Book reviews

Abstract General The Industrial Future of the Pacific Basin. Edited by Roger Benjamin and Robert T. Kudrle. Westview Press, Boulder and London. 1984. Pp. 285. Index. £24. Marxism in Asia. Edited by Colin Mackerras and Nick Knight. London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1985. Pp. 297. Index. £22.50 Hb. The Rice Economy of Asia. By Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Washington, DC. Resources for the Future Inc. 1985. Pp. 324. Index. $30.00. Soviet Interests in the Third World. Ed. Robert Cassen. London. Sage Publications for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1985. Pp. 329. Index. Notes. £27.50 Hb. £10.50 Pb. Central Asia Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Perspective. By Anthony Arnold. Stanford, U.S.A. Hoover Institution Press. 1985.…