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  1. LSE podcast - Natural Resource Management

    Professor Paul Collier speaks of natural resource management and eloquently builds the argument how this should go about. Many of the natural resources in underdeveloped countries are still not discovered. It is reasonable to assume they are there and in that rspect they form an excellent ticket out of poverty. But in order to prevent that other should profit and not the country and its population, these resources need to be carefully searched for, sold, exploited, taxed and the money properly invested.

    Be aware that the first 16 minutes of the podcast are spent on welcoming and other ceremonial talk that pertain the conference rather than the specific talk. My advice is to skip them.

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  2. The Iran power struggle - LSE podcast

    The LSE Public Lectures and Events at the London School of Economics, in short the LSE podcast, is great series of guest lectures at the LSE, which are almost invariably worth listening in on. Subjects that are of great interest are being discussed by world specialists and responded to by an educated audience.

    Whether Hooman Majd, an Iranian journalist who lives in the US, is such a great specialist is something he actually shed doubt on in his own lecture The Ayatollah Begs to Differ - the path to an Islamic Democracy.

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  3. Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

    Khalidi gives a very convincing historic analysis of the dealings of the Cold War opponents in the Middle East, especially the US. The point he makes is that the powers have used the Middle East to wage their war by proxy and that the tragic consequence of the matter has been, and still is today, that in the region radical and extremist elements are enforced and moderates are at a loss. In most recent times, the USSR has been replaced by Iran and still the cold war with the US is waged in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

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  4. Alternative Views of American Primacy

    Rashid Khalidi Conceptual Foundations of International Politics Columbia University

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  5. Conceptual Foundations of International Politics

    First Lecture Drawing on academic literature, lectures, panel discussions and films, Conceptual Foundations of International Politics examines many of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain international politics. The theoretical literature is drawn from different fields in the social science, including comparative politics, international relations, political sociology, and economics. The course is designed to enhance students’ abilities to think critically and analytically about current problems and challenges in international politics.

    The course is composed of several introductory sessions followed by two-week modules on International Political Economy; States, Regimes and Rights; War and Peace; Culture and Identities. The weekly requirements, including the reading assignments, the plenary session and seminar-style sections form an integral whole. All students are required to attend the Monday plenary sessions and to do the assigned readings before their (6804) section each week because the readings and lectures, films and panels form the basis of the sections. For each module there will be an assignment that will constitute one quarter of the final grade; the remaining quarter will be based on participation in section.

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  6. Open Source - Jackson Lears: on Obama’s Sorrows of Empire

    This time around I listened to a fascinating interview with Jackson Lears, who tries to make a point about a fundamental weakness in American foreign policy. The basic paradox to begin with is that American ideology is against empire and Americans persist in view their country not as an empire. The foreign policy however, has been that of an empire ever since the beginning of the twentieth century. Lears add to this an almost Freudian point with the example of president Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, he claims , had an idea that was inspired by his Presbyterian background of personal elation. Lears claims that the American culture is full of this strive to improve oneself. And on the collective level Roosevelt thought of war as elating for the nation.

    Lears warns that this idea has taken a strong hold on the American psyche, especially under Bush, but with Obama has not gone away. He pleads for less of this idealism and more realistic pragmatism in foreign policy.

    The next podcast I am going to review is not about foreign policy, but is also warning the American Psyche for itself and its tendency to lose track of reality. Stay posted.

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