Recently added articles from Harvard International Review:
Letter from the editors.
Jun 22, 2009; ... In a modernizing, increasingly industrial world, one age-old challenge still haunts us: how to produce enough food for an expanding population. Today, however, the most pressing concerns are not Malthusian, reflecting absolute shortfalls in food production, but distributional. Nearly one ...
The anti-slavery crusade.(CORRESPONDENCE)(fighting human trafficking)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In "Winning the Fight" (Spring 2009), Kevin Bales, one of the leading observers on human trafficking, addresses the much-needed grand strategy for abolishing slavery today. He aptly emphasizes both the debt used by traffickers to ensnare and subjugate victims and the necessity for business ...
Failing states.(CORRESPONDENCE)(United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan)
Jun 22, 2009; ... William Rosenau ("Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan," Spring 2009) raises several important points. It is difficult not to agree with most of them. But in regard to his "more fundamental" criticism, this is not the case. Rosenau contends that "since the 1960s, US ...
Back in business: Sierra Leone's President and CEO.(AFRICA)(Ernest Bai Koroma )
Jun 22, 2009; ... From 1991 to 2002, civil war devastated the Western African nation of Sierra Leone. The conflict pitted the government against the Liberian-aided Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The RUF established a base of economic power through control of the country's vast diamond mines and reached ...
Running on empty Mongolia's economic crash.(ASIA)(Country overview)
Jun 22, 2009; ... A financial crisis that began with a collapse in the American housing market has enveloped a country where half the people live in tents. Facing a budget shortfall and rising inflation, Mongolia has taken on a series of direct loans from other countries, as well as a US$229.2 million loan ...