Deciding to Negotiate with Villains

Negotiation Journal - Do national leaders have an obligation to negotiate with enemies that have been villainized despite government policies and popular opinion that constrain them from doing so?...     

Die multilokale Mehrgenerationenfamilie

In the fourties, René König and Ernest W. Burgess formulated concepts for the family, with the internal coherence being based on the relations and the feelings of the family members. Therefore, König feared the disorganization and disintegration of the institution of the family. In contrast, Talcott Parsons developed the model of a cooperative family organization, whose stability is not based on the feelings, but is regulated by the reciprocal functioning of the family members. The thesis of this essay is that Parsons — contrary to König and Burgess — developed a valid model of the family of the industrial society. This model is empirically examinable, but furthermore indicates in detail the conditions designating the stability or the decay of the model. Today the fordist family model of Parsons is replaced by the model of the multi-local and multi-generational family.     

Campaign finance reform legislation in the United States Congress: A critique

Legislation to reform campaign funding in the United States must produce a system which reduces the potential for corruption, real or perceived, and creates greater equality of fund raising opportunity between incumbents and challengers. Bills before the 104th Congress would require bureaucratic and arbitrary systems of regulation; they would not produce workable reform. Within the existing full disclosure system,two reforms would be most effective: setting maximum dollar amounts for “soft money” contributions; and limiting fund raising by lobbyists. An even more effective system would be to “blind” contributions made to the campaign committees of individual candidates. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Musandam peninsula and its people the Shihuh

Central Asia

Tibetan Foothold. By Dervla Murphy. London, John Murray, 1966. Pp. x + 206. Map. Illus. Index. 25s.

South Asia

Social Change in Modern India. By M. N. Srinivas. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 194. Index. 55.00.

Many Worlds. An Autobiography. By K. P. S. Menon. London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 324. Illus. Index. 28s.

Challenges in India. By Taya Zinkin. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 248. Index. 30s.

Succession in India. By Michael Brecher. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 269. Index. 35s.

Crisis in Kashmir, 1947 to 1966. By Alastair Lamb. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. 150. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 25s.

South‐West Asia

Nationalism and Revolution in the Arab World. By Hisham B. Sharabi London, Van Nostrand Inc., 1966. Pp. ix +176. Map. 15s.

Farewell to Arabia. By David Holden. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 268. Maps. Illus. Index. 35s.

Permanent Sovereignty over Oil Reserves. By Muhamad A. Mughraby. A Study of Middle East Oil Concessions and Legal Change. Beirut, The Middle East Research and Publishing Centre, 1966. Pp. 233. Bibliog. Index. £2 11s.; $7.00; L.L.22.00.

Oil and Public Opinion in the Middle East. By David Hirst. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 127. Index. 30s.

Unknown Oman. By Wendell Phillips. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1966. Pp. xiii + 319. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

The Kurds. An Historical and Political Study. By Hassan Arfa. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 178. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

South‐East Asia

The Making of South‐East Asia. By G. Coedès. Trans. by H. M. Wright. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. xvii + 268. Map. Illus. Index. 35s.

South‐East Asia: Race, Culture and Nation. By Guy Hunter. Published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xix + 190. Maps. Index. 35s.

Reporting South‐East Asia. By Denis Warner. London, Angus and Robertson, 1966. Pp. 342. Maps. Index. 36s.

Vietnam: Between Two Truces. By Jean Lacouture (trans. Konrad Kellen and Joel Carmichael). London, Seeker and Warburg, 1966. Pp. vi + 295. Sketch map. Index. 35s.

The Lost Revolutions Vietnam 1945–65. By Robert Shaplen. London, Andre Deutsch, 1966. Pp. xxi + 404. Map. Index. 36s.

Viet‐nam Witness 1953–1966. By Bernard Fall. London, Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. ix + 363. Sketch maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

Vietnam. Penguin Special edited by Marvin E. Gettleman. Penguin Books, 1966. Pp. 480. Maps. Appendices. Index. 8s. 6d.

Towards Peace in Indo‐China. By Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon. Published for Chatham House by Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 71. 7s. 6d.

Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia. An Exploration of Eastern Policy under Lenin and Stalin. By Charles B. McLane. Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 563. Map. Chronology. Bibliog. Index. £5.

Far East

A Quarter of Mankind. By Dick Wilson. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. 308. Map. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

Chinese Journey. By Gun Kessle and Jan Myrdal. London, Chatto and Windus, 1965. Pp. 160. 45s.

The First Years of Yangyi Commune. By Isabel and David Crook. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. iv + 288. Map. Illus. Index. 42s.

Bibliography and Philology

Bibliography on Southwestern Asia. By Henry Field. In Seven Compilations, with Subject Indexes. University of Miami Press, various dates from 1953.

A Kurdish‐English Dictionary. By Taufiq Wahby and C. J. Edmonds. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. x +179. 42s.

Biography and Autobiography

Faisal. By Gerald de Gaury. London, Arthur Barker, 1966. Pp. xiv + 191. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 36s.

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan. By Leonard Mosley. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. xiii + 371. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Born in Tibet. By Chögyam Trungpa. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 264. Illus. Maps. Index. 35s.

Past Imperative. By Sir Edward Wakefield. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. xi + 226. Maps. Index. 35s.

Apprentice to Power. India 1904–1908. By Sir Malcolm Darling. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 256. 35s.

Kipling in India. By Louis L. Cornell. London, Macmillan, 1966. Pp. xiii + 224. Index. 30s.

Pickering, Protector of Chinese. By R. N. Jackson. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 127. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. 32s.

Raffles. By Maurice Collis. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 227. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Servants of the Dragon Throne. By Charles Drage. London, Peter Dawnay, 1966. Pp. 283. Sketch Maps. Illus. Index. 42s.

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Revised Translation by Eilichi Kiyooka with a Foreword by Carmen Blacker. Columbia University Press, 1966. Pp. xv+ 407. Illus. Index. 56s.

Civilization and culture

Islamic Art and Architecture. By Ernst Kühnel. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1966. Pp. 200. 118 illustrations in black and white. 21 plans. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Ancient Iran. By Edith Porada. London, Methuen, 1965. Art of the World Series. Pp. 279. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

History

The War Against Japan. Vol. IV of the Official History. By S. Woodburn Kirby et al. H.M.S.O., 1965. Pp. xxv + 568. Maps. Photographs. Appendices. Index. 85s.

Springboard to Victory. By C. E. Lucas Phillips. London, Heinemann, 1966. Pp. 241. Maps. Diagrams. Photographs. Indexes. 30s.

Kohima. By Arthur Swinson. London, Casscll, 1966. Pp. xvi + 275. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

A History of India. Volume 2. By Percival Spear. Penguin Books, 1965. Pp. 284. Biblio. Index. 5s.

South Asia: A Short History. By Hugh Tinker. London, Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. 287. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

South Asia: A Background Book. By Angus Maude. London, The Bodley Head, 1966. Pp. 186. Maps. Index. 15s.

A Concise History of East Asia. By C. P. Fitzgerald. London, Heinemann, 1966. Pp. 310. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore. By Charles Burton Buckley. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 790. Maps. Illus. Index. 68s.

The Eastern Question 1774–1923. A Study in International Relations. By M. S. Anderson. London, Macmillan, 1966. Papcrmac. Pp. xxi + 436. Maps. Index. 25s.

England zwischen Russland und Deutschland. Der Persische Golf in der britischen Vorkriegspolitik, 1899–1907, dargestellt nach englischem Archivma‐terial. By Jens B. Plass. Hamburg, Hamburger Gesellschaft fur Völkerrecht und Auswartige Politik, 1966. (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Aüswartige Politik, Bd. 3.) Pp. viii + 507. Maps. Bibliog. Index. No price.

The Pirate Coast. By Sir Charles Belgrave. London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1966. Pp. xii + 200. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

Egypt and the Fertile Crescent 1516–1922. By P. M. Holt. London, Longmans, 1966. Pp. xii + 337. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Four Aspects of Egypt. By John Marlowe. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 303. Maps. Illus. Index. 45s.

Rome on the Euphrates. By Freya Stark. London, John Murray, 1966. Pp. xii + 481. Endpaper maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 63s.

The Greeks in India. By George Woodcock. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 199. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Asia, Gods and Cities. By George Woodcock. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 340. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 36s.

East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century. By W. Samolin. Central Asiatic Studies, IX. Mouton and Co., The Hague, 1964. Pp. 100. Bibliog. Index. Map.

Religion and Philosophy

Afghani and ‘Abduh. An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Modern Islam. By Élie Kedourie. London, Frank Cass and Co., 1966. Pp. ix + 97. 30s.

Islam et Capitalisme. By M. Rodinson. Paris, Aux Éditions du Seuil, 1966. Pp. 305.