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When Methods Meet Politics: How Risk Adjustment Became Part of Medicare Managed Care
Authors: Weissman Joel S. , Wachterman Melissa , Blumenthal David
Published: December 2005

Health-based risk adjustment has long been touted as key to the success of competitive models of health care. Because it decreases the incentive to enroll only healthy patients in insurance plans, risk adjustment was incorporated into Medicare policy via the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. However, full implementation of risk adjustment was delayed due to clashes with the managed care industry over payment policy, concerns over perverse incentives, and problems of data burden. We review the history of risk adjustment leading up to the Balanced Budget Act and examine the controversies surrounding attempts to stop or delay its implementation during the years that followed. The article provides lessons for the future of health-based risk adjustment and possible alternatives.
Dissemination of Health Technology Assessments: Identifying the Visions Guiding an Evolving Policy Innovation in Canada
Authors: Lehoux Pascale , Denis Jean-Louis , Tailliez Stéphanie , Hivon Myriam
Published: December 2005

Health technology assessment (HTA) has received increasing support over the past twenty years in both North America and Europe. The justification for this field of policy-oriented research is that evidence about the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of technology should contribute to decision and policy making. However, concerns about the ability of HTA producers to increase the use of their findings by decision makers have been expressed. Although HTA practitioners have recognized that dissemination activities need to be intensified, why and how particular approaches should be adopted is still under debate. Using an institutional theory perspective, this article examines HTA as a means of implementing knowledge-based change within health care systems. It presents the results of a case study on the dissemination strategies of six Canadian HTA agencies. Chief executive officers and executives (n = 11), evaluators (n = 19), and communications staff (n = 10) from these agencies were interviewed. Our results indicate that the target audience of HTA is frequently limited to policy makers, that three conflicting visions of HTA dissemination coexist, that active dissemination strategies have only occasionally been applied, and that little attention has been paid to the management of diverging views about the value of health technology. Our discussion explores the strengths, limitations, and trade-offs associated with the three visions. Further efforts should be deployed within agencies to better articulate a shared vision and to devise dissemination strategies that are consistent with this vision.
Managing the Unmanageable: The Nature and Impact of Drug Risk in Physician Groups
Authors: Lipton Helene Levens , Agnew Jonathan D. , Stebbins Marilyn R. , Kuo Angela , Dudley R. Adams
Published: December 2005

As drug costs rose in the 1990s, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) began transferring risk for prescription drug expenditures to physician groups. With principal-agent theory as a framework for understanding drug-risk transfer, we used a multiple case-study design to examine the relationship between the level of drug risk that a physician group accepts and the physician group's adoption of drug-use management strategies. The data demonstrated that adoption of drug-use management innovations was not related to level of risk for pharmacy costs and that factors other than drug-risk level (e.g., contracting and data issues, financial and market factors, and physician group assessments of the fairness and incentives of risk contracts) can influence the principal-agent relationship. The data also revealed a novel form of information asymmetry between physicians and HMOs and unexpected failures of HMOs to fully enable their physician-agents. We believe these observations reflect the complexity of relationships in the health care system and have implications for the use of incentives. Based on principal-agent theory and our findings, we offer an alternative approach to drug-risk contracting that reduces physicians' responsibility for aspects of drug use that are beyond their control while maintaining the incentives to manage drug costs and use that were the original intent of drug-risk contracting.
Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon
Authors: Roitman Janet
Published: December 2005

Janet Roitman is chargée de recherche at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Her recent publications include“New Sovereigns? Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin,” inIntervention and Transnationalism in Africa, edited by Thomas Callahgy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham (2001), and “The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin,” inGlobal Anthropology: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics, edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (forthcoming).
The FBI Files
Authors: Mesches Arnold
Published: December 2005

Arnold Mesches's The FBI Files was exhibited in 2002 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art; it was his 103rd solo exhibition. Mesches's works are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the High Museum of Art.
Calling Up Annie Moore
Authors: Kelly Susan , Morton Stephen
Published: December 2005

Susan Kelly lived in New York City from 1998 to 2001 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program,the World Trade Center's studio residency, and the 16 Beaver Group. Currently she is working toward a Ph.D. at Goldsmith's College, London. Stephen Morton is a lecturer in Anglophone literature and culture at the University of Southampton, U.K. He is the author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2002).
The Price of Honor: The Press versus Congress in the Rhetoric of Brazilian Politics
Authors: Teixeira Carla Costa
Published: December 2005

Carla Costa Teixeira is an associate professor of anthropology at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, where she has been researching political anthropology since 1993. She is the author of A Honra da Política (1998) and the coeditor of Como se fazem eleições no Brasil (2002).
The Corporeal Politics of Quality (Suzhi)
Authors: Anagnost Ann
Published: December 2005

Ann Anagnost is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. She is the author of National Past-Times:Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China (1997). Currently she is working on a book manuscript titled “Embodiments of Value.”
Getting the Id to Go Shopping: Psychoanalysis, Advertising, Barbie Dolls, and the Invention of the Consumer Unconscious
Authors: Bennett David
Published: December 2005

David Bennett is director of postgraduate studies in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he lectures on psy-choanalysis, postmodernism, and the politics of art censorship. His essay comes from a book in progress that examines how the discourses of sexual psychology and economics have interacted since the eighteenth century. His other books include Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity (1998), Cultural Studies: Pluralism and Theory (1993), and Rhetorics of History: Modernity and Postmodernity (1990).
Displaced Bodies in Residual Spaces
Authors: Leung Simon , Sturken Marita
Published: December 2005

Simon Leung teaches in the Department of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. His work has been presented at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of “Site-Specificity en Abyme,” in Surface Tension (2003), and coeditor of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 (2004). Marita Sturken teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Her books include Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997) and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright, 2001). She currently is editor of the American Quarterly and is at work on a book manuscript entitled “Tourists of History: Memory, Mourning, and Kitsch in American Culture.”
Genealogies of Race and Culture and the Failure of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: Rereading Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois
Authors: Briggs Charles L.
Published: December 2005

Charles L. Briggs is director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Stud-ies and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (with Richard Bauman, 2003) and Stories in the Time of Chol-era: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (with Clara Mantini-Briggs, 2003).
Unbearable Witness: Toward a Politics of Listening
Authors: CHUN WENDY HUI KYONG
Published: December 2005

wendy hui kyong chun is an assistant professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics.”
Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects
Authors: FUJII JAMES A.
Published: December 2005

james a. fujii is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Irvine. The author ofComplicit Fictions: The Subject in Modern Japanese Prose Narrative(University of California Press, 1993), he is presently working on a translated anthology of Maeda Ai's essays and a manuscript examining Japanese urban rail, metropolitan life, and the modern subject.
Statistical Panic
Authors: WOODWARD KATHLEEN
Published: December 2005

kathleen woodward, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, is the Chair of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. She is the author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (Indiana University Press, 1991) and the editor ofFiguring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Indiana University Press,1999). She is currently working on a book entitled “Circulating Anger and Other Feelings: The Cultural Politics of the Emotions.”
Gimme Shelter: At Home with the Millennium
Authors: CULLENS CHRIS
Published: December 2005

chris cullens is a German/English comparativist and an independent scholar who resides in San Francisco.
Model Minority Discourse and Asian American Jouis-Sense
Authors: HATTORI TOMO
Published: December 2005

tomo hattori is an assistant professor in the English Department at Vassar College. He is most recently the author of “China Man Autoeroticism and The Remains of Asian America” in Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Spring 1998). He is currently working on a book on model minority discourse in Asian American literature.
Blindness as Metaphor
Authors: SCHOR NAOMI
Published: December 2005

NAOMI SCHOR, Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, Yale University, is a founding coeditor of differences. Her most recent book is Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular (Duke University Press, 1995). At present, she is working on a study of French universalism.
Child's Play
Authors: BROWN GILLIAN
Published: December 2005

gillian brown, Professor of English at the University of Utah,is the author of Domestic Individualism (University of California Press, 1990) and the forthcoming Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. She is now working on a book about children's literature.
Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology
Authors: ABUSHARAF ROGAIA MUSTAFA
Published: December 2005

rogaia mustafa abusharaf is Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tufts University.
Between Maternity and Paternity: Figuring Ethical Subjectivity
Authors: WALSH LISA
Published: December 2005

lisa walsh is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. Her first book, Subjects of Love and Desire:Readings of Maternity and Ethicity, is forthcoming from Rowman &Littlefield. She is currently at work on a new book on paternity and melancholy.
Gazing Disinterestedly: Politicized Poetics inDouble Suicide
Authors: CORNYETZ NINA
Published: December 2005

nina cornyetz is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Gallatin School for Individualized Study at New York University. She is the author of Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers (Stanford University Press, 1999) and has just completed a second book entitled Polygraphic Desire: Fascism and Aesthetics in Kawabata, Abe, and Mishima(forthcoming).
Failures of Domestication: Speculations on Globality, Economy, and the Sex of Excess in Thailand
Authors: MORRIS ROSALIND C.
Published: December 2005

rosalind c. morris is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is also Associate Editor for the journal, connect: art,politics, culture, theory. Her most recent book, In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand was published by Duke University Press in 2000.
A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction
Authors: GAL SUSAN
Published: December 2005

susan gal is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is presently doing research on the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, and especially the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of political transformation in contemporary Eastern Europe. In studying postcommunist societies, her work focuses as well on the construction of gender and discourses of reproduction. Her recent publications include The Politics of Gender after Socialism(Princeton University Press, 2000) co-authored with Gail Kligman,Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life after Socialism (Princeton University Press, 2000), which she coedited with Gail Kligman, and Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority (St. Jerome's Press, 2001) coedited with Kathryn Woolard.
The Seminar:Mode d'emploiImpure Spaces in the Light of Late Totalitarianism
Authors: NIKOLCHINA MIGLENA
Published: December 2005

miglena nikolchina is Associate Professor in the Department of Theory and History of Literature at Sofia University. In 2001–2002, she is a visiting member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is the author ofChovekît-Utopia [The Utopian Human Being] (Sofia University Press, 1992), Smisîl i maitseubiistvo: Prochit na Virdjinia Ulf prez Yulia Krîsteva [Meaning and Matricide: Reading Woolf via Kristeva](Sofia University Press, 1997), and Rodena ot glavata: Fabuli i syuzheti v zhenskata literaturna istoriya [Born from the Head: Plots and Narratives in Women's Literary History] (forthcoming). In English, her essays have appeared in Semiotica, diacritics, Paragraph, and Tessera,among others.
Towards an Ethics of Transnational Encounter, or “When” Does a “Chinese” Woman Become a “Feminist”?
Authors: SHIH SHU-MEI
Published: December 2005

shu-mei shih teaches in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Center for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia and co-directs (with Françoise Lionnet) the University of California Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China (University of California Press, 2001) and is at work on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Visuality and Identity.
Dialect Writing and Simultaneity in the American Historical Romance
Authors: PRATT LLOYD
Published: December 2005

lloyd pratt is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, where he teaches American and African American literature. He is currently at work on a first book about time and social identity in nineteenth-century American and African American literature.
The Imaginary and a Political Quest for Freedom
Authors: NARANCH LAURIE E.
Published: December 2005

laurie naranch is Visiting Instructor in Political Science at Providence College, where she teaches political theory. Her current research is on the work of Castoriadis and feminist debates about autonomy, freedom,and universality.
Fighting “Humanism” on Its Own Terms
Authors: DE GENNARO MARA
Published: December 2005

mara de gennaro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published an article on Georges Bataille and surrealist primitivism in European Avant-Garde: New Perspectives, and her essay “What Remains of Jean Genet?” will appear in The Yale Journal of Criticism in spring 2003. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Outside of Fiction:Modernist Primitivism, `Race,' and the Humanist Tradition.”
Unrelated Passions
Authors: LEZRA JACQUES
Published: December 2005

jacques lezra, Professor of English and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of Unspeakable Subjects:The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (Stanford University Press, 1997) and the editor of Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (Yale French Studies, 1995). His translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight (Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1991) was awarded a pen Writers Club Prize. Most recently, he has published an edition (with Georgina Dopico Black) of Sebastián de Covarrubias's Suplemento al `Tesoro de la lengua castellana'(Polifemo, 2001).
Concerning the Digital
Authors: EVENS ADEN
Published: December 2005

aden evens is a preceptor of expository writing at Harvard University. He recently completed a manuscript on music and technology calledThe Experience of Music: Sound, Machines, and People. His current project is another book, Interface, about the ways in which digital technologies meet the human world.
French Universalism in the Nineties
Authors: SCOTT JOAN WALLACH
Published: December 2005

joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author, most recently,of Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man(Harvard University Press, 1996). Her book Parité: The French Movement for Sexual Equality in Politics is forthcoming.
Visions of Anatomy: Exhibitions and Dense Bodies
Authors: KUPPERS PETRA
Published: December 2005

petra kuppers is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Bryant University. She is the author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (Routledge, 2003) and is currently working onBodily Fantasies: Medical Visions/Medical Performances (Minnesota University Press, forthcoming, 2006).
Decoding Race and Human Difference in a Genomic Age
Authors: REARDON JENNY
Published: December 2005

jenny reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Scholar in Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University. In the academic year 2004-2005 she will be a Scholar in Residence at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. Her book Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in December of 2004.
Gut Feminism
Authors: WILSON ELIZABETH A.
Published: December 2005

elizabeth a. wilson is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (Routledge, 1998) and Psychosomatic:Feminism and the Neurological Body (Duke University Press, 2004).
Tale of Two Secrets: A Rereading ofDaniel Deronda
Authors: HERZOG ANNABEL
Published: December 2005

annabel herzog is a lecturer at the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel. She specializes in political philosophy and focuses on the intersection between ethics and politics and between philosophy and literature in the work of Arendt, Levinas, Camus, and Derrida. She is the author of Penser autrement la politique (Editions Kimé, Paris, 1997) and of essays published in such journals asPolitical Theory, Inquiry, and The European Journal of Political Theory.
The Abstract Soul of the Commodity and the Monstrous Body of the Sphinx: Co modification, Aesthetics, and the Impasses of Social Construction
Authors: ZIAREK EWA PLONOWSKA
Published: December 2005

ewa plonowska ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she teaches feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory. She is the author most recently ofAn Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford University Press, 2001) and has published numerous articles on Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Fanon,and literary modernism. She is coeditor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity:The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis and Intermedialities:Philosophy, Art, Politics (both forthcoming). Currently she is working on a book devoted to feminist aesthetics.
Against Eclecticism
Authors: SCOTT JOAN WALLACH
Published: December 2005

joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book isParité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism(University of Chicago Press, 2005).
On Never Having Learned How to Live
Authors: BUTLER JUDITH
Published: December 2005

judith butler is Maxine Elliott Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author, most recently, of Giving Account of Oneself (Fordhamup, 2005), Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (Verso, 2004), and Undoing Gender (Routledge,2004).
A Balkan Balance Sheet
Authors: Binder David
Published: December 2005

David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for theNew York Times.
Restraining Gulliver: American Exceptionalism and the International Criminal Court
Authors: Shepard William S.
Published: December 2005

William S. Shepard, an attorney and retired U.S. Foreign Service officer,served as national security adviser to Senator Robert Dole from 1982 to 1983. In 1990 he was the Republican nominee for governor of Maryland.
Order and Change in the Euro-Mediterranean System
Authors: Xenakis Dimitris K.
Published: December 2005

Dimitris K. Xenakis is a doctoral candidate in politics, University of Exeter.
Peace Operations—crossing the Rubicon? Pas Encore
Authors: Lewis William H.
Published: December 2005

William H. Lewis is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
New Trials for Europe and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership: A View from Russia
Authors: Safronov Alexander V.
Published: December 2005

Alexander V. Safronov is head of the press division in the Council of Europe office in Moscow.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Impartial?
Authors: Black Christopher
Published: December 2005

Christopher Black is a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Toronto. Black is one of the group of Canadian lawyers who filed a complaint of war crimes against NATO on 7 May 1999.
Austria: Crossroads or Roadblock in a New Europe?
Authors: Saltiel David H.
Published: December 2005

David H. Saltiel is assistant director of the international security program at the Atlantic Council of the United States. The author would like to thank several friends and colleagues, particularly John Saltiel, for their helpful comments.
The Social Origins of Balkan Politics: Nationalism, Underdevelopment, and the Nation-State in Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, 1880-1920
Authors: Roudometof Victor
Published: December 2005

Victor Roudometof is assistant professor of sociology at the American College of Thessaloniki, Greece, and visiting research associate with the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.
Spain 2000: A Normal Country?
Authors: Wiarda Howard J.
Published: December 2005

Howard J. Wiarda is professor of political science and comparative labor relations and holds the Leonard J. Horowitz Chair of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Angela Stonebarger assisted with the article as a research assistant at the CSIS. She is a graduate student at the Thunderbird School of International Management.
Russia Reenters World Politics
Authors: Staar Richard F.
Published: December 2005

Richard F. Staar is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War,Revolution, and Peace and served as visiting professor of political science at Duquesne University, 1999-2000. He is the author of The New Military in Russia, among other books.
Constraints and Adjustments in Greece's Policy toward Israel
Authors: Abadi Jacob
Published: December 2005

Jacob Abadi is professor of history at the United States Air Force Academy.
Neutrality and Coexistence in the Middle East
Authors: Segre Dan Vittorio
Published: December 2005

Dan Vittorio Segre is director of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies,University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Islamic Governance in Algeria and Sudan: A Fading Quest for a Model?
Authors: Novati Giampaolo Calchi , Bellucci Stefano
Published: December 2005

Giampaolo Calchi Novati is emeritus professor of African Studies and director of the International Studies Centre of the University of Pavia,Italy.

Stefano Bellucci is a doctoral candidate at the University of Paris XI,Faculté de droit, économie et gestion and the American Graduate School of International Relations of Paris; he is a consultant at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Development Cooperation Directorate.
NATO's Balkan Blunder
Authors: Bissett James
Published: December 2005

James Bissett is retired from the Canadian diplomatic service, where he served for thirty-six years. He was Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1992 and also served as ambassador to Bulgaria and Albania.
Fallen Eagle: An Examination of Italy's Contemporary Role and Relations with Albania
Authors: Codispoti Joseph M.
Published: December 2005

Joseph M. Codispoti is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force currently assigned to Headquarters, USAF, Washington, D.C. He was formerly affiliated with the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. This article represents the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Air War College or the Department of the Air Force.
Are Some Lives More Valuable Than Others?
Authors: Winter Roger P.
Published: December 2005

Roger P. Winter is executive director of the United States Committee on Refugees.
Terrorism in Greece: Revisiting an Issue
Authors: Bakoyannis Dora
Published: December 2005

Dora Bakoyannis is a member of the Greek parliament. As a member of the New Democracy Party she has served as deputy minister to the prime minister and minister of culture.
The United States, Great Britain, and the Middle East: How Special the Relationship?
Authors: Calabrese John
Published: December 2005

John Calabrese is assistant professor of foreign policy at American University, resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, and book review editor of the Middle East Journal.
Diamonds, Ethnicity, and Power: The Case of Sierra Leone
Authors: Ndumbe J. Anyu
Published: December 2005

J. Anyu Ndumbe is a research fellow at Mediterranean Affairs and an assistant editor at Mediterranean Quarterly. He teaches political science at the University of the District of Columbia.
An Editorial
Authors: Binder David
Published: December 2005

David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for theNew York Times and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board ofMediterranean Quarterly.
Kosovo and Macedonia: The West Enhances the Threat
Authors: Carpenter Ted Galen
Published: December 2005

Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.
The ETA: Spain Fights Europe's Last Active Terrorist Group
Authors: Shepard William S.
Published: December 2005

William S. Shepard, an attorney and retired U.S. Foreign Service officer,served as national security adviser to Senator Robert Dole from 1982 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was U.S. consul general in Bordeaux.
Democratic Peace and the European Security Community: The Paradox of Greece and Turkey
Authors: Moustakis Fotios , Sheehan Michael
Published: December 2005

Fotios Moustakis is a research fellow at the Scottish Centre for International Security, Department of Politics and International Relations,University of Aberdeen, UK.

Michael Sheehan is director of the Scottish Centre for International Security.
The Caspian Region and Middle East Security
Authors: Aras Bülent
Published: December 2005

Bülent Aras is assistant professor of international relations at Fatih University, Istanbul.
Iraq, Terrorism, and the New Pax Americana
Authors: Cannistraro Vincent M.
Published: December 2005

Vincent M. Cannistraro was director of intelligence programs at the National Security Council during the Reagan administration and served as the Central Intelligence Agency's chief of counterterrorism operations and analysis from 1988 through 1990.
Southeastern Europe in the Post-Milosevic Era: The Need to Lower the Barriers
Authors: Schifter Richard
Published: December 2005

Richard Schifter has, among other roles, served as special advisor to the United States secretary of state, in which capacity he initiated the concept of and helped organize the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative(SECI).
The Other Aristotle Onassis: A Visionary Builder of Foundations
Authors: Papadimitriou Stelio A.
Published: December 2005

Stelio A. Papadimitriou is president of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
Cherchez Le Boche? Reflections on Germany's Utopian Twentieth Century
Authors: Otte T. G.
Published: December 2005

T. G. Otte is lecturer in international history at the University of theWest of England. An early version of this essay was read at the plenarysession of the British International History Group conference in September2000.
Bulgaria in a Changing World
Authors: Parvanov Georgi
Published: December 2005

Georgi Parvanov is president of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Beyond NATO: The U.S.-European Relationship
Authors: Moss Kenneth B.
Published: December 2005

Kenneth B. Moss is associate dean for academic programs in the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces. During most of the 1980s he worked on European issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and between 1990 and 1994 managed policy analysis for Siemens in its Washington, D.C., office. The opinions expressed in this article are his own and do not represent any position of the National Defense University, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.
Africa and the War on Terrorism: The Case of Somalia
Authors: Dagne Theodros
Published: December 2005

Theodros Dagne is associate editor of Mediterranean Quarterly and an analyst at the Congressional Research Service.
The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline—Hope for Poverty Reduction?
Authors: Ndumbe J. Anyu
Published: December 2005

J. Anyu Ndumbe is assistant editor of Mediterranean Quarterly and assistant professor of political science at the University of the District of Columbia.
Ethical Issues in U.S. Policy on the Western Sahara Conflict
Authors: Ohaegbulam F. Ugboaja
Published: December 2005

F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam is professor of government and international affairs at the University of Southern Florida, Tampa.
Greece: A Modern Approach to Progress
Authors: Kaklamanis Apostolos
Published: December 2005

Apostolos Kaklamanis is speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.
Is the War in Kosovo the Last Balkan War?
Authors: Tuporkoski Vasil
Published: December 2005

Vasil Tuporkoski is professor of international law at the University of Skopje.
The Uncertain Certainty: Environmental Stress Indicators and the Euro-Mediterranean Space
Authors: Liotta P. H.
Published: December 2005

P. H. Liotta is the Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and NationalSecurity at the U.S. Naval War College.
Preserving Constitutional War Powers
Authors: Byrd Robert C.
Published: December 2005

Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, is considered the“dean” of the U.S. Congress, to which he was first elected as a U.S. Representative in 1953. Of the 11,707 men and women who have served in Congress, Senator Byrd has served longer than all but two.
The Iraq Problem Will Remain with Us
Authors: Pranger Robert J.
Published: December 2005

Robert J. Pranger is an international management consultant based in Washington, D.C., and former associate and managing editor ofMediterranean Quarterly.
The Silent Refugees: Jews from Arab Countries
Authors: Roumani Maurice M.
Published: December 2005

Maurice M. Roumani, born in Libya, is a senior lecturer on political science and the Middle East at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel,where he is also founder and director of the J. R. Elyachar Center for the Study of Sephardi Heritage. Roumani was the first secretary-general of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC). He has written extensively on Jews from Arab countries and their integration into Israel.
Shared Sacrifice: A Vital Part of the War on Terrorism
Authors: Rangel Charles B.
Published: December 2005

Charles B. Rangel is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
The Price of Unilateralism
Authors: Ben-Meir Alon
Published: December 2005

Alon Ben-Meir is the Middle East project director at the World Policy Institute, New York. He is also professor of international relations at New York University.
Implications of Preventive Wars for Collective Security
Authors: Davis John
Published: December 2005

John Davis is lecturer in political science at Howard University and a specialist in international security.
Russia's Security Services
Authors: Staar Richard F. , Tacosa Corliss A.
Published: December 2005

Richard F. Staar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, served as senior fellow of the Global Studies Center and distinguished visiting professor of political science at San José State University during 2003. Corliss A. Tacosa is assistant professor at Old Dominion University and the Joint Forces Staff College.
Democracy and Federalism in Spain
Authors: Encarnación Omar G.
Published: December 2005

Omar G. Encarnación is associate professor and director of the political studies program at Bard College.
West African Oil, U.s. Energy Policy, and Africa's Development Strategies
Authors: Ndumbe J. Anyu
Published: December 2005

J. Anyu Ndumbe is lecturer at Howard University and assistant editor atMediterranean Quarterly.
Security for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
Authors: Floridis George
Published: December 2005

George Floridis is former minister of public order of Greece and member of parliament.
Violence as Strategy: The Palestinian Case
Authors: Miskel James F.
Published: December 2005

James F. Miskel is professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College.
Creating a New Era of Islamic-Western Relations by Supporting Community Development
Authors: Ben-Meir Jason
Published: December 2005

Jason Ben-Meir is a doctoral candidate in and teaches sociology at the University of New Mexico. A former Peace Corps volunteer who served in Morocco, he is president of the High Atlas Foundation, a nonprofit that assists community development in Morocco, and also president of the nonprofit Diversity Institute, which promotes community development and reconciliation inside the United States.
Brain Drain: Putting Africa between a Rock and a Hard Place
Authors: El-Khawas Mohamed A.
Published: December 2005

Mohamed A. El-Khawas is professor of history and political science at the University of the District of Columbia.
Immigration, Citizenship, and National Security: The Silent Invasion
Authors: Tancredo Tom
Published: December 2005

Tom Tancredo is a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Colorado and serves on the International Relations Committee.
Immigration in California: Confl ict, Confl uence, and Controversy
Authors: Gerston Larry N.
Published: December 2005

Larry N. Gerston is professor of political science at San Jose State University.
Canada after 11 September: Security Measures and “Preferred” Immigrants
Authors: Kruger Erin , Mulder Marlene , Korenic Bojan
Published: December 2005

Erin Kruger, Marlene Mulder, and Bojan Korenic are research assistants at the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration and graduate students in the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta,Canada. They wish to acknowledge the important contributions of Baha Abu-Laban and Tracey Derwing, co-directors of the Prairie Centre, who generously provided sources of information, comments, and suggestions.
Missed Opportunities: The 9/11 Commission Report and US ForeignPolicy
Authors: Carpenter Ted Galen
Published: December 2005

Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy at theCato Institute and is the author or editor of sixteen books on internationalaffairs, including Peace and Freedom: Foreign Policy for a ConstitutionalRepublic.
US Mediation in Greek-Turkish Disputes since 1954
Authors: Kalaitzaki Theodora
Published: December 2005

Theodora Kalaitzaki, a resident of Athens, recently received her PhD in international relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
Revisiting History and Forgotten Balkans Issues
Authors: Nedzi Lucien N.
Published: December 2005

Lucien N. Nedzi was a member of the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1981. A Democrat from Michigan, he served as a member of the House Armed Services Committee and as chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence,among other assignments. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board ofMediterranean Quarterly.
Dissenting Views on Turkey's European Prospects
Authors: Yannaras Christos
Published: December 2005

Christos Yannaras is professor of philosophy at Panteion University(Athens) and a political commentator for the Athens dailyKathimerini.
US Middle East Economic Policy: The Use of Free Trade Areas in the War on Terrorism
Authors: Looney Robert
Published: December 2005

Robert Looney is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey,California.
Kosovo: A Critique of a Failed Mission
Authors: Magalachvili Denis
Published: December 2005

Denis Magalachvilli is a former US military advisor to the minister of defense of Albania and is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and a senior associate member at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
The Tragedy of Al-Andalus: The Madrid Terror Attacks and the Islamization of Spanish Politics
Authors: Celso Anthony
Published: December 2005

Anthony Celso is assistant professor of government and history at Valley Forge Military College, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Portugal's Migration Experience: Redefined Boundaries and Uneasy Transformations
Authors: Royo Sebastián
Published: December 2005

Sebastián Royo is associate professor of government at Suffolk University, director of Suffolk University Madrid Campus, and affiliate and co-chair of the Iberian Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Al Qaeda: The Balkans Connection
Authors: Peña Charles V.
Published: December 2005

Charles V. Peña is the director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of the forthcoming book Winning the Un-War:Strategy in the War on Terrorism.
MICHEL FOUCAULT'S HISTORIES OF SEXUALITY
Authors: Eribon Didier
Published: December 2005

Translated by Michael Lucey
China on the Brink of a “Momentous Era”
Authors: Xiaoming Wang
Published: December 2005

Translated by Robin Visser
Endangered Species Rule!
Authors: Zi'en Cui
Published: December 2005

Translated by Petrus Liu
Why Must We Talk About the Environment? A Summary of Nanshan Seminar
Authors: Shaogong Han , Ping Huang , Shaojun Li , Tuo Li , Hongsheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Sihe Chen , Yangu Chen
Published: December 2005

Translated by Yan Hairong
On Kobayashi Yoshinori's On Taiwan
Authors: Tetsushi Marukawa
Published: December 2005

Translated by Davinder L. Bhowmik
Midnight's Gate
Authors: Dao Bei
Published: December 2005

Translated by Matthew Fryslie
The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?
Authors: Badiou Alain
Published: December 2005

Translated by Bruno Bosteels
Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution
Authors: Badiou Alain
Published: December 2005

Translated by Alberto Toscano, with the kind assistance of Lorenzo Chiesa and Nina Power
The Triumphant Restoration
Authors: Badiou Alain
Published: December 2005

Translated by Alberto Toscano
Behind Global Spectacle and National Image Making
Authors: Jinhua Dai
Published: December 2005

Translated by Jonathan Noble
Measurement of Side Friction Between Specimen and Consolidation Ring with Newly Designed Oedometer Cell
Authors: Sivrikaya O , Togrol E
Published: December 2005

Many studies were performed to investigate the effect of the thickness of clay layer on the secondary compression. To find the stress-strain behavior of a tall specimen in the laboratory we have to face the major problem of friction. Without knowing the friction, the data obtained from the high specimen is not easy to interpret. The goal of the present paper is to explain the adoption of a new oedometer cell to measure frictional effects between the consolidation ring and specimen. It is observed that the side friction does not remain constant during the test and slightly increased with time at a decreasing rate. The amount of the side friction depends upon the level of the applied vertical consolidation stress on the specimen. Friction is found to be most significant at low stresses where the clay is still overconsolidated.
Optimum Design of the Comparative Gas Pycnometer for Determining the Volume of Solid Particles
Authors: Tamari S , López-Hernández RI
Published: December 2005

Little is known about the optimum design of gas pycnometers, so that they can determine the volume of solid particles with the greatest accuracy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the optimum design of the “comparative” gas pycnometer. An error analysis was performed to derive a theoretical formula that relates the pycnometer's accuracy to the main sources of random error (sample-chamber, piston-chamber, and volume-controller volumes). The consequences of this formula in terms of optimizing the geometry and working conditions of the pycnometer are discussed. As for the “constant-volume” and “variable-volume” gas pycnometers, which were previously investigated, it seems possible to use commercially-available components for constructing a comparative gas pycnometer that can determine the volume of solid particles with a relative standard uncertainty smaller than 0.15 %.
Geotechnical Sensor System to Monitor Injected Liquids in Landfills
Authors: Haydar MM , Khire MV
Published: December 2005

A field-scale horizontal permeable blanket made up of crushed recycled glass was built in an active municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill to recirculate leachate. The permeable blanket is a new method for subsurface leachate recirculation or liquid injection. Leachate injection rates in the blanket ranged from 1.1–3.6 m3/h/m. An automated sensing system consisting of moisture content sensors, pressure transducers, and temperature sensors was designed to monitor the migration of injected leachate inside the blanket. The sensors were embedded in the blanket and connected to a data logging system. All sensors were able to detect the leachate migration within the blanket. The TDR and impedance moisture content sensors could not detect the migration of injected leachate once the surrounding medium got saturated. The pressure transducers and temperature sensors were able to detect leachate migration irrespective of the degree of saturation of the blanket. Unlike thermistor sensors, temperature readings measured by thermocouple sensors were influenced by air temperature.
Ultrasonic Synthetic Aperture Imaging for Correcting the Refraction Artifacts Applied to Angle Beam Immersion Testing
Authors: Chang Y-F , Hsu H-I
Published: December 2005

The ultrasonic angle beam immersion testing is a commonly used ultrasonic nondestructive testing technique for automatically detecting nonhorizontal flaws. Since the physical characteristics of the liquid of the couplant is always largely different from those of the test object, a strong refraction of ultrasound occurs at the interface if the angle of incidence is not normal. This will increase the difficulty of estimating the size and position of the flaw from the image obtained by angle beam immersion testing.

Due to the rapid progress in computer technology, the flaw image may be reconstructed with better resolution in real time (or near real time) using the digital signal processing method. Therefore, a synthetic aperture focusing technique, which corrects the refracted effect, is proposed to reconstruct the image obtained from angle beam immersion testing. After processing, the position and size of the flaw can be directly read from the processed image. Two specimens were fabricated and scanned, and the scan images were processed using this technique to verify this imaging technique. The experimental results show that the position and size of the flaw can be directly and accurately estimated from the processed image.
Testing Techniques and Tools to Determine Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Rods
Authors: Elzafraney M , Soroushian P
Published: December 2005

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite bars are corrosion-proof and provide relatively high strength levels when compared with ordinary steel reinforcement. This study aims to provide comprehensive testing techniques that cover a wide range of FRP bar properties. Techniques and tests to determine mechanical properties of FRP bars such as tensile, flexural, compressive, shear, and bond strength were the scope of this study. Linear thermal shrinkage, creep, and fatigue tests were also considered in this research. Newly-developed instruments were used to conduct the developed tests. Most of the developed and modified tests present consistent results that make them good candidates to evaluate characteristics of FRP rods.
Slot Machining Effects on Residual Stress Measurements Using the Crack Compliance Method
Authors: Milan MT , Bose Filho WW , Malafaia AMS , Pelizer BC , Silva CPO
Published: December 2005

The main aim of this paper was to evaluate the practical aspects and compare two of the most common machining techniques employed in the crack compliance (incremental slitting) method for the determination of residual stresses, namely wire electrodischarge machining (WEDM) and circular abrasive saws. For the circular saws, the effect of the rotational speed and blade thickness was also evaluated. Results show that the associated level of errors introduced during thin saw machining can be as low as the results obtained by WEDM machining. However, for practical reasons, WEDM machining offers a better control of cut increment length than sawing techniques. Additionally, higher rotational saw speeds are likely to introduce larger errors in strain readings probably due to higher frictional heat and plasticity generation ahead of the slot tip.