SECURITIZATION OF NATIONAL INTERESTS In the decades following the end of the cold war‚ the field of security studies has seen new ways of thinking about international security. Dominant paradigms have been challenged by academics unsatisfied with existing concepts‚ looking to explain security in a transformed and globalized world. Primarily‚ they sought to move security studies beyond theories that recognized only military threats as challenges to State security. One leading approach to conceptualizing
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The 2008-2009 global financial crisis started from the American Housing. It rapidly spread to other economic sectors and shortly infected Europe and Japan‚ and also influenced other countries with respect to their dependence on America’s economy. How did the global financial crisis start? Banks and financial foundations invested in housing for gaining more profit. Housing Banks in lending to customers to greedy more profits did not observe criteria relating to customers financial ability and
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January 16‚ 2009 Global Oil Crisis – Word Count: 1‚823 Global Oil Crisis: The depleting oil supply and the need for alternatives Oil is the single most important energy source that drives our economy and makes civilized life as we know it today possible. It is so vital to our life that if the earth’s oil supply were to run out within the next 20 years‚ it would completely cripple the United States and its economy. We use oil and other fossil fuels for transportation (of goods‚
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Subprime Mortgage Crisis ECO561 January 19‚ 2015 Subprime Mortgage Crisis Subprime mortgages are generally granted to borrowers who cannot obtain conventional mortgages due to insufficient or delinquent credit histories. These borrowers may be forced to take interest-only loan‚ which have lower monthly payment but are very difficult to pay off in the end. Problems with mortgage financing are the generally accepted cause of the financial meltdown that occurred between 2007 and 2008 (Gorton‚ 2009)
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sees themselves. Class‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ religion‚ and gender are very much parts of our identity. Our gender‚ which is based on the socio-cultural expectations of males and females being associated with masculinity and femininity‚ affects how we behave and how we view things. Traditional gender roles mean that a female must be feminine‚ and a male must be masculine. Agents of socialisation‚ like the Media‚ Family‚ and Peer groups‚ can either reinforce traditional gender roles or create new gender
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Italy is facing strong imbalances on a macroeconomic point of view‚ and that requires special policy actions in order to restore an economic balance in this country‚ currently struggling in an economic crisis. The main problems are the huge public debt held and the lack of external competitiveness. Both those problem are originally caused by the extremely slow economic productivity growth of the country. Given the fact that the Italian economy has a relatively important role in the European economy
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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Economic Crisis in Nigeria. NIGERIA. (google)The evolution of Nigeria was from about 1849 until it attained independence in 1960. During this period a lot of events occurred‚ and is largely the story of the great impact of the British on the Nigerian people. The colonial authorities (British) sought to define‚ protect and realize their imperial interest in the portion of West Africa because of its endowment with natural resources‚ apparently this occurred about hundred years ago. The British was
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International Labour Office Policy Integration Department The Philippines in the global economic crisis: the social and local dimensions Lourdes Kathleen Santos[1] A Technical Note for the Policy Coherence Forum Overcoming the Jobs Crisis and Shaping an Inclusive Recovery: The Philippines in the aftermath of the global economic turmoil 11 – 12 March 2010 Philippines March 2010
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Syndicate 1– Lessons will repeat until we learn them – Stiglitz‚ AFR 2010 Stiglitz outlines five lessons to be learned from the GFC. Discuss each one with reference to whether you agree or not. Rank them in of your perceived importance and discuss how well the lessons have been learnt given the turmoil in financial markets. The thoughtfulness and originality of your answers will be assessed and challenged in class. In brief‚ the five lessons are deregulation‚ reasons of market failure‚ Keynesian
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