International Social Science Review articles from March 2000

International Social Science Review archives from March 2000

A Failure that Transformed Russia; The 1991-94 Democratic State-Building Experiment in Chechnya.
March 22, 2000... We're the children of the mountains, We have been here for years. The wind frightens the heart of any stranger here. Nobody understands us, The mountains will protect us, The wind frightens the heart of any...

GULF WAR SYNDROME: THE `AGENT ORANGE' OF THE NINETIES.
March 22, 2000... Introduction In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, over 100,000 U.S. troops among the 700,000 who served in the region reported a mysterious cluster of severe health problems. Initially, the Pentagon dismissed the complaints and ruled...

Wacky Times: An Analysis of the WAC in World War II and its Effects on Women.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... At the dawn of the twentieth century American women were at the apex of a pointed fight for the vote. After gaining the vote they remained in a status that was anything but equal, or even reciprocal. Yet, the events of the Twentieth Century...

AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ANTI-HISPANIC DISCRIMINATION IN THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET: 1970s-1990s.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... Introduction Measurement of labor market discrimination against women and minorities has become an increasingly intense focus for research in the past several years, although uncertainty remains as to exactly what discrimination consists...

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AT 1999 TRIENNIAL CONVENTION.(Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Science)(Transcript)
March 22, 2000... We live on a moving line between past and present.(1) Tonight Pi Gamma Mu stands at a crossroads on its own lifeline. We can gaze back 75 years to our beginning, we can examine our present state and we can anticipate the future. Our gaze into...

The Orders of Discourse: Philosophy, Social Science, and Politics.(Review)
March 22, 2000... John G. Gunnell. The Orders of Discourse: Philosophy, Social Science, and Politics. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xv + 252 pages. John G. Gunnell has long been a major figure on the political theory scene. A distinguished...

The New Encyclopedia of the American West.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Howard R. Lamar, The New Encyclopedia of the American West, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. xv + 1324 pages, $60.00, illustrated, oversize, hardcover. The press release of the Yale Book News, an organ of the publisher, quotes...

World-Systems Theory in Practice--Leadership, Production, and Exchange.(Review)
March 22, 2000... P. Nick Kardulias, editor, World-Systems Theory in Practice--Leadership, Production, and Exchange. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. xi + 326 pages, paper, no price listed. A title with "world systems theory" (WST)...

Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jael Silliman and Ynstra King, eds., Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999, 324 pages, $ 20.00, paper, $40.00 cloth. When you open this book, prepare...

From Contention to Democracy.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Marco G. Giugni, Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, eds., From Contention to Democracy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, xxvi + 285 pages, paper $29.95, hardbound $60.00. Think of the body of literature on a topic as an ongoing...

Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Bruce Vandervort, Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998, Xviii + 274 pages, $39.95 hardcover, $16.95 paper. Maps, notes, select bibliography, index. For those of us who teach African...

Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jennifer M. Scherer and Rita J. Simon, Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. 122 pages, $59.00 cloth and $22.95 paper. This is, simply put, a difficult subject....