Archive for 2013

Review – The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail

Kenneth Button • Nov 13 2013 • Features

Albalate and Bel provide a methodical overview of several major high-speed rail initiatives across the globe, however fail to deepen their analysis to consider the macroeconomic impacts of such infrastructure.

Students or Children?

Dylan Kissane • Nov 12 2013 • Articles

One of the cultural differences that is most striking about teaching in the private sector of France’s higher education industry is the way that French schools infantilise their students. A few examples really push this home.

Comparing Domestic Terrorist Threats in the US and UK

Jenrette Nowaczynski • Nov 11 2013 • Essays

Radicalized Islamic terrorism does not necessarily pose the greatest risk to national security, but rather non-Islamic extremist organizations are an increasingly imminent danger.

Review – Popular Protest in China

Kendrick Kuo • Nov 11 2013 • Features

Those who make the arduous trek through this at times dense book will be well-rewarded with a perspective that is careful not to paint with broad brushstrokes when discussing protests in China.

The Knotted Gun: Practical Solutions to Conflict

Daryl Morini • Nov 11 2013 • Articles

IR academics have a special responsibility to the world, as the inheritors of an enduring and all-important question: How can we prevent future wars?

Co-Dependence In the Pluralist-Solidarist Debate

Mack Clayton • Nov 11 2013 • Essays

The pluralist-solidarist debate is not as inherently oppositional as originally presented. It is only when pluralism and solidarism are seen as dichotomized and opposed that conflict arises.

Czech Elections: How a Billionaire Populist Upstaged Established Parties

Sean Hanley • Nov 9 2013 • Articles

The Czech election results represent a decisive breach in the Republic’s previously stable pattern of party politics. The new political landscape is both fluid and highly fragmented.

Is the War On Terror Over? If So, Who Won?

Toby Fenton • Nov 9 2013 • Essays

Empirical and rhetorical evidence within the context of America’s prosecution of the War on Terror ultimately supports the contention that it is not over. ‘Who won?’ then becomes hypothetical.

Guyana: The Next Economic Tiger?

Peter Clegg • Nov 9 2013 • Articles

Although Guyana is the third poorest country in the Americas it has a tremendous stock of natural resources, and there is great hope that Guyana’s economy has reached take-off phase.

Do Regional Institutions Transmit Global or Regional Norms and Values?

Ben Willis • Nov 8 2013 • Essays

Shared local histories and cultures allow for regional institutions, such as the EU and ASEAN, to promote and transmit regional norms and values to all member states.

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