BY CARLOS G. AGUILAR One of the major transformations in international politics around the world consists of incorporating countries and regional blocs into the debates and resolutions of global problems, such as the financial crisis, climate change, the energy security and the role of Bretton Woods institutions on world governance. In this context, South-South relations [...]
BY JOHN G. DALE The United Nations (UN) established the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 to indict, try, and sentence individuals who commit any of four crimes, including war crimes or crimes against humanity. Although neither the United States nor Myanmar are currently signatories to the Rome Statute that created the authority and jurisdiction [...]
BY JAIME DAREMBLUM The Organization of American States (OAS), an international institution with headquarters in Washington D.C. consisting of 35 independent states of the Americas, was once the premier democratic forum in the Western Hemisphere. Now it is headed for irrelevance. In recent years, the OAS has been infected with the virus of radicalization, thanks [...]
BY MARY E. BREEDING The recruitment of workers in India for the purpose of fulfilling construction and other low-skilled occupations in the Persian Gulf region has gained substantial attention in recent years. Thousands of Indians emigrate to Gulf countries annually as contracted workers. In 2007 the number low-skilled Indian migrants acquiring emigration clearance to work [...]
BY DAVID M. HART THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND THE CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE Over the past two or three decades, knowledge-intensive industries, such as semiconductor chip design and biotechnology-based drug discovery, have undergone a global restructuring. Globalization now extends beyond markets for goods, unskilled labor, and conventional finance into markets for technology, [...]
BY JOHANNA BOCKMAN In 1975, Soviet economist Leonid Kantorovich and American economist Tjalling Koopmans jointly won the Nobel Prize in Economics “for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.”1 How could an economist of socialism and an economist of capitalism share this prestigious prize? Michael Bernstein, historian of the United States and Provost [...]
BY LISA R. PAWLOSKI, JEAN B. MOORE, NIGEL WATERS AND XINIA FERNANDEZ ROJAS INTRODUCTION Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the U.S., where one out of every three adults is obese. However, the U.S. is not alone with this emerging public health crisis. In Europe, rates of obesity among adults [...]
BY DEBRA LATTANZI SHUTIKA I began working with immigrant communities in 1995, focusing primary on new destinations. New destinations are those communities that are experiencing significant immigration, but have had little or no prior history of being locations of migration and settlement. I began my work in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the “Mushroom Capital of the [...]
BY MARK GOODALE It is unsettling how an experience can rapidly shift from the incongruous to the profoundly moving, from a moment of surprise to the realization that one’s frame of reference, which has been put in place only with great difficulty, is no longer quite so adequate. So there I was, halfway through a [...]
BY TONY YANG The completion of the Human Genome Project marked the dawn of a bold new era — the era of the genome in biology and medicine. There has been growing biomedical research on relating population-based genomic analyses to diseases. This is a transformation from investigating a small group of individuals to analyzing the [...]