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Ukraine at the crossroads of globalization
Written by Patrick Kozakiewicz
Special thanks to my co-author, Julia Rokicka Like the traveller in Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken, Ukraine is now poised between two roads, one pro-European Union and the other pro-Russian. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its own independence, Ukrainian society has been divided, […]
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Curacao and International Political and Economic Inclusion
Written by Neelam J. Melwani
Growing up in Curacao, I always found watching the news to be disheartening. It was difficult to see various countries, both bigger and smaller than Curacao, be represented in international forums like the UN, WTO and CARICOM, while trying to understand why Curacao was not. As I began to learn […]
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La pobreza de la clase media globalizada
Written by Mayxué Ospina Posse
Abstract: Amid the misery that abounds and overflows the streets of developing countries, advertising shows us happy and perfect families experiencing moments of ecstasy and communion under the taste of a Coke, or deluded girls who inhabit the bichromatic world of Barbie, the eroticized gothic of Monster High or the centennial […]
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Sobre conejos, renos y nieves tropicales
Written by oscarguarin
Abstract: All my memories about Christmas involve snow and a Santa Clauss going down a chimney, in the middle of the equatorial tropic. How are these traditions stablished as such, specially when they are not related to our reality? How or why do we keep repeating and continuing these traditions? There […]
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Shock horror: Monster gender studies destroy Polish families
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
A new and terrible danger is heading our way. It’s ready to annihilate all good family values and the bonds between all loving men and women in Poland. This hydra has many heads – gays, feminists and opponents of domestic violence against women. But the root of this monster lies […]
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The effects of globalization on Cambodia
Written by Chak Sopheap
Judging by the socio-economic changes from the 1990s through to the present decade, the outcomes of globalization in Cambodia have been quite rapid and positive. Cambodia’s regional integration through the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1999, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2004 have spured on the globalization process. […]
