IVISION OF river water has becn a 3 frequent source of friction between nations and even between constituent states within a nation. Arguments over establishing ownership of, and the right to use, water in the rivers that flow into a political unit from another territory are often violent. In dry lands the supply of water sets the limit of cconomic growth, and water disputes reflect the fight of people for their future.

In this paper we reflectupon our experiences teaching a required undergraduate course on the so-called 'non-western world' at the University of Kentucky, USA. We describe the course and summarise the development of the rationale for a 'cross-cultural' component as a requirement for all students. In particular, we discuss the challenges entailed in teaching about difference in a way that engenders a critical approach to global inequalities and relations. We raise the question of how to assess our effectiveness as critical geographers in the classroom, and conclude by suggesting the need for a more open and serious debate over teaching critically.

One of the more overlooked aspects of globalization is the circulation of modern managerial practices and knowledges through transnational networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In this paper, we offer an analytical framework for understanding the complex circulation of managerialism through dispersed networks of NGOs, connecting the spatially extensive international NGO (INGO) sector to the projects undertaken by grassroots NGOs. This framework first involves a conceptualization of all flows that might potentially be activated through a hypothetical network comprising all potential nodes. We then offer a discussion of a range of managerialist practices and knowledges. A table summarizing and operationalizing the analytical framework interlinks aspects of managerialism with the cultures, structures, and projects of NGOs. Examples chosen from our ongoing work in the NGO sector in Oaxaca, Mexico, serve as illustrations of how the analytical framework might generate insight into the contradictory workings of managerialism in NGO networks.

In September 2005, the Pacific Islands Forum issued a finalized Pacific Plan. The overarching goal of the Plan is to ''Enhance and stimulate economic growth, sustainable development, good governance and security for Pacific countries through regionalism.'' In this paper we focus on the salient role of (good) governance in the Plan. Governance has become a keyword, albeit a deeply ambivalent one, in development and foreign policy realms and the Pacific is now a particularly intense site of activities understood in terms of governance. Governance has become an important vehicle through which intervention in the region is imagined and realized.

Using data compiled from two surveys of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, we analysed regional variations in the degree of 'formalisation' among NGOs operating in the state. Formalisation is shown to vary from regions with a weak grassroots sector but a top-heavy concentration of activities undertaken by more formalised NGOs, to those with a strong grassroots base but a smaller number of more formalised organisations. These structures do not appear to correlate with either levels of poverty or proportion of indigenous population, but instead with unique geo-historical conditions in each region. We conclude by reflecting on the broader implications of these structures, particularly in the context of neoliberal state policies.