Recently added articles from Journal of Third World Studies:
THE ISSUE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE THIRD WORLD: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Apr 01, 2008; Udogu, E Ike ... INTRODUCTION The issue of political leadership and the desire to produce men and women who command national legitimacy has been tough in all polities-and this dilemma is probably more critical in the developing nations.' Indeed, the assumption is that a good leader possesses some ...
"CIVILIZATION" ON TRIAL: THE COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STATE IN AFRICA
Apr 01, 2008; Muiu, Mueni wa ... INTRODUCTION In this article I will analyze modern African states' development from the onset of colonialism to the present to understand why these states' attempts at implementing policies that improve the dire conditions that face the majority of their populations (lack of health ...
THE SOCIAL WORTH OF PHARMACEUTICALS
Apr 01, 2008; Djolov, George G ... INTRODUCTION In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Spear1 observed that: "Medical miracles - improvements in fertility treatment, cancer cures, cardiac care, and AIDS management among them - are becoming so commonplace that we take them for granted." If developments from ...
THE BRAZILIAN TREATMENT MODEL: A NEW COURSE FOR GLOBAL AIDS POLICY
Apr 01, 2008; Rey, P J ... A NEW APPROACH Brazil has adopted a radical approach toward combating its AIDS epidemic in the last decade. Not only has it taken a number of preventative measures, but it has adopted the philosophy that a struggle against the disease must also be a fight to save its victims for as long ...
THE POLITICIZATION OF ETHNIC SENTIMENTS IN THE SUDAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATION-BUILDING
Apr 01, 2008; A-Salam, Elfatih A ... INTRODUCTION It is hard to conceive of a more timely or more relevant study than the one we offer the reader in the following few pages. Our subject is one for which the reader can find illustrations from each day's newspapers and political discussions. We hope that this analysis will ...
FOREWORD
Apr 01, 2008; Isaacs, Harold ... 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 ...
MWALIMU TOYIN FALOLA: THE MAN AND HIS WORK
Apr 01, 2008; Bangura, Abdul Karim ... INTRODUCTION Upon his nomination for the presidency of the African Studies Association (ASA) in April of 2004, the following is part of what Mwalimu Toyin Falola wrote about himself in his Statement of Candidacy: I have a strong record of working wim others on boards of journals, ...
RETHINKING DEPENDENCY THEORY: THE CASE OF DOMINICA, THE RASCAL STATE
Apr 01, 2008; Hubbell, Larry ... INTRODUCTION Over the past decade, the debate over dependency theory has been eclipsed by the controversy over globalization. Despite the fading dialogue on dependency theory, academics continue to critique it. Ricardo Duchesne notes that "the export of capitalism does not block ...
THE 2006 MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT OR DEMOCRATIC DEBACLE?
Apr 01, 2008; Sabia, Debra; Kohler, Vincent ... INTRODUCTION Five days after Mexico's July 2nd presidential election, in the midst of growing public anxiety over an election in which preliminary results had been much too narrow to call, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) declared Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party (PAN) ...
The Culture of the Chinese Minority in Indonesia/Peranakan Chinese Politics in Java 1917-1942
Apr 01, 2008; Biedzynski, James ... Suryadinata, Leo. The Culture of the Chinese Minority in Indonesia. Singapore; Marshall Cavendish International, 2004. 258 pp. Suryadinata, Leo. Peranakan Chinese Politics in Java 1917-1942. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2006. 188 pp. The Chinese have long ...
DANIEL LERNER, COLD WAR PROPAGANDA AND US DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: AN HISTORICAL CRITIQUE
Apr 01, 2008; Bah, Umaru ... INTRODUCTION In scholarly works celebrating the genesis and growth of U.S. communication research, the two most notable being that of Rogers1and Everette & Wartella,2 readers would commonly find considerable pages dedicated to the lives and works of pioneering researchers such as ...
GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: FROM PRINCIPLES TO REALITIES
Apr 01, 2008; Okogbule, Nlerum S ... INTRODUCTION According to Tsele,1 A significant feature of globalization is the erosion of the power of the nation state. Whereas the state used to be a strong socio-political institution, it has now been weakened and incapacitated from fulfilling its traditional mandate for ...
TRANSITIVITY AS A TOOL FOR IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Apr 01, 2008; Matu, Peter M ... INTRODUCTION This article examines the application of transitivity, from the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), as a theoretical tool in the analysis of ideology in the print media. The data under study comprises extracts from the reportage of the run-up to the 1997 general elections in ...
Culture and Customs of Pakistan
Apr 01, 2008; Jain, B M ... Malik, Iftikhar H. Culture and Customs of Pakistan. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2006.220 pp. South Asia is a cradle of human civilization and a mosaic of diverse cultures, religions and ethnicities. The Indus Valley civilization forms bedrock of the subcontinental ...
Historical Dictionary of Mozambique
Apr 01, 2008; Biedzynski, James ... Azevedo, Mario, Emmanuel Nnadozie and Tome Mbuia Joao (eds.). Historical Dictionary of Mozambique (second Edition). Lanham, Scarecrow Press, 2003. 302 pp. Mozambique is an important if somewhat unknown country in southern Africa. It has had a long, violent and painful history. Mozambique ...
Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan
Apr 01, 2008; Lee, Sonny ... Idris, Amir H. Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 143 pp. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) established a framework for the National Congress Party-dominated Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement ...
Black Peril White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia
Apr 01, 2008; Zentella, Yoly ... McCulloch, Jock. Black Peril White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000. 272 pp. Our present day concerns with globalization and its indifferences to the cultural and language system it impinges on and eventually destroys can be ...
REPRESENTATION PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY
Apr 01, 2008; Cosar, Simten; Özman, Aylin ... CHP will welcome anyone who is determined to preserve and to work for the consolidation of the basic values of Turkey, be her/him espouse center-right and even conservative identity1 INTRODUCTION Recently Turkish political agenda is occupied by the debates on the possibility ...
ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN A LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY: THE CASE OF BANGLADESH
Apr 01, 2008; Shamim, Choudhury ... INTRODUCTION Since the end of the Cold War, there has been renewed interest in what is now called 'non-traditional' security issues. As late as 1985, the old cold warrior George Kennan wrote in Foreign Affairs, identifying the threat to the world environment as one of the two supreme ...
ASEAN-China Economic Relations
Apr 01, 2008; Curry, Robert L Jr ... Saw, Swee Hock (ed.). ASEAN-China Economic Relations. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007. 375 pp. The book was produced under the auspices of the ASEAN-China Study Program that was launched in 2002 by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in collaboration ...