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1980–2000: Creation of a Global Money Space
The renaissance of a global money space, a milestone in world history, was unplanned, unforeseen and startling. Everything would appear in a new...
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Why the Three Forces
Globalization, Competitiveness, and Governability are the Three Disruptive Forces of Business in the twenty-first century. Presently, the previous...
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Brexit and Trade
The impact of Brexit upon trade has been the primary concern for most economists since the lowering of trade barriers and resulting reductions in...
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Pesticide Impacts on the Environment and Humans
Pesticide impacts on the environment and humans are manifold. Due to the enormous variety of active ingredients with different mode of actions, no...
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Brains, Conspiracies, Witches, and Animal Abuse
Shermer’s 2011 The Believing Brain provides several illustrative examples of how teleology, and in particular our tendency to try to look for a...
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Overview
One of the first tasks of the secret US World War II nuclear-weapon project was to design reactorsPlutonium-production reactors to produce plutonium...
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Tuna Wild West
The first stop was in the Mediterranean, in Croatia. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Mediterranean fisheries programme’s tuna specialists have...
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George W. Bush, Realism and Neoconservatism, 2001–2009
Unlike Bill Clinton, who began his presidency intending to place more emphasis on idealistic considerations than his immediate predecessor, George W....
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Whither Canadian Climate Policy in the Trump Era?
The Canadian Government has outlined a national plan to meet its climate commitments under the International Paris Climate Accord. But implementing...
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Conclusion: Dialogue, Not Walls
We like happy endings to stories, but this narrative, which is about the unintended consequences of digital connectivity, has a nuanced resolution....
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The Silent Threat
When, at the beginning of December 2008, a maritime accident off the coast of South Korea caused a spill from the tanker, the Hebei Spirit, I little...
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The Paradoxical Foundations of the Trump Presidency: Causes and Consequences
This chapter begins with the role of the presidency in American political life and how that has developed. It then turns to an analysis of the 2016...
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Emerging Trends in Impact Investing in Africa
In this chapter, the author casts a forward glance at how the impact investing space in Africa is expected to evolve over the next few years. He lays...
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Migration
One of the key areas of concern for the UK has been its high net migration. Insights into understanding migration, its motivations and impact are...
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Frozen Ocean: Ice Ages and Climate Change
The world has two major ice sheets – in Antarctica and Greenland – but their histories are completely different. The Antarctic ice sheet evolved over...
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A Trump Revolution?
Trump’s 2016 campaign invited a series of different readings. The outsider candidate emphasized that he was not beholden to other players, including...
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Corruption in North America: Canada and the United States
Neither Canada nor the United States is corrupt according to global standards and the critical measurement indexes. But both harbor pockets of...
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Offenders and Terrorism. Ideology, Motives, Objectives
Lone wolf terrorism motivated by right-wing extremism is a real problem, which allows itself to be conclusively delineated from other types of...
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Celestial images in artistic paintings
The subtitle of this book is: History, Artistry, and Cartography. Up to now, I have presented important historical and cartographic information...
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Barack Obama, the Idealistic Realist, 2009–2017, Part I: The Middle East and East Asia
Barack Obama entered the White House intending to emulate the more realistic foreign policy philosophy of the first President Bush without abandoning...