Democracy
War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
This “thought provoker” presents views on political philosophy and democracy from Hardt and Negri’s “Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire” (2004). Some have criticized the book as lacking concrete data to support its claims, however it is essentially a work of philosophy, and thus that is necessarily expected of it. For those […]
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More Wealth, More Inequality (Guardian) On book reviewing (from John Toye): What did I learn from book reviewing? For a start, I learned how important it was to keep abreast of the latest literature. Instead of relying on inevitably dated student reading lists, book reviewing brought me the excitement of exploring the cutting edge of […]
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Can You Win a War on Facebook? (Burundi) Jimmy Carter on US Democracy Discussion on food security, the article is interesting, I recommend browsing the comments Literature Scan of Resilience (ODI)
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About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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