BY SANDRA I. CHELDELIN AND SUSAN F. HIRSCH In 2004, in collaboration with a local NGO in Dushanbe, our faculty at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution launched a multiyear project to increase conflict resolution capacities of local actors in Tajikistan. We worked with government, religious and academic leaders, created a conflict resolution resource [...]
BY NAYANTARA SHEORAN Advertising has traditionally been the machinery that has affected change in the thinking of people. Advertising in post-liberal India took on the task of creating consumers. This article originates from a conference presentation where a semiotic analysis was employed to examine the visuals in some Indian advertising campaigns, which aimed to affect [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI India’s current growth rate of 8 percent has been attributed to the successful implementation of economic liberalization policies in 1991 that opened the economy to global corporations seeking to do business in India. These policies encouraged the formation of partnerships between domestic firms and global corporations, as well as the entry of [...]
BY BASSAM HADDAD The state’s relationship with business communities can provide both detrimental and beneficial economic outcomes. One factor that impinges on successful development can be the state-business nexus. Is such underdevelopment a function of certain cultures? A study of how state and business actors come together in informal economic networks and shape patterns of [...]
BY JANINE R. WEDEL In the study of foreign policy, aid and nationbuilding, little empirical attention has been paid to the agency of the actors who serve as brokers among parties. Much more attention generally has focused on policies and end results. Yet, the reorganizing, more networked world of the late 20th and early 21st [...]
BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA As the victorious great powers surveyed the devastation brought on by World War II and faced the crumbling of old colonial empires two issues came to dominate the international agenda: the reconstruction of countries devastated by the war and the economic and political development of the newly independent states of Africa and Asia. [...]
BY TONY ROSHAN SAMARA In June 2004 the Federation Internationale de Football Association(Fifa) announced that the 2010 World Cup would for the first time be hosted by an African nation, South Africa. This news was greeted with jubilation across the country. The sounds of cheering, car horns and the vuvuzela, the suddenly ubiquitous plastic South [...]
BY LISA JORDAN Global civil society is a relatively new layer of networks and organizations that operate beyond national borders. Over 20,000 of these networks are already active on the world stage, 90 % of which have been formed within the last thirty years. Many —including Jubilee 2000, the Global Campaign to Ban Landmines, Amnesty International [...]
BY LINDA J. SELIGMANN The commonplace expression “nickel-and-dimed to death” has taken on new twists and nuances in the context of globalization processes. Barbara Ehrenreich donned the persona of a working poor woman in various parts of the United States to discern whether it would be possible for her to survive with the barest of [...]