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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I FRAMEWORK AND SETTING -- 1 Responsibility -- Children's Conditions -- Children in Civil Society -- Children in Global Civil Society -- Overview -- 2 The Global Economy -- Division of Labor -- Debt and Structural Adjustment -- The Roots of Poverty -- Population and the Economy -- International Obligations -- PART II CHILDREN'S PROBLEMS -- 3 Mortality -- Priorities, Not Poverty -- Denial -- Intentionality -- Hatred? -- Genocide? -- 4 Child Labor -- Remedies -- Business-Like Schooling -- 5 Child Prostitution -- Trafficking -- Traveling Customers -- Economic Pressures -- Domestic Law -- International Control -- 6 Armed Conflict -- Trade Guns for Butter? -- International Humanitarian Law -- Implementation -- Implementing Article 38 -- The Question of Agency -- 7 Malnutrition -- Causes of Malnutrition -- Malnutrition and Mortality -- Growth Measurement -- Numbers of People Malnourished -- PART III THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE -- 8 Nutrition Rights -- History of Nutrition Rights -- Why Children? -- The Principle -- Multi-Layering -- Carrots, Not Sticks -- Funding -- Capping Entitlements -- Using Existing Programs -- Goals as Rights -- Nutrition Rights Advocacy -- 9 Children's Rights -- Soft vs. Hard Rights -- Rights Require Accountability -- Monitoring and Reporting on Rights -- International Nutrition Monitoring -- 10 International Children's Rights -- Rights to Assistance -- The Question of Consent -- Progressive Realization -- Chronic Conditions -- Development Assistance vs. Humanitarian Assistance -- The Principle Internationally -- International Nutrition Rights -- Implementation Internationally -- A Global Action Plan -- Sovereignty and Civilization -- Appendix: Data on Children -- Notes and References -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Excerpts from In the National Interest: The Federal Government in the Reform of K-12 Math and Science Education, a report of a Task Force of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, describe recommendations for the revitalization of science and mathematics secondary education in the United States.

Introduction: science, technology, and international affairs, new perspectives /John Krige, Kai-Henrik Barth --Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the Making of the IAEA /Gabrielle Hecht --Ambivalence of nuclear histories /Itty Abraham --Prometheus unleashed : science as a diplomatic weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration /Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper --Politics of noncooperation: the boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics /Alexis De Greiff --Exporting MIT: science, technology, and nation-building in India and Iran /Stuart W. Leslie, Robert Kargon --"An effective instrument of peace": scientific cooperation as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, 1938-1950 /Clark A. Miller --Atoms for peace, scientific internationalism, and scientific intelligence /John Krige --Catalysts of change: scientists as transnational arms control advocates in the 1980s /Kai-Henrik Barth --Hallowed lords of the sea: scientific authority and radioactive waste in the United States, Britain, and France /Jacob Darwin Hamblin --Meteorology as infrastructural globalism /Paul N. Edwards --Globalization and regulation in the biotech world: the transatlantic debates over cancer genes and genetically modified crops /Jean-Paul Gaudillère --Biotechnology and empire: the global power of seeds and science /Sheila Jasanoff.