http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com The World Affairs Blog Network Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:59:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 20th century, characterized by perhaps the greatest blood-letting in human history, has shaped our reality in ways we do not understand. It was period defined by what Matthew White calls the Hemoclysm, a blood convulsion, bookended by atrocities in the Congo. Our last century was not about freedom, love ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/horror-films%e2%80%99-history-lessons/ The announcement of Elinor Ostrom as a co-winner, along with Berkeley economist Oliver Williamson, of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics came both as a surprise and a breath of fresh air. None of the participants of Harvard University’s (informal) annual betting pool for the winner of the Nobel ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/14/elinor-ostrom-and-a-nobel-reality-check-for-the-economics-field/ Congrats to the people of Rio de Janeiro on their city’s winning bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. It’s exciting and just plain fair that the Games will finally come to South America. Chicago will get over it. So will Oprah Winfrey, who still wields the power to send ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/03/best-of-the-web-the-%e2%80%9cgo-rio%e2%80%9d-video-edition/ By Cordelia Rizzo I remember meeting Mexican politician and human rights activist Gilberto Rincón Gallardo seven years ago and hearing his story about his incarceration in the mythical Lecumberri prison. He was charged with throwing stones and “quickly running away from the cops” during one of the 1968 student-police confrontations. Gallardo, the ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/28/the-case-of-jacinta-francisco-and-the-mexican-justice-system/ By Geraldine Forbes and Usha Thakkar Dr. Neera Desai [Neeraben] one of the pioneers of Women's Studies in India, died on June 25, 2009 after a long struggle with cancer. Neeraben, born Neera Druv in Ahmedabad in 1924, lived most of her life in Bombay/ Mumbai where she founded India's first ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/21/in-memory-of-dr-neera-desai/ Moment Magazine, where I am the senior editor, just launched the first in a multi-part series on Israel’s Arab citizens. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most covered conflicts in the world. But there is little media attention given to Israel’s one million Arab citizens, in spite of disturbing ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/17/israel%e2%80%99s-arab-citizens/ It is no secret that Mexico lags well behind European, North American and other Latin American countries in regards to women's participation in government. Though Mexican women have been legally entitled to vote and stand for election since 1953, there is still a wide gap in terms of their equal ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/04/mocking-affirmative-action-in-the-mexican-congress/ There are administrations that have been undermined as a result of disasters, but others have emerged from crises more powerful than before. The difference lies in how disasters and crises are handled. Taiwan is predisposed to earthquakes and storms and is experienced in handling the typhoon season that hits the ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/08/18/typhoon-morakot%e2%80%99s-political-aftermath/ Barbara Gonzalez I am reading Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in a Comparative Perspective by Steven Levitsky, who is currently is associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Drawing from the literature on party change, Levitsky argues that loosely structured party organizations have a ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/27/on-our-bookshelves-transforming-labor-based-parties-in-latin-america-governing-china-the-white-tiger/ The secretary of state finally gets a platter of her own at ITC Maurya's Bukhara restaurant in New Delhi. The Hillary Platter--urgh malai kabab, seekh kabab, paneer tikka, tandoori aloo, sikandari raan, dal bukhara, tandoori jinga, mixed raita, naan, rasmalai and kulfi--joins the Presidential Platter and the Chelsea Platter. At ... http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/21/best-of-the-web-clinton-in-india-edition/