The second half of the twentieth century was an age of democracy. The women’s movement, anti-colonial struggles, and challenges to what W. E. B. Du Bois called the “color line” won political inclusion for many people throughout the world. And …
The Mexican devaluation and subsequent crisis of December-January, 1994-1995 put all Latin American governments on alert. The “tequila effect,” as the Mexican debacle was known, was the result of problems facing the whole region, despite avowals by government ministers in …
Last September, while in Angola as an election observer, I met a young soldier in the Angolan army named Raul. Sporting green fatigues and an AK-47, he told me that he was on duty even though it was his birthday. …
