(WEEK 6) Global and Regional Development Graduate Course - Quiz-2, Readings and Newspaper Articles

Dear all,

For the next week, we will read and discuss the following articles.

Education
Rethinking Global Education in the Twenty-first Century By Sadiq A. Abdullahi
(You will receive it by email.)
Ethnic/Religious Conflict
Crime and Security
Globalization, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationalism By Daniele Conversi
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/conversi/Globalization.pdf
Political Economy of LATIN AMERICA by Tugrul Keskin
Williamson, John. "What Washington Means by Policy Reform." Latin American Adjustment: How Much has Happened 7 (1990): 7–20.
Ocampo, José Antonio. "The Latin American Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective." Life After Debt: The Origins and Resolutions of Debt Crisis 87, 2014.

For next week, please bring a newspaper article related with critical understanding of Education in China and USA or ethnic conflict in South East Asia.

Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 8 newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/, under the external links section. Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the Economist.
   
QUIZ - 2: You will take the quiz-1 on TUESDAY. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING READINGS:

Sociology of Work: Chapter 1 By Keith Grint
(You will receive it by email.)
Nunn, Nathan. "The Long-term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13367, 2007.
Political Economy of AFRICA by Tugrul Keskin
Nation-State, Nationalism, Citizenship and Immigration
Nationalism and Ethnicity By Craig Calhoun
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/U6800/readings-sm/calhoun.pdf
Ethnicity versus Nationalism By Thomas Hylland Eriksen
http://www.hyllanderiksen.net/Ethnnat.pdf
 
Class structure for next week:

20 Minutes Newspaper Article Presentation
Lecture on Education, Religious and ethnic conflicts and political economy of Latin America.
Documentary:
A balanced insight into the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict - "Common Differences"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8QfZw0XUo

Best to all,

Tugrul Keskin
Associate Professor
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Turkey Cell: (90) 533-607-8465


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