The current human rights framework, while tackling sexual rights, fails to take local contexts into account, thus increasing discrimination and limiting the impact of local activists.
The international political economy has led to a situation where Third World states are no longer confined to countries: this is a new brand of Third Worldism that includes non-state actors.
With a history of occupations and territorial division, the odds for economic success were not stacked in South Korea’s favor. Its success did not conform to any pre-existing mode of development.
Post 9/11 there has been an increased securitization of development issues, shifting aid conditionalities to behaviour supportive of the “War on Terror”.
There seems to be an enduring inability to understand that Africa is modernizing in its own way. The Western development discourse remains authoritarian and coercive.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is at the centre of emancipatory, grassroots activism in Zimbabwe, providing potential for a democratic, anti-neoliberal future.
Tackling socio-economic issues, such as poverty and inequality, is not only desirable in principle, but is actively required for the functioning of Egypt’s newly developing democracy.
China’s water policies will increase regional and international tensions, but will also prevent China’s economy from stalling, which could destabilize the entire international system.
Events in northern Africa have helped to enhance ‘Human Security’ as a subject of scholarly research and for legitimate consideration in the realm of International Relations.
Weak states may be unable to protect their citizens from violence, provide basic infrastructure, create accountable institutions, or set the conditions for sustainable growth.
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