Science, Technology and Security in the Middle East
The technological dependence of Arab countries has enhanced their vulnerability to outside interference and reduced their internal, national integration.
Interview – Hilton Root
Dr Hilton Root talks about his book Dynamics Among Nations, non-Western perspectives on International Political Economy, ‘preventative chaos’ and development models.
Developing Countries and UN Peacebuilding: Opportunities and Challenges
We must ask questions about how to reform historically rooted principles, norms, expectations, and understandings about how to achieve a sustainable peace in the international society.
A Rationale for Pluralism: The Rural, Remote Peasant
Policies that force people to choose between homogenization, fracture, or exclusion are rarely viable. Pluralism (institutional, cultural, social, and economic) offers extended periods of peace.
Review – Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and Development
This book presents a clear and convincing argument for the shift from a Western centered globalization to a multipolar one and also considers multicentric perspectives.
Interview – Lisa Tilley
Lisa Tilley discusses the relationship between the urban and the international, the political economy of knowledge, and the potential for theory to be subversive.
Interview – Robbie Shilliam
Robbie Shilliam talks about the obstacles to decolonizing the academy, postcolonial politics, his forthcoming book Race and the Undeserving Poor and studying IR theory.
Online Resources – The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
A brief introduction to the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, with links and media to further explore.
What is Happening in Afghanistan?
The US is losing the war and has become a part of the problem. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from the US experience in Vietnam.
Colonialism: Why Write Back?
European knowledge conception of development needs to be brought down from its high global pedestal and put alongside other sidelined, non-European knowledge systems.
