Political Economy

Climate Debt: A Model for Indigenous Latin American Self-determination?

Danielle Santos • May 7 2021 • Essays

Latin America provides relevant context for the implications of a climate debt scheme given its high levels of foreign debt and significant export of natural resources.

How Helpful is ‘Effective Altruism’ as an Approach to Increasing Global Justice?

Ailie Ross-Oliver • Apr 5 2021 • Essays

Effective altruism fails to acknowledge the systemic nature of injustice and encourages the use of financial-based solutions, undermining efforts to tackle injustice.

Conceptualising Europe’s Market Power: EU Geostrategic Goals Through Economic Means

Simon Pompé • Mar 23 2021 • Essays

Due to its economic weight, the assumption of the EU’s predominant economic power is logical. This applies even in security issues such as the Ukraine conflict.

“Fake It Till You Make It?” Post-Coloniality and Consumer Culture in Africa

Duke Mwedzi • Feb 10 2021 • Essays

Consumer culture exists in many African societies and it is heavily influenced by cultural assimilation.

Women in International Migration: Transnational Networking and the Global Labor Force

Bronte Kuehnis • Jan 31 2021 • Essays

Many countries require a complete reconstruction of their immigration policy to meet international migration demands and basic standards of human dignity.

Jus Commercium Armis: Amidst the Abyss of Arms

Deepanshu Singal • Jan 19 2021 • Essays

The ethics of the arms trade can be looked from contrasting political, economic, legal and theoretical viewpoints.

How Has the Evolution of Production Chains Affected Women and Children?

Tania González Veiga • Jan 14 2021 • Essays

Global and local production chains increase levels of precarity and informality of labour, with little legal and social protection, especially for women and children.

Everyday (In)Security: An Autoethnography of Student Life in the UK

anon • Dec 31 2020 • Essays

An undergraduate education has largely ceased to be one of ontological discovery and has instead become a process of enforcing neoliberal logic on students.

Offensively Realist? Evaluating Trump’s Economic Policy Towards China

Steph Coulter • Dec 9 2020 • Essays

Donald Trump’s economic policy towards China cannot be considered realist if one uses an analytical framework based on offensive realism.

The Angolan Civil War: Conflict Economics or the Divine Right of Kings?

Ben Rosie • Dec 2 2020 • Essays

The long duration of the Angolan Civil War must be understood through interconnected factors that ebbed and flowed as the national and international context changed.

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