ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE are published by the International Finance Section of the Department of Economics of Princeton University. The Section sponsors this series of publications‚ but the opinions expressed are those of the authors. The Section welcomes the submission of manuscripts for publication in this and its other series. Please see the Notice to Contributors at the back of this Essay. The author of this Essay‚ Harold James‚ is Professor of
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Webster University A Sectarian War: US Policy Toward Syria from a Realist Perspective Randy Erspamer INTL 6000 Final Paper Dr. Reichardt 20 July 2013 Introduction There is little doubt that the ongoing conflict in Syria presents the United States with foreign policy challenges. There is also little doubt that the civil war can be labeled as a humanitarian catastrophe. The numbers don’t lie‚ “nearly a quarter of Syria ’s population
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Resurrecting Media Imperialism1 Colin Sparks 2 Hong Kong Baptist University sparksc@hkbu.edu.hk Abstract This paper makes the case for the re-instatement of a theory of cultural and media imperialism in discussions of international communication. The paper briefly restates the “classical” theory of cultural imperialism as outlined by Schiller and other authors. It reviews and accepts some of the main criticisms that led to the rejection of that approach during the 1980s. Contemporary theories of
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Journal of Military Ethics‚ Vol. 9‚ No. 3‚ 245Á261‚ 2010 War and the Virtues in Aquinas’s Ethical Thought RYAN R. GORMAN University of Dallas‚ Texas‚ USA ABSTRACT This article argues that Thomas Aquinas’s virtue ethics approach to just war theory provides a solid ethical foundation for thinking about the problem of war. After briefly indicating some shortcomings of contemporary views of international justice‚ including pacifism‚ legalism‚ progressivism‚ realism‚ pragmatism‚ and consequentialism
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Gender in International Relations Gender in International Relations Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security J. Ann Tickner New York Columbia University Press 1992 Bibliographic Data To Joan‚ Heather‚ and Wendy --feminists for the future Preface 1. Engendered Insecurities 2. Man‚ the State‚ and War: Gendered Perspectives on National Security 3. Three Models of Man: Gendered Perspectives on Global Economic Security 4. Man over Nature: Gendered Perspectives on Ecological Security
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter will show the different content such as project context‚ project description and purposes‚ project objectives‚ project scope and limitation‚ project definition of terms that are directly related to the project. It will discuss in detail the aim of this study and the goals behind it. Project Context As time passes the type of information that user need to often changes in order to make information more convenient and easy to produce thus mobile devices are invented
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KEY EVENTS PRIOR TO 1066 In 1016‚ Cnut of Denmark invaded England. He eradicated all opposition in a pogrom in Winter 1017‚ and ruled thereafter with a combination of Danes and newly promoted English Earls who profited from the Danish Conquest. Edward (the Confessor) fled to his father-in-law in Normandy. He finally regained the throne in 1042. William ’s later chroniclers claim (after the fact) that Edward the Confessor offered William the crown and sent Harold to pledge it to him in the Winter
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79 The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective Jerzy Zdanowski* PL ISSN 02398818 HEMISPHERES Vol. 29‚ No. 1‚ 2014 The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective Abstract At the turn of 2011‚ turbulent events occurred in the Middle East. Initially‚ these protests were a form of civil disobedience‚ but the situation later developed in several directions. In Tunisia and Egypt‚ the authorities finally gave in to the growing protests. In Jordan‚ Algeria‚ Morocco‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ the United Arab
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Balance of Power Theory As a theory‚ balance of power predicts that rapid changes in international power and status—especially attempts by one state to conquer a region—will provoke counterbalancing actions. For this reason‚ the balancing process helps to maintain the stability of relations between states. A balance of power system functions most effectively when alliances are fluid‚ when they are easily formed or broken on the basis of expediency‚ regardless of values‚ religion‚ history‚ or form
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Good Governance in International Organisations By Ngaire Woods Final version published in Global Governance Volume 5‚ Number 1 (Jan-March 1999) (BACK to LIST) ABSTRACT Since the early 1990s many international institutions have been urging governments to conform to standards of `good governance ’. Yet the same institutions have been rather slow in applying equivalent standards to their own structures and decision-making processes. In this paper I examine what this would mean. I argue that principles
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