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Hi. Here are some links to help you get your week started…
- Richard Shapcott reviews Daniel J. Levine’s Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique. The book is compared to P.T. Jackson’s The Conduct of Inquiry. Shapcott says that “Levine’s goal is to place the idea of a moral/ethical vocation at the heart of the discipline and to argue that the vocation requires international relations thinkers to approach their own theorizing with a different attitude or posture—one of humility and “sustainable critique.””
- The MLA is moving closer to adopting a resolution to pressure the State Department to challenge Israel’s entry policies for American citizens seeking to visit the West Bank and work in Palestinian universities.
- Professor David Faris discusses “Dissent and Revolution” in Egypt at POMEPS [Video].
- Syria is becoming a major producer of Captagon, an amphetamine that is popular in the Gulf. Sales from the drug are allegedly being used to purchase weapons for the civil war; the drug is also popular with combatants.
- Speaking of combatants, Peter Jan Honigsberg discusses the real origins of the term “enemy combatant.”
- Democracy is dying in Bangladesh; but appears to be reinvigorated in India.
- That’s all I got. Get back to work…
Vikash is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. His main areas of academic interest are (post-) globalization, economic development, and economic freedom, with a regional focus on South Asia
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