Sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been a busy past week and a half...
Just a quick post for tonight, I'm not going to be able to post until next Friday likely.
I do not know how many of you subscribe to the Economist; every year they put out a "Pocket World in Figures," and I have marveled at this little invention for a while. This book takes a wide variety of statistics and puts them into a small but easy to use handbook. Flipping to a random page I find that:
70% of Cameroon's employment is in the agriculture sector.
or
Macedonia has the highest percentage of unemployed labor in the world at a mere 36.0%, that's pretty incredible.
Other statistics include defense spending and total attendance to cinemas per country (India has the highest in 2006 at 1,473.4 million attendees).
If you are a statistics nut (which I am though I am terrible at any sort of mathematics) this is a must have, it just packs so much information into such a small space.
In the next week I'll be reading Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard and the newest Economist which is labeled, "Waking from its sleep: A 14-page special report on the Arab world"
Until next time keep abreast on world issues and read some books!
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Anybody who followed this blog for its brief lifetime saw its ups and downs. I AM still currently looking for guest writers if anyone would like to submit an article. The same guidelines apply:
1) At least 750 words long.
2) Must be relevant to the blog title and previous posts (this should be obvious). I will accept posts on subjects other than those provided but should be in the same guidelines of IR, Geopolitics, etc. I would be especially interested in seeing articles utilizing theories of Marxism and Critical Geopolitics.
3) I reserve the right to deny any article written for any reason. I also reserve the right to decide whether I will give you a reason for my decision. Along those lines, I will try and give you a reason why, but I like to keep my options open.
4) Any article accepted will be posted on Digg, and other social media websites.
Please email me your article at c.kirkland(at)sussex(dot)ac(dot)uk. Please make the subject "BLOG" (ensure all caps, I may just delete it otherwise). I look forward to restarting this blog and (hopefully) having a healthy, informed discussion of international politics.
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- C.K.
- Finishing my MA in Geopolitics and Grand Strategy at University of Sussex. Interests: Marxism, Critical Geopolitics, Energy Security, Critical Theory (and those which intersect with IR, particularly critical security analysis), Russian foreign and security policy, Central Asia (particularly Kazakhstan), Caspian Sea politics. Sometimes I enjoy reading a bit about COIN.