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Jeune Street: On Religion, Governance and World Development
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Jeune Street is about the roles and relationships between religion, governance and world development. It is written from the perspective of a Baha'i living and working in Oxford, UK.
- Added on: Jan 16th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Geoffrey Cameron
- Listed in: International Affairs Bahá'í Faith
- Tags: religion politics governance oxford baha'i faith international development
Recent Posts
The long shadow of the ICC
Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost, has a short piece in the most recent issue of the Atlantic. He asks the question: What do Congolese make of Thomas Lubanga’s trial at the International Criminal Court? Lubanga is the first ...
A book and its cover
In the New Orleans airport yesterday, I was surprised to see my current reading material displayed on the rack of ‘inspirational reading’ books. The book is The Evolution of God by Robert Wright, which as the title suggests is about the...
Making it right
The posting has been light over the past week because I’ve been attending the African Studies Association conference in New Orleans. The conference itself has been terrific. Highlights have included several excellent papers on China and India i...
Double standards
We need more journalism like this: Several times a year, Teodoro Nguema Obiang arrives at the doorstep of the United States from his home in Equatorial Guinea, on his way to his $35 million estate in Malibu, Calif., his fleet of luxury cars, his spee...
Making innovation happen
Fareed Zakaria has a fascinating take on trends in American innovation: American culture is open and innovative. But it was powerfully shaped and enhanced by a series of government policies. Silicon Valley did not arise in a vacuum. It grew in the 19...
The Chinese century?
Maybe, maybe not. Reihan Salaam argues that it depends on China’s openness to immigration: As China emerges as an economic and cultural superpower… notions of Third World solidarity, always skin deep, seem to have vanished. It is thus har...
Great fusion of topics. Thanks!
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