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DISCOURSE COVER PHOTO CAPTION DISCOURSE 1/01 . SPRING 2008 featured content CONTRIBUTORS NEAR A FLOATING SAWMILL IN LAGOS, NIGERIA, SQUATTERS IN MAKOKO STEADILY dedicated to the power of reason URBICIDE : LAGOS AND THE CRISIS OF Nuclear Proliferation : A Race Between AN exchange BETWEEN Senator SAM ENCroACH ON THE LAGOS LAGOON. PHOTO BY SAM JAMES. and the exchange of ideas THE MEGACITY Cooperation and Catastrophe NUNN AND GRAHAM ALLISON RANA ABDUL-AZIZ Dr. Graham Allison ALEXANDER BUSSE MATAN CHOREV JONATHAN GREENBLATT BENJAMIN HARBURG KYLE HIATT 1/01 . SPRING 2008 MIE INOUYE SAMUEL JAMES DR. MUKESH KAPILA MAYA KARWANDE PADDEN GUY MURPHY AARON MARKOWITZ-SHULMAN Senator Sam Nunn The Tufts interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the power of reason and the exchange of ideas A STUDENT PUBLICATION of Tufts univeristy A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY www.tuftsdiscourse.org www.tuftsdiscourse.org www.tuftsgloballeadership.ORG www.tuftsgloballeadership.ORG DISCOURSE 1/01 MISSION STATEMENT dedicated to the power of reason and the exChange of ideas Discourse provides an inclusive platform for reasoned discussion and prescriptive analysis of issues of both international and domestic concern, while also including poetry, fiction, art and photography to illuminate the human condition. Its emphasis is on exploring a diversity of thought and perspectives from students, scholars, and practitioners. The purpose of Discourse is to provide an open forum for discussion of contemporary dilemmas, not as a vehicle with any specific political or intellectual agenda. The perspectives represented are solely those of the authors. A STUDENT PUBLICATION of tufts university www.tuftsdiscourse.org DISCOURSE MISSION STATEMENT DISCOURSE MISSION STATEMENT The TUFTS INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL DEDICATED TO THE POWER OF REASON AND THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS A STUDENT PUBLICATION of tufts university DISCOURSE Table of contents DISCOURSE 5 Title AUTHOR(S) WELCOME : PRESIDENT’S LETTER LARRY BACOW 6 Director’s ForewOrd SHERMAN TEICHMAN 10 Raison D’etre PADDEN GUY MURPHY 16 Urbicide : Lagos and the Crisis of the Megacity SAMUEL JAMES 26 Water Get No Enemy : A Photo Essay from Lagos, Nigeria SAMUEL JAMES / PADDEN GUY MURPHY 48 Water For Water : Social Entrepreneurship and the AN INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN GREENBLATT 64 World Water Crisis Why the World Failed Darfur DR. MUKESH KAPILA 76 The Dilemma Of The Semistate MATAN CHOREV 86 The Sovereignty Exchange : Fourteen World Leaders ALEXANDER BUSSE / BENJAMIN HARBURG / 92 on the Future of Sovereignty AARON MARKOWITZ-SHULMAN Balkanized Justice : International Involvement in MAYA KARWANDE 122 the Domestic Prosecution of War Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina A Forgotten People : A Photo Essay on the Blackfeet PADDEN GUY MURPHY 140 and THE Chippewa Cree Native Americans in Montana Forgotten Lessons of Counterinsurgency KYLE HIATT 158 Amin’s House RANA ABDUL-AZIZ 176 Nuclear Proliferation : A Race Between Cooperation Dr. Graham Allison / Senator Sam Nunn 182 and Catastrophe Barrios MIE INOUYE 198 NOTES 208 DISCOURSE WELCOME Letter LARRY BACOW 6 DISCOURSE WELCOME Letter LARRY BACOW 7 1 of 2 2 of 2 Welcome LETTER Tufts’ students and faculty are known for their ability to engage I am grateful to Sherman Teichman and his colleagues at the Institute critically with the central questions in intellectual and public life. for Global Leadership for encouraging and supporting this publi- An idea, however, only has currency if it is shared. I welcome the cation. Most important, I commend Padden Guy Murphy and his appearance of Discourse as an opportunity to extend the intellectual editorial colleagues. Launching a new venture such as this takes not and civic commitments of our students and faculty in a vital public only good ideas but also an entrepreneurial spirit and lots of hard forum. work. I hope that this inaugural issue of Discourse encourages you, its readers, to become participants in active dialogue about the im- Discourse has announced its dedication to the power of reason and portant questions facing our world. to a respectful but vigorous exchange of ideas. These commitments already inform the work that takes place on all of Tufts’ campuses. Larry Bacow, It is my hope and expectation that this new magazine will offer a President, Tufts University valuable framework for discussion and debate within and beyond the Tufts community. 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