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Notes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index

Published: May 2013 | Related Faculty: Peter Brecke

Abstract

Human security is understood as a response to the proliferation of new security threats which fit awkwardly within the relatively narrow confines of the traditional, state-centric national security paradigm.

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Peddling Paradise: The Politics of Tourism in Latin America

Published: April 2013 | Related Faculty: Kirk Bowman

Abstract

With tourism lauded throughout Latin America as a sure engine of economic growth, actual performance in the sector has varied to an extreme degree. Kirk Bowman asks why. Why did states become so actively involved in the tourism sector even as they were reducing their role in other sectors of the economy?

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‘We care about you, but …’: the politics of EU trade policy and development

Published: March 2013 | Related Faculty: Alasdair Young

Abstract

The European Union (EU) is one of the most important markets for developing countries, and trade policy has long been one of its most important instruments for promoting development. There is, however, a paradox at the heart of the relationship between the EU's trade policy and development. On the one hand the EU's trade as development policy has undergone a paradigm shift, the objective shifting from supporting the former colonies of the EU's member states to addressing poverty and with a greater emphasis on reciprocal liberalization.

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Coming back home after the sun rises: Returnee entrepreneurs and growth of high tech industries

Published: March 2013 | Related Faculty: Michael Murphree, Michael Murphree, Dan (Danny) Breznitz

Abstract

Recently, the role of returnees in the economic development of various East Asian nations has received much attention. The early literature on the relocation of the most highly trained individuals from a developing nation to a developed nation viewed the phenomena as a “brain drain.” Since the 1990s, a new strand of thinking has suggested that for developing nations this was actually a positive phenomenon; as these expatriates studied and then worked abroad, they absorbed technical expertise, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills.

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The Rise of Official Islam in Jordan

Published: February 2013 | Related Faculty: Lawrence Rubin

Abstract

This paper examines the development of ‘Official Islam’, or state-sponsored religious institutions, in Jordan. We argue that Jordan's development went through three phases. From its independence in 1947 until the revolution, the state undertook minimal efforts to develop this institution. After the Iranian revolution, however, the state changed course by developing two such institutions – the Advisory Council of Dar al-Ifta (Department for Issuing Fatwas) and the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought.

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