Reviewing China and Africa: Old interests, new trends – or new interests, old trends?

Power Analysis and World Politics: New Trends versus Old Tendencies

FROM Niccolo Machiavelli and David Hume to E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, power has been an important (some would say too important) variable in international political theorizing. Although some may regard power analysis as old-fashioned and outdated, recent refinements in social science thinking about power suggest the possibility of revitalizing this approach to understanding international r...

Finding 'new' occupational diseases and trends in 'old' ones.

Strategies for the reduction of risk to the health of workers, as well as the population in general, rely on the collection, analysis and interpretation of valid data to study work-related ill-health in relation to its determinants. In the developed world, through advances in occupational medicine and changing societal attitude reflected in legislation, the scourges of many occupational disease...

Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: old threats & new trends.

Tuberculosis (TB) has been declared as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). This has been mainly due to the emergence of multiple drug resistant strains and the synergy between tubercle bacilli and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Genomic analysis of strains for outbreak investigations is in vogue for about a decade now. However, information available from wh...

New Trends of Doping in Sport

New Trends of Doping in Sport