BY RICARDO F. VIVANCOS PÉREZ In spring 2011, massive protests in Mexico and Spain placed youth center stage in the Hispanic world.1 In Mexico, non-violent demonstrations against drug-related violence, corruption, and impunity—organized by the Movimiento Paz con Justicia y Dignidad (MPJD)2—included a silent protest in Mexico City on May 8, and the Caravana del Consuelo or [...]
BY TOM C. OWENS As the United States stood poised to take a more prominent political and cultural role as a world power at the turn of the twentieth century, debate raged over the formation and character of distinctively American artistic forms and traditions. Within the art or classical music tradition, this conversation was particularly [...]
BY MARIELY LÓPEZ-SANTANA The gaps between legislation, compliance and implementation represent one of the most challenging aspects of policy making and policy change in domestic and international settings. Environmental reforms and discussions about the ability of international law to effect change in states are good examples, highlighting the issues of converting laws into public goods [...]
BY ARNAUD KURZE After over half a century of modern foreign aid practices, a vast literature has addressed the question of aid effectiveness1, particularly with regards to the questionable and perturbing record of poverty alleviation in least developed countries. Since the 1990s, however, post-Soviet countries and the war-torn Balkan region have also appeared on the [...]
BY SUSAN A. CRATE Imagine making a trip to Siberia stereotypically perceived as the Gulag and a frozen wasteland only to discover an extraordinarily diverse part of the world. Not only in terms of plant and animals—just consider Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest lake in the world holding one-fifth of the world’s fresh water and [...]
BY KAREN AKERLOF AND EDWARD W. MAIBACH The United States has now formally acknowledged climate change as a threat, and it appears that our nation is poised to begin the process of formulating a response. Many of our peer nations reached this point years earlier. Their experiences to date may have value in helping us [...]
BY SADA AKSARTOVA Throughout the 1990s, the most ambitious American efforts to promote market and democracy were directed at Russia and other post-Soviet states. The enormity—physical and symbolic—of the Soviet Union, the rapidity of its collapse and the sheer scale of the economic and political transformation in its successor states presented Western policy makers with [...]
BY REBECCA BRYANT By the time this article appears, the presidential election campaigns now in full swing in Cyprus should have resulted in a new president for the Republic. It is quite likely, according to many polls, that the new president will also be the old one. Tassos Papadopoulos, president since 2003, presided over an eventful [...]
BY SUSAN ALLEN NAN The rise of the network society has shaped both conflict and conflict resolution. Conflict between the global network of capital exchange and locally rooted meaning can be seen in many international conflicts today. Castells argues that many of today’s conflicts are protests (by Zapatistas, American militia, Aum Shinrikyo, al-Qaeda, and the [...]
BY MICHELE GREET Traditionally, the field of Art History has focused predominantly on art produced in Europe. Over the past several decades, with the increased emphasis on globalism and multiculturalism, the field has expanded to include non-European regions. Consequently, Latin American art has begun to achieve long overdue recognition in both museums and academic institutions. [...]