During the sixth session of the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo underscored the right of every country to development, which must be respected. As ...

A large number of couples arrive at the venue of a state-sponsored wedding reception at the Kano state governor's office after taking part in a mass wedding at the central mosque in Kano State, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Post-World War II theories of modernization, including theories of law and development, have proved inadequate either to explain development ...

In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

“Ecology and capitalism, are, by their nature, in opposition” (Amin, 2009, p. 21). This blog employs a Marxist dependency framework as a useful “entry point from which to explore the contemporary ...

An interesting critique of the Iranian intellectual left who had their dogmas - particularly those around anti-imperialist struggle - shattered by the events of the revolution. Also contains ...

A while back, the term “co-dependency” was all the rage. Classic examples of co-dependency involve individuals who put up with all sorts of problematic behaviors because they deeply fear separation ...

Extreme Value Theory (EVT) offers a rigorous framework for the statistical analysis of rare, high-impact events by focusing on the tail behaviour of distributions. This theory underpins methodologies ...