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As the Soviet enigma becomes increasingly elusive to Western analysts, the readings in this book examine whether the Soviet challenge of the 1990s can best be characterized as peacefully offensive or as operational entrapment.

This work follows upon the author's previous volume, The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil, and investigates the general workings of the Mexican oil industry in relationship to the economics and politics of Mexico. Specifically the author examines Mexico's state-run oil concern, PEMEX, and the costs and benefits of Mexican oil policy--for the nation as a whole and for special groups. Using in-depth interviews and extensive data from PEMEX an...

During the past 15 years, remarkable changes have taken place in Africa. These take the form of a grass-roots revolution, as small villages reclaim their self-reliance. This study looks at the projects behind this movement, and emphasizes the cultural dimensions of development.

Farazmand, a former bureaucrat in the Pahlavi state administration, argues that the latter functioned more to maintain the state and to control society than to provide its population with services and with help for development. In the long run, such a self-serving thrust proved destructive and was one reason for the state's final collapse in the 1979 revolution. ChoiceCovering the period from 1950 through 1988 this book examines the role of a ...

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Combining the experiences of those who have participated in mergers and acquisitions with those who have studied the phenomena, this book offers the reader a unique opportunity to access and to assess the current merger wave engulfing our economy.

In recent years Israelis have discovered that no issue is more critical to the future of Israel than its economy. This discovery is part of the great change now taking place in Israel from the founding era to the era of settling in. This book represents an effort to understand what has gone before as Israel is about to open a new chapter in its political economy. The authorsóYosef Gabbay, David Kochav, Dabid Rodet, Raphael Roter, Moshe Sanbar,...

This book analyses and compares the unofficial economies and their control in ten marxist states: the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Nicaragua, China, Angola and Tanzania. It provides a vivid, mosaic-like panorama of the hidden economies in these countries. The book breaks with the view that the unofficial economy is simply a by-product of the official economy. It shows an unfolding interplay between these two economies, whi...