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GENERAL AND REGIONAL LATIN AMERICA

Abel, Christopher and Colin M. Lewis. LATIN AMERICA, ECONOM- IC IMPERIALISM AND THE STATE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EXTERNAL CONNECTION FROM INDEPENDENCE TO THE PRESENT. London, England: Athlone Press Ltd., 1985, (pub- lished for the University of Londoi Institute of Latin American Studies). Tables, maps, bibliography, index, 540 pp. $52.00 hardcover.

Clayton, Lawrence A. THE BOLIVIAN NATIONS OF LATIN AMERI- CA. Arlington Heights, IL: The Forum Press, 1984. 88 pp., paperback.

Delorme, Robert L. LATIN AMERICA 1979-1983 (SOCIAL SCIENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Information Services, 1984. Preface, list of books surveyed, list of journals sur- veyed, list of abbreviations/acronyms, author index, subject index. 224 pp. $45.00 hardcover.

Eguiguren, Francisco. EXPERIENCIAS DE PROMOCION DEL DESARROLLO Y ORGANIZACION POPULAR. Lima, Peru: Centro de Estudios y Promoci6n del Desarrollo, 1984. 136 pp.

Ghosh, Pradip K. (ed.) DEVELOPING LATIN AMERICA: A MODER- NIZATION PERSPECTIVE. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. Tables, figures, resource bibliography, dictionary of data sources, appendix, index, 416 pp. $45.00 hardcover.

Haglund, David G. LATIN AMERICAAND THE TRANSFORMATION OF U.S. STRATEGIC THOUGHT, 1936-1940. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. Notes, index, 280 pp. $19.95 hardcover.

Inter-American Development Bank. ANNUAL REPORT 1983. Wash- ington, DC: IDB, 1984. Financial statement. appendices. 168 pp., paperback.

Inter-American Development Bank. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROGRESS IN LATIN AMERICA, THE EXTERNAL SECTOR, 1982 REPORT. Washington, DC: IDB, 1984. Statistical appendix, 409 pp.

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Ocampo, Jose Antonio (ed.) LA POLITICA ECONOMICA EN LA ENCRUCIJADA. Bogota Colombia: CEDE (Centro de Estudios de Desarrollo y Economfa), 1984. Articles by 6 Latin American econ- omists: Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, Juan Carlos Jaramillo, Armando Montenegro, Edmar Bacha, Lance Taylor, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Carlos Caballero Argaez, Guillermo Perry Rubio. 192 pp.

Organization of American States (OAS) STATISTICAL BULLETIN OF THE OAS. (January-December 1984) Washington, DC: Gener- al Secretariat OAS. Statistical tables, including regions and individ- ual countries, 221 pp. $13.00 paperback.

Organization of American States (OAS) THE ECONOMY OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, 1984. Washington, DC: Gener- al Secretariat OAS. Appendices (multinational meetings, statis- tics) summary and conclusions, 96 pp. $5.00 paperback.

Pade, W and W Reuter (eds.) KRISENPROZESSE IN LATEINAMER- IKA (DIE KRISE IN DER OKONOMIE, POLITIK, IDEOLOGIE UND LETERATUR DER KAPITALISTISCHEN LANDER LATEIN- AMERIKAS). Rostock: Wilhelm Pieck Universitat Rostock, Sektion Lateinamerika Wissenschaften, 1983. Kolloquiumsmaterialien 1981/82. 9 articles, 132 pp., paper.

Peeler, John A. LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES: COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, VENEZUELA. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. 193 pp., notes, references, index, ta- bles and figures. $24.00 hardcover.

Ritter, Arch R.M. (ed.) LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: GEOPOLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE (Conference Proceedings). Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS). Essays from Annual Conference and General Meeting of CALACS held at Carleton Uni- versity, October 1983, and co-sponsored by OCPLACS (Ontario Cooperative Program for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). 355 pp., paper.

Saddy, Fehmy (ed.) ARAB-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: ENER- GY, TRADE, INVESTMENT New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1983. Collection of 10 articles by E Saddy, A. Orfila, A. Tariki, A. Porto de Oliveira, M. Khouja, A. Prugue, C. Massad, F Orrego Vicuna, and H. Khallaf. Tables, index, 143 pp. $29.95 hardcover.

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Sater, William F THE SOUTHERN CONE NATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA. Arlington Heights, IL: The Forum Press, 1984. 99 pp., paperback.

Saulniers, Alfred H. (ed.) THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN LATIN AMERI- CA. Austin, TX: University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies, 1984. 10 papers from a conference on the public sector, references, 235 pp. Paperback.

Sloan, John W PUBLIC POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. 250 pp. $12.95 paperback.

Wilkie, Richard W LATIN AMERICAN POPULATION AND URBANI- ZATION ANALYSIS: MAPS AND STATISTICS, 1950-1982. Volume 8. Los Angeles, CA: University of California-Los Angeles Latin American Center, 1984. Statistical abstract, including overview, country data, photos, maps, tables, 448 pp. $65.00 cloth.

Wionczek, Miguel (ed.) in collaboration with Luciano Tomassini. POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF EXTERNAL DEBT CRISIS, THE LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985. 15 articles, tables and figures, index, 482 pp. $37.50 hardcover.

ANTIGUA Henry, Paget. PERIPHERAL CAPITALISM AND UNDERDEVELOP-

MENT IN ANTIGUA. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985. Tables, references, index, 297 pp. $34.95 cloth.

ARGENTINA

DeStefani, Laurio H. MALVINAS, GEORGIAS Y SANDWICH DEL SUR, ANTE EL CONFLICTO CON GRAN BRETANA. Buenos Aires: Edipress, S.A., 1982. Apendices, bibliograffa, indice, 144 pp.

Ferrer Vieyra, Enrique. LAS ISLAS MALVINAS Y EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL: (Los titulos Argentinos y Britanicos; La convenci6n de Nootka; La prescripcion adquisitiva; La libre determinaci6n de los pueblos; Las Malvinas y la antartida Argenti- na). Introducci6n, anexos, 364 pp.

Vacs, Aldo Cesar. DISCREET PARTNERS: ARGENTINA AND THE USSR SINCE 1917. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. Introduction, bibliography, index, 148 pp. $14.95 hardcover.

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Winograd, Carlos. ECONOMIA ABIERTA Y TIPO DE CAMBIO PREFIJADO IQUE APRENDEMOS DEL CASO ARGENTINO? Buenos Aires: CEDES (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad), 1984. Introducci6n, anexo estadfstico, bibliograffa, 138 pp., paper.

CANADA

Mahant, Edelgard and Graeme Mount. AN INTRODUCTION TO CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS. Agincourt, Ontario, Cana- da: Methuen Publications, 1984. Appendices, index, bibliographi- cal guide, 319 pp. $14.95 paperback.

CARIBBEAN REGION

Anderson, Thomas D. GEOPOLITICS OF THE CARIBBEAN: MINISTATES IN A WIDER WORLD. Politics in Latin America, a Hoover Institution Series. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1984. Maps, tables, appendix, index, 175 pp. $26.95 hardcover.

Palmer, Ransford W PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT IN BEAUTI- FUL COUNTRIES (PERSPECTIVES ON THE CARIBBEAN). Lanham, MD: North-South Publishing Co., 1984. Appendices, bib- liography, tables, 91 pp. $12.50 paperback.

Payne, Anthony. THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS IN THE CARIBBE- AN. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Appendix, bibliography, index. $18.50 hardcover.

CENTRAL AMERICAN REGION

Gonzalez, Edward, Brian Michael Jenkins, David Ronfeldt, and Cae- sar Sereseres. U.S. POLICY FOR CENTRAL AMERICA: A BRIEF- ING. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, March 1984. Report R-3150-RC. 33 pp.

Grabendorff, Wolf, Heinrich-W Krumwiede, and JOrg Todt (eds.) POLITICAL CHANGE IN CENTRAL AMERICA: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984. 17 articles on regimes and regime transformations, on external in- terests and strategies, by such authors as Grabendorff, Pastor, Feinberg, Crahan, Bagley, Millett, Gleijeses, Torres-Rivas, and oth- ers. Introduction, index, 312 pp. $16.50 hardcover.

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Leonard, Thomas M. THE UNITED STATES AND CENTRAL AMERI- CA 1944-1949. (Perceptions of Political Dynamics). University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1984. Map, notes, bibliography, index, appendix (bio sketches of U.S. policymakers), 215 pp. $21.75 hardcover.

Wiarda, Howard J. (ed.) RIFT AND REVOLUTION: THE CENTRAL AMERICAN IMBROGLIO. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1984. AEI Studies in Foreign Policy. 12 articles by Wiarda, Karnes, Wynia, Ebel, Anderson, and others. Index, 11 ta- bles and figures, 392 pp. $19.95 hardcover; $10.95 paper.

CHILE Davis, Nathaniel. THE LAST TWO YEARS OF SALVADOR ALLENDE.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. First person account by the U.S. Ambassador to Chile. Maps, notes, acronyms, index, 480 pp. $24.95 hardcover.

Fleet, Michael. THE RISE AND FALL OF CHILEAN DEMOCRACY. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. Tables, abbrevia- tions, appendix, bibliography, index, 274 pp. $35.00 hardcover; $14.50 paper.

GRENADA U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense. GRENADA

DOCUMENTS: AN OVERVIEW AND SELECTION. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of State, September 1984. 113 documents grouped into 3 sections: (1) Life under the NewJewel Movement; (2) Inter- national Activities; and (3) Minutes of Political Bureau and Cen- tral Committee.

JAMAICA Waters, Anita M. RACE, CLASS, AND POLITICAL SYMBOLS

(RASTAFARI AND REGGAE IN JAMAICAN POLITICS). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Inc., 1985. Tables, bibliography, ap- pendix, index, 343 pp.

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MEXICO

Nalven, Joseph (ed.) BORDER PERSPECTIVES ON THE US/ MEXICO RELATIONSHIP Entire issue of New Scholar, Volume 9, numbers 1 and 2,1984. 20 articles by prominent scholars (Stanley Ross, Richard Fagen, James Wilkie, Joseph Nalven, etc.) on various aspects of the subject, maps, 297 pp. $10.00.

Riding, Alan. DISTANT NEIGHBORS: A PORTRAIT ON THE MEXI- CANS. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Bibliography, index, 385 pp. $18.95 hardcover.

NICARAGUA

Marcus, Bruce (ed.) NICARAGUA: THE SANDINISTA PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION (SPEECHES BY SANDINISTA LEADERS). New York, NY: Pathfinder Press, 1985.40 speeches, appendix, glossary, index, chronology, 412 pp. $7.95 paper.

Nolan, David. FSLN: THE IDEOLOGY OF THE SANDINISTAS AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami North-South Center, 1984. Bibliography, appendix (or- ganizations, bio sketches, chronology, maps), index, 203 pp. $16.95.

PERU

Bernales B., Enrique. EL PARLAMENTO POR DENTRO: Lima, Peru: DESCO (Centro de Estudios y Promoci6n del Desarrollo), Noviembre de 1984, Nota (preface), cuadros, graficos, anexos, 218 pp., paperback.

Igufiiz, Javier. POLITICA INDUSTRIAL PERUANA 1970-1980, UNA SINTESIS. Serie publicaciones previas 8. Lima, Peru: DESCO (Centro de Estudios y Promocion del Desarrollo), 1984. Prologo, indice de cuadros, cuadros, 181 pp., paperback.

Stein, William W (ed.) PERUVIAN CONTEXTS OF CHANGE. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985. Essays, bibliography, 270 pp. $29.95 cloth.

VENEZUELA

Bitar, Sergio and Eduardo Troncoso. EL DESAFIO DE VENEZUELA. Buenos Aires: Editorial Pomaire S.A., 1983. Introducci6n, anexo estadistico, bibliograffa, 285 pp. Paperback.

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Nissen, Hans-Peter (ed.) LA DISTRIBUCION DEL INGRESO EN VENEZUELA. Caracas: ILDIS-USB (Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones-Universidad Simon Bolivar), diciembre 1983. 6 articles, 144 pp., paper.

Serbin, Andres (ed.) GEOPOLITICA DE LAS RELACIONES DE VENEZUELA CON EL CARIBE. Caracas: Fundaci6n Fondo Edito- rial Acta Cientifica Venezolana, 1982. Simposio de la XXXII Convenci6n Anual de la ASOVAC (Asociaci6n Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia). 16 articles, 317 pp., paper.

MISCELLANEOUS

Boyd, Andrew. AN ATLAS OF WORLD AFFAIRS, 7th edition. New York, NY: Methuen and Company, 1983. Index, maps, 208 pp. $15.95 cloth; $8.95 paper.

Foxley, Alejandro. LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS IN NEO- CONSERVATIVE ECONOMICS. Berkeley, CA: University of Cali- fornia Press, 1983. Tables, graphs, 214 pp. $7.95 paper.

Lipson, Charles. STANDING GUARD: PROTECTING FOREIGN CAPITAL IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTUR- IES. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. Tables, fig- ures, notes, index, 332 pp. $34.95 cloth; $11.95 paper.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (EFFORTS AND POLICIES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE), 1984 Review. Paris, France: OECD, November 1984. Report of the Chairman: (1) Prospects for more effective co- operation; (2) Current trends and policy issues in official develop- ment assistance; (3) Selected current issues. Annexes, text tables, statistical annex, 267 pp.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL FLOWS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Paris, France: OECD, 1984. Statistics on a country-by-country basis, 260 pp., paper.

Quedena, Enrique and Alfredo Villavicencio. MANUAL DEL POBLADOR. Lima Peru: DESCO (Centro de Estudios y Promoci6n del Desarrollo), 1984. Introducci6n, anexos, 124 pp., paper.

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Redclift, Michael. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: RED OR GREEN ALTERNATIVES? New York, NY: Methu- en and Company, 1984. Development and Underdevelopment Se- ries. Bibilography, index, chapter 5 uses Mexico as case history, 149 pp. $21.00 cloth; $9.95 paper.

Salas, Rafael M. AYUDA INTERNACIONAL EN POBLACION: EL PRIMER DECENIO. Oxford, England: Pergamon Press Ltd., 1981. Introduction, chronology, appendices, index, 496 pp. Cloth.

Staniland, Martin. WHAT IS POLITICAL ECONOMY? A STUDY OF SOCIAL THEORY AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. References, index, 229 pp. $18.95 cloth.

Stohl, Michael and George A. Lopez (eds.) THE STATE AS TERROR- IST; THE DYNAMICS OF GOVERNMENTAL VIOLENCE AND REPRESSION. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,,1984. Contribu- tions in Political Science 103.9 articles, bibliographic essay, index, 202 pp. $29.95 hardcover.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) FINANCIAL SOLIDARITY FOR DEVELOPMENT New York, NY: UNCTAD, 1984. Report by UNCTAD Secretariat, introduction, sta- tistical annex, tables, 115 pp.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) STUDIES IN THE PROCESSING, MARKETING, AND DISTRIBU- TION OF COMMODITIES. NewYork, NY: UNCTAD, 1984. Report by UNCTAD Secretariat, introduction, tables, charts, 51 pp.

United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations. TRANSNA- TIONAL CORPORATIONS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUS- TRY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. New York, NY: UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, 1984. Preface, annexes, tables, 223 pp.

United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation for Develop- ment. MANAGEMENT TRAINING OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECH- NICAL PERSONNEL IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF DEVELOP- ING COUNTRIES. New York, NY: UN Department of Technical Cooperation for Development, December 1983. Report of an Ex- pert Group Meeting, introduction, annexes, 35 pp.

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