Vol 17 | WINTER 2003

The Center has been able to play an intellectual leadership role within and beyond the University, addressing through its research the key international problems of our time and indicating novel ways to think about them.....

 
Jim Cooney
Executive Director
Steven Bloomfield
Editor, Associate Director
Amanda Pearson
Publications Manager
 
More than a Drought This Time: The Food Crisis in Southern Africa
Six nations in southern Africa are facing a serious food crisis. A drought hit the region in 2001-02, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that 15 million people in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, and Swaziland will need millions of tons of international food aid to survive until the next cereal harvest begins, in April 2003.....
Iraq Inspection Crisis Reveals Gaps in Harvard's Accounting
For the past eight months I have been a keen observer of conversations within the academy on a major international issue that simultaneously preoccupies ordinary civil and political society and dominates the media. In search of illumination .....