A discussion of academic freedom focuses on the academic community's relationship with federal intelligence agencies, including classification of research results and covert activity on campus. The American Association of University Professors' principles concerning the ethics of these issues are outlined, as drawn from several recent association reports and position statements. (MSE)
Discusses ethical issues related to the Internet based on two speeches given at the Online 95 conference. Topics include pornography; copyright; libel and slander; and censorship imposed on the Internet by the secret service in Israel. (LRW)
Examines the standards process used for developing the Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) and its possible impact on national communication and information policies. Discusses the balance between national security and law enforcement concerns versus privacy rights and economic competitiveness in the area of foreign trade and export controls. (67 references) (LRW)
Society must explore the possibilities of an abolitionist movement centrally concerned with war and peace, just as an earlier abolitionist movement was concerned with the obscenity of slavery. We must think about nonviolence as a basis for security and explore in educational settings alternatives to weapons of mass destruction. (RM)
This article examines Liberia's reconstruction by external actors and it analyses in particular Liberia's Governance and Economic Management Assistance Programme (GEMAP), a program which implies co-signatures by international experts for state expenditures. The paper argues that Liberia is in a paradoxical situation between conditioned partnership and co-sovereignty with its international partners, which is neither voluntary, nor clearly imposed. The author adopts a theoretical framework based en path-dependency to enhance the understanding of this phenomenon. She analyses the basis and the functions of GEMAP to illustrate this situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]