While there have been numerous discussions of the impact on educational services made by trade liberalization through the World Trade Organization (WTO), this study looks at the emergence of global resistance to the commodification of culture through the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the WTO. In line with the Council of…

The current dominant account of aid to education focuses on schooling and official development assistance and talks in terms of policy work, donor harmonisation and, increasingly, budgetary support. However, this approach is limited in a number of ways. The return of international policy interest in vocational education provides an opportunity to…

Several major problems of scientific exchange programs with foreign countries are described. (DT)

Duscusses the problems incurred in international competition between amateur athletes, and some steps that can be taken to encourage international sports activities by the private sector. (Author/PG)

Reports on the visit of an American librarian to the libraries of Burma. (PF)

A view of international relations in broadcasting in an age of communication satellites and supersonic travel. (JY)

Sports Ambassadors is a Christian service which concentrates on assisting athletically inclined men and women in the unique ministry of using their God-given talents abroad. (Author/JA)

A long-time objective of the International Relations Council has been to encourage understanding and exchange among countries. This article lists the council's objectives and present programs. (JA)

International cooperation in the field of disarmament is necessary to make the world a safe place in which to live. Moreover, every additional advance in aerospace technology makes this cooperation more imperative. (CK)

Nearly all of the countries that have succeeded in their development over the past 30 years have done so on the strength of market-oriented policies and vigorous participation in the international economy. Aid must be complemented by trade and investment. The Caribbean Basin Initiative puts these principles into practice. (RM)

Describes the current status of developments concerning the regulation of information flow across national borders. Similarities and trends in various privacy laws from European countries are discussed, as are the business position on data protection and efforts to harmonize national laws. (SW)

Touches selectively upon points of contact between the librarianship of the old world and of the new in order to indicate modes of interrelation and channels of influence through which different kinds of effects have been produced. (Author)

Discussion of the Cuban library system includes comments from interviews with leading librarians in that country. Effects of the Castro regime and the U.S. embargo on Cuba and its libraries are considered. (MES)

This paper explores evaluation strategies to gauge the impact of a novel instructional design on international community participation online. This is done by conceptualizing and devising indicators for measuring "engagement" online amongst marginalized adult communities worldwide. In doing so, a review of online evaluation literature is…

An examination of American research on Yugoslav education in the 1950s and 1960s shows U.S. comparative education research to have been no less shaped by cold war concerns and modernization theories than other academic disciplines. The purpose of this article is not to specify what research questions should have been asked in the first two decades…