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Bangura, Abdul Karim (ed.). Islam and Political Economy Systems. San Diego, Calif.: Cognelta, 2011. 176 pp. Impressive! Frustrating! This is how I read Bangura's edited work. But then edited works [...]

INTRODUCTION During the decades of the 1960s and 1970s I was an active participant in a great noble cause. Massive hunger moving into famine condition was put to rest. Millions [...]

Blackburn, Susan, Bianca J. Smith and Siti Syamsiyatun (eds.). Indonesian Islam in a New Era, How Women Negotiate Their Identities. Clayton, Australia: Monash University Press, 2008.211 pp.Flowerings in reviviscent time. [...]

PREFATORY NOTEIn the first week of January 1957 I was on a Pan-American flight from Singapore to Djakarta seated next to a remarkable Indonesian scholar and nationalist, S. Takdir Alisjahbana, [...]

PREFATORY NOTEDuring the 1950s and most of the 1960s in Third World development programs, technical assistance in American public administration was a 'magical' subject and its technicians were 'magicians' of [...]

INNOCENCE LOST: RECKONING THE FUTURE "Each of these princes had his own realm (Nagara, seat of authority with its accompanying territory), but at one place Majapahit, they cleansed the feet [...]

Swain, Ashok (ed.). Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast Asia. London, U.K.: Kegan Paul Press, 2007. 137 pp.This slim volume comprising five chapters of a total 104 pages [...]

Kingsbury, Damien (ed.). Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia. Clayton, Australia: Monash University Press and Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, 2005, 325 pp.Violence throughout archipelagic [...]

Dalta, Rekha. Beyond Realism: Human Security in India and Pakistan in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Lexington Books, 2008. 153 pp. The title of this book under review rings true, [...]

The Pakistani government should adopt a more professional approach to obviate the lacunae in personnel administration, which is the result of its being caught in a time-warp of historical creation. Civil servants, especially the top bureaucracy, are pressurized by political parties which hinder them from doing their duty impartially. The government's personnel administration, despite these inherent drawbacks, has done well, and increased reforms in the bureaucracy will help manage the needs of governance.

Saha, Santosh C. (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues. New York: Lexington Books, 2004. 304 pp. A collage! As a student with a long [...]

Paul, T.V. (ed.). The India-Pakistan Conflict. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 273 pp. Enduring rivalry and conflict between India and Pakistan resulted in horrendous death and economic disarray. [...]

Oxhorn, Philip, Joseph S. Tulchin and Andrew D. Selee (eds.). Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective--Africa. Asia. and Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and [...]