Man on the Spot: Captain George Gracey and British Policy towards the Assyrians, 1917–45

Oman Since 1856: Disruptive Modernization in a Traditional Arab Society. By Robert Geran Landen. Pp. xvi+488. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 100s.

Oman: A History. By Wendell Phillips. Pp. xiv+246. Illustrations, maps, appendices, index. London: Longmans, 63s.

British Interests in the Persian Gulf. By Abdul Amir Amin. Pp. vi+164. Map, appendices, bibliography. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 36 guilders.

Lords of the Atlas. The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893–1956. By Gavin Maxwell. Pp. 318. Longmans. 1966. 50s.

Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914. By Briton Cooper Busch. Pp. x+388. Appendices. Index. University of California Press London: Cambridge University Press. 83s.

Islamic Reform, The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida. By Malcolm H. Kerr. Pp. 223, bibliog., index. University of California Press. London: Cambridge University Press. 42s.

Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt. (Historical Studies from the Ottoman Conquest to the United Arab Republic). Edited by P. M. Holt, Pp. xx+400, index. Oxford University Press. 70s.

The Surest Path: The Political Treatise of a Nineteenth‐Century Muslim Statesman. By Leon Carl Brown. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series XVI. Pp. 188. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 34s.     

Political Succession in the Middle East

The following briefs were presented in a workshop on "Political Succession in the Middle East" at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1, 2001, in San Francisco. Louis J. Cantori, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University, were the conveners of the Conference Group on the Middle East, which issued this report.     

Political Chronicles

The Commonwealth of Australia January to June 2004 P aul D. W illiams Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University
New South Wales January to June 2004 S arah M addison Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales
Victoria January to June 2004 N ick E conomou Monash University
Queensland January to June 2004 J ohn W anna Political Science Program, Australian National University, and Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University
Western Australia January to June 2004 H arry C. J. P hillips Parliamentary Fellow, Western Australian Parliament; Adjunct Professor, Edith Cowan University L iz K err A/Principal Research Officer, Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Western Australia
South Australia January to June 2004 H aydon M anning Political and International Studies, Flinders University
Tasmania January to June 2004 R ichard H err School of Government, University of Tasmania
Northern Territory January to June 2004 D avid C arment School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University
Australian Capital Territory January to June 2004 J anine O'F lynn School of Business and Government, University of Canberra     

Lawrence's strategy and tactics in the ARAB revolt

Jason Abbott is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies, the University of Surrey. Formerly a Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, he is the author of several publications on South East Asian politics.

Oliver Franks is a postgraduate student in Asian Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies.     

Political Chronicles

The Commonwealth of Australia January to June 2003 P aul D. W illiams School of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University
New South Wales January to June 2003 S ean S calmer Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University
Victoria January to June 2003 N ick E conomou Monash University
Queensland January to June 2003 J ohn W anna School of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University
Western Australia January to June 2003 H arry C. J. P hillips International, Cultural and Community Studies, Edith Cowan University D avid B lack John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University of Technology
South Australia January to June 2003 A ndrew P arkin Political and International Studies, Flinders University
Tasmanian Political Chronicle January to June 2003 R ichard H err School of Government, University of Tasmania
Northern Territory January to June 2003 D avid G arment Faculty of Law, Business and Arts, Northern Territory University
Australian Capital Territory January to June 2003 G wynneth S ingleton Canberra     

Contemporary Australian Political Party Organisations

Contemporary Australian Political Party Organisations. Edited by Narelle Miragliotta, Anika Gauja and Rodney Smith (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, 2015), pp xx+263. AU$49.95 (pb).     

The origins and development of the Jihadist movement: from anti-communism to terrorism

Gilles Kepel is Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Paris (1985 to present); Senior Researcher, CNRS (National Board for Scientific Research), Paris (1984 to present); Director of the Doctoral Program on the Muslim World, Institute of Political Studies (1994 to present). He was Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York (1996–1997); Researcher, CEDEJ (Egyptian–French Center for Scientific Cooperation), Cairo, Egypt (1980–1983). He is the author of several books on Islam, including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, published by IB Tauris in 2002 (reviewed in this issue of Asian Affairs, p. 158) and Bad Moon Rising: A Chronicle of the Middle East Today (Saqi, 2003). An earlier version of this article was published in Ramse`s, 2003     

NGOs and Political Change: A History of the Australian Council for International Development

NGOs and Political Change: A History of the Australian Council for International Development. By Patrick Kilby (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2015), pp.xvii + 289. AUD$40.00 (pb). Katrina     

Book reviews

Bremmer I &; R Tarras (eds), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 565pp., index.

Bulloch J &; H Morris, No Friends but the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds. London: Penguin Books, 1993 (new epilogue). 257pp., index.

Cable J, Gunboat Diplomacy 1919 ‐ 1991: Political Applications of Limited Naval Power. London: Macmillan, 1994, 246pp.

Evans R, Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993, 339pp.

Gaddis JL, The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 301pp.

Jeffrey R, What's Happening to India? Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, and the Test for Federalism. London: Macmillan, Second Edition, 1994, pp. ii &; 252pp.

Mazrui AA &; C Wondji (eds), Africa since 1935. Paris: UNESCO; Oxford: Heinemann Educational; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. (UNESCO General History of Africa Series, Vol. VIII) xxiii, 1025 pp. Illustrated, maps, plates, bibliography and index.     

Lionel Smith on education in Iraq

Dr Grace E. Goodell (The Elementary Structures of Political Life: Rural Development in Pahlavi Iran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp.362. £40.00)

Dr Habib Ladjevardi (Labour Unions and Autocracy in Iran. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1985. Pp.328. $29.95)     

Hybrid Politics and New Competitiveness: Hong Kong’s 2007 Chief Executive Election

In recounting Hong Kong's chief executive election in 2007, this paper charts the unexpected appearance of an “unauthorized” candidate and the occurrence of vibrant campaigning. Further, as electoral competitiveness increased, the liberal form of authoritarian rule that has characterized politics in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) began to change in ways that parallel the electoral authoritarianism practiced in Singapore. This paper argues that such change, if regularized and enhanced, may bring greater stability to the HKSAR’s politics, yielding greater legitimacy, popular compliance, and hence, new efficiencies in control. Even so, analysis of the chief executive election shows that this competitiveness was strongly resisted by the central government in Beijing.

U.S.-Saudi Relations: a Rocky Road

The following report was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The meeting that generated it took place in Bellagio, Italy, July 19–23, 2004. The authors of the report are Clifford Chanin of the Legacy Project and F. Gregory Gause, III, professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Steve Ellner, ed., Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty‐First Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Bibliography, index, 306 pp.; hardcover $94, paperback $33, ebook $31.99. Kenneth M. Roberts, Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index, 330 pp.; hardcover $95, paperback $34.99, ebook $28. Kurt Weyland, Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America Since the Revolutions of 1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 326 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $29.99, ebook $24. Rebecca Weitz‐Shapiro, Curbing Clientelism in Argentina: Politics, Poverty, and Social Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 206 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Miriam Shakow, Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Figures, table, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, 272 pp.; hardcover $65, ebook $65. Paul Almeida, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 216 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $29.95, ebook $29.95. Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco R. Rodríguez, eds., Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 488 pp.; hardcover $119, paperback $35.95. Carew Boulding, NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Melani Cammett and Lauren M. Maclean, eds., The Politics of Non‐state Social Welfare. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index, 328 pp.; hardcover $79.95, paperback $29.95.     

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern . By James Vernon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), AU$32.95 (pb), distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.     

The Russo‐Chinese frontier

General

The Anatomy of Communist Takeovers. Edited by Thomas T. Hammond. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. 664. Bibliog. Index. £12.50 (paper £3.00).

Peasant Rebellion and Communist Revolution in Asia. Edited by John Wilson Lewis. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1974. Pp. 364. Index. $12.95.

Peasant Society in a Changing Economy. Comparative Development in South‐East Asia and India. By George Rosen. Urbana, Chicago and London, University of Illinois Press, 1975. Pp. xiii+256. $8.95.

History ‐ Remembered, Recovered, Invented. By Bernard Lewis. Princeton and London, Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 111. Index. £3.45.

The First Kuwait Oil Concession: a record of the negotiations for the 1934 agreement. By Archibald H. T. Chisholm. London, Frank Cass, 1975. Pp. 254. Illus. Index. £8.00.

Middle East

Faisal: The King and his Kingdom. By Vincent Sheean. Tavistock, Devon, University Press of Arabia, 1975. Pp. 176. Maps. Illus. Index. £4.95.

Riza Shah Pahlavi: The Resurrection and Reconstruction of Iran 1878–1944. By Donald N. Wilber. New York, Exposition Press, 1975. Pp. 301. Illus. Index. £15.00.

The Golden Age of Persia. The Arabs in the East. By Richard N. Frye. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1975. Pp. 290. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

War, Technology and Society in the Middle East Edited by V. J. Parry and M. E. Yapp. London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 448. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

South Asia

Elections and Political Development: The South Asian Experience. By Norman D. Palmer. London, C. Hurst &; Co., 1975. Pp. x+301. Notes. Index. £7.75.

South Asian Crisis. By Robert Jackson, London, Chatto &; Windus, 1975. Pp. 240. Appendix. Maps. Index. £4.00.

The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad 1880–1920. By C. A. Bayly. Clarendon Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 314. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

The Myth of the Lokamanya. Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. By Richard I. Cashman. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 246. Appendix. Glossary. Index. £6.85.

Muslim Community in Bengal 1884–1912. By Sufia Ahmed. London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 425. Map. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Electoral Politics in an Emergent State. The Ceylon General Election of May 1970. By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. London, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 240. Maps. Index. £7.00.

Political Structure in a Changing Sinhalese Village. By Marguerite S. Robinson. London, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 376. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £9.75.

South‐East Asia

Konfrontasi: The Indonesian‐Malaysian Dispute 1963–1966. By J. A. C. Mackie. Kuala Lumpur and London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 368. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

The Communist Insurrection in Malaya 1948–1960. By Anthony Short. London, Frederick Muller, 1975. Pp. 547. Bibliog. Index. £8.95.

Malay Peasant Society and Leadership. By S. Husin Ali. Kuala Lumpur and London, Oxford University Press (East Asian Social Science Monographs), 1975. Pp. 192. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £8.60.

The Politics of Belonging: Political Change in Sabah and Sarawak. By Margaret Clark Roff. Kuala Lumpur and London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 202. Map. Bibliog. Index. £7.85.

USSR

A Siberian Journey. The Journal of Hans Jakob Fries, 1774–1776. Translated and edited by Walther Kirchner. London, Frank Cass, 1975. Pp. 183. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

Far East

Liu Shao‐ch'i and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Politics of Mass Criticism. By Lowell Dittmer. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California. Press, 1975. Pp. 386. Bibliog. Index. £7.10.

The Times Atlas of China. Edited by P. J. M. Geelan and D. C. Twitchett. London, Times Books, 1974. Pp. 144 plus Index. £25.00.

Prelude to Revolution. Mao, the Party, and the Peasant Question 1962–66. By Richard Baum. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1975. Pp. 222. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

The Chinese City between Two Worlds. Edited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 458. Maps. Index. £11.00.

Prisoner of Mao. By Bao Ruo‐Wang (Jean Pasqualini) and Rudolph Chelminski. London, André Deutsch, 1975. Pp. 319. Sketch map. £3.95.

China's Republican Revolution. The Case of Kwangtung, 1895–1913. By Edward J. M. Rhoads. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 366. Notes. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £9.90.

China and Pakistan. Diplomacy of an Entente Cordiale. By Anwar H. Syed. Massachusetts University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975, Pp. 259. Index. £3.00.

The Chinese Theatre in Modern Times from 1840 to the Present Day. By Colin Mackerras. London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. Pp. 256. Illus. Index. £6.75.

The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yu. By Stephen Owen. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. 294. Glossary. Index. £8.25.

Japan's Greater East Asia Co‐prosperity Sphere in World War II. Selected readings and documents. By Joyce C. Lebra. London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 212. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan. By David A. Titus. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1975. Pp. 360. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism. The Army and the Rural Community. By Richard J. Smethurst. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1975. Pp. xxi+202. Bibliog. Index. £7.70.     

The office of Seyh ül‐Islâm and the Tanzimat— a prosopographic enquiry

Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan, a study in constitutional and political development 1899–1956 by Muddathir ‘Abd al‐Rahim. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 275 + xv, Appendixes: i‐ix, Index, Bibliography; £3·15.

The Politics of Stratification: a study of political change in a South Arabian town by Abdalla S. Bujra. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 201; 5 plates; £2·75.

Economic Development in Iran, 1900–1970 by Julian Bharier. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 314; £3·75.

The Ways of the Desert by General E. Daumas, with commentaries by The Emir Abd‐el‐Kader; translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf; foreword by Robert A. Fernea. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1971. Pp. 193; $6·75.

The Children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay by Schifra Strizower. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1971. Pp. xiv + 176; £1·25.

Tajribati fi‐th‐thawra (My Experience in Revolution), Vol. I by General Muhammad Umran. Beirut, 1970.

Sayyid Jamal ad‐Din ‘al‐Afghani’: A Political Biography by Nikki R. Keddie, University of California Press. Pp. xvii + 479, frontispiece, bibliography, index; £9 ·00.     

Balance of Factional Power in China: The Seventeenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

The Seventeenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), held on 15–21 October 2007 in Beijing, produced some interesting changes to the balance of power among different factional groups in Chinese politics. Compared to the balance of power among factional groups generated as a result of the Sixteenth National Congress of the CCP five years earlier, the four major factional groups had different experiences. In terms of power index, the Shanghai Gang, a factional group affiliated with Former General Secretary Jiang Zemin, declined substantially; the Qinghua Clique, graduates of the Qinghua University, also declined significantly; the Princelings, children of former high-ranking officials, however, increased a great deal; and the Chinese Communist Youth League (CCYL) Group, a factional group closely associated with General Secretary Hu Jintao, witnessed substantial expansion. In terms of group cohesion index, both the Shanghai Gang and the Qinghua Clique shrank significantly; the Princelings increased somewhat; and the CCYL Group expanded substantially.

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Daniela Campello, The Politics of Market Discipline in Latin America: Globalization and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 239 pp.; hardcover $78.42, paperback $29.99, Kindle $98.40. Eduardo Dargent, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America: The Experts Running Government. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Tables, figures, bibliography, index. 216 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Ana Lorena De La O, Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America: The Quiet Transformation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 194 pp.; hardcover $84.99, ebook $68. Jorge Heine and Brigitte Weiffen, 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas: Standing Up for the Polity. New York: Routledge, 2015. Abbreviations, tables, bibliography, index, 196 pp.; hardcover $130, paperback $47. Juan Pablo Luna, Segmented Representation: Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Tables, maps, figures, bibliography, indexes, 374 pp.; hardcover $115, ebook. Stephen Offutt, New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Map, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, bibliography, index, 192 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Mariela Szwarcberg, Mobilizing Poor Voters: Machine Politics, Clientelism, and Social Networks in Argentina. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 185 pp.; hardcover $89.99, paperback $32.99, ebook $26. Brian Wampler, Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Tables, figures, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 312 pp.; paperback $39, pdf $39. Graham Denyer Willis, The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index, 216 pp.; hardcover $70, paperback $29.95, ebook $29.95. Morris Morley and Chris McGillion, Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over U.S. Policy Toward Chile. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Abbreviations, acronyms, bibliography, index, 354 pp.; hardcover $95, paperback $34.99, ebook $28.     

Political Economists and Political Scientists ‐ What Are the Benefits to Economists From Closer Interaction?

This paper discusses how a closer interaction with Political Scientists could impact on Swiss Political Economists by concentrating on four specific hypotheses. The first thesis evaluates how increased interdisciplinary interaction affects the incentives of Swiss Political Economists. It somewhat pessimistically posits that interdisciplinary interaction does not necessarily inseminate the work of Political Economists. The second thesis is more optimistic and discusses some aspects of the politico‐economic process which have been neglected so far in Political Economics but could be integrated thanks to the interaction with Political Scientists. The third thesis proposes that Swiss Political Economists should learn from Political Scientists to be more critical of present Swiss institutions. The fourth thesis proposes that Political Economists and Political Scientists should not only discuss the application of economic reasoning to politics. They should also investigate which governance mechanisms can be transferred from the polity to the economy.