About This Issue
- Volume 23 Number 2, Spring 2009
- This Centerpiece issue focuses on the end-of-year activities at the Weatherhead Center with inclusion of a photo essay on past conferences and seminars. Our two main features address issues of ongoing interest close to our geographical bearings: ethnic tensions in Canada and health care in the United States.
We also acknowledge late Samuel P. Huntington's academic legacy, director of the Center for International Affairs from 1978 to 1989.
Finally, our director's message focuses on the financial crisis and its effects on the year to come at the Center.
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Main Cover Image: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs; Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor; Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust; and Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, at the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics’ April 15th conference, "What Just Happened? What’s Next? An Interdisciplinary Look at the Current Economic Crisis." Photo credit: Sofia Jarrín-Thomas.
Features
- Ethnic Tensions and Interculturalism in Québec
- This brief account has three goals: a) to report on the ethnic tensions that arose recently in Québec; b) to recall the challenges that this society had to confront; and c) to outline the approach that was taken to defuse the tensions and to manage ethnic diversity in the future…
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- The Human Costs of Economic Crises
- The old saying "Penny-wise, pound-foolish" acquires more of a literal meaning when economic recessions hit—even in the wealthiest nations. Here in the United States, both obstetricians and primary care physicians are well aware that when times get tough, expectant women often cut their caloric consumption, eat less healthy foods, and visit physicians less often…
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