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Pages 184-198 | Published online: 20 Mar 2008
 

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Robin Osborne, Indonesia's Secret War: The Guerilla Struggle in Irian Jaya. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985, pp. 213. $12.95.

Stephen V. Harris and Colin Brown, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia: The Irian Jaya Problem of 1984. Australia‐Asia Papers, No. 29, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld., 1985, pp. 83. $4.00.

Harold Crouch, Domestic Political Structures and Regional Economic Co‐operation. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ASEAN Political Series, Singapore, 1984, pp. ix + 102. $S16.00.

Women in Development in the South Pacific (Papers presented at a conference in Vanuatu, 11–14 August 1984). Development Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 1985, pp. x + 225. $8.00.

John Beasant, The Santo Rebellion. An Imperial Reckoning. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu; Heinemann Australia, Richmond, Vic, 1984, pp. 163. $19.95.

Richard Shears and Isobelle Gidley, The Rainbow Warrior Affair. Unwin Paperbacks, Sydney, 1985, pp. 217. $8.95.

Bengt and Marie‐Therese Danielsson, Poisoned Reign. French Nuclear Colonialism in the Pacific. Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood, Vic, 1986, pp. xiv + 323. $9.95.

M.C. Spencer, ‘New Caledonia in Crisis’, Occasional Paper No. 1, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Canberra, 1985, pp. 59. $3.00.

Raymond Goodman, Charles Lepani and David Morawetz, the Economy of Papua New GuineaAn Independent Review. Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1985, pp. xiii + 273. No price given.

David Y.H. Wu, The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: 1880–1980. The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1982 pp. 176. $US 17.50.

Deryck Scarr, Fiji: A Short History. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984, pp. xvi + 202. $22.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper).

A. Marcus and M.C. Ricklefs (eds), Surrender Australia? Essays in the Study and Use of History. Geoffrey Blainey and Asian Immigration. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985, pp. viii + 149. $8.95.

Dennis Phillips, Cold War 2 and Australia. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983, pp. xi + 122. $15.95 (cloth), $7.95 (paper).

Jim Falk, Taking Australia off the Map: Facing the Threat of Nuclear War. Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood, Vic., 1983, p. xii + 290. $6.95.

Denys Blakeway and Sue Lloyd‐Roberts, Fields of Thunder: Testing Britain's Bomb. Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1985, pp. 243. $19.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper).

Bhupendra Jasani and Christopher Lee. Countdown to Space Wars. Taylorand Francis, London, 1984, pp. 104. No price given.

John Tirman (ed.), The Fallacy of Star Wars. Vintage Books, New York, 1984. pp. 293. $US4.95.

Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits. Pan Books, London, 1985, pp.380. £3.95.

David Fischer, Paul Szasz and Jozef Goldblat (eds) Safeguarding the AtomA Critical Appraisal. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Taylor and Francis, London, 1985, pp. xx + 243. No price given.

Frank R. Barnett, B. Hugh Tovar, Richard H. Shultz (eds), Special Operations in U.S. Strategy. National Defense University Press, Washington; National Strategy Information Centre, New York, 1984, pp. 326. No price given.

George Irvin and Xavier Gorostiaga (eds), Towards an Alternative for Central America. Allen and Unwin, London, 1985, pp. xiv + 273. $48.95 (cloth) $19.95 (paper).

Joseph Cirincione (ed.), Central America and the Western Alliance. Holmes and Meier, New York, 1985, pp. xix + 238. $US26.50.

Georges Fauriol (ed.), Latin American Insurgencies. Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies and the National Defence University, Washington, 1985, pp. x + 214. No price given.

T.H. Rigby and B. Harasymiw (eds), Leadership Selection and Patron‐Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia. Allen & Unwin, London, 1983, pp. xiii + 246. No price given.

R.F. Miller and F. Feher (eds), Khrushchev and the Communist World. Croom Helm, London, 1984, pp. 243. $31.95.

Robert Bideleux, Communism and Development. Methuen, London, 1985, pp. x + 315. $74.95.

Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution: Solidarity 1980–82. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983, pp. 386 + xiii. £12.50 [Paperback edition (with postscript updating to 1984), Coronet Books London, 1985. $8.95]

Nicholas G. Andrews, Poland 1980–81: Solidarity versus The Party. National Defense University Press, Washington, 1985, pp.351 + xii. No price given.

Peter Raina, Poland 1981: Towards Social Renewal. Allen and Unwin, London, 1985, pp. 472 + viii. $55.00.

Surjit Mansingh, India's Search for Power: Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy, 1966–1982. Sage Publications, New Delhi and London, 1984, pp. 405. No price given.

Bill Brugger (ed.), Chinese Marxism in Flux 1978–84. Essays on Epistemology. Ideology and Political Economy. Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1985, pp. 218. $44.95.

Somboon Suksamran, Buddhism and Politics in Thailand: A Study of Socio‐Political Change and Political Activism of the Thai Sangha. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1982, pp. 179. $S25.00.

William J. Foltz and Henry S. Bienen (eds), Arms and the African. Yale University Press, London, 1985, pp. xv + 221. $US22.50.

Klaas Woldring (ed.), Beyond Political Independence: Zambia's Development Predicament in the 1980s. Mouton Publishers, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 1985, pp. ix + 252. $50.75.

M. Bowman and W. Hampton (eds), Local Democracies: A Study in Comparative Local Government. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1983, pp. viii + 207. $10.95.

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