BY KATHRYN H. JACOBSEN In 2003 several individuals who ate at a chain restaurant near Pittsburgh died from hepatitis A virus. The outbreak was eventually linked to green onions imported from Mexico. Oddly enough, people who live in the United States are in some ways at greater risk of death from hepatitis A than populations [...]
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 DEBRA SHUTIKA On the whole, Northern Virginia is not often associated with the U.S.-Mexico border. In the summer of 2005, however, it seemed as if the border had moved into the region’s backyard. In Herndon,Virginia, a group of male Latino day laborers had been gathering at a local 7-Eleven each morning looking for work. [...]
BY FRANCES V. HARBOUR One of the tragedies common in failed and violent authoritarian states is that the police force becomes a significant contributor to humanitarian disaster. An organization that should protect domestic order and human security instead is implicated in human rights violations. When violation is on a scale that provokes international humanitarian intervention, [...]
BY EMILY FRYE The Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Program began its work with a focus on protecting domestic infrastructures. However, many critical infrastructures are international in nature, and protection issues cross national boundaries. Banking, for example, now enjoys broadly interoperable systems across most developed economies; telecommunications are facilitated by undersea cables and satellites. Our energy [...]