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Volume XIV (2003)

Contributors

Tanweer Akram is a consultant at an international development bank. He completed his graduate studies at the London School of Economics, UK and Columbia University, NY. His papers and reviews have appeared in Applied Economics, Bangladesh Development Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, Kylos, Third World Quarterly, and Z Magazine. He can be contacted at ta63@columbia.edu.

Rory J. Conces is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a member of the International Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is also Director of the Nebraska Center for Critical Reasoning and has been the Editor of International Third World Studies Journal and Review since 1994. He is the author of a monograph entitled Blurred Visions: Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World (1997), and has published articles in numerous journals including Studies in East European Thought, Theoria, The Locke Newsletter, Southwest Philosophy Review, Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science, Acta Analytica, Dijalog, Sociajdemokrat, and International Third World Studies Journal and Review. Currently, his research focuses on ethnic nationalism, selfhood, personal identity, and conflict management; the ethics of intervention; and extreme deontics. He has lectured on applied philosophy at South China Normal University, Zhoushan University, and Hangzhou Teachers College in China. Conces completed a Fulbright teaching and research award at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as presented additional lectures on applied philosophy at universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo, during the Spring term of 2001. He returned to the Balkans during the Summer term of 2003 to lecture on country building and ethnic nationalism, philosophy, and other topics. He can be contacted at rconces@mail.unomaha.edu.

Alvin G. Edgell is an Instructor in the Department of Political Science, Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. With thirty years experience in socio-economic development projects throughout the world (including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belize, Nigeria/Biafra, Somalia, South Korea, and Turkey), he brings a wealth of personal knowledge about the subject he engages in this issue. His former employers include CARE, Save the Children, US-AID, Action Aid (UK), TransCentury Corp., Population Services International, the Peace Corps, the University College of Belize, International Development Services, and the Society for International Development, among others. He can be contacted at alvedge@cs.com.

Kema Irogbe is a Professor of Political Science and Director of International Programs at Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina. His areas of specialization are African politics, international relations, and public administration. He is the recipient of a number of awards including a fellowship at Harvard University and has, among his publications, authored a book: The Roots of the United States Foreign Policy Toward Apartheid South Africa: 1969-1985. He is currently working on two papers: “Youths and Cultism in Higher Education of Nigeria” and “Globalization: The Development of Underdevelopment.” He can be contacted at irogbe@claflin.edu.

David T. Jervis is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He taught previously at Lincoln University, PA (2002–2003) and Washburn University, KS (1985–2000). Jervis has also taught in Croatia as a Fulbright Scholar and in South Africa and worked for the American embassy in Germany. His areas of research interest include American policy toward countries in the South experiencing political instability and American policy toward South Africa. He has published articles in South African Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Third World Studies, and Pew Case Studies in International Affairs. He can be contacted at jervisdt@yahoo.com.

Ali Kamali is Associate Professor of Sociology at Missouri Western State College. His areas of teaching and research include social stratification and inequality: class, race, and gender; comparative sociology and development (Central Asia and the Middle East); and social psychology. He can be contacted at kamali@mwsc.edu.

Clint McCowan recently completed his first year of doctoral studies in history at Northern Arizona University. He received an interdisciplinary M.A. in globalization and the environment at Humboldt State University in 2001. His research interests are broad and include political economy, environmental history, and cultural studies. He currently teaches history at the high school level in northern Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and two children. This piece is the author’s second publication in the International Third World Studies Journal and Review. He can be contacted at chmccowan@cheqnet.net.

Owen G. Mordaunt is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches courses in linguistics, ESL, ESL methods, cross-cultural communication, and black short fiction since 1986. His previous experience includes high school teaching, both in Swaziland and the U.S., and teacher training and university teaching in Swaziland, where he also worked for the Ministry of Education as Senior Inspector of Schools responsible for English. His is the Book Review Editor for the International Third World Studies Journal and Review. He has published articles on literature and linguistics in Africa Focus, Educational Studies, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Tesol Reporter, Tesol Journal, and International Third World Studies Journal and Review. He can be contacted at mordaunt@mail.unomaha.edu.

Paul Allen Williams is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he teaches courses in African religions, Christianity, and Islam. His general area of research is the history of religions in North America and in central Africa. His current research concerns the role of American Protestant missionaries in the Congo Free State, the history of Islam in Congo, and the war in Congo. He has published reviews in Annales Aequatoria and International Third World Studies Journal and Review. He can be contacted at pwilliams@mail.unomaha.edu.

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