Access provided by The University Of Texas at Austin‚ General Libraries (5 Apr 2013 15:10 GMT) Beauty Queens Behaving Badly Gender‚ Global Competition‚ and the Making of Post-Refugee Neoliberal Vietnamese Subjects Nhi T. Lieu Beauty pageants have received plenty of scholarly attention in the past two and a half decades‚ demonstrating through critical analyses and well-researched studies that these spectacular contests perform a number of cultural‚ social‚ and symbolic functions for any given
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Do institutions really matter? What are their consequences? Can they restrain states or get them to do something they otherwise would not do? The terms International Institutions and International Organizations are said to be interchangeable in the legal and formal sense in the study of International Relations. However‚ defining institutions in international relations is seen as quite fuzzy as it can include both International Organizations such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization
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Part A: Plan of Investigation This investigation evaluates the reasons for the coup attempts that took place against the government of President Carlos Andrés Perez‚ the first one in 4 February 1992 and the later one in 27 November 1992. In order to reveal these factors that caused and resulted from the dismissal of the President‚ this investigation mainly focuses on the economic background Venezuela was facing‚ the political decisions made by Perez and the ideology the people had against
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Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives Learning Objectives • To differentiate between gender and sex. • To explain the processes societies use to construct gender. • To learn about gender as a social institution that privileges men over women. • To become familiar with how social institutions‚ like medicine‚ contribute to the construction of gender. • To become familiar with intersexual and transgender experiences. • To understand how various structures and unjust
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Wild Capitalism in Post Communist Transformation: the Case of Serbia Martin Upchurch (Middlesex University‚ London‚ UK)‚ Darko Marinković (Megatrend University‚ Belgrade‚ Serbia) Introduction The process of transformation in post Communist states has sometimes been characterised by dysfunctional corporate governance and the deleterious consequences of liberalisation on
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constructivism approaches patterns and phenomena of world politics. The lecture is framed by comparing constructivism with the generally statist treatment that topics receive in mainstream international relations as exemplified by neorealism and neoliberalism. This article is designed to provide accessible supporting material for teaching social constructivism to introductory international relations classes. Keywords: social constructivism‚ pedagogy Social constructivism is now the main theoretical
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GBE ASSIGNMENT PRO-GLOBALISTS VERSUS ANTI-GLOBALISTS Government across the world acknowledged the fact that they need to have a capitalistic perspective if they want there country to prosper. As a result‚ countries (especially in Asia and Africa) started to allow foreign companies to venture into there motherland. But still countries were cautious in there approach. The proof of this can be seen from the fact that most of the governments had some kind of regulation that forced the companies
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Compare the Political Regime Type in China And the United States. Which of Two Would You Prefer to Do Business in and Why? SUN XIN POLI3001 Organizations‚ Politics & Society Tutorial time: Monday in each week‚ 5pm Tutor: Keith Ng Due date: 18th February 2011 Essay format Essay Introduction Everything has its two sides‚ so as the political regimes‚ they are protecting the country’s interests‚ however‚ at the same time resisting and limiting the development of the economy of the
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California in 1940‚ McDonald’s has certainly come a long way to become a powerful international name. McDonald’s began its international expansion in 1967‚ first in Canada and then Puerto Rico (McDonalds’s 2013). The 1960’s sparked a new wave of neoliberalism‚ focusing on free markets and economic growth‚ which is why McDonald’s decided to spread its wings into new countries. During the first twenty years of its
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Recently‚ the deaths of Tamir Rice‚ Eric Gardener‚ and Mike Brown‚ all at the hands of police officers‚ have sparked national protests and conversations around state sanctioned violence and police brutality‚ particularly in Black communities. An underlying component in these discussions and protests has been that of mourning‚ with discussions and protests often acting as physical spaces of cultural Black trauma and collective memory. Cultural Black trauma relies on the historical violence that has
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