What are the critical differences between first and second generation rights, and do those differences make second generations rights less important or enforceable? There is a striking difference between the contextual generations of human rights in the primary form of freedoms from versus freedoms to that apply to global citizens. First generation rights are aContinue reading “The Generations of Human Rights Evolution and Their Critical Differences”
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One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The 2007 Global Crisis and Our Future
Have the worst wounds of the crisis been avoided? We might have cauterized the injury with an infection still inside. To name a few: advanced economies, the European Union (EU) and emerging nations face dire economic imbalances; archaic geopolitical style maneuvering is occurring at rising rates in Eastern Europe while Africa and the Arab regionContinue reading “One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The 2007 Global Crisis and Our Future”
To Build a Review of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
To Build a Review of Dead Aid Dambisa Moyo confounded developmental economists and academia in 2009 with her pointed critique of the assistance regime surrounding development in sub-Saharan Africa when she published Dead Aid. Since that time, the ideas professed by Moyo have been considered rather profound yet divisive. Niall Ferguson sums up the initialContinue reading “To Build a Review of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo”
International Political Harmony: A Chinese Creation
International Political Harmony: A Chinese Creation This essay attempts to argue that China’s international political economy (IPE) reflects a new understanding of international relations theory (IRT) that can be partly defined by Western ideologies but constitutes an independent approach. China’s approach to global trade in the 21st century does possess numerous threads of thinking thatContinue reading “International Political Harmony: A Chinese Creation”