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JSPES, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter 2009)
  Table of Contents
Raiklin, Ernest Continuity in Russian Corruption through Changing Societal Forms
Strafford, John The United Kingdom and the European Union: A Struggle over Democracy
Werlin, Herbert H. The Poverty of Nations: The Impact of Foreign Aid
Mataré, Herbert F. Globalization, Education, Religion and Terror
BOOK REVIEWS Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life / The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism • The Political Economy of Financing the Scottish Government: Considering a New Constitutional Settlement for Scotland • Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Change
  Submission of Manuscripts
  Index to Volume 34
JSPES, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Fall 2009)
  Table of Contents
  Complete Issue
Tarzi, Shah M. China and Foreign Direct Investment: Market-Oriented Policies and FDI Inflows
Cafaro, Philip and Staples, Winthrop The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration to the United States
Hasan, Mostafa M., Hassan, M. Kabir & Uddin, Mohammad R. Local Government Investment Outreach and Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions: A Case Study of BURO, Bangladesh
Murphey, Dwight D. A “Classical Liberal” Rethinks the Market System: Invitation to an Intellectual Odyssey
BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE The Future Will Marvel: The Follies Leading to the “Great Credit Crunch of 2007-2009”
Book Reviews Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang • The Limits of Democratization: Climate, Intelligence, and Resource Distribution • Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet • The Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal • The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel • Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State • Understanding Human History: An Analysis Including the Effects of Geography and Differential Evolution • We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now..............................................................................

JSPES, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer 2009)
Table of Contents
  Complete Issue
Bahgat, Gawdat The Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Bolton, K. R. Russia and China: An Approaching Conflict?
Verbeeten, David Reflections On Europe’s Contemporary Demographic Concerns
Gary Bullert Franz Boas as Citizen-Scientist:
Gramscian-Marxist Influence on American Anthropology
Dean Stansel Local Government Investment and Long-Run Economic Growth
Book Reviews The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy • Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq • Herman Pirchner on Russia’s Borders

JSPES, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2009)

Table of Contents
Complete Issue
Hughes, James H. China Modernizes the World’s Largest Military
Mataré, Herbert F. Energy Independence for the USA
Raiklin, Ernest The Making of Post-Soviet Ukraine
Weiss, Volkmar National IQ Means Transformed from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Scores, and their Underlying Gene Frequencies
Murphey, Dwight D. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: Revisiting the “Good War’s” Aftermath: Emerging Truth in an Ocean of Myth
Book Reviews The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide • Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World • Political Correctness and the Theoretical Struggle: From Lenin and Mao to Marcuse and Foucault • Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit • A History of Political Trials From Charles I to Saddam Hussein • Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement


JSPES, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter 2008)

Table of Contents
Complete Issue (8MB)
Rafaat, Aram The Kurds in Post-Invasion Iraq: The Myth of Rebuilding the Iraqi State
Muhumuza, William Between Rhetoric and Political Conviction: The High Cost of Ignoring The Dynamics of Decentralization in Uganda and Africa
McLaughlin, Vance, and Mackey, Wade C. Demographics of the Upward-Trending Murder Rate in Buffalo, New York: A Harbinger of Societal Stress
Anderson, William L. The Hayekian Blogosphere: Was the Duke Lacrosse Case also a Case of the “Spontaneous Order”?
Murphey, Dwight D.

BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE
Understanding the West’s Self-Immolating Follies: Buchanan and the World Wars

Murphey, Dwight D. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE
9/11 Theories: A Triple Book Review
Book Reviews:
The Global Bell Curve • The Strange Death of Moral Britain • Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization For America •
Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve
Submission of Manuscripts
Index to Volume 33


JSPES, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Fall 2008)

  Table of Contents
Bahgat, Gawdat Gas OPEC? Rhetoric versus Reality
Scott, Ralph Educational Quagmire: The High Cost of Ignoring Biophysical and Ecological Factors
Blondell, Jerome Adverse Impacts of Massive and Illegal Immigration in the United States: A Review of the Complexities
Murphey, Dwight D. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE Urging Uplift for American Blacks: Two Recent Books – a Critique
Johnson, Roberta Ann, and Werlin, Herbert H.

CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION ON CORRUPTION AND DEMOCRACY: Disentangling Corruption and Democracy, and Rethinking Corruption, Democracy, and Political Power: Finding a Linkage

Book Reviews: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? • A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America • Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and The Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Submission of Manuscripts

JSPES, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2008)
  Table of Contents
Raiklin, Ernest The Chinese Challenge to Russia in Siberia and the Russian Far East
Meisenberg, Gerhard How Universal is the Negative Correlation between Education and Fertility?
Murphey, Dwight D. "Do Something About Darfur": A Review of the Complexities
Book Reviews: When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa • Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance • Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart

JSPES, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2008)
Table of Contents
Meisenberg, Gerhard How Does Racial Diversity Raise Income Inequality?
Rotherham, Lee Behind the Latest European Court of Auditors Report
Raiklin, Ernest Numbering Belarus: How It Compares with Russia
Ghazanfar, S.M. and Sevcik, Candelaria L. Inflation Targeting Policies in Less-Developed Countries:
Some Evidence and Potential
Bahgat, Gawdat Energy Security: What Does It Mean? And How Can We Achieve It?
Lynn, Richard and Mikk, Jaan Science: Sex Differences in Attainment
Book Reviews: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life • There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind • Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy • Multiculturalism without Culture

JSPES, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter 2007)
  Table of Contents
Murphey, Dwight D. Robotics: A Route to the Survival of Advanced Societies?
Kisekka-Ntale, Fredrick Roots of the Conflict in Northern Uganda
Anderson, William L. and Shah, Amit Protection of Speech, or Protection of Political Allies? The U.S. Supreme Court and Libel
Raiklin. Ernest The USSR in 1990 and its Successor States in 2005: A Statistical Comparison
Book Reviews The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent • A History of Modern Tibet 1951-1955
  Index to Volume Thirty-Two


JSPES, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall 2007)

Complete Issue (pp. 265-392)
Rafaat, Aram An Independent Kurdish State: Achievable or Merely a Kurdish Dream?
Bahgat, Gawdat Energy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Murphey, Dwight D. George Tenet’s Memoir: Curious and Provocative
Weiss, Volkmar The Population Cycle Drives Human History – from a Eugenic Phase into a Dysgenic Phase and Eventual Collapse
Werlin, Herbert H. Corruption and Democracy: Is Lord Acton Right?
Book Reviews Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America’s Culture War • Will the Real Millard Fillmore Please Stand Up? • America Challenged: Issues Foreign and Domestic • The God Delusion • What is the What
  Submission of Manuscripts

JSPES, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Summer 2007)
Complete Issue (pp. 129-264)
Anegbode, John E., and Igbafen, Monday Lewis Ethnic Militia Violence in Nigeria: The Case of the O’odua Peoples’ Congress (OPC)
Hughes, James H. Chinese Ballistic Missile Developments
Bahgat, Gawdat Terrorism in the Middle East
Barbour, Patrick Needed: Structural Reforms for Governing the United Kingdom
Oesterdiekhoff, Georg, and Rindermann, Heiner The Spread of AIDS in Developing Countries: A Psycho-Cultural Approach
Mengistu, and Adams, Samuel Foreign Direct Investment, Governance and Economic Development in Developing Countries
Book Reviews No Retreat, No Surrender: One American’s Fight • The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty • The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today • Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq • China’s Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools

JSPES, Vol. 32, No. 1 (
Spring 2007)
Bahgat, Gawdat; Iran, Israel and the United States: The Nuclear Paradox
Nyahoho, Emmanuel On the Usefulness of the International Monetary Fund’s Credit Facilities
Trivoli, George W. Policy Failures of the Federal Reserve System and a Proposed Competitive Money System
Murphey, Dwight D. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE:
The Maoist Legacy of Modern China
Collins, Donald A. The Great Population Debate: An Opinion Paper
Mataré, Herbert F. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE:
Over-Population and Disaster
Book Reviews Karl Mannheim’s Sociology as Political Education; The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty; War on the Middle Class; Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality; Politics in the Laboratory: The Constitution of Human Genomics

JSPES, Vol. 31, No. 4 (
Winter 2006 )
Bowers, Stephen R.; Musayev, Bakhodir;
Samson, Steven Alan ;
The Islamic Threat to Eastern Central Asia
Bahgat, Gawdat Missile Proliferation in the Middle East
Toole, James; Henning, April Does International Moral Suasion Influence Democratic Development? The Nobel Peace Prize and Political Reform in Burma and East Timor
Murphey, Dwight D. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE The Changing Face of Americahey
Dutton, Edward Croft Political Correctness, Evangelicalism and Student Rebellion aBritish Universities
Book Reviews Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security In the Line of Fire: A Memoir The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future Living Through the Soviet System The Marketing of Rebellion

JSPES, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Fall 2006 )
Agulanna, Christopher ON AFRICA: 1 Democracy and the Crisis of Leadership in Africa
Offor,. Francis ON AFRICA: 2 The Quest For Good Governance In Africa What Form Of Democracy Is Most Suitable?
Ekanola, Adebola Babatunde ON AFRICA: 3 National Integration and the Survival of Nigeria in the 21st Century
Adams, Samuel ON AFRICA: 4 The Impact of Privatization on Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lutz, James M.
Lutz, Brenda J.
International Terrorism in Latin America: Effects on Foreign Investment and Tourism
Murphey, Dwight D. If Past is Prologue: Americans' Future "Guilt" About Today's Use of Low-Pay Immigrant Labor
Book Reviews

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything; Nation-States and the Multi-National Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment; The Militarization and Weaponization of Space; Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry

 


JSPES, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer 2006)

Editorial Page
Table of Contents
Guide, Anne-Marie, and Pattillo, Catherine Financial Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
Coyne, Christopher J. Reconstructing Weak and Failed States
Westley, Christopher, and Schmidt, Bill H. Efficiency Wages: A Critical Assessment
Hall, Joshua The Dilemma of School Finance Reform
Irwing, Paul, and Lynn , Richard The Relation Between Childhood IQ and Income in Middle Age
Rallens, Tyson, and Ghazanfar, S. M. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: Microfinance: Recent Experience, Future Possibilities
Murphey, Dwight D. BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: Seeing Africa Clearly
Wegierski, Mark BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: Samuel P. Huntington, Immigration, and the United States
Book Reviews The Market for Force: Privatizing Security • Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists • Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State
 


JSPES, Vol. 31, No. 1 (
Spring 2006 )

Fox, E., and Orman, S. Ballistic Missile Defense: A Review of Development Problems
Haznat, Baban United States Trade Relations with Muslim Countries
Cairns, John, Jr. Restoring Damaged Aquatic Ecosystems
Anderson, William L., and Jackson, Candice E. Criminalization as Policy: Using Federal Criminal Law as a Regulatory Device

JSPES, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter 2005)

Gawdat Bahgat:      Nuclear Proliferation and the Middle East
John C. Zimmerman Roots of Conflict: The Islamist Critique of Western Values
Bishwambher Pyakuryal and Kishor Uprety: Economic & Legal Impact of Conflict on States & People in South Asia with Specific Reference to Nepal
Shah Tarzi Foreign Direct Investment Flows into Developing Countries: Impact of Location and Government Policy
Book Reviews
Index to Volume Thirty

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