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Michelle Ito

Condoleezza Rice Brings Foreign Policy Heat At GOP Convention - 2 views

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Condoleezza Rice GOP Republican National Convention foreign policy

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  • Michelle Ito on 30 Aug 12
     
    The Republican National Convention took an uncharacteristic turn toward foreign policy on Wednesday night, as two prominent speakers lashed out at President Barack Obama's leadership in world affairs. "Unfortunately, for four years, we've drifted away from our proudest traditions of global leadership, traditions that are truly bipartisan," said Sen.
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  • Michelle Ito on 30 Aug 12
     
    I wanted to post something about Condoleezza Rice's speech that she gave at the Republican National Convention tonight because after hearing many speakers talk about the problems in The US's economy, Condoleezza Rice delivered a speech whose main focus was on foreign policy. The Huffington Post might not be the best article, I searched the New York Times and The BBC, but they had not yet posted an article stating their reaction to Condoleezza Rice's speech when I had searched. During Obama's term, many events have happened that I believe have shaped the way other nations view The United States. And I think going into the 2012 election I think American's should ask the question that she asked us: "Where does America stand?"
  • Kay Bradley on 03 Sep 12
     
    Very interesting. I like this quote from the article: "Rice oversaw U.S. foreign policy during a time when many citizens have come to feel the United States overextended itself abroad, entering into two wars that continued well into the Obama administration (and one, Afghanistan, that continues to this day). Perhaps in a nod to that legacy, Rice acknowledged that "there is a weariness -- I know that it feels as if we have carried these burdens long enough." But, she continued, "One of two things will happen if we don't lead: No one will lead and there will be chaos, or someone will fill the vacuum who does not share our values. My fellow Americans, we do not have a choice: We cannot be reluctant to lead, and you cannot lead from behind." For us to discuss: what IS the United States' foreign policy role today? How might it be changing?
  • Kay Bradley on 03 Sep 12
     
    "Earlier in the day, Rice had offered some specific criticisms of Obama's handling of the uprising in Syria, accusing the president of waffling and "muting" America's voice."
julianp22

Biden administration makes second attempt to end "Remain in Mexico" border program - CB... - 0 views

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Mexico immigration Biden administration

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  • The Biden administration on Friday announced its second attempt to end a Trump-era border program that forced migrants to wait in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearings, issuing a new termination memo it hopes will pass legal muster.
  • "I recognize that MPP likely contributed to reduced migratory flows. But it did so by imposing substantial and unjustifiable human costs on the individuals who were exposed to harm while waiting in Mexico,"
  • Lawyers representing the government, as well as Texas and Missouri, which filed the lawsuit against the termination of the Remain in Mexico policy, are set to convene on Tuesday to hold oral arguments before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing the administration's appeal of the August ruling. 
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  • The Trump administration used the MPP to return 70,000 migrants to Mexico,
  • The modifications include expanding migrants' access to lawyers; striving to complete court cases within 180 days; and creating a policy exception for at-risk asylum-seekers, including migrants who identify as members of the LGBTQI community and those whose age or medical conditions make them too vulnerable to be returned to Mexico, DHS officials said.
  • Kacsmaryk also determined the reversal of the Trump-era border policy led the Biden administration to violate a section of U.S. immigration law that mandates the detention of certain asylum-seekers, since there's currently not enough detention capacity to detain all of them.
Kay Bradley

In Sweden, Immigration Policies Begin to Rankle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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immigration sweden policies

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  • who say that immigrants are not only failing to pay their way, but that they also are refusing to learn the ways of their host country.
  • “They do not respect Swedish people,” Mrs. Nilsson said. “As long as they learn the language and behave like Swedes, they are welcome. But they do not. Immigration as it is now needs to stop.”
  • They scoff at the notion that Swedes are somehow special — less racist and xenophobic than other Europeans. They believe the country has been generous with financial support, but little else.
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  • Sweden’s liberal policies have become costly. In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, Sweden, which had more manufacturing jobs than citizens to fill them, invited immigrants in
  • In some of those apartment blocks, the unemployment rate among immigrants stands at 80 percent.
Kay Bradley

apcomparative - Mexico includes examples of corporatism - 1 views

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  • PRI's close connection (corporatism) with Confederation of Workers)
  • For years under the PRI the Mexican government had corporatism and sponsored the only interest groups including the present interest group and the worker interest group.
  • Civil society in Mexico has grown considerably. At first, the PRI used corporatism to cut off any opposition. By forming specific interest groups and basically requiring one to be a part of the PRI party in order to speak out, the PRI party was more successful in gaining membership and support.
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  • Corporatism - A system of representing citizen's interests in the government that contrasts sharply with pluralism. A system of interest representation in which the government allows certain groups privileged access to the policy-making decisions in exchange for loyalty.
  • Confederacion Nacional de Campesinois/National Peasant Confederation (CNC) - One of the main corporatist groups that made up the PRI.
  • (CTM) Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos - One of the main corporatist groups that made up the PRI.
  • The PRI party is an inclusive party that is in the center of the Mexico political line. It has no clear ideology and there are many different ideological positions because of the many factions within the PRI. It was the backbone of the Mexican corporatist system. Also, the PRI provided opportunities for the peasants and workers to enter the political system.
  • In the 1980s, the PRI changed course and adopted neo-liberal economic policies.
  • The Mexican bureaucracy is also heavily entrenched in corporatism in which few interest groups (commonly funded by the federal government to continue to exist) cooperate with policy makers.
  • Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which was in power from 1927-2000. The PRI is an inclusive party that is in the middle of Mexico's political spectrum. The PRI used corporatism to help perpetuate its rule by providing patronage to groups who were loyal and repressing groups who were not loyal
  • The PRI party did not lose a single presidential election, until Vicente Fox, and only lost a few congressional and gubernatorial races. Some of the elections were honest but overall their intricate system of patron-client relations helped the PRI party decide who would run for office and then mobilize a loyal electorate in order for that person to win.
Kay Bradley

Africa's Scramble for Europe - The New York Times - 0 views

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population Africa Europe

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  • But mostly Calais highlights two major differences between the immigration issue in America and Europe, two ways in which migration — from Africa, above all — is poised to divide and reshape the European continent in ways that go far beyond anything the United States is likely to experience.
  • it poses a major dilemma for the European Union, which allows free movement across its internal borders, but which is composed of nation-states that still want sovereignty over their respective immigration policies.
  • America has a mild version of this tension: Witness the recent debate over “sanctuary cities,” or state-federal conflicts over immigration enforcement.
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  • Witness the recent debate over “sanctuary cities,” or state-federal conflicts over immigration enforcement.
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      Kay Bradley on 17 Oct 16
       
      Discuss sanctuary cities in US, murder of San Francisco woman by illegal immigrant this summer, etc.
  • the desire for real national control over immigration policy may be as dangerous to the E.U. project in the long run as the already-evident folly of expanding the common currency to Greece.
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      Kay Bradley on 17 Oct 16
       
      Two issues to discuss here: EU nations' desire for a an independent immigration policy; expanding common currency to a nation like Greece
  • “Brexit” from the European Union.
  • It’s behind the rise of the National Front in France, and Euroskeptical parties the continent over.
  • Europe’s already-significant north-south divisions
  • the scale of the migration that may be coming to Europe over the next fifty years.
  • 300 million people in the United States and just under 600 million in all the countries to our south
  • In 2050, according to the latest U.N. projections, Europe’s population will have dipped to (an aging) 707 million, while Africa’s population will be 2.4 billion
  • By 2100
  • 4.4 billion Africans
  • Europe’s population will be just 646 million.
  • northward migration – a kind of African “scramble for Europe”
  • Desperation might drive it, but so might rising expectations, the connections forged by growth and globalization.
  • Kay Bradley on 17 Oct 16
     
    population Africa Europe
Matthew Schweitzer

The AfPak Channel | FOREIGN POLICY - 1 views

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Afghanistan Pakistan AfPak Comparative Politics

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  • Matthew Schweitzer on 24 Sep 10
     
    A great resource from one of the most respected foreign policy journals in the United States about the current situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and how they may affect the world, not just the United States. It is updated very often, and could act almost as a periodical of sorts, like TIME or Newsweek, but more focused.
Kay Bradley

YouTube - Yes Minister: Sir Humphrey explains Foreign Policy - 1 views

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Industrialized Democracies

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  • Kay Bradley on 22 Sep 10
     
    "Britain has had the same foreign policy for more than 500 years--to create a disunited Europe."
Kay Bradley

Charlemagne: Economic sanctions? Yes, please | The Economist - 0 views

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europe EU

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  • Kay Bradley on 07 Oct 10
     
    Brussels wants to delve deep into the running of national economies. It should beware of digging too far
  • Rick Rodgers on 18 Oct 10
     
    Why do people automatically assume that the nations with the most geographic proximity to one's own country are the best ones to form an international organization with? The EU appears to be suffering from a crisis of difference...In economic policy, political/cultural policy etc... Maybe it would have made more sense if like-minded countries teamed up rather than putting everyone close to each other together despite economy and political policy differences. Seems like that would make for a much more cohesive and eventually successful union.
audreybandel

It's Climate Week Again, but the Calendar Is Running Out | The New Yorker - 0 views

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Climate

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  • audreybandel on 21 Sep 21
     
    This article was a great way to touch base with current U.S climate policy. I personally find some of the legislative choices detailed in the article incredibly frustrating. Because climate change is a global issue, it could be interesting to compare U.S climate policy to climate policy in other countries, especially when taking into account the ecological/carbon footprint of said countries.
Stuart Suplick

Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Obamacare uncovered race irony

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      Stuart Suplick on 08 Oct 13
       
      For some states, it appears the expansion of Medicaid would be more burdensome than beneficial, perhaps through increases in taxes
  • Poor people excluded from the Medicaid expansion will not be subject to fines for lacking coverage.
  • Mississippi has the largest percentage of poor and uninsured people in the country — 13 percent. Willie Charles Carter, an unemployed 53-year-old whose most recent job was as a maintenance worker at a public school, has had problems with his leg since surgery last year. His income is below Mississippi’s ceiling for Medicaid — which is about $3,000 a year — but he has no dependent children, so he does not qualify. And his income is too low to make him eligible for subsidies on the federal health exchange. “You got to be almost dead before you can get Medicaid in Mississippi,” he said.
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      Stuart Suplick on 08 Oct 13
       
      An example of how healthcare eligibility can be hard to come by in some states--for instance, Mr. Carter cannot qualify for Mississippi's Medicaid because he has no dependents, yet his income isn't high enough to qualify him for subsidies.
  • Dr. Aaron Shirley, a physician who has worked for better health care for blacks in Mississippi, said that the history of segregation and violence against blacks still informs the way people see one another, particularly in the South, making some whites reluctant to support programs that they believe benefit blacks. That is compounded by the country’s rapidly changing demographics, Dr. Geiger said, in which minorities will eventually become a majority, a pattern that has produced a profound cultural unease, particularly when it has collided with economic insecurity. Dr. Shirley said: “If you look at the history of Mississippi, politicians have used race to oppose minimum wage, Head Start, all these social programs. It’s a tactic that appeals to people who would rather suffer themselves than see a black person benefit.” Opponents of the expansion bristled at the suggestion that race had anything to do with their position. State Senator Giles Ward of Mississippi, a Republican, called the idea that race was a factor “preposterous,” and said that with the demographics of the South — large shares of poor people and, in particular, poor blacks — “you can argue pretty much any way you want.”
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      Stuart Suplick on 08 Oct 13
       
      How does one determine the role race plays, consciously or subconsciously, in policy making?
  • Stuart Suplick on 08 Oct 13
     
    https://diigo.com/016s4p I found it particularly shocking how over half the states have rejected the ACA, and so jeopardize the health of "68 percent of poor, uninsured blacks and single mothers. About 60 percent of the country's uninsured working poor are in those states". Many of the states are in the South, and while the states' congressmen insist their opposition is solely economic, and not racial, it raises some serious questions. Also in question is whether cases like Mr. Carter's are anomalies, or whether they will snowball into significant rallying-cries for these 26 states to accept Medicare expansion, or introduce policy to solve eligibility issues.
Lexi Gentry

Doughty but not superhuman - 3 views

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  • Lexi Gentry on 29 Sep 15
     
    - China's consumption boom is not enough to succour the world economy. - Today, rising from the once-modest streets is a gaudy building intended for a new kind of model citizen: consumers.
  • topiarey on 29 Sep 15
     
    Definitely has a lot of interesting insights, particularly the relationship between tourism and consumption in China
  • anishakaul on 29 Sep 15
     
    It is interesting to note the effects of China's one child policy and how it affects the workforce and overall economy. In fact, it seems only logical that China's economy continues to struggle through the generations of only children. In my opinion, that was a obvious and significant flaw of the one child policy and I wonder how the government has prepared to address it in coming years as the work force continues to shrink.
alisimons

German border policy worries Greek officials | Kathimerini - 0 views

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  • alisimons on 17 Sep 15
     
    A decision by the German government to tighten inspections along its border with Austria has fueled serious concerns in Athens as thousands of refugees and migrants continue to arrive on Greece's islands from neighboring Turkey. Greek government officials warn that the move could lead to the collapse of the country's already problematic system of response to the migration crisis.
Kako Ito

Public insurance and the least well-off | Lane Kenworthy - 6 views

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public insurance economics welfare poor nordic model universalism targeting redistribution income inequality

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  • Public insurance also boosts the living standards of the poor. It increases their income, and it provides them with services for which they bear relatively little of the cost.
  • Critics charge that public social programs tend to hurt the poor in the long run by reducing employment and economic growth. Are they correct?
  • Does public insurance erode self-reliance? Is a large private safety net as helpful to the least well-off as a large public one? Are universal programs more effective than targeted ones? Are income transfers the key, or are services important too?
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  • Once again we see no indication that public insurance generosity has had a damaging effect
  • Note also that the employment rate increased in nearly all of the countries during this period. On average, it rose by nine percentage points between 1979 and 2013. That’s not what we would expect to see if generous public insurance programs were inducing large numbers of able adults to withdraw from the labor market
  • What we see in the chart is that countries with more generous public insurance programs tend to have less material deprivation.
  • With globalization, the advance of computers and robots, increased pressure from shareholders for short-run profit maximization, union weakening, and other shifts, wages have been under pressure. Couple this with the fact that many people at the low end of the income ladder have labor market disadvantages — disability, family constraint, geographic vulnerability to structural unemployment — and we have a recipe for stagnation in the market incomes of the poor.
  • here’s a good reason for these shifts: government provision offers economies of scale and scope, which reduces the cost of a good or service and thereby makes it available to many people who couldn’t or wouldn’t get it on their own.
  • Government provides more insurance now than it used to. All of us, not just some, are dependent on it. And life for almost everyone is better because of it
  • hese expenditures are encouraged by government tax advantages.22 But they do little to help people on the bottom of the ladder, who often work for employers that don’t provide retirement or health benefits.
  • To make them more affordable, the government claws back some of the benefit by taxing it as though it were regular income. All countries do this, including the United States, but the Nordic countries do it more extensively. Does that hurt their poor? Not much. The tax rates increase with household income, so much of the tax clawback hits middle- and upper-income households.
  • Another difference is that public services such as schooling, childcare, medical care, housing, and transportation are more plentiful and of better quality for the poor in the Nordic countries. Public services reduce deprivation and free up income to be spent on other needs. It’s difficult to measure the impact of services on living standards, but one indirect way is to look at indicators of material deprivation,
  • Targeted transfers are directed (sometimes disproportionately, sometimes exclusively) to those with low incomes and assets, whereas universal transfers are provided to most or all citizens.
  • Targeted programs are more efficient at reducing poverty; each dollar or euro or kroner transferred is more likely to go to the least well-off. Increased targeting therefore could be an effective way to maintain or enhance public insurance in the face of diminished resources.
  • “the more we target benefits to the poor … the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality.”
  • Korpi and Palme found that the pattern across eleven affluent nations supported the hypothesis that greater use of targeting in transfers yields less redistribution
  • The hypothesis that targeting in social policy reduces political support and thereby lessens redistributive effort is a sensible one. Yet the experience of the rich countries in recent decades suggests reason to question it. Targeting has drawbacks relative to universalism: more stigma for recipients, lower take-up rates, and possibly less social trust.44 But targeting is less expensive. As pressures to contain government expenditures mount, policy makers may therefore turn to greater use of targeting. That may not be a bad thing.
  • Public insurance programs boost the incomes of the least well-off and improve their material well-being. If such programs are too generous, this benefit could be offset by reduced employment or economic growth, but the comparative evidence suggests that the world’s rich nations haven’t reached or exceeded the tipping point.
  • Spending lots of money on social protection is not in and of itself helpful to the poor. Total social expenditures in the United States are greater than in Denmark and Sweden, because the US has a large private welfare state. But relatively little of America’s private social spending reaches the poor.
  • Public services are an important antipoverty tool. Their benefit doesn’t show up in income data, but they appear to play a key role in reducing material hardship. Services expand the sphere of consumption for which the cost is zero or minimal. And they help to boost the earnings and capabilities of the poor by enhancing human capital, assisting with job search and placement, and facilitating work-family balance.
  • Kako Ito on 27 Sep 15
     
    Through this article I have gained a deeper insight in how public expenditures and public goods promote wealth equality in a society. "Public services are an important antipoverty tool."
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  • olivialum on 29 Sep 15
     
    This article really helped me deepen my understanding of redistributing wealth downwards. I never thought about it, but things like social security, affirmative action programs, and public education are actually insurances that attempt to provide everybody with more equality when it comes to living standards as well as basic human rights.
  • samoshay on 29 Sep 15
     
    Yeah, it is a very common argument to say that social expenditures disincentives workers; interesting analysis on how wealthy countries haven't reached the "tipping point." I am curious to see what happens to labor force participation and employment in the next decades as robots further divorce economic growth from labor supply/demand.
  • charlesleesohn on 29 Sep 15
     
    Cool theory in regards to "the tipping point". Interesting, and solid criticism of large social expenditures. Wonder how socialists view this, as opposed to free-market economists.
  • smowat on 29 Sep 15
     
    "Public services are an important antipoverty tool. Their benefit doesn't show up in income data, but they appear to play a key role in reducing material hardship." INteresting to see the statistics and how social expenditures help reduce poverty and the wealth gap.
Harrison Lee

China One-Child Policy - 1 views

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China

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  • Harrison Lee on 21 Oct 10
     
    A horrifying recount of the government forcing a couple into abortion for their 8-month old baby. This sheds light on China's One-Child Policy, and even though China's economy is highly westernized, its social government is certainly not.
  • Samantha Bishop on 22 Oct 10
     
    I do not understand how China can be advancing in the world so quickly, and yet still be "kicking and punching" women in the stomach and forcing them to have abortions. As Harrison mentioned, the economy and social government in China are so separated, I wonder how long it will take for their social government to become westernized.
Harrison Lee

Russia Seeks Improved Relations with the E.U. - 1 views

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Russia EU

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  • Harrison Lee on 18 Oct 10
     
    Russia has recently shifted from policies designed to preserve self-sovereignty ideologically to more practical policies geared toward economic growth and security. Russia is now seeking to improve relations with the E.U. for these reasons, but Germany has requested concessions in return, mainly help in helping Transnistria, a region governed by a pro-Russian movement. It would be interesting to see how far Russia is willing to go in order to solidify relations.
  • Amara Plaza-Jennings on 19 Oct 10
     
    It will also be interesting to see what comes from the talks both today and tomorrow between Russia, France, and Germany, and how France and Germany feel about Russia's involvement or if they feel that there are certain things that Russia must acheive to gain involvment on the level it wants.
Kay Bradley

Samuel P. Huntington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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Huntington clash of civilizations terrorism

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  • graduated with distinction from Yale University at age 18
  • he was denied tenure in 1959
  • he began teaching at age 23
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  • completed his Ph.D.
  • associate professor of government at Columbia University
  • Deputy Director of The Institute for War and Peace Studies
  • invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963
  • co-founded and co-edited Foreign Policy
  • became prominent with his Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), a work that challenged the conventional view of modernization theorists, that economic and social progress would produce stable democracies in recently decolonized countries
  • In 1993, Huntington provoked great debate among international relations theorists with the interrogatively-titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", an extremely influential, oft-cited article published in Foreign Affairs magazine. Its description of post-Cold War geopolitics contrasted with the influential End of History thesis advocated by Francis Fukuyama.
  • Critics (for example articles in Le Monde Diplomatique) call The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order the theoretical legitimization of American-led Western aggression against China and the world's Islamic and Orthodox cultures.
  • Huntington's last book, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, was published in May 2004. Its subject is the meaning of American national identity and the possible cultural threat posed to it by large-scale Latino immigration, which Huntington warns could "divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages".
  • In 1986, Huntington was nominated for membership to the National Academy of Sciences, with his nomination voted on by the entire academy, with most votes, by scientists mainly unfamiliar with the nominee, being token votes. Professor Serge Lang, a Yale University mathematician, disturbed this electoral status quo by challenging Huntington's nomination. Lang campaigned for others to deny Huntington membership, and eventually succeeded; Huntington was twice nominated and twice rejected
Kay Bradley

Francis Fukuyama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • He is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government.
  • also associated with the rise of the neoconservative movement,[2] from which he has since distanced himself.
  • Bachelor of Arts degree in classics from Cornell University, where he studied political philosophy under Allan Bloom.[5][8] He initially pursued graduate studies in comparative literature at Yale University, going to Paris for six months to study under Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, but became disillusioned and switched to political science at Harvard University.[5
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  • He is now Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and resident in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.[
  • Fukuyama is best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Fukuyama predicted the eventual global triumph of political and economic liberalism:[citation needed]
  • As a key Reagan Administration contributor to the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine, Fukuyama is an important figure in the rise of neoconservatism, although his works came out years after Irving Kristol's 1972 book
  • In a New York Times article of February 2006, Fukuyama, in considering the ongoing Iraq War, stated: "What American foreign policy needs is not a return to a narrow and cynical realism, but rather the formulation of a 'realistic Wilsonianism' that better matches means to ends."[14] In regard to neoconservatism he went on to say: "What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world — ideas that retain the neoconservative belief in the universality of human rights, but without its illusions about the efficacy of American power and hegemony to bring these ends about
  • Fukuyama began to distance himself from the neoconservative agenda of the Bush administration, citing its overly militaristic basis and embrace of unilateral armed intervention, particularly in the Middle East. By late 2003, Fukuyama had voiced his growing opposition to the Iraq War[15] and called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation as Secretary of Defense.[16]
  • Kay Bradley on 11 Sep 11
     
    Disagrees with Samuel P. Huntington's thesis
alevi123

'Occupy Wall Street' Protests Offer Obama Opportunity and Threats - 5 views

The reason why they are attacking Obama is because people always need to place their blame on someone. And though Obama says he is the "defender of the middle class", actions speak louder than word...

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dredd15

French Cabinet is Dissolved, a victim of austerity battles - 0 views

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  • dredd15 on 14 Nov 14
     
    Political instability is evident in France as the cabinet fell apart over questions regarding the financial crisis of France and the overall economic downslide of the euro over the last 5 years. The Prime Minister Manuel Vall called for the dissolvement of the cabinet after President Hallonde made changes to economic regulations based on the urges of the European Union, German leaders to be specific. The big question regarding the European economy is whether government budget cuts and deficit financing is more important or finding a way to get cash flowing and creating jobs for citizens is more important. Many of the nations of the eurozone initially bought into the policies of austerity policies that Angel Merkel, the German chancellor, advocated, but now they're pulling back their restrictions and some economic growth is occurring. France and Germany, the largest economies in Europe are at odds and France's shift towards the right-wing National Front. France, as a part of the European Union, has pressure to do follow orders and maintain relationships with other European powers rather than do what's exactly right for their citizens. Political instability of France, unemployment, budget cuts, and debt-financing.
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