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Towards a Cosmopolitan Pedagogical Practice
This is the culmination of an entire years worth of research into education and globalization. It is at once the longest thing that I have ever written but also in my opinion the best. After having been disillusioned by education after having explored the political and global forces that manifest in it, this paper has ...
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Democracy Promotion in between Domestic and International Needs
The following is a long essay examining some of the philosophical and realpolitik problems in International Affairs, as specifically concerning America’s democracy promotion in the Middle East. In particular, it attempts to sort out the intersection of a nation’s domestic and international needs that guide its actions. The essay covers five main themes, each that can stand ...
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The Rise of China and the Future of World Politics
Over much of the past decade, the economic relationship between China and the United States has been that of mutually beneficial exchange. However, as China’s pervasive economic influence in the Asian region grows, major rifts have risen over issues of economic, political and security matters. With the pressure of the great recession, both countries resentful ...
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Conditions for Effective Civil Society Participation
The following is a somewhat technical essay about what successful and unsuccessful state-society relationships look like. Its context is Islam and the Middle East, the essay being part of a larger examination of democratization in the M.E. For use as a reference to state-society relationships, scales, NGOs and political Islam.