Background on the News - 2007-01-23

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January 23, 2007

 WEB EXCLUSIVE 

How to Promote Global Health
A Foreign Affairs Online Roundtable







Laurie Garrett's article "The Challenge of Global Health" argued that the money flowing toward the world's poor and sick might produce fewer benefits than people expect because aid is often directed at narrow, disease-specific problems rather than public health in general. In this special Web exclusive, Foreign Affairs has convened some of the world's top experts — Jeffrey Sachs, Paul Farmer, Alex de Waal, Roger Bate & Kathryn Boateng, and Garrett herself — to debate her thesis and suggest where global public health efforts should go next.

Previously in Background on the News
 

How Washington Learned to Stop Worrying and Love India's Bomb
January 10, 2007
In December, President George W. Bush signed a law that allows the United States to trade civilian nuclear material and technology with India, reversing decades of U.S. protestations over India's flouting of the global nonproliferation regime in a bid for a new strategic partnership. . . . Read more
 

Trouble in Palestine
December 20, 2006
As violence escalated last week among factions competing for power in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suddenly announced early elections. Whether Abbas' Fatah party can unseat the radical Hamas remains unclear, as does the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. . . . Read more
 

Tenacious R&D
December 6, 2006
China has just overtaken Japan as the world's second-largest spender on research and development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports — and its efforts are furrowing brows abroad. Yet spending alone might not be enough to overcome China's deep structural problems in this area. . . . Read more
 

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Foreign Affairs
Bestsellers
for January 2007

The topselling books on international affairs based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and barnesandnoble.com during December 2006.

  1. State of Denial
    Bob Woodward
  2. The World Is Flat
    Thomas L. Friedman
  3. Imperial Life in the Emerald City
    Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Purchased online at foreignaffairs.org during December 2006

1. Darfur and the Genocide Debate by Scott Straus (January/February 2005)

2. Has Globalization Passed Its Peak? by Rawi Abdelal and Adam Segal (January/February 2007)

3. The United States, Iraq, and the War on Terror by Lee Kuan Yew (January/February 2007)

4. China's Leadership Gap by John L. Thornton (November/December 2006)

5. In Search of Hugo Chávez by Michael Shifter (May/June 2006)

 

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