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PAGE 25 GLOBAL HEALTH

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4 CONFLICT AND HEALTH: Becoming Human Rhona MacDonald and Richard Horton

7 MIDDLE EAST AND THE UNITED STATES: Cause and Effect Claire Spencer

9 THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: Beyond Gaza Bilal Y. Saab

EDITOR Graham Walker

ASSISTANT EDITOR Alison Couldridge

DESIGNER Martin Colyer

DATABASEMichael Farrell

INTERNDonna Hatziioannou

11 UNITED STATES: Indispensable World Power Heinrich Kreft

14 EUROPE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND ENERGY: Final Warning James Sherr

18 RUSSIA’S REVISIONISM: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Changing Rules William Horsley

22INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE BALKANS: Honey Pot James Pettifer

25GLOBAL HEALTH - WHO CAN LEAD?:Dire Disease Devi Sridhar

27 HEALTH AND FOREIGN POLICY:Vital Signs David P. Fidler

30A PATENT POOL FOR MEDICINES:More Medicines Ellen ‘t Hoen and Tido von Schoen-Angerer

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