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111. Publications & Writing
Cocaine's Long March North, 1900-2010
Authored by DPDF 2013 Global Commodity Studies Research Director, Paul Gootenberg. This essay charts the entanglements and “blowback” effects of U.S. policy toward Latin American drug exports over the last century as the backdrop to today's cascading drug violence in norther…
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112. Publications & Writing
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend wedding…
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113. Publications & Writing
Commentary on Migration and Development in China: 30 Years of Experience
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114. Publications & Writing
Common Good Forecaster
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115. Publications & Writing
Conference on Inter-Asian Connections
Proceedings of the SSRC’s inaugural ‘Conference on Inter-Asian Connections’ held in Dubai, UAE on February 21-23, 2008, which includes detailed reports on each of the workshops and analyses of the applicant and participant pools. Co-organized in partnership with the Dubai S…
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116. Publications & Writing
Conflict Prevention in Bolivia and Ecuador : The Role of the International Community
In recent years, Bolivia and Ecuador have faced so many challenges to their stability and constitutional order that many observers have wondered how these countries have avoided slipping into widespread violent conflict. This paper examines the political developments that have ma…
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117. Publications & Writing
Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine
As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflict…
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118. Publications & Writing
Congolese Vote, but Who Decides?
In his excellent contribution to this blog on 15 February 2012, Joshua Marks writes that “It is difficult to make sense of the reaction of many Western governments and international actors to the disastrous elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on November 28…
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119. Publications & Writing
Consolidated List of Council Committees, 1924-1997
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120. Publications & Writing
Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future
This book by 1997 IDRF Fellow Yibing Huang offers a fresh and nuanced perspective into contemporary Chinese literature by presenting four authors and cultural bastards–Duo Duo, an underground seer-poet; Wang Shuo, a ‘hooligan’ writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old Red Guard and ne…


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