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Democracy's No Panacea for Poverty, Study Finds
Michael Ross, a UCLA political scientist, concluded that democratic countries do no better than their non-democratic counterparts in helping the world's poorest citizens -- a troubling finding, he said, that contradicts the claims made by a generation of scholars.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Experts Assess Iraq's Horrific Toll
Health-care professionals intimately familiar with the war's effects on bodies and minds shared their perspectives at a conference sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, UCLA Extension, and the School of Public Health.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Hope for the World's Dwindling Supply of Drinking Water
The new reverse osmosis (RO) membranes offer a huge improvement over current ones, which clog easily when bacteria and other particles build up on the surface.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Nuclear North Korea as Seen From 4 Capitals
Experts on the Koreas, China, and the US say that North Korea won't give up its nuclear arms and that differences between the US and negotiating partners, including ally South Korea, will complicate six-party talks.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Shares His Art
On a book tour for his English translation of 'Wizard of the Crow,' the Kenyan novelist and playwright teaches a UCLA audience about dictators, globalization, and 'the unity behind creation.'
Posted: 11/6/2006
African-based Performers Next on UCLA Live's World Music Schedule
Nov. 11 show features the Mombasa Party and the Royal Drummers of Burundi. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil will appear in March.
Posted: 11/1/2006
'The Day the Internet Blew Up in My Face'
MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa got more than he bargained for when he posted an image of Japanese war propaganda on an educational website.
Posted: 10/30/2006
In UCLA Debut, Wesley Clark Critiques US Torture Policy
The former supreme allied commander of NATO, now a Burkle Center senior fellow, and UCLA law professors discuss provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Clark disputes need for "rough treatment" of detainees on practical, moral, and geo-strategic grounds.
Posted: 10/3/2006
Gen. Wesley Clark Joins UCLA's Burkle Center
Clark will host a major conference on campus this winter on the future of the Middle East.
Posted: 9/27/2006
Speaker Series Measures Laws' Reach in Americas, Beyond
'Transnational moral entrepreneur' and founder of Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann steps back from anti-drug-war stance to look historically at intersection of crime control and international relations. The UCLA Latin American Center is co-sponsoring lectures tied to law school course on globalization.
Posted: 9/26/2006
Equity, Impact at Odds in AIDS Fight: UCLA Study
Allocating scarce antiretroviral drugs to South African cities would prevent the greatest number of infections, a UCLA AIDS Institute study finds.
Posted: 9/11/2006
African Stories in Online Curriculum Give Meaning to 'Globalization'
16 short tales, and warring commentaries on them, form the core of GlobaLink-Africa, a free, year-long, multimedia curriculum designed for grades 9-12. The polished, feature-rich web site is not only for high schoolers. Others can raid it for music, country data, or a crash course on Africa and the contemporary world.
Posted: 8/14/2006
Politicians Form Alliance to Reduce Urban Pollution
Though speakers at the meeting said they believe greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to a dangerous warming of the global environment, they were also optimistic about their ability to solve the problem.
Posted: 8/2/2006
Soccer, Nationalism, and Globalization
With the 2006 FIFA World Cup days away from kicking off, the African Activist Association staged their first conference of its kind, "Soccer, Nationalism, and Globalization" on the 31st of May 2006.
Posted: 6/26/2006
Program Stays on Top of the World
Global studies has been popular with students in its first year, with all classes filled to capacity.
Posted: 5/26/2006
Reform, Not Tax Relief, Is the Way to Lure Investors
Non-economic factors, not fiscal policy, are fundamental in explaining the lack of investment in many developing countries, writes Global Fellow Nathan Jensen in the Financial Times.
Posted: 5/17/2006
14 Ways of Looking at a Bald Eagle
Veteran New York Times international reporter Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow, worries that Americans again harbor good intentions about Iran.
Posted: 5/3/2006
Global Terrorism Prevention on a Shoestring
Scholar of political terrorism and key figure in UN efforts to prevent it challenges conventional wisdom on extremist groups.
Posted: 4/11/2006
Q&A: Lucy Burns
UCLA Filipino American theater expert says teaching is like performance, and scholarship and activism go hand in hand.
Posted: 3/10/2006
Beyond the Headlines
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Posted: 3/8/2006
Want to Promote Development? Fight AIDS
Director of World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program discusses magnitude of a long-term epidemic, strategies for saving lives.
Posted: 3/3/2006
Arts Activists Call Out to Human Trafficking Victims
Symposium on human trafficking is one of three recent globalization events sponsored by WAC with support from the International Institute. The others were a symposium on globalization and the arts and WAC's activites on World AIDS Day.
Posted: 2/13/2006
Q&A: Nathan Jensen
A political scientist and Global Fellow studies how multinational corporations make decisions that affect developing countries.
Posted: 1/9/2006
Designing for Terror
Institute-funded study of transit security, begun before bombing attacks in Madrid and London, finds officials concerned about physical design of stations, riders' perceptions of risk. Europeans get higher marks for coordination than more secretive American officials.
Posted: 1/3/2006
The Boundaries of the Bill of Rights
Only outdated notions of national sovereignty, and not the U.S. Constitution, prevent basic protections from applying beyond U.S. borders, argues law and global studies professor Kal Raustiala.
Posted: 12/23/2005
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