Published: 2017-01-12
Articles
Tributes to the Late Harold Isaacs, ATWS Founder and JTWS Editor: Reflections on His Life and Legacy
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AbstractThe following thirteen papers were delivered on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of ATWS in Quito, Ecuador. Each...
African Social Research Forum Tributes to Mwalimu Harold Isaacs: A Metaphorical Linguistic Analysis
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AbstractTributes, which can be generally defined as sayings made to venerate or show regard and reverence for a person as clear indications of the...
Additional Tributes To Our Late Founder and Editor from Colleagues, Friends, and Admirers
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AbstractFrom Prosperity for All (PFA) to Prosperity for Few (PFF): Political SACCOS and Their Impact on Rural Development in Uganda
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AbstractPrior to 2007, Uganda pursued a centralized strategy for economic growth and poverty reduction that placed greater emphasis on agricultural...
Frankenstein in Colombia: America's Policy Missteps and the Paramilitaries
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AbstractFor the past several decades, the United States has spent billions of dollars in Colombia, heavily engaged in the so-called “War on Drugs.” Yet...
Mining and Land Acquisition: An Analysis of Mineral Rich Tribal Regions in Odisha
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AbstractMinerals constitute the backbone of economic growth in India, a country generously endowed with these natural resources. Unfortunately, to a...
The Practice of Lobola in Contemporary South African Society
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AbstractIn some African countries, for example, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Lesotho,...
Political Openness in Post Authoritarian Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Domestic and External Pressure to Conformity
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AbstractMore than two decades after the third wave of global democratization broke on Africa’s shores starting in 1985,1 there is ample evidence that...
Profit and Profit Making Among Onitsha Market Traders
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AbstractAs Frantz Fanon observed in 1961 regarding African nations, “scandals are numerous, ministers grow rich, their wives doll themselves up; the...
Book Reviews
The Post-Colonial State and Civil War in Sudan: The Origins of Conflict in Darfur by Noah R. Bassil
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AbstractBassil, Noah R. The Post-Colonial State and Civil War in Sudan: The Origins of Conflict in Darfur. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. Reviewed...
Africa in World Politics: Engaging a Changing Global Order edited by John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild
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AbstractHarbeson, John W. and Donald Rothchild, eds. Africa in World Politics: Engaging a Changing Global Order. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,...
Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry by M. M. Heaton
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AbstractSouth Africa's Gold Mines & the Politics of Silicosis by Jock McColloch
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AbstractRegional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa edited by Kidane Mengisteab and Redie Bereketeab
251–253
AbstractChristian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe: The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891–1991 by Norman H. Murdock
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AbstractAfrican Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice by Garth Andrew Myers
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AbstractParadoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone edited by Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid
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AbstractReforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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AbstractHistorical Dictionary of Ghana by David Owusu-Ansah
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AbstractExamining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa by E. Ike Udogu
265–266
AbstractThe Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia: From Indifference to Interdependence by Christopher Davidson
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AbstractSoutheast Asia in the New York International Era by Robert Dayley and Clark D. Neher
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AbstractAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
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AbstractOsnos, Evan. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014.
Review...We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher; Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution within the Revolution by Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer
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AbstractCiccariello-Maher, George. We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013....
Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America by Christopher Darnton
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AbstractDarnton, Christopher. Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014....
Historical Dictionary of Panama by Thomas M. Leonard
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AbstractLeonard, Thomas M. Historical Dictionary of Panama. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Review by Robert C. Harding.
Adios Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death by Deborah T. Levenson; War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala edited by Carlotta McAllister and Diane M. Nelson
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AbstractLevenson, Deborah T. Adios Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the
Politics of Death. Durham, NC: Duke University...
Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s–1973 by J. Patrice McSherry
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AbstractMcSherry, J. Patrice. Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s–1973. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015....
State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba’s First Republic by Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos
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AbstractPalmer, Steven, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos, (eds.) State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba’s First...
Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín by Gabriela Polit Dueñas
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AbstractPolit Dueñas, Gabriela. Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. Review by...
Power, Powerlessness and Globalization: Contemporary Politics in the Global South by Opoku Agyeman
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AbstractAgyeman, Opoku. Power, Powerlessness and Globalization: Contemporary Politics in the Global South. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014....
Keyboard Jihad: Attempts to Rectify Misperceptions and Misrepresentations of Islam by Abdul Karim Bangura
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AbstractBangura, Abdul Karim. Keyboard Jihad: Attempts to Rectify Misperceptions and Misrepresentations of Islam. San Diego, CA: Cognella,...
Rethinking The Third World: International Development and World Politics by Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber
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AbstractBerger, Mark T. and Heloise Weber. Rethinking The Third World: International Development and World Politics. London: Palgrave...
The Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation by Richard D. Burns and Philip E. Coyle III
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AbstractBurns, Richard D. and Philip E. Coyle III, The Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015....
A Primer for Teaching World History by Antoinette Burton
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AbstractBurton, Antoinette. A Primer for Teaching World History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Review by Gail M. Presbey.
Sociology of Human Rights by Mark Frezzo; The Human Rights Enterprise: Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements by William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha
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AbstractFrezzo, Mark. Sociology of Human Rights, Cambridge: UK, Polity Press, 2015. Review by Nalanda Roy.
Armaline, William T., Davita...
Abraham Lincoln Without Borders: Lincoln’s Legacy Outside the United States edited by Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Sura P. Rath, and William D. Pederson
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AbstractTripathy, Jyotirmaya, Sura P. Rath, and William D. Pederson, (eds.) Abraham Lincoln Without Borders: Lincoln’s Legacy Outside the United...
On the Boundaries: When International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy Meet by Howard Wiarda
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AbstractWiarda, Howard. On the Boundaries: When International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy Meet. Lanham, Maryland:...