In the field of international education and development, International Language and Culture Promotion Organisations (ILCPOs) have played an important part for more than a century. More than 40 countries and regions have set up such organisations. Despite the diversity of these ILCPOs, few comparative studies have been conducted to examine their…

Due to the particular experiences of the African continent and its peoples, and the myriad of ways these experiences have been interpreted, appropriated, and reclaimed, there are a pressing series of epistemological, pedagogical, and ethical challenges, especially for those who wish to include African content in predominantly non-Africanist…

This article focuses on two collaborative projects selected by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to partner in the US Department of State's Diplomacy Lab program that engages college students and faculty to study foreign policy challenges. The projects allowed information science graduate students to…

This paper analyzes China's new approaches of education aid to Africa through a case study of Cameroon. China's cooperation has been characterized by different discourses and different historic relationships with recipient countries than those of traditional donors. Sino-African policies have gone through different stages, each connected to wider…

The role of Black legislators in the development of African-American policy is assessed. Also considered are the influence which Blacks have exerted upon governmental actions within the United States, as well as the impact that Congress, in general, has had upon the development of foreign policy. (Author/GC)

The problems of Southern Africa are significant for Americans because they involve issues of racial, economic, and political injustice so stark and so closely related to our own society's greatest shortcomings that our failure to respond adequately raises doubts about the sincerity of our avowed human commitments at home as well as abroad. (Author)

Drawing on theoretical framework that addresses the transnational character of refugee problems, analyzes the causes of refugee movements. Holds that despite the common perception that refugees flee danger that emanates from an agent within the country of origin, the danger often results from international conflicts. (GC)

Presents information concerning the dissemination of foreign aid relative to sources, recipients, purposes, and efficiency. Questions whether foreign assistance to the education systems of countries in sub-Saharan Africa solves problems efficiently. Concludes that foreign aid does not bring about perceptible improvement and that it very often…

These proceedings contain presentations and summaries of papers presented at a Wheat Competitiveness Conference. They begin with two presentations--"The Wheat Prototype Study within an Overall Conceptual Framework of Competitiveness" (James Langley) and "U.S. Competitiveness in the World Wheat Market: A Prototype Study" (Jerry…

The Stanley Foundation annually assembles a panel of experts from the public and private sectors to assess specific foreign policy issues and to recommend future directions. The round-table discussion summarized in this report focused on the future of Africa and the changing global context of U.S. policy toward Africa. While the Cold War has…

A brief report traces some important connections between the central choices facing Canada and the three quarters of the world's population that live in the developing regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Specific aspects of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's governmental policy are examined. The following topics are considered:…

Testimony on federal aid to higher education in Africa is recorded in this report of a congressional hearing. Subcommittee chairman Senator Paul Simon opened by describing his hope that more U.S. aid be directed to the relatively new but now deteriorating African institutions of higher education. John Hicks, from the Bureau for Africa at the…

Maintains that American historians should undertake additional research on North Africa and, particularly, on American-North African relations. A major reason for this research is that case studies of American-North African encounters can provide a suitable model for United States-Third World relations in general. Reviews literature related to…

The U.N. World Food Program fed about 110 million people around the world last year, including 15.6 million children who receive their meals at school. The United States provides money for school feeding programs that is awarded to the U.N. program and other relief agencies. Judith Lewis, U.S.-relations director for the World Food Program, said…

This booklet examines the emergence of the so-called 'third world' of developing nations in the 1980s. The third world nations are widely diverse in history and culture, economic structure and political orientation. These new developing countries can affect the interests of the United States in significant ways, either individually or…