Einige Berater hätte Georg B. vielleicht von B. Clinton übernehmen sollen. Zum Beispiel Harvard-Professor Joseph S. Nye...

Should Iran Be Attacked?

Etwas für die PDF-Sammlung...

Kaushik Basu (Cornell): Global Labour Standards and Local Freedom

(...bei Gelegenheit muss ich mir das mal anschauen)

Beim durchstöbern dieser "Paper"-Sammlung der Uni-Harvard ging mir spontan der Gedanke durch den Kopf: Wieso Bloggen unsere Unis eigentlich nicht?

Ansätze sind ja durchaus auch hierzulande vorhanden. Trotzdem: Die Bürger seiner wohl berühmtesten Erzählung würde Gottfried Keller im Jahr 2006 bestimmt nicht in Bloggstetten ansiedeln.

William Anthony Hay, Assistenzprofessor an der Missisippi State University über die USA, Demokratie und die Schwierigkeit ebendiese zu exportieren:

"Democracy can not be exported as a package because it developed organically from a supportive political culture. The problematic history of liberal breakthroughs suggests that few countries will create sustainable liberal democratic regimes without long preparation and development of a sophisticated political culture."

Zum ganzen Artikel:
What is democracy? Liberal Institutions and Stability in Changing Societies. (PDF)

THE SELFISH GENE: THIRTY YEARS ON

Um was gehts? "Das egoistische Gen" von Richard Dawkins

[Google-Catchword: Das egoistische Gen]

Dürfe ein interessantes Paper von Rechtsprofessorin Dalia Tsuk Mitchel von der Georg Washington University sein:

Property without Sovereignty: The Myth of Shareholder-Democracy

(Können sich Professoren eigentlich nicht kurz fassen?)

[Google-Catchword: The Myth of Shareholder-Democracy]

Niall Ferguson, Geschichtsprofessor an der Harvard University, schliesst bereits mal eine Wette darauf ab, dass "lame duck" Bush den Iran angreifen wird:

"So my guess is that Bush is going to bite back. And the obvious way for him to do this is over Iran. Last Tuesday Vice-President Dick Cheney gave a speech in which he bluntly declared: "We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon." Remind you of anything? It was Cheney who set the pace four years ago, as the administration prepared to confront Iraq, insisting that Saddam already possessed weapons of mass destruction. And the same sequence of events now looks set to replay itself.

The United States is going to ask the UN Security Council to impose sanctions if Iran does not halt its programme of uranium enrichment. The other permanent members won't agree. And then… Well, when those missiles slam into the Iranian nuclear facilities, don't say I didn't warn you."

Zum ganzen Artikel:
Watch out, this 'lame duck' president has nothing to lose

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...oder doch nicht?

Sex: Why bother? Evolutionary mysteries probed at UH
Ricardo Azevedo's research on pros, cons of sexual reproduction explained in Nature magazine

...und gleich noch was zum gleichen Thema:

Overthrowing Darwin's Number Two Theory
Researchers object to the theory of sexual selection and replace it with game theory.

(wenn dass mal kein Traffic gibt...)

[Google-Catchword: Sex]

Das erste Kapitel aus Mary R. Habeck's Buch Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror.

Why they did it?

[Google-Catchword: Knowing the enemy]]

Zwischendurch mal was Aufmunterndes von Joseph Stiglitz:

"If America were not the economic powerhouse that it is, the day of reckoning would already have come. The only questions that the world faces today are how long it will persist, how it will be tamed and how much damage – to America and the world – will be done in the interim. How hard will the landing be?"

Zum ganzen Artikel:
A tale of two deficits

[Google-Catchword: How hard will the landing be?]