Articles by Stephen Clarkson

September 2, 1972 to him: "Schematically, the Red River delta can be divided into two parts: to the west, in the upper delta, the rivers which tumble directed out of the badly eroded hills have built up several alluvial ridges, along which the rivers flow and which frequently cause changes of course before their waters are brought under control by dykes. To the east, in the lower delta, the rivers, which have deposited most of their alluvial contents further upstream, flow along rather lower natural levees, separated from one another by vast stretcher of very low- lying flat land.

In Search of a Communist Development Model The Soviets' Political Economy of India Stephen Clarkson WHEN the cold war was turning Western scholars' attention toward the political future of Africa, Asia and Latin America, one could scarcely read an article on the position of the developing countries in international affairs without encountering some reference to the communist model that threatened, like some international pied piper, to attract the elites of the Afro-Asian nations into the socialist bloc. Just what constituted this model, however, was not quite so clear as one first thought. Was it the historical experience of development in the Soviet bloc? If so. there would be not one but a multiplicity of models, one for each sacred father