Traditionally clustered around one leading "hegemonic" world currency, with the introduction of the euro the international monetary regime might become a "symmetric" dipolar system. This fundamental change would come at a time of already considerable uncertainty when, after the Asian, Russian...

There is a growing body of literature on the safe use of biotechnology and the need for an international biosafety protocol and national regulations to facilitate the safe development and transfer of biotechnology. Most of these studies, however, address the issue of biosafety from a scientific,...

The deliberate release of transgenic crops is often taken to be an indicator of agricultural biotechnology development. However, less than 10% of the field trials world wide have been carried out in Developing Countries (DCs) and it seems that more than 80% of these were carried out by...