From Foreign Affairs, Kenneth F. Scheve (Yale) and Matthew J. Slaughter (Tufts): A New Deal for Globalization. An excerpt from Bound Together How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda. From Cato Unbound, Daniel Drezner on The Persistent Power of the State in the Global Economy (with reaction essays). Anette Ahrnens at Lund University in Sweden shows that the Security Council can be a shortcut for great powers wishing to manipulate other countries into granting their consent.
From Perspectives on Politics, Bronwyn Leebaw (UC-Riverside): The Politics of Impartial Activism: Humanitarianism and Human Rights. An interview with Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor for the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, on the prospects for bringing the last few Serbian war criminals to justice. Can kids be war criminals? A review of A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.
Susan Waltz (Michigan): US Policy on Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective. Jonathan Schell on the Spirit of June 12: Twenty-five years after the largest antinuclear demonstration ever, the movement has dwindled. But the threat of mass destruction grows greater.
From RSA Journal, millions of people die each year because they cannot afford routinely available medicines. Professors Thomas Pogge and Sunil Shaunak propose a new way forward. From Women's Review of Books, an article on The Dickensian World of Micro-Finance: Grameen may not be so good for women after all.
From Financial Times, who are the villains and the victims of global capital flows? The World’s Worst Currencies: Most countries seem to have finally whipped inflation—at least for now. But not everyone is celebrating the world’s impressive economic stability. A look at the soft currencies of some of the most unstable economies on the planet.
Consumerism and its Disconnects: What connection does the rural backwater of Rosia Montana have to European integration and Global climate change? Horatio Morpurgo mines the controversy surrounding a Canadian company's plans for a small Romanian town, and finds food for thought for western eco-warriors and liberals alike. Can global warming be blamed for the shrinking glaciers of Kilimanjaro? The Kibo ice cap, a "poster child" of global climate change, is being starved of snowfall and depleted by solar radiation.
