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Postcolonial Africa is commonly studied as epitomizing the collision of external political elements -- ie, globalization, democratization, development -- with internal -- local, ethnic, traditionalist -- ones. Focusing on Benin & its fledgling democracy, the chapter explores three main areas of political tension: representative democracy in a multiethnic environment; national identity & its implications for transnational trade as well as for Benin's place in the larger francophone community; & both regional & domestic security & human rights policy. These aspects are not discrete; rather, they interact. A consideration of these interactions belies the simplistic external/internal binarism according to which developing countries are often discussed, as these interrelated factors traverse territorial, state, & ethnic boundaries. 41 References. K. Coddon

Discusses May 24, 2002 US-Russia SORT treaty, signed in Moscow by Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, designed to reduce number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads; 2 articles. Partial contents: The jury is still out, by Wade Boese and J. Peter Scoblic; Assessing the new U.S.-Russian pact, by John Holum.

Discusses issues of population aging around the world, focusing on increase of old age groups in national population in relation to working age groups, and implications for production, growth, labor market, consumption, and other issues.

Examines conflicting estimates of child and infant mortality since the UN sanctions regime was imposed following the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, focusing on sanctions' opponents exaggeration of the actual death toll to further their political agendas; argues that the embargo has resulted in at least 100,000 deaths since 1990 and has been ineffective. Reprinted from Reason, Mar. 2002.

Covers supranational institutions, independent central banks, independent regulatory agencies, independent competition agencies, constitutional courts, and judicial review; includes effects on democracy; Western Europe; 9 articles. Some comparison with the US.

Examines statutory social security protection for old age, disability, death, sickness, maternity, employment injury and death, and unemployment, or for children and families, and shift in ideology from unconditional entitlement to individual/market solutions; 6 articles. Contents: Welfare ideology, the market and social security: protecting the public interest in perpetuity, by John Dixon and Alexander Kouzmin; Individualism, collectivism and the marketization of social security: Chile and China compared, by James Midgley and Kwong-leung Tang; Tilting toward marketization: reform of the Canada pension plan, by Glen Drover; Health care policy in the German social insurance state: from solidarity to privatization? by Karl Hinrichs; Privatization of social security in Southeast Asia, by M. Ramesh.