Books & Publications Archive

Associate Professor of anthropology and Director for Notre Dame's Asian Studies, Faculty Fellow Susan Blum is the author of a new book titled Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Scott Mainwaring, Ana María Bejarano, and Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez edited The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes. The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Rev. Paul Kollman's Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa was recently published by Orbis Books (2005).

Robert M. Fishman and Anthony M. Messina have edited a new book titled The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political Import of Europe’s Common Currency (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).

Thomas Anderson published “Carnival, Cultural Debate and Cuban Identity in ‘La comparsa’ and ‘Comparsa habanera’” in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (St. Louis) 40 (2006).

Susan Blum wrote “Five Approaches to Explaining ‘Truth’ and ‘Deception’ in Human Communication” in the Journal of Anthropological Research 61, 3 (2005), as well as “Nationalism Without Linguism: Tolerating Chinese Variants” in The Contest of Language: Authority, Speech, and Scripts, edited by Martin Bloomer (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). She also authored “Buzzing and Writing the Day Away Instant Messaging: Studying a New Form of Communication” in Anthropology News 46, 2 (2005).

Michael Coppedge contributed “Explaining Democratic Deterioration in Venezuela Through Nested Inference” to The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America, edited by Frances Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Amitava Dutt co-authored—with Kajal Mukhopadhyay—“Globalization and the Inequality Among Nations: a VAR Approach” in Economics Letters 88, September (2005). He contributed “Robinson, History and Equilibrium” to Joan Robinson’s Economics: A Centennial Celebration, edited by Bill Gibson (Edward Elgar, 2005), and “International Trade in Early Development Economics” to Origins of Development Economics, edited by Jomo K. Sundaram and Erik S. Reinert (New Delhi: Tulika Books and New York and London: Zed Books, 2005). In addition, he wrote “Steindl’s Theory of Maturity and Stagnation and Its Relevance Today” in Rethinking Capitalist Development: Essays on the Economics of Josef Steindl, edited by T. Mott and N. Shapiro (Routledge, 2005).

Virgilio Elizondo edited, with G. Espinosa and J. Miranda, Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Denis Goulet published “Global Governance, Dam Conflicts, and Participation” in Human Rights Quarterly 27, 3 (2005).

Thomas Gresik’s paper “The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals,” originally published in the Journal of Economic Literature 39 (September, 2001), was reprinted in Petroleum Industry Regulation Within Stable States, edited by Solveig Glomsrød and Petter Osmundsen (Ashgate Press, 2005). The article was also translated into Japanese by Professor Shoji Yamada of Nanzan University and published in the Nanzan Journal of Economic Studies 20 (June, 2005).

Kwan S. Kim published “Development Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Globalization, Adjustment and the Roles of International Institutions” in Global Development and Poverty Reduction—the Challenge for International Institutions, edited by John-ren Chen and David Sapsford (Edward Elgar, 2005).

George Lopez contributed “La Reforma al Consejo de Seguridad” to Las Naciones Unidas Rumbo sus 60 Anos de Fundación, edited by Maria Celia Toro Hernández (El Colegio de Mexico, 2005). He wrote “Impose ‘smart sanctions’ on Syria” for the Christian Science Monitor, as well as contributing six commentaries on issues of international politics to La Opinión.

Paul V. Kollman published The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa (Orbis Books, 2005).

Semion Lyandres authored “On the Question of the Palace Coup on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution: Stenographic Record of the Conversation between Russian Diplo­mat N. A. Basily and Lieutenant-General
A. S. Lukomskii (Paris, 24 February 1933)” in the journal Russian History/Histoire Russe 32, 2 (2005).

Nelson C. Mark published “The Real Exchange Rate and Real Interest Differential: The Role of Nonlinearities,” with Y.K. Moh, in International Journal of Finance and Economics 10 (2005) and “Dynamic Seemingly Unrelated Cointegrating Regressions,” with M. Ogaki and D. Sul, in Review of Economic Studies 72 (July 2005).

Anthony Messina was the co-editor, with Gallya Lahav, of The Migration Reader: Exploring Politics and Policies (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). He also teamed up with Lahav to write “The Limits of a European Immigration Policy: Elite Opinion and Agendas Within the European Parliament” for the Journal of Common Market Studies 43, 4 (2005).

Guillermo O'Donnell’s writings on bureaucratic-authoritarianism are being translated for publication in Chinese by the Beijing University Press.

María Rosa Olivera-Williams, with Mabel Moraña, co-edited El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género y Estado en América Latina (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005). As well, she contributed the chapter “Vírgenes en fuga: Pasión y escritura en los tiempos de la globalización” to the volume.