REBECCA BROCKER
[Spring 2008, Volume IX, Issue I]
Female suicide terrorism is on the rise worldwide. There were six suicide attacks known to have been perpetrated by women during the 1980s. Then, between 1990 and 2000, female suicide bombers committed 30 suicide attacks, and between 2000 and 2006, they committed over 40 suicide attacks. Female suicide bombers have detonated in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, and represent 15% of all suicide bombers.  In the past, the majority of scholarly attention has been given to suicide terrorism as a …

HARRIS GLECKMAN, Ph.D.

[Spring 2008, Volume IX, Issue 1]
Over the past forty years, natural resource exports have increasingly helped finance and sustain bloody conflicts in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia. This has cost millions of lives and is wreaking havoc on development. Natural resource wealth, which should improve the lives of the world’s poorest people, has become a resource curse and a source of civil unrest. The export of natural resources from conflict zones can provide significant illicit resources to purchase weapons, to …

THOMAS R. LANSNER
[Fall 2006, Volume VIII]
The December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was a natural disaster that claimed a human and material toll unprecedented in modern times. Knowledge and experience of the calamity for most of us was gleaned through mass media reporting of the event. The world’s press offered coverage that grew with recognition of the scope and severity of the tragedy. The global reaction of collective shock, followed by an enormous outpouring of assistance for survivors, was profoundly shaped by the sheer quantity and particular qualities of media coverage.
This …