The abysmal economic performance by African States in the past three decades is attributable to a host of known factors – mismanagement of resources, graft, and bureaucratic corruption (Mauro, 1995); but of all the known culprits that have so far suppressed economic growth, none are more...

The level of economic development and the path taken to sustain such development are invariably deterministic of chosen forms of governance, and the political realities that inform them. The literature on political economy is near unanimity on this claim, especially as it pertains the...

On July 17, 1998, one hundred and twenty countries adopted a treaty in Rome to establish a permanent International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.1 This treaty is the culmination of decades of advocacy by leading human rights advocates around the world to establish an international...

The traditional arena of human rights discourse and practice made little or no allowance for the rapidly growing international phenomenon of bureaucratic corruption.1 In the recent past, states have consistently maintained that bureaucratic corruption, on the basis of the norm of...

The doctrine of nonintervention, a staple of traditional international law, provides that each state should refrain from interfering in the domestic affairs of other states. This prohibition includes not only military intervention, but also, in Hersh Lauterpacht’s formulation, all...

The Shoah took Lanzmann approximately eleven years to complete; and when it was released in 1985, the events addressed in the film was more than forty-two years old, and the interviewees had to grapple with the task of recalling both deeply suppressed and readily retrievable memory formed some...

The current debate on the future of healthcare in the US centers on three main issues --- accessibility, quality of medical care, and affordability. With the gradual but steady disappearance of private insurance coverage, and the rising number of the uninsured, the general consensus is a...

In the book, "The Paradox of Plenty," Terry Lynn Karl sought to solve the perplexing puzzle of why countries that experienced unprecedented transfer of wealth from the oil booms of the 1970s and 1980s, without exception, displayed similar economic development outcomes in spite of having very...

It is the irony of human nature, and indeed the incentive mechanism inherent in social institutions, that some societies less endowed by nature strive harder to improve their collective lot, and in many instances succeed in achieving their development objectives more frequently than their...

For a nation-state to self-sustain and endure, it must have the capacity to inspire loyalty and pride amongst its citizenry; but most importantly, it must meet the basic needs of its population and engender a sense of collective ownership. This latter requirement fosters ready identification...