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Overview: war, crisis, and transition.(Report)
September 22, 2008... NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FACES THE THANKLESS TASK OF RESCUING the key financial and productive institutions of American capitalism, reforming and strengthening international financial institutional arrangements, extricating the country from two hot wars and countless worldwide...

Moral responsibility in a time of war.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction ON A DALLY BASIS, MOST OF US MAKE ETHICAL (1) JUDGMENTS ALL THE TIME IN RELATION to private action. We make moral judgments about individuals who murder, cheat, lie, and steal. We expect that individuals will act on "universal" principles in their treatment of others...

The Bush administration, debt relief, and the war on terror: reforming the international development system as part of the neoconservative project.(Report)
September 22, 2008... IN JULY 2005, THE WORLD WAS TREATED TO THE ODD SIGHT OF THE HIGHLY CONSERVATIVE Bush administration, generally considered indifferent if not hostile to the fate of the poor, taking the lead in pushing the other G8 nations to support full debt cancellation for the world's most heavily indebted...

Building justice after war: the use of multiple post-conflict justice mechanisms.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA HAS EXPERIENCED 133 STATE-LEVEL CONFLICTS SINCE THE END of World War II (Rothe and Mullins, 2008). These include civil wars, non-international armed conflicts, and a small number of international wars. The contextual background and etiological factors that...

Toxic cities: globalizing the problem of waste.(Case study)
September 22, 2008... Introduction THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES A DETAILED CASE STUDY OF A TOXIC EVENT THAT OCCURRED in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in August 2006. This is a continuing event, in the sense that people are still suffering the full effects and consequences of the toxic waste that was dumped in their city....