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- ↑ http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment//whoswho/putzelj.aspx London School of Economics: Biography of James Putzel (Accessed March 2011)
- ↑ http://www.weforum.org/global-agenda-councils/james-putzel?fo=1 World Economic Forum: Biography of James Putzel (Accessed March 2011)
- ↑ Review of A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines by Janice Jiggins International Affairs Apr., 1993, vol. 69, no. 2, p. 405
- ↑ Review of A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines by Gerard Clarke; Third World Quarterly, 1992, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 741-742
- ↑ http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45936/ | Putzel, James and Di John, Jonathan (2012) Meeting the challenges of crisis states. Crisis States Research Centre report. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 9780853284772
