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June 9, 2014 by Nils Gilman

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The World Bank will soon be publishing its 2011 World Development Report, on “Conflict, Development, and Security.” If you want a preview of the thrust of the volume, check out theinteresting blog the Bank launched earlier this year to provide a window into the process of producing the report. (They’ve also got a Facebook page, if you’re into that sort of thing.)

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Nils Gilman is an historian at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to coediting Humanity, he is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins, 2003) and many other publications on technology, security, and economic development.

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