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AbstractA truly effective program of handling medical practice disputes continues to elude the traditional justice system, despite numerous attempts at using mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). A comprehensive review of the legal, social, and psychological aspects of medical practice disputes, as well as the history of malpractice mediation, reveals many of the reasons for this failure. Mediation is highly appropriate for these cases, but a different approach, grounded in conflict resolution theory, would be much more effective.

The English-speaking Caribbean countries share a common history of British colonial rule, resulting in similar educational systems with common institutions. They, with other countries, form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The CARICOM Heads of Government recently agreed on a common human resource development strategy that set targets for achievements for different levels of the regional educational systems (CARICOM Secretariat, 1997). Earlier policy agreements also set in train steps towards the free movement of skills across the region, thus requiring the transferability of qualifications.

THIS ARTICLE LINKS STALINIST IDEOLOGY'S EMERGENCE TO A PREOCCUPATION WITH STATE BULDING AND LEGITIMACY WITHIN THE PARTY HIERARCHY, WHICH IS VISIBLE IN THE LATTER'S VIEWS ON HISTORY DURING THE 1930S. IT NOTES THAT TROUBLING TO HISTORIANS WERE SUDDEN SHIFTS IN ESTABLISHED IDEOLOGICAL POSITIONS WHICH CAUGHT EVEN LONG-TIME PARTY MEMBERS UNAWARES. THE ARTICLE ARGUES THAT NATIONAL BOLSHEVISM BEGAN AS A PREWAR PHENOMENON, AND THAT SOVIET IDEOLOGY OF THE PERIOD IS MOST EFFECTIVELY SUMMARIZED IN THE STALINIST IDIOM OF THE DAY AS "NATIONAL IN FORM, ETATIST IN CONTENT."

ANTONY BLACK HAS ARGUED THAT CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANISM WAS ONE OF THE DISCOURSES AT WORK IN FRAMING THE HISTORY OF WESTERN REPUBLICAN THOUGHT. BUT HE NEGLECTED TO CONFRONT THE THEORETICALLY UNIQUE CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS. FIRST, CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANISM DERIVED FROM MORE GENERAL BELIEFS ABOUT THE DIVINELY ORDAINED ORGANIC STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE. SECOND, IT EVINCED NO NECESSARY HOSTILITY TOWARD MONARCHIC RULE; QUITE TO THE CONTRARY, ITS COSMOLOGICAL PREMISE OF ORGANIC HIERARCHY SUPPORTED THE OFFICE OF THE KING (WHETHER PAPAL OR SECULAR).

THE 1998 HONG KONG ELECTION IS ARGUABLY AMONG THE MOST SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN COMMUNIST CHINA'S HISTORY. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WILL FIND IT MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO RULE HONG KONG IF HE KEEPS ON ACTING AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE. FURTHER, IT PREDICTS THAT CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY HAS A CHOICE TO MAKE: WHETHER TO HANG ON TO AN OUTDATED AND ILLEGITIMATE MODEL FOR POLITICAL CONTROL OF ITS PEOPLE, OR TO TAKE THE LEAD IN TRANSFORMING CHINA INTO A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

This article presents the history, verbatim transcripts, and behavioral observations of a child's disclosure of sexual abuse to Dr. David Corwin in 1984 and the spontaneous return of that reportedly unrecallable memory during an interview between the same individual, now a young adult, and Dr. Corwin 11 years later. Both interviews were videotape recorded. The significance, limitations, and clinical implications of this unique case study are discussed. Five commentaries by researchers from differing empirical perspectives who have reviewed these videotape-recorded interviews follow this article.

After a critical look at the points of view of many scholars, Russian and non-Russian, on Russian-Chinese relations and an overview of the history of these relations, the author explores the future of Russian-Chinese relations with the interests of the people of Russian Far East in his mind. He believes that to maintain normal interstate relations, each of the two countries needs, first of all to be realistic and coordinate its own interests with those of the partner. (DÜI-Sen)

THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN BORDER QUESTION ALWAYS CONSISTED OF FAR MORE THAN SIMPLY A TERRITORIAL DISPUTE. IT INEVITABLY BECAME BOUND UP WITH QUESTIONS OF STATE AND NATION-BUILDING, THE CREATION OF NEW POST-SOVIET NATIONAL IDENTITIES, AND THE FORGING OF CIVIC NATIONS. THIS ARTICLE SURVEYS THE ROOTS OF THE UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN TERRITORIAL DISPUTE AND HOW HISTORY HAS BEEN BROUGHT INTO PLAY AS A MEANS TO ARGUE FOR THE "RIGHT" OF FIRST SETTLEMENT. IT THEN DISCUSSES ATTITUDES WITHIN UKRAINE TO ITS TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY.

THE UN IS NOW UNDER THE GREATEST THREAT OF EXTINCTION IN ITS HISTORY. THE EROSION OF PUBLIC ALERTNESS TO DAILY DOSES OF MENDACITY MIXED WITH ECONOMIC INCOMPETENCE IS VERY SUBTLE. TWO MOVES ARE SUGGESTED FOR THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE UN. FIRST, A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN TO GET GOVERNMENTS TO ESTABLISH A UN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY ELECTED BY THE PEOPLES. SECOND,THE SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOULD BE APPOINTED FOLLOWING A YEAR-LONG SEARCH BASED ON SUGGESTIONS CONTRIBUTED BY ALL GOVERNMENTS, THE NGO COMMUNITY, AND INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS.

This paper represents an essay into Africanist social history and experimental biography. Thirteen years ago the pages of this journal carried a debate between Ali Mazrui and Hailu Habtu concerning Western and Semitic (Arab and Jewish) cultural influences in subsaharan Africa. In response to Professor Mazrui's argument on the Jewish religious, metaphorical, economic, and political impact on Black Africa (foreshadowing Greco-Roman and Islamic influences), Professor Habtu vigorously rejected the "hidden premise...of an African cultural vacuum, or near-vacuum, destined to be filled by 'universalistic' civilizations."

This article applies the methods of history and sociology of sciences to the study of Déviance et Société's network formation. This project is replaced in the criminological and intellectual fields of the sixties and seventies. We look for the sociabilities places that favoured the encounters. We study the editorial's policy and the orientation's debates. We finally try to objective the aims trends of the scientific production from the beginning to the middle of the eighties. [This work has to be continued in this review].