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The Eurozone is not suffering from an economic crisis, but a crisis of national politics

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5th December 2013 Sonia Alonso examines the 'There Is No Alternative' to austerity predicament from the diverging perspectives of the Eurozone core countries and the Eurozone periphery countries.  Allegedly, a ‘democracy without choices’ is...

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Book Review: The Return of the Dragon: Rising China and Regional Security by Denny Roy.

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3rd December 2013 The Return of the Dragon: Rising China and Regional Security by Denny Roy. New York: Columbia University Press 2013, 288 pp., £24.00 hardcover. 978-0-231-15900-5 The rise of China is arguably the most important event in international affairs...

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The Disease of Short-Termism

The Disease of Short-Termism

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3rd December 2013 John Feffer assesses how "short-termism" in market democracies has rendered countries unable to deal with long-term problems. It was famously described as the “end of history.” The collapse of Communism and the victory of...

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Climate Justice Involves More Than a Fair Distribution of Benefits and Burdens: It Requires Radical, Structural Change

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2nd December 2013 Anna Grear argues that climate justice can be best explained when it is focused on climate injustice, rather than simply a equal distribution of the effects of climate change. Therefore a radical structural change should be considered if climate...

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Refugees, Water, and the Law

Refugees, Water, and the Law

Scott McKenzie
29th November 2013 Scott McKenzie examines the legal framework between host states and international relief agencies that is preventing the provision of water to refugees.   Refugee camps are some of the most vulnerable areas on Earth. These ad hoc encampments...

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Book Review: Why Civil Resistance Works

Book Review: Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan.

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29th November 2013 Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 320 pp, £20.50 hardcover, 978-0-231-15682-0; £15 paperback, 978-0-231-15683-7 In...

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Optimum currency area theory provides important insights on how the Eurozone might be redesigned

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29th November 2013 Holly Snaith shows the ways in which optimum currency area theory can be applied to the Eurozone.  Optimum Currency area theory is usually taken to originate with Robert Mundell in a 1961 paper entitled ‘A theory of optimum currency areas...

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The Nobel Committee's Rebuke to Washington's Unilateralism

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28th November 2013 Stephen Zunes discusses the true meaning of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), one of...

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The Climate Cliff: Nuclear Echoes

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28th November 2013 Paul Roger explores whether an enlightened political response could be provoked by extreme climate events, leading to a major change of policy, like what happened in Cuba and Able Archer during the cold war. In the early 1990s, I was lecturing at...

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Multi-stakeholder Governance Seeks to Dislodge Multilateralism

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27th November 2013 Harris Gleckman explores the possibility of reorganising global governance decision-making around multi-stakeholder processes.  The World Economic Forum (WEF) convened an international expert group in 2009–2010 to formulate a new system...

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