Book reviews

Sheldon W. Simon (ed.). East Asian Security in the Post‐Cold War Era. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. x + 230 pp. $US17.50 (paper), $US45.00 (cloth).

Chong‐Sik Lee (ed.). In Search of a New Order in East Asia. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1991. viii + 207 pp. $US15.00 (paper).

Rohana Mahmood (ed.). Peace in the Making: Proceedings of the Third Asia‐Pacific Roundtable. Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia, 1990. vi + 108 pp. £30.00 (cloth).

T.B. Millar and James Walter (eds). Asian‐Pacific Security After the Cold War. London: Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 1992. iv + 125 pp. £8.50 (paper).

Kevin Clements (ed.). Peace and Security in the Asia Pacific Region. Palmerston North, NZ: The Dunmore Press, 1993. 400 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Peter Drysdale (ed.) in association with Martin O'Hare. The Soviets and the Pacific Challenge. Allen & Unwin (in association with the Australia‐Japan Research Centre, Australian National University, 1991. xxii+160pp. $17.95 (paper).

Richard W. Baker and Gary R. Hawke (eds). ANZUS Economics: Economic Trends and Relations Among Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992. xii + 262 pp. No price given.

John Lewis Gaddis. The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ix + 301 pp. $44.95 (cloth).

Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott. At the Highest Level: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. xiv + 498 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Richard Leaver and James Richardson (eds). The Post‐Cold War Order: Diagnoses and Prognoses. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1993. vii + 278 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Barry Buzan, Charles Jones and Richard Little. The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. viii + 267 pp. US$46.00 (cloth), US$18.00 (paper).

James W. Lamare (ed.). International Crisis and Domestic Politics: Major Political Conflicts in the 1980s. New York: Praeger, 1991. viii + 192 pp. $US42.95 (cloth).

Anthony G. McGrew, Paul G. Lewis, et al. Global Politics: Globalization and the Nation‐State. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. ix + 337 pp. $39.95 (paper).

James Der Derian. On Diplomacy. A Genealogy of Western Estrangement. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991. vi + 258 pp. $39.95 (paper).

James Der Derian. Antidiplomacy. Spies, Terror, Speed and War. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992. ix + 215 pp. $39.95 (paper).

Dayton Mak and Charles Stuart Kennedy. American Ambassadors in a Troubled World: Interviews with Senior Diplomats. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992. viii + 231 pp. $US47.95 (cloth).

Joseph M. Siracusa. New Left Diplomatic Histories and Historians: The American Revisionists. Claremont, California: Regina Books, 1993. x + 132 pp. No price given.

George P. Shultz. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. xiii + 1184 pp. $43.95 (cloth).

Walter Isaacson. Kissinger: A Biography. London: Faber and Faber, 1992. 893 pp. $27.95 (paper).

Torbjoem L. Knutsen. A History of International Relations Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. ix + 298 pp. $37.50 (paper).

Desmond Ball and David Horner (eds). Strategic Studies in a Changing World: Global, Regional and Australian Perspectives. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 89. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1992. xiv + 465 pp. $17.50 (paper).

David Campbell. Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. ix + 269 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Richard Connaughton. Military Intervention in the 1990s: A New Logic of War. London: Routledge, 1992. xv + 198 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Asian Defence Policies: Great Powers and Regional Powers. Book One. Geelong: Deakin University Book Production Unit, 1992. 172 pp. No price given.

Emanuel Adler (ed.). The International Practice of Arms Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xiv + 287 pp. $31.00 (paper).

Paul Keal (ed.). Ethics and Foreign Policy. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, in association with Department of International Relations, Australian National University, 1992. xiii + 259 pp. $24.95 (paper).

R.C. Smith. Ethics and Informal War. New York: Vantage Press, 1991. 213 pp. $US16.95 (cloth).

Malcolm Saunders. Quiet Dissenter: The Life and Thought of an Australian Pacifist. Eleanor May Moore, 1875–1949. Monograph No. 12, Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1993. 398 pp. $16.00.

The Foundation for Development Cooperation. Banking With the Poor. Toowong, Qld: The Foundation for Development Cooperation, 1992. xiv + 223 pp. $15.00 (paper).

John Dunn (ed.). Democracy: The Unfinished Journey 508 BC to 1993 AD. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii + 290 pp. $54.95 (cloth).

David Held (ed.). Prospects for Democracy. North, South, East, West. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. xi + 412 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Georg Serensen. Democracy and Democratization. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. xv + 170 pp. $US13.95 (paper), $US49.50 (cloth).

Robert Pinkney. Democracy in the Third World. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993. ix + 182 pp. $39.95 (paper).

Eva Etzioni‐Halevy. The Elite Connection: Problems and Potential of Western Democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. vii + 239 pp. $39.95 (paper).

Lincoln Allison (ed.) The Changing Politics of Sport. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. viii + 238 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Laurie Zivetz et al. Doing Good: The Australian NGO Community. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991. xi + 288 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Bruce M. Koppel and Robert M. Orr (eds). Japan's Foreign Aid: Power and Policy in a New Era. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. 378 pp. $US49.50 (paper).

Alan Rix. Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy Reform and Aid Leadership. London: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series, 1993. 224 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

David Wright‐Neville. The Evolution of Japanese Foreign Aid, 1955–1990. Monograph No.2, Monash Development Studies Centre, Monash University, 1991. 122 pp. No price given.

Leslie Holmes. The End of Communist Power: Anti‐Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993. xx + 358 pp. $29.95 (paper).

John Miller. Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power. Basingstoke, UK: The Macmillan Press, 1993. xviii + 267 pp. $36.95 (paper).

John Massey Stewart (ed.). The Soviet Environment: Problems, Policies and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xv + 245 pp. $135 (cloth).

R. Higgott, R. Leaver and J. Ravenhill (eds). Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993. xiv + 392 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Rodney V. Cole and Somsak Tambunlertchai (eds). The Future of Asia‐Pacific Economies: Pacific Islands at the Crossroads? Kuala Lumpur and Canberra: Asian and Pacific Development Centre and National Centre for Development Studies, 1993. x + 350 pp. $25.00.

Kevin Hewison, Richard Robison and Garry Rodan (eds). Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Democracy and Capitalism. North Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1993. vi + 249 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Stephen Frenkel (ed.). Organized Labor in the Asia‐Pacific Region: a Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1993. xv + 413 pp. $US26.95 (paper), $US58.00 (paper).

Vitit Muntarbhorn. The Status of Refugees in Asia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xi + 217 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Ann Kent. Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiii + 293 pp. $25.95 (paper).

Ian Russell, Peter Van Ness and Beng‐Huat Chua. Australia's Human Rights Diplomacy. Canberra: Australian Foreign Policy Publications Program, Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1992. vii+179 pp. $10.00 (paper).

June Grasso, Jay Corrin and Michael Kort. Modernisation and Revolution in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1991. xiii + 269 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen. Ten Years of Turbulence: The Chinese Cultural Revolution. London: Kegan Paul International, 1993. viii + 369 pp. £55.00 (cloth).

Wang Gungwu. The Chineseness of China: Selected Essays. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1991. ix + 354 pp. $42.50 (cloth).

Clement Tisdell. Economic Development in the Context of China. Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1993. xiv + 218 pp. $65.95 (cloth).

Bob Lowry. Indonesian Defence Policy and the Indonesian Armed Forces. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1993. 144 pp. $20.00 (paper).

K.S. Jomo (ed.). Industrialising Malaysia: Policy, Performance, Prospects. London: Routledge, 1993. xi + 354 pp. No price given.

Donald M. Nonini. British Colonial Rule and the Resistance of the Malay Peasantry, 1900–1957. New Haven: Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, 1992. xiii + 237 pp. No price given.

Likhit Dhiravegin. Demi‐Democracy. The Evolution of the Thai Political System. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1992. xiii + 242 pp. $US28.00 (paper).

Anek Laothamatas. Business Associations and the New Political Economy of Thailand: From Bureaucratic Polity to Liberal Corporatism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. xiii + 202 pp. $US28.00 (paper).

Reynaldo C. Ileto and Rodney Sullivan (eds). Discovering Australasia. Essays on Philippine‐ Australian Interactions. Townsville: Department of History and Politics, James Cook University, 1993. xii + 215 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Robin Broad with John Cavanagh. Plundering Paradise. The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvi + 197 pp. No price given.

Dean Forbes, Terence Hull, David Marr and Brian Brogan (eds). Doi Moi: Vietnam's Renovation, Policy and Performance. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 14. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991. xiv + 263 pp. $18.00 (paper).

Takashi Shiraishi and Motoo Furuta (eds). Indochina in the 1940s and 1950s. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1992. 196 pp. $US14.00 (paper).

David P. Chandler. Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1992. xiii + 254 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Mya Than. Myanmar's External Trade: An Overview in the Southeast Asian Context. Singapore: Asean Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992. 116 pp. $S24.00 (paper).

Alastair Lamb. Kashmir: a Disputed Legacy. Hertingfordbury, UK: Roxford Books, 1991. xiv + 368 pp. £25.00 (cloth).

W. Howard Wriggins (ed.). Dynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xiv + 338 pp. $US46.00 (cloth).

Marina Ottaway. South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1993. xi + 250 pp. $US14.95 (paper), $US34.95 (cloth).

Gerhard Maré. Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa. London: Zed Books, 1993. xi+125 pp. $US17.50 (paper), $US49.95 (cloth).

Ian McGibbon (ed.). Undiplomatic Dialogue: Letters Between Carl Berendsen and Alister McIntosh 1943–1952. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993. xx + 305 pp. $NZ29.95.

John Stevenson. Third Party Politics Since 1945: Liberals, Alliance and Liberal Democrats. Oxford: Blackwell/Institute of Contemporary British History, 1993. xii + 157 pp. $32.95 (paper).     

World Heritage hot spots: a global model identifies the 16 natural heritage properties on the World Heritage List most at risk from climate change

UNESCO’s 207 natural heritage World Heritage Properties are at risk from climate change, but risk varies widely among properties. I offer a global model based on multi-model general circulation model (GCM) ensembles, vulnerability and Human Influence (HII), producing the World Heritage Vulnerability Index (WHVI), a measure of relative risk among properties. Nineteen properties are most at risk (i.e. WHVI > mean + 1 SD). Those include islands (i.e. Vallée de Mai, Aldabra, East Rennell, Teide, Laurisilva of Maderia, Isole Eloie, Pitons Management Area, Morne Trois Pitons and Galapagos Islands), coastal properties (i.e. Everglades, Desembarco del Granma, High Coast and Kvarken Archipelago, Doñana, Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Ichkeul and the Sunderbans) and mountainous properties (i.e. the Pyrenees Mont Pérdu, Nanda Devi and the Valley of Flowers, and Mount Kinabalu). Three properties (i.e. Teide, Isole Eloie and the Pitons Management Area) are geologic, apparently relatively resistant to short-term climactic changes. The remaining 16 are likely to respond to climactic changes in the next 40 years; those changes may threaten their World Heritage status. Those properties are where society could most effectively invest in adaptation. I identify adaptive strategies and next steps for proactive climate change adaptation in the 16 natural heritage properties on the World Heritage List most at risk.     

Some approaches to traditional Māori knowledge

In this essay I review two books of rather different focus, but with a common thread that is oral tradition: age-old tales passed orally down the generations to maintain the histories and used to educate the young. The focus of the Metge book is traditional methods of education, while McRae’s focus is on the stories themselves.     

Gombrich’s critique of Hauser’s Social History of Art

This article examines E.H. Gombrich’s critical appraisal of Arnold Hauser’s book, The Social History of Art. Hauser’s Social History of Art was published in 1951, a year after Gombrich’s bestseller, The Story of Art. Although written in Britain for an English-speaking public, both books had their origins in the intellectual history of Central Europe: Gombrich was an Austrian art historian and Hauser was Hungarian. Gombrich’s critique, published in The Art Bulletin in 1953, attacked Hauser’s dialectical materialism and his sociological interpretation of art history. Borrowing arguments from Karl Popper’s critique of historicism, Gombrich described Hauser’s work as collectivist and deterministic, tendencies at odds with his own conception of art history. However, in his readiness to label Hauser a proponent of historical materialism, Gombrich failed to recognize Hauser’s own criticism of deterministic theories of art, especially formalism. This article investigates Gombrich’s reasons for rejecting Hauser’s sociology of art. It argues Gombrich used Hauser as an ideological counterpoint to his own version of art history, avowedly liberal and individualist in outlook.     

Reconstruction of Caprine Management and Landscape Use Through Dental Microwear Analysis: The Case of the Iron Age Site of El Turó de la Font de la Canya (Barcelona,Spain)

This paper presents the results of a pilot study using dental microwear analysis on 23 sheep and goat teeth dated to the 6th century BC from the Iron Age site of El Turó Font de la Canya (Barcelona, Spain). This study aimed to reconstruct livestock management practices and landscape use. The dental microwear pattern indicates that sheep and goats could have been grazing in the same area where vegetation was composed of shrubs, bushes and non-graminaceous plants on an eroded landscape, although additional supplies of fodder cannot be excluded. This scenario is compatible with the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data which suggest a possibly increased territoriality, land degradation and an increase of woodland clearance during Iron Age in the North-east of the Iberian Peninsula. Furthermore, we applied two recent microwear approaches which provide more information about mortality events and the possibility of distinguishing between an intensive and extensive management. This paper demonstrates how this method can be used to better understand animal husbandry practices and landscape use in Late Prehistory.     

Evolving technology,shifting expectations: cultivating pedagogy for a rapidly changing GIS landscape

As humans and natural processes continuously reshape the surface of the Earth, there is an unceasing need to document and analyze them through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The public is gaining more access to spatial technologies that were once only available to highly trained professionals. With technological evolution comes a requirement to transition traditional GIS training for the next generation of GIS professionals. Traditional GIS combined with non-traditional GIS (i.e. mobile and location media) and CyberGIS educational materials could attract new and diverse students into Geography departments while informing the next generation of geospatial tool builders and users. Here we pose an applied pedagogical framework for teaching cutting-edge GIS material to diverse student populations with varying levels of technological experience and professional goals. The framework was developed as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberGIS Fellows program and was applied as a course template at the University of Washington Tacoma’s Master’s of Science in Geospatial Technologies. We chart how the framework developed into a cyclical structure from our original conceptualization as a hierarchy. This changed the epistemological orientation accommodating the shifting technological terrain of the GIS landscape to improve the skills of those driving the machines.