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The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; the shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order; structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies; trade liberalization and free trade agreements; famine and humanitarian interventions; and the thrid worldization of developed nations

Comments on Russell A. Burgos article, "An N of 1: A Political Scientist in Operation Iraqi Freedom" (2004), agreeing that the realities of war & peace should be the basis for theories of international relations. No single discipline can describe the political, sociological, legal, psychological, & theological aspects of war. Terrorism has impacted the just-war theory & has required consideration of preemption & preventive war. The US needs to better explain its motives & actions to keep allied support & to have legitimacy, especially regarding the war in Iraq. The author refutes Burgos's arguments concerning the "rush to war"; the monopoly control the executive branch has over the war powers; the significance of the Republicanization of the army; the willingness of the military to follow civilian leadership; & the disdain that military personnel hold for civilians. 4 References. L. A. Hoffman

I arrived at Santiago's Pudahuel Airport carrying two large 16 mm. film cans. A customs officer, who seemed both surprised and relieved that I, although obviously a North American, spoke Spanish comfortably, informed me that films could not be brought into the country. Fresh from a month in Mexico, my immediate reaction was to offer what the Mexicans call a "bite." But Chile is not Mexico, and bribing an official in Chile would be taken as the greatest of insults. It was fortunate I remembered that, and I asked instead to see the Chief Officer. The Chief Officer greeted me and welcomed me to Chile, repeating the other officer's statement that foreign films cannot be brought into the country without a special license.