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Where now for Iraq?
2008-05-26 02:34:00 Watch Dr Toby Dodge (International Institute for Strategic Studies and University of London) discuss the current situation and future of Iraq.
International Relations 101
2008-05-12 15:21:00 By Cameron ClarkHelp is on the way to Myanmar today. As our thoughts and prayers are with the Burmese people, our governments certainly don't see eye to eye on the ideas of democracy and capitalism, which had resulted in the prideful refusal of American aid by the Myanmar Junta. As heart-breaking as the conditions are on the ground in the cyclone ravaged nation, the rules of international diplomacy and national sovereignty are still intact regardless of the keen insight of the American public.Four days ago CNN ran a poll on its website asking if the United States should air-drop supplies into Myanmar even if the government refused aid: Much to my chagrin, 60% of the respondents said the U.S. should deliver supplies without Burmese consent.People are dying there, and I would imagine they don't care where help comes from so long as they receive it (thank God they are getting it now), but my problem is the 60% of respondents who couldn't quite get their mind around the entirety of t...
China Courts Dalai Lama. Olympic Good Spirit?
2008-05-04 02:07:00 The Chinese government has been making strenuous attempts to ensure a meeting with the Dalai Lama. The troubled events attending the Olympic torch relay, and international condemnation of China for her human rights record, have brought considerable pressure on the Chinese leaders to make this move. This is in marked contrast to its decades of execrating the ...
Analysis: China?s nuclear secret exposed
2008-05-01 15:08:00 China bills the tropical island of Hainan as a new Hawaii. Its sparkling beaches are lined by hotels patronised by western expatriates, Russian package tours and China’s new middle classes. Sanya, the town on its southern tip, is best known for hosting Miss World in recent years. But right next door, China’s forward-looking naval strategists are ...
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Ghulam Sarwar Theebo appointed as DIG Investigation
2008-04-15 05:11:00 Sindh Government has appointed Ghulam Sarwar Theebo as DIG Investigation. According to Sindh Government?s order of transfers and postings, the Department of Works and Services, senior officer Ali Azhar Khan as Secretary Cooperation. Senior officer Shoiab Siddiqui has been appointed Director Mega City, Pervez Ahmed DCO Tando Allahyar, Iqbal Memon DCO Khairpur, Siddique Memon Special ...
MQM to sit on opposition benches; Altaf endorses
2008-04-14 03:10:00 Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabta Committee said that MQM will now sit on the opposition benches, seeing the non-serious attitude from Pakistan People?s Party (PPP) leadership. Addressing the press conference at MQM headquarters Nine Zero, Dr Farooq Sattar said that his party has serious reservations over the appointment of new Sindh IG Police Shoaib Suddle. ...
At least 12 Dead in Pakistan Political Clashes
2008-04-11 04:34:00 Pakistan?s port city of Karachi, also considered as the country?s economic capital, is once again the scene of horrific incidents of violence and vandalism following the thrashing of an opposition politician and a pro-Musharraf lawyer by supporters of the present government.Independent commentators say the death toll has reached 12, including two women, six lawyers and ...
Postgraduate Studentships in Politics and International Relations
2008-04-05 06:00:00 UK. University of Exeter. Three years fully funded studentships are available to students who plan to enrol in MPhil or PhD programme in Politics and International Relations within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Awards are payable in instalments on enrolment and continuation is subject to satisfactory annual progression. Studentships are awarded on academic merit and are open to applicants from the UK/EU and overseas. Successful students will probably have applied for Research Council funding or equivalent competitive schemes. (more…) Share This Tags: international relations, politics, postgraduate studentships,- uk, university of exeter-
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Political Theory and International Relations ?????????
2008-03-06 01:21:00 Political Theory and International Relations?????????# Author: Charles R. Beitz# Format:PDF 2.3MB# Publisher: Princeton University Press # Number Of Pages: 224 # Publication Date: 1999-07-01 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0691009155 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780691009155 In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in domestic society in having rights of autonomy that insulate them from external moral assessment and political interference. Beitz postulates that a theory of international politics should include a revised principle of state autonomy based on the justice of a state's domestic institutions, and a principle of international distributive justice to e...
World Gallup Poll. Muslim Project
2008-02-28 01:54:00 One of the great attractions to Sathya Sai Baba felt by people from many countries has been his evangel of respect for the various faiths. Has Sai Baba Kept Promise of Reaching Through to World Faiths? One can search in vain for any decently researched examples that show any capacity by him or his global Sathya Sai ...
Middle East Crisis? Security in an Unstable World
2008-02-23 00:29:00 Watch Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University talk about security issues in the Middle East. Rogers is the author of the influential book “Why we are losing the War on Terror“. The event took place at the Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University
Australia Says ?Sorry?. A Lesson For Sai Baba And Followers
2008-02-13 21:08:00 A great day occurred in Australia yesterday, which the global Sathya Sai Organization may do well to note. There is a strong lesson about admitting mistakes of the past, and responding with heart to the sorrow that one’s actions or one’s group’s actions have caused. The rest of the Australian nation via its Federal Parliament said a ...
Italy-Full Time Associate Professor in International Relations
2008-02-09 21:30:00 University of Trento,Italy. The faculty of Sociology of the University of Trento seeks to appoint a full-time associate professor in the field of International Relations, starting in the academic year 2008-2009. It is a tenured position with the salary and conditions of an Italian associate professor. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, an excellent publication record and an equivalent position in a (non-Italian or Italian) university. A proven ability to attract outside funding will be highly considered. The successful applicant will contribute to teaching and research in the field of International Relations, in particular in the field of international institutions and regimes. Candidates who can also contribute in the area of the EU’s global role are encouraged to apply. (more…) Share This Tags: associat, associate professor, international relations, multidisciplinary graduate-, sociology, university of trento-
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Where now for NATO?s Afghanistan Mission?
2008-02-06 15:00:00 By Christopher McGuinness Hear that noise? That’s Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper rocking the boat by threatening to end Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan without increased troop support from other NATO countries. And by “other NATO countries”, he means “the EU”. At first glance, it seems that EU nations haven’t been as negligent as Harper’s camp would have ...
Greek-Turkish Relations: A New Era?
2008-01-28 18:26:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas Whatever happens in his remaining term in office, Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis has secured a place in history. The first PM to pay an official state visit to Turkey in 49 years, Karamanlis's trip confirmed that the old archrivals have moved a long way from the bitter animosity of the recent ...
The Reform Treaty: Its Impact on the EU Institutions
2008-01-19 01:05:00 By Brendan Donnelly Introductory Comment Many institutional provisions of the Reform Treaty are framed, perhaps deliberately, in general, permissive or tentative terms. The real impact of these provisions will therefore only emerge in the course of their implementation. This implementation will be influenced by the personalities involved in the workings of the new structures and ...
International Cricket And The Secret Swami
2008-01-13 09:52:00 One of the biggest rows in cricket history has afflicted the present Test series between India and Australia. But what instructiveness might a Test cricket series in Australia have in relation to the call from former Sathya Sai Baba followers in many countries for media and government investigation of their former teacher, who is arguably the most powerful ...
Russia?s Ambitions and Prospects in World Politics
2008-01-05 03:45:00 Photo by Antonis Shen Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute London and also known as the biographer of John Maynard Keynes, has published a new Policy Paper addressing the vital issue of Russia’s future position in world politics. Lord Skidelsky concludes: “The attempt to impose ‘liberal empire’ or ’sovereign democracy’ on ...
Russia shipped first nuke plant to Iran
2007-12-17 13:27:00 Russia has made its first shipment of nuclear fuel to an Iranian nuclear power plant at the center of the international tensions over Tehran’s atomic program, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Iran contends its plant in the southern city of Bushehr is strictly for civilian purposes, but the project concerns the United States and others who ...
Europe in the Middle East
2007-12-10 00:16:00 By Christopher McGuiness U.S. President George W. Bush announced Wednesday his first official visit to Israel in January as part of his new campaign to rekindle the Middle East peace process. This declaration comes on the heels of last week’s conference in Annapolis devoted to the same topic. How can history guide such negotiations? With the failures ...
Europe in the Middle East
2007-12-10 00:16:00 By Christopher McGuiness U.S. President George W. Bush announced Wednesday his first official visit to Israel in January as part of his new campaign to rekindle the Middle East peace process. This declaration comes on the heels of last week’s conference in Annapolis devoted to the same topic. How can history guide such negotiations? With the failures ...
Democracy and US Foreign Policy ? What about Pervez Musharraf?
2007-11-28 09:18:00 By Christopher McGuiness Spreading democracy has been a key feature of American foreign policy for centuries, and central to the neoconservative and neoliberal presidential administrative agendas of the past three decades. It is precisely for this reason that President Bush’s recent defence of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is so contradictory. Pakistan has effectively been under martial law ...
A Leader Without Followers? The United States in World Politics after Bush
2007-11-27 00:08:00 The Policy Paper based on Professor Buzan’s talk (also available as video) with the above title is now available. From the introduction: During the second half of the 20th century, the United States was without question an outstandingly successful leading power. It took over leadership of the West during the Second World War, and used that victory ...
Examining International Relations In The Realm Of Sports Through History
2007-11-09 00:00:00 Although the precise origins of the connection between sports and international relations remain obscure, all cultures have participated over the course of history in different physical contests that fostered cultural exchange and contributed to their citizens’ political discourse. The ancient Egyptians swam, raced, wrestled, and played games with balls. The ancient Greeks held large athletic ...
my last day of International Relations
2007-10-24 21:59:00 So get this: my International Relations course was only half a semester long (same amount of course hours though because it was twice as long as the rest of my classes... and added to that he often ran 45 minutes over- and the class was supposed to end at six- so sometimes I wasn't getting home to 8:15). And today was the last day. Now don't get me wrong, the class wasn't that bad... I just think that there was a cultural difference between how American teachers teach and how Swedish Teachers teach. It meant that at times there were crossed wires and miss communications. And well, the subject matter could have been presented in a more interesting way. But the class itself was informative, and the evaluations were papers, so I'm pretty happy, because that's my preferred method of learning.Anyway, with the exception of a final paper, the class is done, which means I now only have three classes, that happen mostly in the mornings. It's actually quite exciting, because I'll...
Progressive Foreign Policy
2007-10-19 05:58:00 By David Held and David Mepham This short essay is concerned with the future direction of foreign policy, a subject explored at greater length in our edited volume, Progressive Foreign Policy (published at the end of August by Polity Press). The essay aims to define a distinctively progressive perspective on foreign policy and to defend this against both ...
New Diplomacy: Challenges for Foreign Policy
2007-10-11 06:09:00 By David Miliband This is an exciting and important time in British politics. After ten years in government, the Labour Party is seeking under new leadership to set out and deliver a renewed vision for the future of the country that builds on the social, economic and political changes introduced since 1997. The battle of ideas over ...
Indian Gurus Stifle India?s Chance To Excel
2007-10-01 09:21:00 Intense and blind faith in gurus, such as one finds endemic in India, shames a great many of her otherwise educated individuals, including scientists. It jeopardizes her opportunities to gain unstinting international respect. Guru Worship Still flinging themselves passionately at the feet of gurus, and worshipping them as God incarnate, they ignore the gurus’ absurd pronouncements on matters scientific. This ...
Ahmadinejad v. Bollinger: The unacknowledged disgrace
2007-09-26 06:07:00 Scan the the newspapers, watch the TV, listen for a peep of dissent. You won’t find one. Everyone in the the US government, business community and the media either condemned or laughed at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his speech at Columbia University on Monday. Indeed, on the TV we were treated to the insane image ...
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[Hungary] MA Program in International Relations and European Studies
2007-09-17 21:24:00 Kõszeg, Hungary This M.A. program is especially designed for those students interested in critical social theory as well as in social, political and institutional innovation. Emphasis is placed on praxis as well as theory. This program provides excellent training for students interested in pursuing careers in such fields as: NGOs, and Civil Society Organizations Regional Development and Crossborder ...
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China?s new missile submarine seen by satellite
2007-09-14 14:08:00 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China’s newest ballistic missile submarine, the Jin-class vessel, has been spotted for the first time by a commercial satellite, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists said on Thursday. The submarine was photographed in late 2006 south of the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, said Hans Kristensen, director of the FAS’s ...
Official Report Says Sub-standard Food Items Produced In China
2007-09-14 14:08:00 (RTTNews) - Chinese government’s Quality Control agency for a variety of products reported that nearly a fifth of goods made and sold in China has been found to be sub-standard. The report released by China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine, reveals that the worst problems were found in canned fruit, dried fish, ...
Children used as shields in Pakistan mosque: govt
2007-09-14 14:08:00 By Faisal Aziz ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Women and children were being used as human shields by militants besieged in a mosque in Islamabad, the Pakistan government said on Thursday as security forces ratcheted up pressure on hundreds inside to surrender. Pakistan’s Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan said the few students who had quit the mosque ...
Granny fights Vietnam?s culture of bribery
2007-09-14 14:07:00 Feisty 88-Pounder is “Incredibly Brave” July 5, 2007 Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — Most Vietnamese cower when a cop squeezes them for a bribe. Le Hien Duc, a 75-year-old grandmother, fights back.Four-foot-nine and weighing just 88 pounds, she’ll take on anyone, from lowly bureaucrats to high-level officials. She e-mails, phones, tracks them down at their offices, confronts them ...
China?s new missile submarine seen by satellite
2007-09-14 14:06:00 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China’s newest ballistic missile submarine, the Jin-class vessel, has been spotted for the first time by a commercial satellite, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists said on Thursday. The submarine was photographed in late 2006 south of the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, said Hans Kristensen, director of the FAS’s ...
Official Report Says Sub-standard Food Items Produced In China
2007-09-14 14:06:00 (RTTNews) - Chinese government’s Quality Control agency for a variety of products reported that nearly a fifth of goods made and sold in China has been found to be sub-standard. The report released by China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine, reveals that the worst problems were found in canned fruit, dried fish, ...
Granny fights Vietnam?s culture of bribery
2007-09-14 14:06:00 Feisty 88-Pounder is “Incredibly Brave” July 5, 2007 Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — Most Vietnamese cower when a cop squeezes them for a bribe. Le Hien Duc, a 75-year-old grandmother, fights back.Four-foot-nine and weighing just 88 pounds, she’ll take on anyone, from lowly bureaucrats to high-level officials. She e-mails, phones, tracks them down at their offices, confronts them ...
Pollution Dangers Cast Shadow over 2008 Olympics
2007-09-14 14:05:00 By Hilmar Schmundt der Spiegel June 28, 2007 Is Beijing dangerous to athletes’ health? With the prospect of athletes running marathons and cycling in Beijing’s smog and pollution-laden air, environmentalists and experts in sports medicine are concerned about the health risks associated with the Olympic Games in China. The Beijing smog feeds on itself. Whenever the city periodically disappears ...
China Denies Loans to Polluting Firms; May Pull 1 Million Cars Off The Road
2007-09-14 14:05:00 By Alexa Oleson The Associated Press Thursday, July 5, 2007 BEIJING — China said Thursday it would bar bank loans to companies that violate environmental rules, an apparent effort to target firms that find it cheaper to pay fines or bribes than help reduce the country’s worsening pollution. The initiative is part of efforts to enforce frequently ignored environmental ...
Switzerland: big profits for doing nothing
2007-09-13 17:13:00 Why is Switzerland always allowed a special status? It's as if the world feels humbled by the little land-locked country and wishes to pay homage, in money, of course. Through the alchemy of inventive politicians, it has made 'neutrality' a highly profitable virtue. The tiny country has somehow created a brand that screams 'we're not playing, so don't ask.' And boy has that paid off. Want a safe neutral place for a high-price summit? Switzerland ? they've got fantastic facilities and the passive people are great, they're never going to get in your face. Sure it will be five times more expensive than anywhere else in the world, but, hey, they're neutral, they deserve it. Want a place to build your high-profile international headquarters? Choose Switzerland ? it's beautiful, peaceful and there are fantastic restaurant so who cares about the obscene costs. That's why the Olympics is there. Unlimited funds from around the world pour into this tiny neutral country becau...
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9/11 Memories Discredit Sai Baba and His Global Cult
2007-09-12 02:25:00 “A number of reports have been received from devotees indicating that our Beloved Swami prevented many of his devotees from being injured or killed in the World Trade Center where they are employed or had meetings scheduled. His Miraculous Intervention on behalf of His devotees is clearly evident”. The above triumphal proclamation to the Elect ...
P.N. Bhagwati, India?s Ex-Chief Justice: Wild, Reckless Claims
2007-08-28 02:29:00 P.N. Bhagawati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, a key figure on the Sathya Sai Central Trust (India) has also long been on the Board of Directors of The Times of India. In a joint public letter (December 2001), Bhagwati along with the former Prime Minister of India of the right wing BJP, A.B. ...
The Sole Superpower in Decline; The Rise of a Multipolar World
2007-08-22 04:32:00 This is an exceptional argument that is a must-read for anyone interested in the political futures market. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States stood tall ? militarily invincible, economically unrivalled, diplomatically uncontestable, and the dominating force on information channels worldwide. The next century was to be the true ?American century,? with the rest of the world molding itself in the image of the sole superpower. Yet, with not even a decade of this century behind us, we are already witnessing the rise of a multipolar world in which new powers are challenging different aspects of American supremacy ? Russia and China in the forefront, with regional powers Venezuela and Iran forming the second rank. These emergent powers are primed to erode American hegemony, not confront it, singly or jointly. How and why has the world evolved in this way so soon? Read on ? The Sole Superpower in Decline The Rise of a Multipolar World by Dilip Hiro
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Ex-U.S. Ambassador backs Canada's Arctic claim
2007-08-20 18:01:00 Wow, having to endure all those imperious lectures from former US Ambassador Paul Cellucci is finally paying a dividend: he is saying that the Northwest Passage should be part of Canada. "That would enable the Canadian navy to intercept and board vessels in the Northwest Passage to make sure they're not trying to bring weapons of mass destruction into North America," Cellucci told CTV's Question Period yesterday. "My hope is that the United States will take a second look at our long-standing position." It's not the first time Cellucci has made the pitch. He spoke out on the subject on a trip to the North in 2004 and reiterated his views last year. Cellucci is a long-time friend of US President Bush. The Toronto Star story is here: Ex-U.S. envoy backs Canada's Arctic claim
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India & Pakistan ? 60 years after division
2007-08-19 18:58:00 The two contrasting faces of the Asian subcontinent: a giant, open democracy and a sclerotic but nuclear-armed garrison state. Jim Hoagland in a column in the Washington Post entitled The Model That India Offers put it this way: India celebrated its 60th birthday last week with a raucous parliamentary debate over nuclear energy and its new strategic ...
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Truth Commission Model May Assist Sai Baba Devotees
2007-08-19 11:56:00 Other group leaders from various countries who we know to have been informed that Sai Baba sexually abuses boys and young men still take groups of all ages to see him. There is repeated evidence that they still do not inform parents of global allegations concerning Sai Baba, nor that highly respected individuals, once loved ...
Comparing Belfast to Baghdad
2007-08-16 16:55:00 From Belfast to Baghdad, what have we learned? Author Douglas Borer’s conclusion: it will be a long, tough fight. But with whom? Northern Ireland was a tough and thorny situation, but in terms of relative complexity, it was a game of checkers compared with the three-dimensional chess board that Iraq has become. Indeed, what began as ...
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India and Pakistan celebrate independence, still at stalemate
2007-08-15 13:56:00 This absurd and demeaning charade where India and Pakistani soldiers must strut like adversarial fighting cocks formalises the impossible stalemate situation sustained throughout by the governments and backed respectively by Muslim and Hindu religious leaders - despite the horrific massacres of Partition, two wars and a most terrible regular death toll in Kashmir. The conflict ...
Who owns Arctic?s wealth?
2007-08-14 18:48:00 Russia is laying claim to the area under the Arctic that is becoming more accessible as global warming thaws the ice above it. Potentially at stake: 460,000 square miles of Arctic seabed that could hold as much as 25% of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas, valuable commodities like gold and diamonds, fishing stocks and ...
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Barbarians And Civilization In International Relations
2007-08-14 03:46:00 # Publisher: Pluto Press (September 20, 2002)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0745319017# ISBN-13: 978-0745319018URL:Quotationhttp-://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Ci-vilization-International-Relati-ons-Salter/dp/0745319017Only registered users can download this file. Please Register or LoginPassword: T0sT@rN@ |
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