Top Five Reasons Why Africa Should Be a Priority for the United States

Released in March 2013, this report from the Brookings Institution’s African Growth Initiative provides compelling information on why the African continent should be a public policy priority for the United States. The report is divided into five short sections, including “China in Africa: Implications for U.S. Competition and Diplomacy,” “Transforming the U.S.-African Commercial Relationship,” and “Advancing Peace and Security in Africa.” It’s a timely work that sets out a cogent argument and will be of particular interest to public policy scholars, journalists, and others interested in global politics.

[Source: Scout Report, Volume 19, Number 15, April 12, 2013]

1.Free Articles on Global Social Work on Our Health & Social Care Arena

2.Free Online Access to Highly-Cited Articles
To celebrate the high-quality content featured in our Social Sciences Citation Index® ranked Social Work journals we are giving you free online access to a selection of highly-cited and top downloaded content. To read the articles simply click here for a full list and enjoy!

3. China Journal of Social Work 2012 Keswick Foundation Best Article Award Winner
Congratulations to Weihe Guo whose article ‘A preliminary exploration on transformative social work model in China: a case study on social work with migrant construction workers’ has won the 2012 Keswick Foundation Best Article Award. Read the article for free online here.

4. The Latest Special Issues
Visit our Health & Social Care Arena for the latest special issues from our Social Work journals. Recent issues include Social Work Education in China, Young People’s Transitions from State Care, and Social Development and Social Work: Learning from Africa. View the recent special issues.

Food Security contains a mixture of original refereed papers taking a synthetic view of the science, sociology and economics of food production, agricultural development, access to food, and nutrition, together with review articles, case studies and letters to the editor. The journal covers the principles and practice of food security per se, taking an overview of the subject or analysing it with a broad perspective over its many component disciplines. The journal does not seek to duplicate the coverage of the many publications that focus specifically on those component disciplines.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.970

Top cited papers from Food Security:

• Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security - Shiferaw, Bekele et al.
• A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change - Ingram, John
• Crops that feed the World 2. Soybean-worldwide production, use, and constraints caused by pathogens and pests -Hartman, Glen L.; West, Ellen D.; Herman, Theresa K.
• Agricultural investment and international land deals: evidence from a multi-country study in Africa - Cotula, Lorenzo et al.
• Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China - Simelton, Elisabeth

You may click here to view the most downloaded articles which are downloaded live and in real-time Food Security.

HKUL users can continue to access the journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b4288426

[Source: SpringerLink]

Demography presents the highest quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population research. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. Its temporal scope is broad, as represented by research that explores demographic phenomena spanning the ages from the past to the present, and reaching toward the future.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.931

Top cited papers from Demography:

• Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families - Geller, Amanda; Garfinkel, Irwin; Western, Bruce
• The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update - Rendall, Michael S.; Weden, Margaret M.; Favreault, Melissa M.; et al.
• Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development - Geller, Amanda; Cooper, Carey E.; Garfinkel, Irwin; et al.
• Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China - Goodkind, Daniel
• The Evolution of Family Complexity from the Perspective of Nonmarital Children - Cancian, Maria; Meyer, Daniel R.; Cook, Steven T.

You may click here to view the most downloaded articles which are downloaded live and in real-time Demography.

HKUL users can continue to access the journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b1391568

[Source: SpringerLink]

1. Westward Ho!
2. The End of the Latin American Left
3. Love Is a Battlefield
4. What Richard III Can Teach Us Today
5. What to Expect from a North Korean Nuclear Test
6. Don’t Fear the Migrants
7. Hate Obama’s Drone War?
8. What George W. Bush Did Right
9. Inside the Islamic Emirate of Timbuktu
10. Liplomacy
11. How does the U.S. minimum wage compare to those around the world?
12. Military Brain Drain

[Source: Foreign Policy, 4th - 14th February 2013]

1. Live, from Beirut…
2. Mali Is Not a Stan
3. A Maritime Balkans of the 21st Century?
4. The Contagion Effect
5. Secretary of Schlep
6. On the Warpath with France’s Avant-Garde
7. Think Again: Immigration

[Source: Foreign Policy, 29th - 31st January 2013]

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace created this initiative as a way to offer the public access to pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The hope is that these works will provide “the international community better insight into and understanding of the debates taking place in China on important foreign policy issues.” Visitors to the site can look four main sections, which include Commentary & Analysis, Policy Research, and Testimony & Speeches. Some of the recent trenchant pieces include “Can Chinese Culture Take the Moral High Ground?” and “China’s Traditional Values and Modern Foreign Policy.” Also, visitors will want to read the profiles of the scholars featured under the Experts area.

[Source: Scout Report, Volume 19, Number 3, January 18, 2013]

1. The Egyptian Revolution Through Mubarak’s Eyes
2. You Can’t Change the Climate from Inside Washington
3. Flyover Country
4. Learning to Live with Bibi
5. When Tibet Loved China
6. In Sudan, the Front Line Is Everywhere
7. Mutiny in Kabul
8. Al Qaeda Country
9. Does the NRA Want to Turn America Into Afghanistan?
10. Is This Pakistan’s Tahrir Square?
11. The Three Most Dangerous Things About Threat Lists

[Source: Foreign Policy, 15th - 24th January 2013]

Free topical journal articles of the month of January are:

• Policy learning from abroad: why it is more difficult than it seems - Policy & Politics

HKUL users can continue to access Policy & Politics.

• Perspectives of academic social scientists on knowledge transfer and research collaborations: a cross-sectional survey of Australian academics - Evidence & Policy

HKUL users can continue to access Evidence & Policy.

• Tackling urban poverty in China: the Minimum Living Standard Scheme and its limitations - Journal of Poverty & Social Justice

HKUL users can continue to access Journal of Poverty & Social Justice.

• Protecting the most vulnerable in an economic crisis: a participatory study of civil society organisations in Ireland - Voluntary Sector Review
• Critical friendships - Families, Relationships & Societies

[Source: The Policy Press]

1. Operation Cast Lead 2.0
2. National Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
3. The Songs of Angry Men
4. Is This Any Way to Treat Your Banker?
5. Four Surprises That Could Rock Asia in 2013
6. Does the GOP Need a New Foreign Policy?
7. The Global Races to Watch Next Year

[Source: Foreign Policy, 14th November 2012 - 3rd January 2013]