BY LISA PAWLOSKI Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the United States, where one out of every three adults is obese. We are not alone in this emerging public health crisis. In Europe, rates of obesity among adults are as high as 25 percent in the United Kingdom and Germany, [...]
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 [...]
BY WILLIAM A. BLANPIED Modern science provides what may be the first robust example of a globalized activity. The contributions of a Pole (Copernicus), a German (Kepler), and an Italian (Galileo) to what became known as the Newtonian synthesis is probably the most obvious case in point. Four centuries later, scientific research remains a highly [...]
BY PETER W. BLACK The insular Pacific, the region of the world perhaps most dramatically transformed by recent globalization processes, offers many opportunities to learn what happens when a recently dispersed community turns to new information technologies. For several generations, the peoples of Oceania have been leaving their remote island homes for port towns and [...]
BY PETER BALINT In the communal lands of Mahenye, in the southeast corner of Zimbabwe, traditional culture and hardscrabble subsistence mesh uneasily with trophy hunting, upscale tourism, and modern ideas of market-based conservation. This awkward mix is the result of a conscious plan to improve local living conditions, protect wildlife, and make money. For much [...]
BY MARK N. KATZ Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is clearly not a democrat. He has closed down independent television as well as other media outlets that have criticized him. He has not only waged a brutal campaign against separatists in Chechnya but has also rigged elections there. He has stripped away the assets of several [...]