The World Factbook. Location: This entry identifies the country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water. Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes several major islands (Sjaelland, Fyn, and Bornholm) Geographic coordinates: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the centroid or center point of a country expressed in degrees and minutes; it is based on the locations provided in the Geographic Names Server (GNS), maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on behalf of the US Board on Geographic Names. Map references: This entry includes the name of the Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. Note that boundary representations on these maps are not necessarily authoritative. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
Area: This entry includes three subfields. Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries. The idea of international development aid lies at the heart of a tremendously successful PR campaign. The narrative we have been sold claims that aid has been effective at reducing global poverty. Here I will argue that there are three problems with this narrative. First, poverty is not disappearing, despite what we have been told to believe. Second, aid disbursements from rich countries to poor countries are dwarfed by wealth flows that run in the other direction, to the point where poor countries are effectively developing rich countries.
Third, and perhaps most critically, aid is not actually designed to reduce poverty, but operates as a tool that the elites of rich countries leverage to extract wealth, resources, and political compliance. By eliding these problems, the aid paradigm prevents development practitioners – and the public – from understanding the real causes of poverty, and therefore precludes meaningful solutions. False accounting Who is developing whom? The future of aid. Theory Talks: Theory Talk #37: Robert Cox. Robert Cox on World Orders, Historical Change, and the Purpose of Theory in International Relations Realism in International Relations (IR) has never been challenged as eloquently as by Robert W. Cox in his seminal article Social Forces, States, and World Orders. Ever since, his work has inspired critical students of IR and International Political Economy (IPE) to think beyond the boundaries of conventional theorizing and to investigate the premises that underpin and link international politics and academic reflection on it.
Recognized by many as one of the world’s most important thinkers in both IR and IPE, Cox assembles impressive and complex thinking stemming from history, philosophy, and geopolitics, to illuminate how politics can never be separated from economics, how theory is always linked to practice, and how material relations and ideas are inextricably intertwined to co-produce world orders. Print version of this Talk (pdf) As a critical theorist, I see two future scenarios. Økonom: Markedsøkonomi, demokrati og globalisering er opreklameret!
Demokrati og markedsøkonomi er nødvendige forudsætninger for et veludviklet samfund. Og jo mere vi handler med hinanden verden over, des rigere bliver vi. Det er banale sandheder, der ligger til grund for det meste af politik, både nationalt og internationalt. Der er bare den hage ved det, at det er forkert, hævder den zambiske økonom og forfatter Dambisa Moyo. Og det ved de politiske ledere verden over udmærket godt, tilføjer hun. Dambisa Moyo Dambisa Moyo (f. 1969 i Zambia) tog med sin forældre til USA, hvor hun blev uddannet i økonomi på Harvard. Hun skrev sin ph.d. og fik doktorgrad på Oxford i England. Hun er nu professionelt bestyrelsesmedlem og bestrider flere bestyrelsesposter i globale børsnoterede selskaber som finanskoncernen Barclays Bank, bryggerigiganten SABMiller og mineselskabet Barrick Gold.
Hun er desuden rådgiver for G20, hvor hun deltager i forberedelsen af gruppens møder og dagsorden. Hun skriver jævnligt bidrag til Financial Times og Wall Street Journal. Kina har succes. The International Political Economy and Ecology Summer School | The Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Since 1991, the Summer School sponsored by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, the Department of Geography and the Department of Political Science at York University investigates one salient issue within the field of international political economy and ecology (IPEE).
IPEE includes the notion of international and transnational economic relations and comparative structures of national political economy and ecology. Each session is a challenging exploration of current literature. A prime objective is to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and between ecology and democracy. Each year the IPEE Summer School invites an internationally renowned scholar in the field of political economy and ecology as guest speaker for the duration of the course. For a list of past IPEE Summer School guest speakers, click here. The 2013 International Political Economy and Ecology Summer SchoolRadical Food and Hunger Politics in the City Course Description (ENVS 6275, GEOG 5395, POLS 6282) China Flag On Moon. Shanghaist reports China has photographed its flag on the moon for the first time in history. China landed a rover on the moon last weekend, becoming the third country after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to do so.
No vehicle has touched the moon since 1976. China launched its first lunar orbiter in 2007. Here's the photo taken from its lander: And here's a photo of the lander taken from the rover: News.cn via Shanghaist. World Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct., 1948), pp. 127-134. Comparing and Contrasting Classical Realism and Neorealism. Comparing and Contrasting Classical Realism and Neorealism: A Re-examination of Hans Morgenthau’s and Kenneth Waltz’s Theories of International Relations Introduction Realists often trace their intellectual roots to Thucydides’ classic account of the Peloponnesian War in the fifth-century B.C.
It would however take nearly 2,500 years before the study of international politics became an institutionalized academic discipline and for the first classical realists in the newly established field to emerge. Amongst them the German-Jewish émigré to the United States, Hans Morgenthau, came to have the largest impact on the field. In his magnum opus from 1948, Politics Among Nations, Morgenthau formulated an account of political realism that dominated the studies of international politics for over two generations. Eventually, the intellectual hegemony of Morgenthau’s classical realism was succeeded by the founding father of neorealism, Kenneth Waltz. This essay proceeds in five sections.