. London: Pearson/Longman, Fourth Edition, 2004. 375 pp. This fourth edition of Ritchie Ovendale's original classic account of the Arab-Israeli wars maintains the absolute excellence of the original study. And, it adds several new ...
Unspeakable Love, Gay and Lesbian Life in The Middle East
Oct 01, 2008; ... Whitaker, Brian. Unspeakable Love, Gay and Lesbian Life in The Middle East. CA: University of California Press, 2006. 264 pp. Brian Whitaker, the Middle East Editor of The Guardian, has written a provocative, compelling, book on the taboo subject of homosexuality in Arab counties. This ...