Political Economy

Postcolonialism, Power, and ‘the Poor’: What Will Eliminate Global Poverty?

Marc Woons • Nov 26 2013 • Essays

Broad development remains elusive because it fails to challenge the rules of the ‘game’ enforced by neoliberal interests which cannot accommodate more adequate definitions of poverty.

Comparing the New Life Movement to the Cultural Revolution

Mike Pitstick • Nov 14 2013 • Essays

Compared to the Cultural Revolution, had there been increased foreign support, the New Life Movement could have been a defining doctrine of Modern China, not a blip on the history books.

Has Globalization Exacerbated Ethnic Conflicts?

Keunwon Song • Oct 22 2013 • Essays

Despite a few alleviative and still fewer success cases, globalization tends to accelerate ethnic conflicts on economic and cultural fronts, on top of pre-existent ancient hatreds.

The Complicity of International Markets in Human Rights Violations

Matthew John Ribeiro Norley • Oct 19 2013 • Essays

Corporate Social Responsibility is a farce: a lack of transparency, increased competition, poor international regulation, and corruption cause corporate violations of human rights law.

Can Objections to Singer’s ‘Famine Relief Argument’ be Morally Justified?

Josie Park • Oct 11 2013 • Essays

There are numerous conflicts between the FRA and our common intuition. Consequent objections against the FRA may be plausible, but do not provide sufficient moral justification to reject the FRA.

Interpretation in Foreign Energy Policy

Morgan Lochhead • Oct 11 2013 • Essays

Shaping foreign energy policy at the state level and international energy relations at the international, interpretation of energy resources grounds an energy policy’s political logic.

The Concept of “State Failure” and Contemporary Security and Development Challenges

Johanna Moritz • Oct 10 2013 • Essays

Though ‘failed states’ continue to pose significant transnational security problems, the emergence of informal actors challenges the assumption of a complete absence of governance.

Elites and Democracy in China

Matthew Saayman • Sep 6 2013 • Essays

Though it has been argued that China will democratize in the near future, only time will tell whether the elites will perceive the benefits of democracy as outweighing the costs.

Violent Peacekeeping: An Evaluation of the Performance of ECOWAS in the First Liberian Civil War (1989-1996)

Asim Rizvanovic • Sep 5 2013 • Essays

The first Liberian civil war is a vital prerequisite in understanding just how fallacious the Economic Community of West African States was in its activities before, during, and after the conflict.

Can Stable Democracy Be the Outcome of Military Interventions?

Maceo Bruce Darby • Sep 2 2013 • Essays

Only in rare cases does military intervention lead to stable democracies. Successful democracy implementation is usually dependent on the internal factors and conditions of a state.

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