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From Negotiations to Elections and Back – Why the next Iranian President may be chosen for his ‘Nuclear’ Credentials

Cornelius Adebahr
20th May 2013 Cornelius Adebahr unpicks the international security dimensions of the next Iranian elections. Ironically enough, the life-or-death decision whether a country wants to have a nuclear bomb has never been put to a vote but is rather taken in secrecy...

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government, africa, african mba, business school, howard w french, pfefferman

Learning to Learn in Africa

Karl Muth
9th May 2013 I have often been asked why Africa, after finding a few good leaders in the mid Twentieth Century, has been subjected to a list of terrible leaders. Africa is accused of being the cause of its misery often, with varying degrees of subtlety. But one...

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Book Review: Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker.

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24th April 2013 Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker. London: Hurst & Company, 2013. 384 pp., £25.00 hardcover. 978 1849042543 In his latest book, Christopher Coker offers a...

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athletic scholarships, unfair, admissions, standards, SAT, ACT, meritocracy

Unsporting: The Problem of Athletic University Scholarships

Karl Muth
17th April 2013 As a believer in the academy as one of the few refuges of meritocracy in Western Civilization, the existence of athletic scholarships has always troubled me. As a matter of policy, I have always thought the effects of athletic scholarships to...

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International Security, Conflict and Gender: ‘HIV is another war’. By Hakan Seck

Book Review: International Security, Conflict and Gender: ‘HIV is another war’. By Hakan Seckinelgin

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16th April 2013 International Security, Conflict and Gender: ‘HIV is another war’ by Hakan Seckinelgin London: Routledge, 2012. 204 pp £80 (hardcover) 978 0415615709 HIV/AIDS specialist are often faced with a derivative of the following question...

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Book and Documentary Reviews Summer-Winter 2012

Book and Documentary Reviews Summer-Winter 2012

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11th April 2013 In this post Global Policy’s Jill Stuart introduces a small booklet encompassing GP’s book and documentary reviews from summer-winter 2012. Please click the image below to download the booklet. 2012 has been a year of invention for...

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DFID diaspora remittances failure FDI targeted aid

DFID Should Be In Western Union, Not Westminster

Karl Muth
4th April 2013 There are conflicting explanations for why DFID exists. Whether you believe the agency is a financial apology for mismanaged colonialism, a foreign policy tool to exert control over impoverished governments, or a way to fund career-boosting...

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Iran goes Power Photoshopping

Cornelius Adebahr
27th March 2013 “Almaty II” is beckoning: Next week, the UN-backed talks over Iran’s nuclear programme will continue in the Kazakh capital. However, the Iranian leadership’s obsession with retouching images until they fit its likings...

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Who's afraid of a Russian bailout?

Liana Fix
23rd March 2013 Liana Fix examines Russia’s complex relationship with Cyprus and its response to the financial crisis. The geopolitical significance of the Cyprus crisis Only lately and as if taken by surprise, the media coverage on the Cyprus crisis picked...

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How to Run the World – Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance by Parag Khanna

Book Review: How to Run the World – Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance by Parag Khanna

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22nd March 2013 How to Run the World – Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance by Parag Khanna. New York: Random House 2011. 256 pp., £18.99 hardcover. 978 1400068272 “Provocative” is the adjective that more often recurs in the “...

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