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Floodlights, Spotlights, and Flashlights: Tenure Meets the Glare of Empirical Social Science
Authors: Finkelstein Martin J.
Published: February 2007

Is tenure a prerequisite for academic quality or inimical to it? Three new books, all with different approaches, report startlingly similar conclusions: tenure systems do not necessarily hurt, and contract systems do not necessarily support, academic quality, organizational flexibility, or individual career development. Although not differentiating satisfactorily between tenure and contract systems, the volumes highlight the imperative for institutions to monitor personnel policies and their mission-related consequences with greater self-awareness.
Whose "I/Eye" Counts?: The Reproduction of Mythical Master Narratives
Authors: Osei-Kofi Nana
Published: February 2007

The literature on diversity in higher education spans a broad range of issues. However, while broad in range, contemporary scholarship on diversity in higher education often suffers from a view of diversity that is ahistorical and acontextual. Through a critique of a study by Wolf-Wendel, Toma and Morphew (2001), this article aims to demonstrate how ahistorical and acontexual approaches to diversity perpetuate powerful mythical master narratives that uphold the status quo.
Water, Security, Conflict, and Cooperation
Authors: Dinar Shlomi
Published: February 2007

Abstract: Hydropolitics, the politics of water, has increasing relevance to
national and international security in general and to the field of
security studies in particular. The relationship between environmental
threats and security poses unforeseen challenges for academics and
practitioners. Understanding how nations engage in conflict and
cooperation over water is related to understanding the relationship
between hydropolitics and security. Therefore, hydropolitics should be
considered within the definition of security and within the field of
security studies. The manner in which states conduct their hydropolitics
with one another can be analyzed through particular theoretical frameworks
associated with the field of international relations.
Ethnic Minorities and Foreign Policy
Authors: Moore Will H
Published: February 2007

Abstract: To what extent do ethnic minority groups influence foreign policy? This
question hinges on the impact of cross-border ties between ethnic
groups and the extent to which a minority ethnic group can "capture"
foreign policy despite opposition from the majority in both democratic
and autocratic regimes. The evidence suggests that ethnicity matters,
but in a limited fashion: ethnic ties can heighten diplomatic conflict,
influence decisions to provide support for insurgent groups, and
exacerbate international crises. Yet these ties have little impact on
decisions by governments to impose economic sanctions and are far from
the primary determinant of international armed conflict. Ethnicity is
but one cleavage over which political mobilization might occur, and one
that neither scholars nor politicians should reify.
The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Perpetuation or Resolution
Authors: Shain Yossi
Published: February 2007

Abstract: Using data from studies of the Armenian-American and Jewish-American
diasporic involvement in conflicts over Nagorno-Karabakh and the West
Bank and Gaza, a hypothesis can be developed about the role diasporas play
as a distinct third level between interstate and domestic peacemaking in
these regions. There are several possible factors that could determine the
nature and direction of diasporic involvement in homeland conflicts. By
examining the phenomenon of diasporic activism in the homeland state, the
host state, and at the international level, further research directions
for those interested in integrating the study of ethnic conflict and
national identity more completely into the study of international
relations become apparent.
Deploying the Full Arsenal: Fighting Hunger with Biotechnology
Authors: Lacy Peter G
Published: February 2007

One of the most important issues in the debate over biotechnology
today is its potential to combat hunger in the developing world. This
question is especially relevant as biotechnology struggles to find
acceptance while countries in Africa and elsewhere in the developing
world face famine. This paper reviews modern efforts to fight hunger and
the projected future of the problem. What does biotechnology have to
offer in response to this situation and what are the major obstacles
to its deployment? The paper then explores ways to overcome these
obstacles, arguing that while traditional efforts should be continued,
biotechnology's potential to make a safe, meaningful contribution to
fighting hunger is too significant to be overlooked.
Lessons of Empire: Britain and India
Authors: Misra Maria
Published: February 2007

Recent interest in nineteenth-century European colonialism as a model
for promoting state-building and development in parts of the contemporary
Third World has rehabilitated the idea of imperialism. Proponents of
this imperialism as state-building idea have pointed to the British
Raj in India as proof of empire's positive legacy. But the latest
historical research does not support this view of the Raj as an agent of
centralization, economic development, and secularism. Current research
suggests that, if anything, the British promoted the "traditionalization"
of India, halting many of the indigenous impulses toward modernization
present in the late eighteenth century. Moreover, this legacy continues
to play itself out in the political and economic problems of contemporary
South Asia. In particular, the legacy of the colonial tendency to rigidify
and, in some cases to create, a set of fragmented and competitive group
identities has seriously impeded the achievement of an integrated state,
full liberal democracy, and a successful economy. These problems were
neither the result of specific conditions in India, nor of mere policy
errors by the British, but are the likely consequence of any imperial
relationship, making imperialism an inappropriate model for even the
best-intentioned contemporary state-builder.
Paradise Lost, the Miltonic "Or," and the Poetics of Incertitude
Authors: Herman Peter C.
Published: February 2007

Miltonists tread gingerly around the issue of Paradise Lost and uncertainty as unresolved contradiction subverts the masterplot of Milton criticism, which is that Paradise Lost coheres, and the critic's task is to make the poem cohere. In this article, I contest this faith in the poem's thematic and formal unity by demonstrating that Milton structures Paradise Lost according to a poetics of incertitude, as exemplified by the Miltonic "Or." I argue that Milton structures Paradise Lost according to a series of suspended choices, and this structure determines the smallest details of the poem as well as the competing narratives, especially the differing versions of the Son's elevation.
The Classical Context of Ben Jonson's "Other Youth"
Authors: Boehrer Bruce Thomas
Published: February 2007

Epicoene's self-conscious comparison between Ben Jonson and an unnamed "other youth"-possibly Shakespeare-may best be read in the context of classical notions of the aging process, which conceive of "youth" ("iuventus") as a category encompassing the ages from roughly twenty to forty-five and which define that category in terms of sexual potency and military service. While invoking this classical conception of the masculine life cycle, Epicoene also realigns the determinants of "youth" so as to foreground rhetorical and literary performance, thereby effecting a shift in its vision of empowered virility away from arms and toward letters.
Jewish Matriarchs and the Staging of Elizabeth I in The History of Jacob and Esau
Authors: Ephraim Michelle
Published: February 2007

I argue that in the anonymous academic interlude The History of Jacob and Esau (1558), the character Deborah, an allusion to both the militaristic prophetess of the Book of Judges 4-5 and Rebecca's nurse of the same name in Genesis 35, functions as a figure of Queen Elizabeth I. As I show by reading the play alongside contemporary biblical commentaries, while Jacob and Esau celebrates Deborah's maternal and national puissance—and her role in Jacob's rightful "election" over his brother—the play, through this Jewish matriarch, also calls attention to the instability of typology as Christian hermeneutic.
Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama
Authors: Hodgdon Barbara
Published: February 2007

An assessment of recent scholarly work treating Tudor and Stuart drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL for consideration follows.
Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Authors: Reddick Allen Hilliard
Published: February 2007

An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL for consideration follow.
Recycling Political Poetry: Tom D'Urfey's The Progress of Honesty 1680/1739
Authors: Roper Alan
Published: February 2007

D'Urfey's The Progress of Honesty in 1680 praises Charles II and his brother James under the names of Titus the Second and Resolution and condemns Monmouth, the king's illegitimate son, calling him Marcian. The poem was reissued in 1739 with revised diction and no indication of author. The characters of Titus and Marcian are altered to make them appropriate to George II and Prince Frederick, the king's alienated son, and Resolution is replaced by Hortensio, a statesman who represents Walpole.
Between the Undying Authoritarianism and the Unborn Democracy: Communal Organization in Ashkenazi Mexico -- 1997-1998
Authors: Cimet Adina
Published: February 2007

The article describes the latest structural changes that
the Mexican Ashkenazi communal leaders have undertaken. It describes the
interplay of religious and lay leaders in effecting essential changes
within the community. At the same time, the political and philosophical
implications of the choices taken by this leadership and the passivity
of its constituency are brought to the fore in an attempt to highlight
the enormously important consequences that specific voluntary living
arrangements carry with themselves.
Immigration and Childhood Experience in Two Contemporary Andean Jewish Novels
Authors: Goldberg Paul L
Published: February 2007

In spite of the relatively low numbers of Jews living
in Ecuador and Peru, Jewish experience in the Andean region of South
America has found literary expression in narrative works by Diego Viga
(1907-1977) and Isaac Goldemberg (1945). Through the use of the
child narrator, these two novelists represent various processes of
cultural adaptation and individual survival. As children of Jewish
immigrants to Latin America, these characters frequently cope with the
contradictory circumstances that growing up Jewish in Ecuador and Peru
often presents. A comparison of Diego Viga's The Lost Year (1963)
and Isaac Goldemberg's The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner
(1977) reveals the kind of confusion and hostility that these children
encounter and the strategies they employ for dealing with feelings of
isolation, abandonment, and rejection.
New Christians and Jews in Brazil: Migrations and Antisemitism
Authors: Maio Marcos Chor , Calaca Carlos Eduardo
Published: February 2007

This article reviews academic production about
antisemitism in Brazil under colonialism and during contemporary times. It
identifies the issues found in the literature and argues for the need
to advance further in studies of the topic, above all on the influence
that antisemitism may have had on Brazilian sociability.