Isaacs edits Fall 2009 Third World journal           

AMERICUS—Harold Isaacs, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history at Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW), has edited “Third World Problems and Issues: Past and Present,” the Fall 2009 issue of the “Journal of Third World Studies” (JTWS), published by the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS).

The 365-page volume contains selected papers presented at the GSW Third World in Perspective Program Seminar Series during the 2008-09 academic year and additional manuscripts, book reviews and book review essays approved for publication by the JTWS Board of Editors. The board is composed of scholars who are nationally and internationally recognized experts in their respective fields.

            Since 1984, when the bi-annual scholarly periodical was founded by Isaacs, ATWS has published 52 issues of JTWS for a worldwide readership of academics, specialists in the area of Third World development, U.S. and foreign government officials, and employees of non-governmental organizations. The Journal is available worldwide via the Internet at http://itc.gsw.edu/atws/journal.htm

The Spring 2010 issue of JTWS will focus on “Celebrating Change, Defining the Future: Social Justice, Democracy, and Renewal in the Third World,” the theme of the 27^th ATWS annual meeting which will be held in Ghana Nov. 21-24, 2009.

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