September Eleven
I am not sure we will ever know the truth about the causes of this terrible tragedy. There…
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The Japanese Path to National Development
The twentieth century was marked by failed utopias: Maoist China, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, and…
State – Nonprofit Partnership For Social Capital
Evaluating the research on social capital Social capital has a long intellectual history in the social sciences. In…
Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence
Bruce B. Lawrence According to the author, Islams response to modernity has passed through three stages: revivalism, reform…
Economic Globalization and the Quest for Profit
America emerged from the Second World War as the world’s leading economic and industrial power. When it decided…
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
Why and how civilizations rise and fall is a hard question to answer. To do so, one must…
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Arjun Appadurai Abstract: Appadurai’s work offers a very critical and deep analysis of modernity and globalization. He believes…
A Caspian Pipeline Decision
During the last 5 years, there has been-and still is-an ongoing debate on how to exploit oil and…
Reflections on Robinson Crusoe
Part II: Economic Individualism and Secularization The wider context of Robinson Crusoe Crusoe’s relationship with God is sincere,…
Freedom
The urge for freedom is innate in man. In his pursuit or expression of it, man has the…
Reflections on Robionson Crusoe
Part I: The Myth and the Novel The popularity of Crusoe Excepting the Gospel narrative, no story has…
The Conflict of Civilizations
World politics is entering a new phase, and commentators have not been slow to express their visions of…
Right to Food
More than a billion human beings on this planet are chronically hungry: every 24 hours some 40,000 die…
Is technology a common heritage of all mankind?
INTRODUCTION Technology can be referred to as the systematic knowledge for manufacture of a product, for the application…