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| Bangladesh
Climate change and neoliberal policies: the case of BangladeshLocated in the largest delta at the world, where two Himalayan rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh is used to climatic catastrophes. Half of the land area of Bangladesh is less than 10 metres above sea level. It consists mainly of silt deposited by the rivers which flow down from the Himalayan glaciers. When the snow melts it regularly causes large-scale floods. The coast is at the mercy of cyclones and giant waves which submerge the coastal areas. -> read article... |
| Feminism
Interrogating the Feminine MystiqueAn interview with Stephanie Coontz about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. -> read article... |
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| European Union
Core vs Periphery in the EUFrom 1980 to 2004 joining the European Union was quite popular among large sections of the populations in concerned countries. Portuguese, Greek and Spanish citizens regarded their countries’ participation in the European integration both as a guarantee of democratic stability (indeed all three of them were emerging from a period of dictatorship) and as a real opportunity to improve living conditions (there were significant transfers from richer countries in the EU towards the new members from the Mediterranean region during the first years of their adhesion. -> read article... |