Articles

Refugees: Economic Burden or Opportunity?

Richard Parsons • Mar 7 2016 • Articles

The only sense in which refugees could be framed as a “burden” or “cost”, takes a strictly narrow conceptualisation of “economic” and a very short-term view of life.

Fantasies of Occupation: ‘Occupied’ and ‘the Man in the High Castle’

Robert A. Saunders • Mar 7 2016 • Articles

The Man in the High Castle is the perfect ‘distraction’ for a country riven by increasingly bitter culture wars, and a complete breakdown in civil discourse.

Jamaica and the IMF: A Never-ending Story

Peter Clegg • Mar 6 2016 • Articles

The story of Jamaica’s efforts to plot a successful path to development highlights that while IMF support is needed to keep the economy solvent, the reforms do little to bring about real change.

Sudan’s President Bashir Was Almost Arrested and We Thought of You

Kimberly Hollingsworth • Mar 4 2016 • Articles

If we are ever going to actually end genocide, we need to intervene while it’s happening, not apologize or regret our lack of action years later, after it ends.

When Soft Power Turns Hard: Miss World, Coercion and China’s Cultural Diplomacy

Caylan Ford • Mar 3 2016 • Articles

Soft power projects such as a beauty contest in Sanya, are rarely political at first, but politics finds ways to intrude into even the most innocuous of things.

Refugees as Contributors to Peace

Maja Janmyr • Mar 3 2016 • Articles

Finding solutions to refugee situations is a struggle of the politically excluded for political inclusion. Resolving displacement inextricably links with achieving peace.

The Kurdish Question of Turkey’s Foreign Policy

Ali Bilgiç • Mar 2 2016 • Articles

Turkey’s foreign policy following the Arab uprisings is considered volatile and difficult questions remain for the actors involved in Syria and the wider Middle East.

A Critical Contribution to Academic Freedom in Turkey

Gonenc Uysal • Mar 2 2016 • Articles

The majority of academics seem to fail to understand the relationship between the pressure on academic freedom and the neoliberal-conservative pressure on the labour force.

Forgiveness in Reconciliation Between Japan and South Korea

Naoko Kumagai • Mar 2 2016 • Articles

Reconciliation without forgiveness exists between Japan and Korea. Genuine reconciliation should be pursued to complement to what political reconciliation has missed.

Canada’s Audacious Refugee Response

The Canadian approach shows the possibility of a future for thousands of Syrian youth through resettlement, as important as any other effort to confront the Syrian war.