Research and Analysis:

• Sectarianism as a Modern Global Structure Magid Shihade

• Derives and Social Aesthetics in the Cities: Urban Marks in El Raval de Barcelona, Spain María Gisela Escobar

• From “Authoritarian Rule” to “Democracy” in Nigeria: Citizens’ Welfare a Myth or Reality Victor Ojakorotu and Fidelis Allen

• The Future Neo-Industrial Society: A New View on the Intellect Nina Pestriakova and Michael Pestriakov

• The Left Reacts: French Leftists and the 1989 Revolutions in Eastern Europe Michael Lejman

• Poor-Rich Divide in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger A.J. Sebastian

• Sayyid Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah: Muslim Cleric and Islamic Feminist Sophie Chamas

• Contesting Zapata: Differing Meanings of the Mexican National Idea Patrick T. Hiller

• Post Independence Indian English Poetry Shaleen Kumar Singh

• Defense, Ideology or Ambition: An Assessment of Malawian Motivations for Intervention in the Mozambican Civil War David Robinson

• Pilot Mobile Smoking Cessation Program Reaches Underserved: Increases Access Steven D. Cohn, Jeffery A. Friedman, and Gail Barouh

• ‘Our Darfur, Their Darfur’: Sudan’s Politics of Deviance and the Rising ‘Ethnic-Cleansing in an African Emerging Anarchy Isiaka Alani Badmus

• Social Encounters between Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg Beatriz Peña Acuña

• Costa Rica and the Two Chinas: A Constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis Otto F. von Feigenblatt

• An Enquiry into the Functionality of the Dominant Ideology of Gender in Traditional Hindu Society Smarak Swain

• Self-Esteem and Self-Motivational Needs of Disabled and Non-Disabled: A Comparative Analysis Bunmi Omolayo