Preface. About the Authors. Introduction. I. GLOBAL ISSUES IN THE OTHER WORLD. 1. The Other World. 2. The Old and the New: Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Nationalism. 3. Development. 4. Conflict Resolution and the Other World. II. OTHER WORLD REGIONS. 5. Latin America. 6. Sub-Saharan Africa. 7. Asia. 8. The Middle East and North Africa. 9. Prospects for the Future. Index.
Joseph N. Weatherby has been a professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University since 1968. In 1977 he was an invited visiting scholar at Wolfson College, The University of Cambridge, England. He has been awarded a summer Fulbright to the Middle East, an NEH Fellowship in Middle East Studies at The University of Michigan, and a Joseph P Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic Studies. At Cal Poly, he has chaired the academic senate and received the university's outstanding teaching award. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor University, Texas, a foreign trade degree from The American Graduate School for International Management, Arizona, and a Ph.D. in political science and Middle East Studies from the University of Utah. Randal L. Cruikshanks has been a professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University since 1972. He served as an officer in the United States Army in Germany and has held appointments at The University of New Mexico, The University of Kent, Canterbury, England, and The University of Maryland. He was awarded a summer Fulbright to Brazil and has spent time in China, Africa, and Russia. He served as department chair of the political science department at Cal Poly and holds a B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Oregon in international and comparative politics. Emmit B. Evans has been a faculty member in the political science department at California Polytechnic State University since 1990. He has conducted research in Kenya, Mexico, and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and was the executive director of a rural community development organization in the southwestern United States for 10 years. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of comparative development administration, world food politics, and contemporary global issues. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer, having served in East Africa. He earned a Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Reginald Gooden was born in Camaguey, Cuba, and spent his early years in Cuba and Panama. He has taught classes in inter-American relations and political philosophy at California Polytechnic State University since 1970. At Cal Poly he has chaired the academic senate. He has also served on The California State University Chancellor's Advisory Committee on General Education. He has been a member of the C.S.U. Academic Senate since 1985 and is their representative to the C.S.U. Academic Council on International Programs. He completed his undergraduate work at U.C.L.A. and earned his Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Earl Huff received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Idaho in 1970. He has travelled extensively in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Dr. Huff was the recipient of two Fulbright awards to study in Beirut, Lebanon, and in New Delhi, India. In the United Kingdom, he was awarded a Fulbright teaching position and also was an invited visiting scholar at Cambridge University. Although his primary academic interest is in the areas of U.S. foreign policy and Asian politics, he has also coauthored a very successful American government textbook. Richard Kranzdorf has been a professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University since 1971. His specialties are African politics and environmental politics. He received a summer Fulbright to Pakistan and a second one to Poland and Hungary. Among the courses Dr. Kranzdorf currently teaches are: Introduction to International Relations, Politics of Global Survival, Contemporary Global Political Issues, Politics of Developing Areas, and African Politics. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer, having served in West
"The Other World, with its expert co-authors, equipped with current information, fills a niche in the developing world text market not currently filled by any other text." -- Ross Burkhart, Boise State University
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