1.crisis in development : how development lives and dies / Samuel Cohn and Rae Blumberg -- Crisis of international development and the case of Haiti : making of an outer periphery / Robert Fatton, Jr. -- Why cutting taxes does not increase employment : or why shrinking the state does not provide compensating economic development / Samuel Cohn -- State and economic development in East and Southeast Asia : advantage of an ancient civilization / Harold R. Kerbo -- Does a post-scarcity world mean an end to development? / Herman Mark Schwartz -- (Pro)creating a crisis? : gender discrimination, sex ratios and their implications for the developing world / Abigail Weitzman -- Gender, development and the environment : female empowerment and the creation of sustainable societies / Stephen Scanlan -- A walk on the wild side of gender, war and development in Afghanistan and northern Uganda / Rae Blumberg -- Zimbabwe : a case study in bipolar development / Lorna Lueker Zukas -- Advancing while losing : indigenous land claims and development in Argentina / Matthias vom Hau -- What we don't talk about when we talk about the global in North American higher education / Richard Handler -- Landmines and sustainability : remaking the world through global citizenship, activism, research and collaborative mine action / P. Preston Reynolds.