Experience is the best teacher.
Byline: Adrian E. Cristobal FVR is by far the best authority on coups, having been involved in the two EDSAs, first against Marcos and second against Erap (as people of experience continue to believe that his walk from the airport was the signal for his military colleagues...

A step towards peace.
Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) go to the polls on July 30, 2006, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Mission to Congo (MONUC) are contributing to the international effort to ensure those elections will be fair and transparent. For the upcoming...

Crossing the line.
I may be in a prison soon, where all the walls are grey and all the guards mean-looking. Where any effort to express identity is squelched, and even the color of your underpants is prescribed. Actually it seems like an interesting place to be right now. Maybe I just...

The last word.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's handling of the Middle East crisis alarmed British elder diplomats as they sensed the ghosts of Suez hovering above Downing Street. Fifty years ago (26 July 1956) Anthony Eden's dinner party for young King Faisal II of Iraq and his prime minister, the seasoned Nuri...

Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts.
Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts by Anna Lawton. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2004. 348 pp. Hardcover: $29.00 and Paperback: $24.00. This Moscow cine-diary of Anna Lawton, the distinguished scholar of Russian film, explores thoroughly and incisively the various levels of post-Soviet society from circles of...

Jean-Francois Lejeune, ed. Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America.
Jean-Francois Lejeune, ed. Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. 263 pp. $45.00 This hefty, ambitious, exuberantly illustrated collection of essays first appeared in French, under the title Cruaute et utopie: villes etpaysages d'Amerique latine, as the companion text...

Latin America's true colours.
WHEN I was about to finish my studies in 2003, I was feeling very anxious about finding a job as a journalist. I saw that many of my colleagues ended up in the ever expanding world of PR or became corporate employees, and I didn't want that to happen...

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce; Smith, Alastair; Siverson, Randolph M.; and Morrow, James D. The Logic of Political Survival.
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce; Smith, Alastair; Siverson, Randolph M.; and Morrow, James D. The Logic of Political Survival. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. 536 pages. Paper, $25.00. Utilizing formal logic, empirical models, and case histories, the authors of this book seek to explain how factors related to...

Bolivia.
BOLIVIA is South America's poorest nation and the most indigenous nation in all of the Americas. Appreciated by foreign tourists for its striking geography--impossibly high plains, deep Amazon Basin jungles and tranquil colonial cities--Bolivia has also recently become known as Ground Zero in Latin America's rising struggle against a...

Fresh fears in Congo: region seeks to avoid rerun of Africa's worst war.
A substantial build-up of troops along the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with Rwanda has sparked fears of renewed conflict in central Africa. By the end of June about 10,000 troops had been flown to eastern DRC after rebels seized the town of Bukavu. ...