Jay R Mandle, Globalization and the Poor, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.157 ISBN-0-521-89352-6 (pbk) Professor Mandle provides arguments to support the case for reform of the globalization process. The intervention of governments and states is required so that the poor can do better while the rich can stay rich.

Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0-374-27008-2

The Death of Somoza by Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakol though published some time ago, 1996, is well worth a read not only because of its intrinsic interest, but also because of the lessons that can be taken from it in understanding the nature of international terror, and particularly

At the Hal Far refugee camp in Malta, refugees from Africa and other parts of the world are treated according to the letter of the law on refugees. But without social integration into Maltese society, they have no hope of ever living normal lives.

Karl E Meyer, The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland, a Century Foundation Book, Public Affairs, New York 2003 ISBN 1-58648-048-0 pp252 $26.00US

President Robert Mugabe shows no sign of retiring or surrendering power to the growing opposition party in Zimbabwe. Martin Meredith's Our Votes Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe published by Public Affairs, June 2003, provides the background to one of this week's crises in Africa.

“Seacurity” has become a matter of interest, not only because of the risk of a terrorist “maritime spectacular” taking out a major seaport with considerable loss of life but also because of the opportunity it offers for massively increasing business in the security industry. The picture above is that of

"There are thousands of violated ladies showing up. It's like nothing we have ever seen anywhere in the world," said Jo Lusi, head of a Congolese-run hospital in the eastern city of Goma that is working with the U.S.-based aid group Doctors on Call for Service.