Harvard International Review articles from June 2008

Harvard International Review archives from June 2008

Letter from the editors.
June 22, 2008... Climate change may prove to be the defining problem of the 21st century. In the last few years, this realization has swept has swept across the globe, increasing awareness of global warming as well as elevating concern about the future of our...

Just another forum?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2008... Citizen politics was clearly on display in the 2008 presidential primaries. Two dozen states had record high turnout levels, and more than two million Americans donated money to a candidate. The Internet--its social networks, web sites, and...

Engaging Iran.(CORRESPONDENCE)
June 22, 2008... Senator Chuck Hagel ("At a Dangerous Crossroads," Spring 2008) is a rare and heartening voice of radical moderation in American national politics. His perspective is crucial at this time of shrill hyperboles toward Iran that threatens to lock...

Healthy progress: Botswana takes on AIDS.(AFRICA)(Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
June 22, 2008... Ian Khama, Botswana's newly inaugurated president, is simultaneously inheriting one of Africa's most successful economies and one of the continent's most problematic health crises. Botswana boasts a consistent 9 percent growth rate in income...

Cash crop: Brazil's biofuel leadership.(AMERICAS)
June 22, 2008... Brazil is making splashes across the world as the emerging leader of the biofuel industry. The significance of this nascent industry is rapidly growing as oil prices rise and awareness of environmental concerns increase. But the Brazilian...

Militant complex: demarginalizing Indian Muslims.(ASIA)
June 22, 2008... In the face of disenfranchisement and discrimination, Indian Muslims have turned to voicing their discontent in violent demonstrations. The recent wave of extremist fighting in India is often traced back to Islamic organizations, including...

The road to unity: tenuous progress in Cyprus.(EUROPE)
June 22, 2008... Hope for a different approach to reconciliation in Cyprus has brought new leadership to the long-divided Mediterranean island nation. Communist president Dimitris Christofias opened historic Ledra Street in the capital, Nicosia, in accordance...

Things fall apart: violence and poverty in Yemen.(MIDDLE EAST)
June 22, 2008... Recent unrest in Yemen indicates that the Gulf state--for decades the region's poorest--may be in slow-motion collapse. On April 6, 2008, an Al Qaeda bombing shook the capital city of Sanaa, capping a spree of political violence that killed 21...

Preventing terrorism: a case for soft power.(PERSPECTIVES)(United States. Department of Homeland Security)
June 22, 2008... Since its establishment five years ago, the Department of Homeland Security has played a pivotal role in mobilizing the efforts of the United States government to prevent and deter terrorists and other dangerous people from attacking the...

Chile and Latin America: the challenges of the 21st century.(PERSPECTIVES)
June 22, 2008... A new age is dawning for the world. We stand on the threshold of an era in which the political, social, and economic organization will be different from anything we have known so far. In the next few decades, people from all over the world will...

The Putin Generation: how will its rise affect US-Russian relations?(PERSPECTIVES)
June 22, 2008... This year, young people are coming out in record numbers to support their political candidates, not just in the United States but in Russia as well. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although the phenomenon has been relatively ignored by the...

China's healthcare quandary: how partial privatization values quality over equality.(WORLD IN REVIEW)
June 22, 2008... In 1978, Deng Xiaoping began the economic reforms now referred to as "Gaige Kaifang," through which China ushered in an era of unprecedented receptivity to foreign influence. The shift to liberalized trade policy led to reduced poverty levels...

More Musharraf: the embattled Pakistani President will stay in power.(WORLD IN REVIEW)
June 22, 2008... In the immediate aftermath of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's trouncing in the February 2008 parliamentary elections, pundits began speculating that his reign was over. A Reuters article published shortly after the rout was headlined...

Science and politics: accepting a dysfunctional union.(FEATURES)
June 22, 2008... Dan Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University, argues that we should fully expect politicians to politicize scientific information because "that is their job...and this--like the second law of thermodynamics--is not...

Incentivizing climate mitigation: engaging developing countries.(FEATURES)
June 22, 2008... The challenge of tackling human-derived climate change has emerged over the past two decades to become one of the most important, yet divisive, issues on the agenda of the international political community. Within international debates,...

A global framework: international aspects of climate change.(FEATURES)
June 22, 2008... While it may seem that science contributes only marginally to international law, it was in fact a scientist, Garrett Hardin, who proposed a framework four decades ago that illuminates most of the international policy issues of climate change....

From prediction to action: meteorology and the war on climate change.(FEATURES)
June 22, 2008... The year 2007 was a special one for many international environmental organizations, as well as for the wider climate change scientific community. This was so thanks, in particular, to the successful approval of the World Meteorological...

Green modernization: reflections from Europe.(FEATURES)
June 22, 2008... There are strong arguments for the thesis that climate change will develop into the single most important global problem of the first half of this century. Rising sea levels; hurricanes and their devastating consequences; ongoing...

Climate trading: the case for the "Climate Protection Authority".(FEATURES)
June 22, 2008... Upon taking office, the new US president will immediately face major decisions on domestic and international climate policy. The United States and the rest of the international community have set December 2009 as the deadline for concluding a...

Cartoons and controversy; Free Expression or Muslim Exceptionalism in Europe?(GALLUP PRESENTS ...)
June 22, 2008... Europe thinks it has found a cogent way to spur the debate over the integration of its Muslim communities. Under the banner of free speech, Europeans have turned to satire and other forms of print and visual criticism to test Muslims'...

Responsible competitiveness: making sustainability count in global markets.(ACCOUNT ABILITY PRESENTS ...)
June 22, 2008... The need for a more responsible basis on which businesses and economies compete in international markets has never been greater. Global corporations with global strategies contribute to rising inequality and falling economic opportunities for...

Peace in the Middle East: strategies for the containment of extremism.(INTERVIEW)(dialogue with Zalmay Khalilzad)(Interview)
June 22, 2008... You have stated that the "clash of ideas" in negotiation is valuable to diplomacy. But are there boundaries to the value of negotiation? When is a clash of ideas no longer positive, but destructive, and at what point does negotiation cease to...

The global arms trade: strengthening international regulations.(INTERVIEW)(dialogue with Oscar Arias Sanchez)(Interview)
June 22, 2008... Mr. President, you are internationally recognized as an advocate on behalf of the developing world. How has the international arms trade--"licit" and illicit--affected the economic growth of the world's poorest nations? More specifically, how...

Debating trade reform: choosing a new direction for the global trade regime.(The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and Future of Trade)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and Future of Trade is by Dennis Patterson & Ari Afilalo, (Cambridge Uni versity Press, 2008). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One helpful way to consider serious ideas and proposals about...

The US-Israeli relationship: special but not exclusive.(ENDPAPER)(Column)
June 22, 2008... In May 2005, I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled "Israel's Lawyer," making what I considered an incontestable point: if America wants to help reach an agreement between Arabs and Israelis, it must be an advocate for both sides. ...