Purpose and policy in the global community

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 Change and Continuity: Four Decades of Research and Policy -- 2 Rich and Poor in 2000 AD: The Great Gulf -- 3 The Marginal Utility of Income Transfers to the Third World -- 4 Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being -- 5 Security and the Resources Scramble: Will 1984 be Like 1914? -- 6 Conflict and Coercion in Dependent States -- 7 Islam, Authoritarianism, and Female Empowerment: What Are the Linkages? -- 8 The Mysterious Case of Vanishing Hegemony, or, Is Mark Twain Really Dead?