From the Department of State's eJournal USA, a special issue on how democracies transfer power. From Brazilian Political Science Review, Klaus Frey (PUCPR): Development, Good Governance, and Local Democracy; and Ricardo Fabrino Mendonca (UFMG): Representation and Deliberation in Civil Society. A review of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights by Mark Goodale. The first chapter from Indivisible Human Rights: A History by Daniel J. Whelan. A review of The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices by Fuyuki Kurasawa. Gillian Brock, author of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account, on migration and global justice. A review of Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration by Jeffrey Kaye. A review of Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity by James H. Mittelman. A review of War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman (and more and more and more and more and more). From UN Dispatch, Alanna Shaikh on the five things people say to aid critics. From TED, Esther Duflo on social experiments to fight poverty. Dollars & Sense goes beyond the world creditors’ cartel: In Latin America and elsewhere, the IMF may be re–emerging — but in a changed landscape. From The Economist, a special report on banking in emerging markets. The richest countries are those with the most complex economies — and actually produce the greatest diversity of goods. Is organic farming an elitist fetish that hampers efforts to stanch global hunger, or is it the kind of holistic approach we’ll need to produce food on a circumscribed planet? Reviving “lost crops”: Economic anthropologist Jane Guyer focuses on nutritional value of native food resources in order to feed hundreds of millions of starving Africans.
