CIAO DATE: 04/2008
Volume: 9, Issue: 1
Winter/Spring 2008
Front Matter (PDF)
Editors' Note (PDF)
Aditya C. Deshmukh, Alfia A. Sadekova
Introduction (PDF)
Marc J. Cohen
New technologies are forcing rapid globalization of markets, and the agriculture industry has no choice but to adapt. There is, however, a stark disparity between developed and developing nations: researchers in developed nations are embracing a biotech and GMO revolution, while developing nations are struggling to manage unfavorable intellectual property laws and trade barriers. Biofuel production stretches agricultural resources in the North, famine cripples economies in the South, the Green Revolution saves lives in the East, and the WTO rules against governments in the West. Though policy experts participating in the current round of trade negotiations in Doha are attempting to address the challenges facing farmers, the outcome is unclear. This forum aims to explore the fate of our farms in the 21st century.
Kym Anderson, Ernesto Valenzuela
Food, Feed, or Fuel? Examining Linkages Between Biofuels and Agricultural Market Economies (PDF)
Siwa Msangi, Mandy Ewing
Agricultural Trade and Climate Change: Can the WTO Promote Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty? (PDF)
Lee Ann Jackson
The Local Organic Food Paradigm (PDF)
Alex A. Avery, Dennis T. Avery
Averting Catastrophe in the Middle East (PDF)
Susan Braden
The current conditions in Iraq can only be remedied by peaceful partitioning of the country into three separate entities.
Asian Power: Sino-Russian Conflict in Central Asia? (PDF)
Kathleen J. Hancock
Future tensions may arise between Russia and China as former Soviet states in Central Asia compete with Russia to export their natural gas and oil to China.
Substance and Vanity at the Palace: Monarchy and Royalty Beyond the Twentieth Century (PDF)
Neil Blain
Royalty supercedes monarchy; the personal and economic importance of royals destroys the significance of any residual constitutional role.
The Catholic Church: An Underestimated and Necessary Actor in International Affairs (PDF)
Jodok Troy
As one of the oldest political actors in the international system, the Catholic Church lends its stabilizing capabilities to become once more an “ethical reservoir” and peacemaker in an age of a declared and believed “clash of civilizations.”
Rights for Indigenous Peoples: The Struggle for Uniformity: the UN Declaration and Beyond (PDF)
James C. Hopkins
The Colonial Bloc must recognize and adhere to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to ensure a proper legal status for their respective communities.
Global Mental Health: Changing Norms, Constant Rights (PDF)
Lawrence O. Gostin, Lance Gable
The mistreatment of individuals with mental disabilities is a persistent, global issue that must be remedied through direct legal, practical, and economic measures.
Changing the Political Climate on Climate Change (PDF)
Tom Daschle
The United States must act with urgency to lead the international response to the threat of climate change.
The Sarkozy Effect: France's New Presidential Dynamic (PDF)
J.G. Shields
President Sarkozy is setting out to undertake much needed reforms in France, but his success will depend on factors both within and beyond his own control.
A French Action Figure: Nicolas Sarkozy's First Months as President (PDF)
Arthur Goldhammer
President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes to save the French welfare state with a relatively modest though energetically promoted package of tax, labor-market, and welfare-system reforms.
Battling Botnets and Online Mobs: Estonia's Defense Efforts during the Internet War (PDF)
Gadi Evron
Estonia’s experience shown that Internet war is a real security threat that demands increased global attention and government action.
Turkish Hindsight: Muslim Roots, Secular Minds (PDF)
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
A review of The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World.
Africa and Anger: Algeria Remembers (PDF)
James Jay Carafano
A review of Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed.
Invisible, Insecure, and Inaccessible: The Humanitarian Crisis in Chad (PDF)
Stephanie Getson
The crisis in Darfur cannot be solved until the international community recognizes the crisis in its neighbor, Chad.
Perception and the Costs of Waiting: Transition in Cuba (PDF)
John-Michael McColl
The United States must embrace an active approach to restore its relationship with Cuba ultimately to extend democracy and free markets to the Cuban population.
Rethinking Victory in the "War on Terror" (PDF)
Philip H. Gordon
The United States cannot win the war on terror through conventional military means, but by upholding its own values until the ideology of terrorism crumbles from within.