Harvard International Review back issues from January 2006:
Promethean America.(CORRESPONDENCE)(economy)
Jan 01, 2006; ... David Held's "Toward a New Consensus: Answering the Dangers of Globalization," (Summer 2005), is at once ominous and ambiguous. While globalization and US President George W. Bush are castigated, there is precious little substance for the conclusion that both have "left the world with ...
Perpetuating conflict.(CORRESPONDENCE)(in Palestine)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In "From Geneva to Gaza: Implementing the Endgame Strategy of the Geneva Initiative" (Fall 2005), Daniel Levy wrote that the difference between the Geneva Initiative, of which he was a lead drafter, and previous solutions is that the Geneva Initiative offers a "comprehensive, bilaterally ...
Warped renewal: Mugabe's tightening grip.(AFRICA)(Robert Mugabe )
Jan 01, 2006; ... At a time when Zimbabwe risked falling into an abyss of poverty and economic stagnation, the prospect of a determined government effort to restore order seemed attractive. But when President Robert Mugabe ordered the destruction of countless Zimbabwean homes under the guise of an urban ...
Weary from war: child soldiers in the Congo.(AFRICA)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Now known as Africa's first world war, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began in 1998 among seven nations. The war has cost nearly 4 million lives, and its methods have proven equally vicious: the warring states and militia groups involved have been employing ...
Costly growth: China's environmental woes.(ASIA PACIFIC)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The introduction of market reforms in China in the 1980s has made China's economic growth impossible to ignore. With an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of nine percent, China is poised to assert its dominance within the next half-century. However, while developing into a ...
Grabbing hand: corruption in Lula's government.(AMERICAS)(Luiz Inacio Da Silva--Lula)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The almost three-year honeymoon of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Da Silva--Lula, as fellow Brazilians know him--is clearly over. As his party is deeply embroiled in a corruption scandal, Lula's prospects for reelection in 2006 are now not as certain as they once seemed. Lula's ...
Exonerating euros: facing Italy's economic problem.(EUROPE)
Jan 01, 2006; ... During the initial discussions over the currency now known as the euro, Italy jumped at the opportunity to drop the lira in favor of a common European currency. Italians even willingly accepted the burden of new taxes necessary to cut their budget deficit from 11 percent in 1990 to under ...
Changing colors: Ukraine's Orange Revolution.(EUROPE)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Western media outlets initially hailed the presidential election of moderate reformer Viktor Yushchenko as an important step toward functional Ukrainian democracy. His Orange Revolution, a vast outpouring of public support and anger at government and business corruption, promised a ...
Crossing over? Turkey and the European Union.(MIDDLE EAST)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In its quest for full membership in the European Union, the Republic of Turkey has traveled a long and arduous road. Having been an associate member of the European Union since 1963, Turkey became a candidate to be a full EU member in 1999. Finally, on October 3, 2005, the European Union ...
Battle for brains: Israeli science and technology.(MIDDLE EAST)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Throughout Israel's history, international attention heaped on the state has focused overwhelmingly on the region's political and religious tensions. Less noted in the midst of these conflicts is Israel's science and technology sector, which has been flourishing, though it is not without ...
Great expectations: intelligence as savior.
Jan 01, 2006; ... US citizens, who have long relied heavily on their intelligence services for the comfort of believing that calamities from abroad will not suddenly afflict them, have made that reliance even heavier in recent years. In a poll taken by Daniel Yankelovich in June 2005, 65 percent of US ...
Toward re-engagement: a shift in US-Libyan relations.(PERSPECTIVES)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Following the attacks of September 11, US foreign policy has increasingly focused on the threats of terrorism, extremism, and weapons of mass destruction. These are real challenges that unfortunately have been complicated by US involvement in Iraq. We have, however, seen progress in ...
Against more aid: why development assistance should not be tripled.(PERSPECTIVES)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Since the early 1990s, many have analyzed, criticized, lamented, and protested five decades of large-scale development aid gone disastrously wrong. They have made two main arguments. First, many low-income countries are hobbled by corrupt governance and uncompetitive markets. Under these ...
Financing hope: improving microfinance.(WORLD IN REVIEW)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Speeding along on the back of a hired bicycle with tall stalks of maize on either side of me, I traveled from one African village to the next, working to convince men and women to join a small microfinance bank. On arriving in a village or trading center, the bank accountant and I would be ...
A matter of time: India's emerging economic prowess.(WORLD IN REVIEW)
Jan 01, 2006; ... As the world's largest democratic republic and the home to a substantial English-speaking population, India appears poised to establish itself as a powerful engine for global economic growth. Though India, already the fourth-largest economy by purchasing-power parity, is currently believed ...
Fuel of the future: a global push toward new energy.(WORLD IN REVIEW)(Cover story)
Jan 01, 2006; ... When historians speak of doomed civilizations, they often point to Easter Island, a society that based its culture and economy on the natural resource of wood--until the consumption of the final tree. Many fear today's global civilization is heading down a similar path, this time brought ...
Market power.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)(Cover Story)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Markets determine the price of your morning cup of coffee and the value of your retirement savings. In ways less obvious but no less real, markets also determine your prospects of being targeted by a terrorist attack. They trade in nuclear weapons, human beings, and body organs. Unlike the ...
Below the radar: underground markets for the poor.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)(Cover story)
Jan 01, 2006; ... A peddler of vegetables on a Hanoi sidewalk; a heroin dealer in Paris. What do they have in common? More than you might think. Both are operating underground, meaning that, for one reason or another, they do not report their activities to the state. They pay no taxes on their earnings. The ...
On the loose: the market for nuclear weapons.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)(Chronology)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Addressing the National Defense University in Washington, on February 11, 2004, US President George W. Bush warned about an underground market that has grave consequences for global security: "In recent years, another path of [nuclear] proliferation has become clear, as well. America and ...
Below the surface: underground economic activity.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Though policymakers, researchers, journalists, and others speak frequently of the underground economy, they often talk past each other because underground economic activity has not been clearly defined. Is it the production and distribution of illicit goods and services, such as crack ...
Kidney kin: inside the transatlantic transplant trade.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Lucille Hubbard is a tiny woman. Lucille, not her real name, is poor, black, and dependent on Medicaid and public assistance. After leaving the West Indies for New York as a young adult, Lucille made her living caring for people in need. Before turning 25, however, she learned that she ...
The terror market: networks and enforcement in the West.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)(Chronology)
Jan 01, 2006; ... As underground economies provide unprecedented opportunities to generate resources, terrorists and criminals in the global south seek to ideologically and operationally penetrate their migrant and diaspora communities living in the global north. Terrorist groups, managed by recruits, have ...
Slave trade: combating human trafficking.(UNDERGROUND MARKETS)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The underground market in people, termed human trafficking, functions by the benign rules of supply and demand--which makes this market particularly grotesque because the commodity is human life and the exchange results in modern-day slavery. By describing trafficking in persons (TIP), the ...
Home-grown growth: problems and solutions to economic growth.(AN INTERVIEW WITH DANI RODRIK)(Interview)
Jan 01, 2006 ... DANI RODRIK is professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and teaches in the School's MPA/ID Program. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. ...
Ode to intolerance; Robert Hambourger reviews the End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Sam Harris' The End of Faith is a remarkable book in this age of political correctness. It is an open appeal for religious intolerance. Harris' target is religious belief in general, which he sees as irrational and divisive, but he is also happy to attack particular religions, especially ...
Nation-building revisited: Michael Schmunk reviews Networks of Democracy.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Since at least the beginning of the 1990s, state- and nation-building has been an industry unto itself. A wide spectrum of activities and actors fall under this heading: military peacekeepers, diplomats, experts in reconstruction, governments willing to help, myriad international ...
A work in progress: demystifying the European Security and Defence Policy.(European Security and Defence Policy ,north atlantic traty organization)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Since the December 1998 Saint-Malo summit between French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, we have been learning to live with a new acronym and a new reality: the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). This is not the same thing as the European Security ...