Tag: Economics & Development

Review by Renee M Earle
Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States by Keith W. Mines

by Imad K. Harb

by Mark Wentling

by Catherine Bertini

by Peter Bridges

by Mark Wentling

Back Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By Kim Ghattas
Review by Albadr AbuBaker Alshateri, Phd.

by Christopher Datta

by Mikael Barfod

by Robert Cox

by Brenda Brown Schoonover

by Mark Wentling In April 1991, while I was serving in Lomé, Togo as the USAID Representative for Togo and Benin, protests in Lomé against the dictatorial regime of President Eyadéma reached the boiling point. One night, President Eyadéma’s barbaric … Read more

by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Renee M. Earle

by Olga Krasnyak

by Peter Sufrin

by David Cowhig Chinese physician Dr. Wang Shuping predicted the HIV epidemic among Henan peasant blood sellers and eventually raised the alarm all the way to Beijing when local and provincial authorities ignored the rapid spread of HIV among the … Read more

by Dick Virden

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner

by Eric V. Guichard

Although State does not track former PCVs in the department, an average of 5% of new Foreign Service Officers in the last four entering classes reported Peace Corps experience and more than 60 former volunteers have served as U.S. ambassadors.