Political Economy

Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA): Altruism or Mercantilism?

Yuki Yoshida • Jul 27 2013 • Essays

Because the ODA allows Japan to show its international presence, as the country cannot deploy its defense forces, Japan’s ODA remains the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy.

American Energy Security in a Changing Global Energy Market

Robert Copper • Jul 27 2013 • Essays

The United States’ struggle to coherently define a sound definition of energy security has impeded the country’s ability to adequately address the diverse risks to its energy security.

Liberal Countries: The Proprietors of Conflict

Mel Nowicki • Jul 25 2013 • Essays

Rather than providing a model of peace for the developing world, liberal states are instigators of conflict in the developing world via their frequent military forays.

EU CAP: An Indispensable Policy for the EU?

Anne Konrad • Jul 16 2013 • Essays

Although the major debates focus on EU’s future, the fact that the EU’s CAP consumes a vast share of the EU budget, makes farming in the EU a controversial issue calling for attention.

Protecting Internally Displaced Persons in India

Tanushree Rao • Jul 15 2013 • Essays

Due to the lack of a national framework for the protection of IDPs, Indian state governments’ responses to such needs are weak, unsatisfactory and dependent on political agendas.

Famine and Undernutrition as Security Issues

James Cole • Jul 12 2013 • Essays

Human security is a useful way to study food insecurity, as it moves away from an exclusive focus on the state, whose security does not equate with the security of the individual.

Understanding Regional Integration in the GCC

Robert Copper • Jul 8 2013 • Essays

The literature overlooks factors significant to the development of the GCC, revealing a Western bias that ignores the underlying social, cultural, political, and economic structures.

Are IFIs Adapting to Post-Conflict Environments?

Wim van Doorn • Jul 4 2013 • Essays

In their rhetoric, the World Bank and the IMF seem to be fully committed to the demands of post-conflict settings, but in practice, the record of the last fifteen years is mixed.

Challenging the Dominant Globalization-Migration Discourse

Tommy Gavin • Jul 3 2013 • Essays

Financial institutions increasingly view migrant workers as generators of international capital flows, demonstrating the dominance of neoliberalism within development discourse.

Habermas, Dialogue, and Change in the International System

Camille Marquis • Jun 28 2013 • Essays

Habermas argues that the nature of dialogue can yield positive change, but can his theory apply to conversations in international organizations?

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