Reprint Requests: Fousseyni S. Touré, PhD, Centre International de Recherches, Médicales de Franceville, BP 769 Franceville, Gabon, Tel: 00 241 06615636; Fax: 00 241 677095; E-mail: [email protected] Received: November 2, 2005 Revised: January 11, 2006 Accepted: January 18, 2006 Grant Support: State of Gabon, by Total-Fina-Elf and by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Applying Syndemics and Chronicity: Interpretations from Studies of Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes Lesley Jo Weaver a & Emily Mendenhall b a Department of Anthropology , Emory University , Atlanta , Georgia , USA b Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program, Walsh School of Foreign Service , Georgetown University , Washington , DC , USA Accepted author version posted online: 10 Ju...

1 AUCC (2003) “Local Solutions to Global Challenges: Towards effective partnership in basic education” (September 2003), Final Report of the Joint Evaluation of External Support to Basic Education in Developing Countries, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague. The report and annexes are available in www.euforic.org/iob. Knowledge for Development? Comparing British, Japanese, Sw...

a World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. b Minister of Foreign Affairs, PB 8114 Dep., N-0032 Oslo, Norway. c Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Paris, France. Correspondence to Jonas Gahr Støre (e-mail: [email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056002 Pandemics, emerging diseases and bioterrorism are readily understood as direct threats to national and global security. But health issues...

1 The five BRICS countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 2 Ministry of External Affairs of India, “Speech by Foreign Secretary on Building Global Security at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) – Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS),” April 16, 2012, http://www.mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/19340/Speech+by+Foreign+Secretary+on+Building+Global+Security+at+...

In the centre of this essay is a tension that under certain circumstances may appear between various state actors involved in economic diplomacy. case Slovak diplomacy both Ministry Foreign and European Affairs Economy are main external relations. The paper briefly describes origins them reconciliation process took place 10 years since last reform Slovakia’s crucial reconciling role Government’...