Africa’s Prospects in the Obama Presidency

The Obama Presidency and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

The first ten months of the Obama administration’s efforts to achieve a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli peacemaking have led to widespread disappointment among Palestinians and to growing anxiety among Israelis. Inevitably, this unsatisfactory interim report card is partly a result of the high expectations created by President Barack Obama himself, during the presidential campaign as well as in hi...

ChangeWe Can Believe In? Using Political Science to Predict Policy Change in the Obama Presidency

Based on the results of the 2008 presidential and congressional elections, an analysis using theories and methods of modern political science (pivotal politics theory, ideal point estimates, and bootstrap simulations) suggests that the conditions are ripe for real policy change. Specifically, we should expect policies to move significantly in a liberal direction, few or no policies should move ...

The Presidency

and it is clear at once that there is no such tradition. We have had two physicians in succession, or two surgeons?even two anaesthetists; but such a sequence as is suggested only once in the last fifty years. Two traditions, indeed, come down to us from the earliest years of the Society; one, that it accepts the nomination of the Committee, trusting that body to propose the worthiest candidate...

Africas Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations

1846 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa won fewer concessions on their exports in the Uruguay Round than did other developing countries, but they still emerged facing fewer or lower restrictions than others. They should be more active in the next Round, focusing negotiations not on trade preferences but on bound most-favored-nation tariff reductions. Summary findings Openness and liberal trade pol...

The Prospects of Epigenetics in Neuroscience