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How do you respond to https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/european-law/eu-democratic-deficit.php
10 March 2019 1,410 6 View
Today, after successful elections in Venezuela, boycotted by the US backed opposition, we are told that: "The US vice-president Mike Pence, described the vote as a “sham” which was “neither free...
21 May 2018 3,351 6 View
When bridging the development gap in the Global South it is of great concern that this development is sustainable. Agreed Sustainable development is... "development which meets the need of the...
13 May 2018 2,534 2 View
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe we are told. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or...
13 May 2018 7,478 81 View
We see the small island of Britain off the west coast of Europe posturing as global policeman vis a vis Syria/Russia/Iran/ North Korea, not sure who else? But in their own backyard they have...
14 April 2018 581 21 View
" The FTC [US Federal Trade Commission] takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook,” said Tom Pahl, acting director of the FTC’s...
27 March 2018 7,863 16 View
US President Donald Trump, after shocking markets with the risk of a global trade war, has come under intense pressure from US business interests and foreign trading partners to moderate his...
03 March 2018 9,950 16 View
Is this always so? Is police/military intervention part of the problem or the solution to crime? See what is happening in Brasil...
27 February 2018 8,794 5 View
We are a long way from the classic European enlightenment idea of the university as place of disinterested place of learning and development of knowledge for humanity's benefit. But is the...
19 February 2018 3,069 9 View
As the endgame approaches it becomes clear that Britain's current political leaders cannot/will not sign up to any special deal for Northern Ireland as proposed by the EU negotiators (and Ireland...
12 February 2018 3,232 100 View
Joan Robinson, an English economist in the Keynes tradition once said this. I think she meant that being out of the economic loop is worse than being exploited. What did she mean? I do know of...
31 January 2018 3,123 6 View
More and more we hear that nationalism is the main problem of our era, from Trump's Make America Great Again to the post imperial dreams of the Brexiteers, from Catalonia to Ireland and so it goes...
29 January 2018 5,865 16 View
Yesterday the Brazilian courts upheld the corruption charges against Lula the front runner for the looming...
25 January 2018 4,164 10 View
Today we are told that Britain has agreed there will be 'continued regulatory alignment' between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland....
04 December 2017 9,281 1 View
We note that many writers use the terms ‘social economy, ‘social enterprise’, ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘social innovation’ interchangeably. This can be problematic and there is a very definite...
12 November 2017 9,295 4 View
As the crisis in Catalonia deepens I am wondering what can be done by international academics/concerned citizens? Any ideas? On the one hand we have seen the 'pro Catalan' statement by Noam...
19 October 2017 7,414 9 View
From a recent world-wide study, that I was part of, that was the conclusion, putting it perhaps too bluntly. It was fascinating to be part of this expert commission but now the question is: what...
01 January 1970 3,622 7 View
Kristalina Georgieva said new IMF research, which compares the current economy to the “roaring 1920s” that culminated in the great market crash of 1929, revealed that a similar trend was already...
01 January 1970 9,444 12 View
In light of today's arrest in Italy of a German sea captain who had rescued migrant refugees in the Mediterranean does the law of the sea need to be clarified? The 1979 International Convention...
01 January 1970 9,943 11 View
In the UK as the Brexit deadlines loom large we see the party political questions seemingly drowning out rational economic calculation. Boris Johnson want to replace Theresa May. So does Jeremy...
01 January 1970 9,449 19 View
NGOS AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ... In this article we pose the dilemmas of international NGOs in terms of whether their influence has been positive or negative in...
01 January 1970 9,152 25 View
The United States has requested the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after he was arrested at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The Metropolitan police said the arrest was made on...
01 January 1970 4,771 2 View
Bolsonaro in Brazil is only imperfectly understood as a 'tropical Trump' even that term is offensive https://twitter.com/i/status/1055566020201594882 But why less attention than Trump whose...
01 January 1970 2,941 14 View
The European take on this is uniformly negative See https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/mini-trump-across-the-channel-european-media-on-boris-johnson-as-british-pm And yet in...
01 January 1970 5,974 8 View
