Article Alert - January 2012

January 17, 2012

Article Alert

SPOTLIGHT: 2012 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

1. “Campaign Coverage in the Time of Twitter”
Jodi Enda. American Journalism Review, Fall 2011, 7 pages.
How has technology transformed reporting on presidential politics?  The author, a senior contributing writer, discusses the impact of social online networks such as Twitter on political journalism, focusing on the coverage of the 2012 U.S. presidential election campaign.

2. “One Year To Go: President Barack Obama's Uphill Battle for Reelection in 2012”
William A. Galston. Brookings Institution, November 7, 2011. 23 pages.
The author, the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies at Brookings Institution, analyzes the 2012 U.S. presidential election and President Obama’s political challenges.
 
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

3. “Where Do Third Parties Intervene?  Third Parties' Domestic Institutions and Military Interventions in Civil Conflicts”
Jun Koga. International Studies Quarterly, December 2011, 24 pages.
In contrast to the existing literature that makes no distinction between military interventions undertaken by democracies and those by autocracies, the author discusses why democracies and autocracies are likely to intervene in different types of civil conflict.

4. “Give Me Property or Give Me Death: Reconciling Intellectual Property Rights and the Right to Health”
Robert L. Ostergard and Shawna E. Sweeney. Journal of Human Rights, July-September 2011, 19 pages.
The authors discuss the greater problem of the right to health care, focusing on a range of problems in balancing the right of creators to protect their intellectual property and the right of everyone to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health care.

GLOBAL ECONOMY AND TRADE

5. “The Long-Term Economic Outlook for the United States and its International Implications”
Uri Dadush. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 8, 2011, 5 pages.
The author, a senior associate and director in Carnegie’s International Economics Program, examines current economic trends, focuses on good and bad scenarios for the U.S. economy towards 2030 and their implications for the future of the international system.

6. “The World Trade Revolution”
Martin Walker. The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2011, 5 pages.
The author, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, discusses why the world trade is out of balance and the future of global trade, focusing on the shifting of trading routes from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

7. “The Meaning of Work in Neoliberal Globalisation: the Asian exception?”
Trevor Parfitt and Jay Wysocki. Third World Quarterly, February 2012, 17 pages.
The authors examine how the meaning of work has been shaped in the Western capitalist model and in the Asian context, focusing on how Asian value orientations have shaped a view of work that is likely to constitute an obstacle to adoption of an unadulterated version of the Western model in Asia.

8. “Snowbirds and Water Coolers: How Aging Populations Can Drive Economic Growth”
Michael W. Hodin and Mark Hoffmann. The SAIS Review of International Affairs, Summer-Fall 2011, 10 pages.
The authors examine how private industry can make simple, yet effective changes to transform aging populations into important economic participants by citing three case studies on three companies— BMW, CVS, and Tesco— that show how  innovative businesses are gaining a competitive advantage by integrating the aging populations into the core of their business models.

THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD AFFAIRS

9. “America's Asia Pivot Threatens Regional Stability”
Michael D. Swaine. The National Interest, December 7, 2011, 3 pages.
The author, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discusses why the execution of America’s so-called pivot to Asia, and China's response to it, could destabilize the entire area.

10. “The World in 2012”
Jessica T. Mathews. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 29, 2011, 7 pages.
What are the major global issues that will define 2012? How will the U.S. presidential election shape America’s foreign policy?  How will 2011 be remembered?  The author, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, looks back on the last twelve months and previews the year ahead.

11. “Extended Nuclear Deterrence in East Asia: Redundant or Resurgent?”
Andrew O'Neil. International Affairs, November 2011, 19 pages.
The author analyzes extended nuclear deterrence in East Asia, and whether security guarantees from nuclear weapon states to non-nuclear weapon states involving the possible use of nuclear weapons have a place in the twenty-first-century global strategic landscape.

12. “NATO and Emerging Security Challenges: Beyond the Deterrence Paradigm”
Michael Rühle. American Foreign Policy Interests, Vol. 33, No. 6, 01 Nov 2011, 5 pages.
The author, Head of the Energy Security Section in NATO's Emerging Security Challenges Division, discusses new security challenges, ranging from cyberattacks to failing states, and what role the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should play in addressing such challenges.

13. “Aiding Governance in Developing Countries”
Thomas Carothers and Diane de Gramont. The Carnegie Papers, November 2011, 42 pages.
The authors discuss the challenges of providing effective governance assistance to developing countries and offer eight insights for more successful assistance.

GLOBAL POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

14. “The Desalination Debate – Lessons Learned Thus Far”
Alon Tal. Environment, September/October 2011, 15 pages.
The author, a Harvard environmental scholar, discusses the sustainability of seawater desalination, desalination technology, the impact of desalination on agriculture, and the history of desalination efforts and legislation.

15. “The City Solution”
Robert Kunzig. National Geographic, December 2011, 23 pages.
The author examines urban planning, with a focus on the advantages of building a city vertically   to accommodate the planet's expanding human population.

16. “How Changes in Age Structure can Impact Policy Making”
E. Hazel Denton. The SAIS Review of International Affairs, Summer-Fall 2011, 20 pages.
The author, a professorial lecturer in the International Development Program, School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, analyzes the evolution of the current variation in global population age structures and highlights the policy relevance of the changing and contrasting.

ONLINE JOURNALISM

17. “The Tablet Revolution and What it Means for the Future of News”
Amy Mitchell, et al. Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, October 25, 2011, 28 pages.
To what extent are new tablet devices further reducing legacy circulation?  Is it likely to have the same kind of negative economic impact, or are there signs of a potentially more positive outcome?  The authors analyze the behavior of tablet news in terms of news consumption and usage, and its impact on news outlets.

18. “Public Sphere 2.0? The Democratic Qualities of Citizen Debates in Online Newspapers”
Carlos Ruiz, et al. International Journal of Press/Politics, September 2011, 25 pages.
The authors analyze online public discussion and its implications on democracy by evaluating the quality of the debates in online newspapers.

19. “The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future”
Michael Shapiro. Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2011, 17 pages.
In this first article in a series dedicated to exploring the news business in relation to the digital revolution, the author discusses the impact of digital technology on the press, focusing on the case of San Jose Mercury News, a California-based newspaper.

20. “Cyberutopian Cyberloney”
Andrew Ferguson. Commentary, November 2011, 2 pages.
The author, a press critic, discusses the concept of cyberutopia and relates it to the phenomenon of making private information about a person's life public information through the use of modern media’s forms. 

INFORMATION LITERACY

21. “If It's on the Internet, It Must Be True”
Anne P. Mintz. Searcher, November 2011, 6 pages.
The author, a professional researcher, discusses the spreading of misinformation on the Internet and the important of evaluating the information to avoid being victimized by online criminals.

EDUCATION

22. “Blending Face-to-Face and Online Learning”
Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff. Education Digest, January 2012, 8 pages.
The authors discuss “hybrid schools” that combine face-to-face education with online instruction, focusing on how technology will integrate with, and change, the structure of schools.

23. “Teach to the Test?”
Richard P. Phelps. Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2011, 5 pages.
The author discusses the role of standardized tests on the quality of education in the United States, focusing on teachers' test preparation and the security-level of the tests in response to an increase of cheating.

24. “Improving Community College Outcome Measures”
Louis Jacobson. Challenge, November/December 2011, 25 pages.
The author, President of New Horizons Economic Research, discusses new performance measures that combine the traditional measures of higher-education institutions with a new measure of the effect on postsecondary earnings of credits, fields of study, and credentials.

LIBRARY TRENDS

25. "Library Wars"
Peter Osnos. The Atlantic Online, December 6, 2011, 3 pages.
The author, a journalist turned book editor, discusses the widespread downloading of e-book rentals that unnerves publishers because digital files can be easily shared and proliferated.