The following books are available for review in PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Reviews are expected to be about 1000 words, and should be delivered by April 30 2005.
Please send me:
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You can also see this list (constantly updated) on
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/forsytht/PIDS_Books_for_Review.htm
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES is an international journal cited in international indexing and Ingenta (web). We welcome subscriptions and submitted papers on all aspects of international development. We specialize on review papers of important topics of development theory and practice, but can also publish case studies and other empirical work.
http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/journals/pages/pro_dev/14649934.htm
Thank you
Tim Forsyth
DESTIN / LSE
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Comparative politics of the Third World: linking concepts and cases
D Green and L Luehrmann
Rienner, 2003
538pp, 22 chapters
Subject: big textbook, political economy, national politics etc
Resource scarcity and economic development
Ed R Auty
Oxford, 2004 paperback edition
340pp, 19 chapters
Subject: natural resources, economics, resource curse thesis, many examples
Politicising development: The new local politics of democratisation
Ed J Harriss, K Stokke, O Tornquist
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
253pp, 9 chapters
Subject: politics, trade unions, governance, examples from Southeast Asia, Brazil, India
Ethnic relations and nation building in Southeast Asia: The case of the ethnic Chinese
Ed L Suryadinata
ISEAS, 2004
251pp, 11 chapters
Subject: ethnicity, politics
The Health of Refugees: Public health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement
Ed. Pascale Allotey
Oxford Uni Press, 2003
232pp, 14 chapters
Subject: Public health, refugees, worldwide
The political economy of AIDS in Africa
Ed N Poku and A Whiteside
Ashgate, 2004
235pp, 12 chapters
Subject: Public health, AIDS, Africa
The contemporary Caribbean
R Potter, D Barker, D Conway and T Klak
Pearson, 2004
497pp, 12 chapters
Subject: wide-ranging text, physical environment, hazards, social and cultural landscapes, tourism, development
Agribusiness and society: corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation
eds K Jansen and S Vellema
Zed 2004 285pp, 11 chapters
CSR, greening of industry, GM, regulation
The New regional politics of development
Ed A Payne
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 290pp, 10 chapters
Subject: textbook, international political economy, different regions covered
Women's rights and Islamic family law: perspectives on reform
ed L Welchman
Zed, 2004
300pp, 15 chapters
Subject: law, Islam, gender, examples from Middle East, USA, Africa
Understanding human rights violations: new systematic studies
ed S Carey and S Poe
Ashgate, 2004
275pp, 14 chapters
Subject: international relations approach, some statistics, law, trade
The management of urban development in Zambia
E Mutale
Ashgate, 2004
268pp, 9 chapters
Subject: urban studies, planning
Enhancing urban management in East Asia
ed M Freire and B Yuen
Ashgate, 2004
265pp, 13 chapters
Subject: various chapters, planning, urban studies, poverty, investment
East Timor: A rough passage to independence (3rd edition)
J Dunn
Longueville, 2003
399pp, 14 chapters
Subject: history, politics, complex emergencies, security
International Politics and State Strength
T Volgy and A Bailin
Rienner, 2003
171pp, 7 chapters
Subject: international relations, governance, globalization, state theory
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
ed. Morris Rossabi
Uni Washington press 2004
296pp, 7 chapters
Subject: ethnicity, China, minorities, Tibet, Yunnan
The dynamics of China's rejuventation
Jianrong Huang
Palgrave, 2004
118pp (only), 8 chapters
Subject: political history; somewhat nationalistic; focus on key leaders and national spirit
The Indonesian rural economy: Mobility, work and enterprise
Ed T Leinbach
ISEAS, 2004
316pp, 12 chapters
Subject: economic development, non-mathematical economics
FDI and development in Vietnam: Policy implications
Pham Hoang Mai
ISEAS, 2004
171pp, 8 chapters
Subject: economic development, industrialization, some statistics
Reaching for the dream: Challenges of sustainable development in Vietnam
Eds M Beresford and Tran Ngoc Angie
ISEAS, 2004
302pp, 8 chapters
Subject: more relevant to sustainable growth rather than environmental protection; labor market, textile industry; financial markets, coal industry; Asian Crisis
Confronting Environmental Change in east and Southeast Asia: ecopolitics, foreign policy and sustainable development
ed. Paul G Harris
Earthscan, 2005 269pp, 14 chapters
Subject: environment, foreign policy, MEAs, various case studies from region
Catalysing Development? A debate on aid
Jan Pronk et al
Blackwell, 2004
213pp, 14 chapters
Subject: aid, conditionality, governance, assessment, some statistics, no modelling
Continuity and change in the Tunisian Sahel
Ray Haris and Khalid Koser
Ashgate, 2004
153pp, 15 chapters
Subject: overview of Tunisia, physical environment, history, gender, culture, Islam, agriculture
Caribbean Drugs: From criminalization to harm reduction
eds A. Klein, M. Day, A Harriott
Zed, 2004
255pp, 11 chapters
Subject: politics, policy analysis, law, crime, user-care, Caribbean
Rights, resources and rural development: community-based natural resource management in Southern Africa
Ed C Fabricius and E Koch
Earthscan, 2004
288pp, 19 chapters
Subject: CBNRM, institutions, environment, Africa
Making Place: state projects, globalisation and local responses in China
ed S Feuchtwang
UCL, 2004
214pp, 10 chapters
Subject: politics, China, state, 'theorizing place'
Parks in transition: biodiversity, rural development and the bottom line
ed B Child
Earthscan, 2004
267pp, 10 chapters
Subject: tourism, nature, Southern Africa, environment, CBNRM
Development planning: concepts and tools for planners, managers and facilitators
R Dale
Zed, 2004
217pp, 10 chapters
Subject: text book, planning,
Participation: from tyranny to transformation
ed S Hickey and G Mohan
Zed, 2004
292pp, 18 chapters
Subject: participation in theory and practice, diverse cases
Living Longer: Ageing, development and social protection
ed P Lloyd-Sherlock
Zed, 2004
318pp, 13 chapters
Subject: pensions policy, worldwide examples
Geopolitics and the post-colonial: rethinking north-south relations
D Slater
Blackwell, 2004
286pp, 9 chapters
Subject: text, history of thought regarding geopolitics, north-south, new directions
Thailand at the Margins: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour
J Glassman
Oxford, 2004
260pp, 9 chapters
Subject: political geography, state theory, Thailand, FDI
Towards sustainable development in Industry? Reports from seven developing and transitional economies
ed R Luken and P Hesp (UNIDO)
Elgar, 2003
275pp, 9 chapters
Subject: industry and environment, regulation, various cases from Asia, Africa, Lat Am
Social History and African Environments
ed W Beinart and J McGregor
Ohio, 2003
275pp, 13 chapters
Subject: environment and development
New directions in global political governance: the G8 and international order in the 21st century
Ed J Kirton and J Takase
Ashgate, 2003
368pp, 16 chapters
Subject: global governance, various cases from worldwide
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