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"Analyzes the history and motivations of U.S.-China-Latin America relationship. Focuses on China's growing economic ties to the region, including Latin America's role in China's search for energy resources. Highlights the geopolitical implications of Chinese hemispheric policy and sets recent developments in the context of China's role in the developing world"--Provided by publisher

The best hope of mankind? : a brief history of the UN -- An impossible hybrid : the structure of the United Nations -- Facing wars, confronting threats : the UN Security Council in action -- Peacekeeping to peacebuilding -- Economic development to human development -- Rights and responsibilities : human rights to human security -- Reform and challenges : the future of the United Nations

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe. This book challenges the notion of our capitalist destiny. Focusing on the recent history of the industrialized economies, Andrew Glyn questions whether capitalism really has brought the levels of economic growth and prosperity that were hoped for.

This study traces the history origin of the "Bantustans" or "homelands" in South Africa and the process of transforming the African reserves into the so-called self-governing states. The author shows that the Bantustans were just like mini states in conditions of economic subordination and that financially they were dependent on South Africa. (DÜI-Hff)

Interdisciplinary research within the field of sustainability studies often faces incompatible ontological assumptions deriving from natural and social sciences. The importance of this fact is often underrated and sometimes leads to the wrong strategies. We distinguish between two broad approaches in interdisciplinarity: unificationism and pluralism. Unificationism seeks unification and perceives disciplinary boundaries as conventional, representing no long-term obstacle to progress, whereas pluralism emphasizes more ephemeral and transient interdisciplinary connections and underscores the autonomy of the disciplines with respect to one another. Both approaches have their merits and pitfalls. Unification runs the risk of scientific imperialism, while pluralism can result in insurmountable barriers between disciplines. We made a comparison of eight distinct interdisciplinary attempts at integration of knowledge across social and natural sciences. The comparison was carried out as four pairwise comparisons: environmental economics versus ecological economics, environmental history versus historical ecology, resilience theory versus political ecology, and socio-biology versus actor-network theory. We conclude by showing that none of these prominent eight interdisciplinary fields in and of itself manages to provide, in a satisfactory way, such an integrated understanding of sustainability. We argue for pluralism and advocate complex ways of articulating divergent ontological assumptions. This is not equivalent to pursuing knowledge unification either through scientific imperialism or by catering to the requirements of narrow practical utility. It means prioritizing interdisciplinary integration by simultaneously acknowledging the role of societal and natural factors in accounting for sustainability issues. ; Peer reviewed

A position paper on rural tourism vis-a-vis land reforms in Zimbabwe. ; Dynamics and implications of the land reform in Zimbabwe before the year 2000 have been variously examined elsewhere (Moyo, 1986, 1995, 1999,2000; Alexander, 2003, Stoneman 2000, Cliffe, 2000, Mandaza, 1986, Palmer, 1990) and are not the focus of this chapter. It is the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of the year 2000 which is our focus. According to Wolmer et. al. (2003:1), "since 2000, Zimbabwe's land reform initiatives have gained a high, and controversial profile internationally". To Bernstein (2012: 170), "The Fast Track Land Reform Program in Zimbabwe is the world's most comprehensive state-sponsored redistributive land reform of the twenty first century". The land reform of2000 was largely the compulsory acquisition and partitioning of large- scale white owned commercial farms and their redistribution to predominantly black small-holder locals. The salience of the land question in Zimbabwe is underlined by the colonial history of land alienation and the armed struggle to reclaim the land. It would seem the main protagonists in the land question are erstwhile colonisers on one end, who would have preferred a minimalist "willing-buyer willing-seller", "market driven" land reform, eschewing radical change. On the other end is the ZANU PF government, with its nationalist appeal, adopting a Marxist socialist approach in the name of social justice. The contextualisation and rationale of the land reform in Zimbabwe has been variously debated and is not the subject matter of this chapter.

The review reveals the heuristic potential of the fundamental research of Yu. M. Baturin. Various aspects of the author's concept of the history of the new Union Treaty as an independent process, which reflects the economic and socio-political events that took place in the USSR during its collapse, are considered

by Adrian Schlegel The year 2020 might fill our descendants' history books with the rampant phenomena that emerged around the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis, aggravating social inequalities, political authoritarianism, gender-based discrimination and economic fragility might be few aspects that would serve as representational bullet points of currently lived...

Are the economists of the 60s and 70s to blame for our current state of affairs? That's the argument Binyamin Appelbaum makes in his book "The Economists' Hour". On this episode, Kate and Luigi debate the history of economists, the problems with economics today, and what changes could lead to a better economic future.

Kincaid, Harold Individualism and the Unity of Science. Essays on Reduction, Explanation and the Special SciencesBarro, Robert J. Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross‐country StudyFratianni, Michele and SPINELLI, Franco A Monetary History of ItalyGORDON, M. S., Mitchell, O. S. and Twinney, M. M. (eds) Positioning Pensions for the Twenty‐first Century

This paper first offers a historical perspective of regulation, the early steps of Colombian industry and the way it grew. The environment was not conducive to the application of legislation that attempted to regulate monopoly or oligopoly, much less to regulate economic power. A discussion of the modern private sector follows the history.

Questions of land tenure and land ownership are central to the socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Middle East. Most people lived in the countryside, where they grew foodstuffs that fed themselves as well as the town populations. Moreover, the rural economy was the main source of economic surplus appropriated by the urban ruling classes.

In 1987 the Connecticut General Assembly made the first attempt in the nation's history to pass a comprehensive family policy. Emphasizes the importance of strong party leadership, the need for comprehensive proposals that appeal to a variety of constituencies, and the importance of the right political and economic timing in enacting family-oriented legislation. (Abstract amended)

Over the past two decades, numerous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson's political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. This literature, however, has provided no consensus about the location of Samuelson's political ideas. While some authors believe that Samuelson has always had inclinations toward interventionism, others conclude that he more often acted as a pro-business advocate. The purpose of this paper is not to argue for one of these two interpretations but to depict the making of Economics itself as a political process. By 'political' it is not meant the conduct of party politics but the many political elements that a textbook author has to take into account if he wants to be published and favorably received. I argue that the "middle of the road" stance that Samuelson adopted in the book was consciously constructed by the MIT economist, with the help of his home institution and his publishing company, McGraw-Hill, to ensure both academic freedom and the success of the book. The reason for which the stance developed is related to pre-McCarthyist right-wing criticisms of the textbook and how Samuelson and the MIT department had to endure the pressures from members of the Corporation (MIT's Board of Trustees), who tried to prevent the publication of the textbook and threatened Samuelson's tenure at MIT as soon as 1947 - when early manuscripts were circulated. As a result, it was decided in accordance with both the Corporation and McGraw-Hill that the Readings volume would be published to balance conflicting ideas about state intervention. Following these early criticisms, the making of the subsequent editions relied on a network of instructors and referees all over the US in order to make it as successful and consensual as possible. This seemed to work quite well in the 1950s and for a good portion of the 1960s, until Economics became victim of its own success and was seen, in an ironical twist of fate, as a right wing text by younger, radical economists. From now on, Samuelson will try to have his book sent as often as possible to the radicals for referring process, with mixed results. Eventually, the book became criticized from both its left and its right.