Archive for 2013

Postcolonialism, Power, and ‘the Poor’: What Will Eliminate Global Poverty?

Marc Woons • Nov 26 2013 • Essays

Broad development remains elusive because it fails to challenge the rules of the ‘game’ enforced by neoliberal interests which cannot accommodate more adequate definitions of poverty.

Review – To Move the World

Elizabeth Austin • Nov 25 2013 • Features

Fifty years after his assassination, Jeffrey Sachs brings the reader into John F. Kennedy’s era, allowing us to understand the challenges he faced and why his mission of peace remains important today.

Compliance with Human Rights Tribunals: An Assessment

Courtney Hillebrecht • Nov 25 2013 • Articles

While tribunals can provide some technical assistance, other actors need to provide political incentives for compliance. The best way to improve compliance is to involve domestic stakeholders.

Drug Control Policies are Changing: Why? And Why Has it Taken So Long?

Mike Trace • Nov 25 2013 • Articles

Administrations at all levels are busy reforming laws, strategies and programmes for controlling psychoactive drugs such as cannabis, cocaine & heroin. Why? Or alternatively, why has it taken so long?

Rumsfeldian Logic and the Debate on Scottish Independence

A.B. Evans • Nov 25 2013 • Articles

Whether Scotland votes yes or no in 2014, future years seem to only offer the certainty of doubt. However, we know to a certain degree where such ambiguities & uncertainties are likely to emerge.

Did the Great Debates Really Take Place?

Peera Charoenvattananukul • Nov 24 2013 • Essays

Although they have been glossed over by certain myths and readjustments, the Three Great Debates did in fact take place and should not be academically dismissed.

Review – The Chinese Question in Central Asia

Barrett L. McCormick • Nov 23 2013 • Features

One of this book’s major strengths is the focus on Central Asian perceptions of China, including perceptions of strategic interaction, economic relations, and culture.

The Fragile City Arrives

Robert Muggah • Nov 23 2013 • Articles

We are increasingly seeing many large metropolises and urban centers fall behind. These ‘fragile cities’ pose serious security and development challenges that will need to be met in this ‘urban century’.

Why Bahrainis Must Embrace Dialogue

Ali Fathalla • Nov 22 2013 • Articles

The international community must recognise that the situation in Bahrain is unique from its neighbours, argue Ali Fathalla, and support the country in their engagement with dialogue.

Review – Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

Robert Bunker • Nov 21 2013 • Features

Allum and Gilmour’s Routledge anthology deftly fills the niche between more general encyclopedias of organized crime and those works focusing on specific individuals or genres of transnational actors.

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