Liberal intervention's renewed crisis: responding to Russia's growing influence in Africa

The growing urban crisis in Africa

Responding to conflict in Africa

1. In 1990, the Secretary General of the OAU presented a report to the OAU council of Ministers on the changes taking place in the world and their implications for Africa. In this, he stated that " the strongest likelihood does exist for the emergence of a new geopolitical balance of forces as well as a new international economic order that could further debilitate and marginalise Africa." The ...

Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in Africa∗

The proposed project aims to expand understanding of the local response to an epidemic in a resource-poor setting. Using the severe AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi, a very poor country with high HIV prevalence and low bureaucratic development, we will use mixed methods to explore how local actors respond to the AIDS epidemic, including the local implementation of global policies and HIV/AIDS inte...

A Classical-Liberal Response to the Crisis of Bioethics

M otl Brody, a twelve year old Hasidic Jew, died recently in Washington. During his last days, his life and death were the subject of intense media scrutiny, judicial proceedings, and bioethical commentary. His transition from life to death was marked not by the private mourning of friends and family, but by cost-benefit calculations and legal wrangling. The legal, economic, and bioethical cons...

Responding to Crisis Strategies and Intentionality in Community Psychiatric Intervention