Steven Elliott-Gower
I'm an associate professor of political science at Georgia College where I also run the Honors Program. I have taught global issues classes using the Seven Revolutions framework since 2008.
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The Brutal Truth | Foreign Policy - 0 views
Think Again: Failed States | Foreign Policy - 0 views
Globalization and Unemployment | Foreign Affairs - 0 views
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Jobs growth was slow in May, renewing pessimism about the U.S. economy. Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist writes that economic growth and employment in the United States have started to diverge, increasing income inequality and reducing jobs for less-educated workers.
Can the BRICs Take the IMF? | Foreign Affairs - 1 views
Old-Age Tension | The Economist - 1 views
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Increasing the retirement age is inevitable and better than the alternatives.
Companies and Information: The Leaky Corporation - 1 views
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Digital information is easy not only to store but also to leak. Companies must decide what they really need to keep secret, and how best to do so
The New Geopolitics of Food | Foreign Policy - 5 views
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From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.
More Than 1 Bn People Are Hungry in the World | Foreign Policy - 0 views
Falling Short | The Economist - 0 views
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People in rich countries are living longer. Without big reforms they will not be able to retire in comfort.
The Economics of Violence | The Economist - 1 views
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Are countries poor because they are violent or violent because they are poor?
The 9-Billion People Question | The Economist - 0 views
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The world's population will grow from almost 7 billion now to over 9 billion in 2050. Will be enough food to go round?
From Innovation to Revolution | Foreign Affairs - 2 views
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Summary: Do the tools of social media make it possible for protesters to challenge their governments? Malcolm Gladwell argues that there is no evidence that they do; Clay Shirky disagrees.
A G-Zero World | Foreign Affairs - 1 views
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In the wake of the financial crisis, the United States is no longer the leader of the global economy, and no other nation has the political and economic leverage to replace it. Rather than a forum for compromise, the G-20 is likely to be an arena of conflict.
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Seems to me there are a couple of interrelated ways to approach the governance revolution: (1) challenges to individual states (including discussion of failed states) and to the state as the primary actor on the world stage, and (2) changes and challenges in global governance (e.g., rise of the BRICs, or maybe BICs now that Russia seems to be under-performing).
Steep Oil Prices, Food Shortages Will Likely Spark Deadly Riots This Year | World | Alt... - 1 views
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Rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society.
The Good News About Gas | Foreign Affairs - 1 views
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Thanks to technological advances, in the past few years, vast amounts of natural gas -- particularly shale gas -- have become economically viable. This development is an unmitigated boon for consumers interested in affordable energy and for governments hoping to reduce their countries' dependency on foreign oil.
The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs - 1 views
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Discussion of the political impact of social media has focused on the power of mass protests to topple governments. In fact, social media's real potential lies in supporting civil society and the public sphere -- which will produce change over years and decades, not weeks or months.
Robots at War | The Wilson Quarterly - 1 views
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Summary: A new way of war is on the horizon. Already, robots and drones are replacing human pilots and foot soldiers in some roles, and in the future they will take over many more. The benefits of removing human soldiers from harm's way are obvious. But there's a price to pay when a society can wage war by remote control.
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