Political Economy

Gender Equality: What Benefits Would a Flextime System Bring to Japan?

Miki Anno • Jul 24 2016 • Essays

The Japanese government should enact a law that requires all companies to allow their employees flextime in order to benefit Japanese society.

Assessing the Utility of Rational Choice Theory in Least Developed Countries

George Sariak • Jul 8 2016 • Essays

RCT can inform the understanding behind the decision making process of collective action pertaining to developmental dilemmas specifically common pool resources (CPRs).

Agricultural Overproduction and the Deteriorating Environment

Jacqueline Dufalla • Jul 7 2016 • Essays

Overproducing food, while allowing for food security, also disrupt world markets as well as causes immense environmental damage to soil and water supplies.

Why Have Iran and North Korea Had Different Nuclear Postures to Sanctions?

Chan Jun Hao • Jun 20 2016 • Essays

The alternative cultures and regime types of Iran and North Korea are the main reasons behind the disparate responses to economic sanctions in the 2010s.

Why Have Resolutions of the UN General Assembly If They Are Not Legally Binding?

Celine Van den Rul • Jun 16 2016 • Essays

Even though UNGA resolutions enjoy a limited legal status, they have a powerful symbolic and political impact, and they help influence contemporary international law.

Mandate Disclosure in EU Trade Negotiations: The Case of TiSA

Michal Ovádek • May 24 2016 • Essays

The publication of TiSA’s negotiating mandate represents an effort to increase transparency, used by negotiators as a stepping stone towards expanding the EU’s win-set.

Securing the Energy Supply: China’s “Malacca Dilemma”

Matthew Caesar-Gordon • Feb 26 2016 • Essays

For China to ensure the future security of its energy supply, it must balance the protection of its critical sea lanes with the seeking of alternative energy sources.

Why Do We Need a Gender Analysis in International Political Economy?

Francesca Melhuish • Feb 23 2016 • Essays

A gender analysis demonstrates the centrality of the differential valorisation of the masculine and the feminine to the functioning of the global political economy.

Guns v. Butter: Differentiating Armaments in International Relations

Matthew Ribar • Feb 11 2016 • Essays

There are plenty of differences between arms and other economic goods, but most of these differences are not fundamental: they are differences in degree, not in type.

Monetary Sovereignty under the Gold Standard – The Case of the Ottoman Empire

Alvina Hoffmann • Feb 10 2016 • Essays

Increasing indebtedness and severe crises caused the Ottoman Empire to lose monetary sovereignty, culminating with the adoption of a limping gold standard.

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