His Divine Shadow posted:

Here's a nice interview about the state of the world/europe:
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/08/13/interview-mark-blyth/

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the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing awful things that are inherently political, and turning off liquidity for domestic banking systems in violation of their own treaties etc.

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I needed to rethink what Constructivism meant for IPE and political economy.

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Then there was my whole engagement with Post-Structuralism, which Americans seem absolutely terrified by, almost as if opening a cover of Foucault is equivalent to reading Mein Kampf or something.

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wrote some stuff with Nassim Taleb, namely The Black Swan of Cairo, which was really fruitful

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Nassim Taleb

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Cornel Ban’s book that just came out, Ruling Ideas: How Global Neolibralism Goes Local, is a wonderful example of ideas and comparative political economy put together.

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Global Neolibralism

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I am publishing a piece that’s forthcoming in the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies

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When this happens, capital gets organized, and that’s essentially the simplest explanation of the politics of the 1970s and 1980s.

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and then I taught Piketty and then I read him again

GaussianCopula posted:

Greece is trying, again, to get war reperations.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/211232/article/ekathimerini/news/tsipras-revives-greek-bid-to-seek-wartime-reparations-from-berlin


It looks like Tsipras is copying the Trump strategy of torching diplomatic reputations for internal gains again.

Friendly Humour posted:

Unfortunately this is purely personal anecdote told to me by two Syrians I met a half a year ago. They described to me an incident in Macedonia where some Iraqi teen was heard by someone talking on the phone about "something suspicious", after which a mob gathered, took his phone, decided that he was Daesh and proceeded to beat him to death with fists and stones. I got the feeling they were describing something that actually happened, but for understandable reasons it would have been a bit impossible to get them on record with that. They were incredulous about my suggestion to talk to the police or the press, so that was that. Sorry!

I'm a bit surprised there seems to be nothing on the net about this or other these kinds of violent incidents the guys told me were quite common on the trail. Or maybe they were just fooling me for the sake of it, who knows.

Tesseraction posted:

Generally I've been hard pressed to find a Muslim who supports Daesh whether refugee or long-term economic migrant.

Honestly given how we've been assured all Muslims are secretly programmed to ackbar us at the slightest opportunity none of my prodding or poking or screaming "WE SHALL STRIKE THE INFIDELS MASHALLAH" at them as they walk home with their shopping has persuaded any of them to reveal their secret desire for martyrisation.

Tesseraction posted:

Generally I've been hard pressed to find a Muslim who supports Daesh whether refugee or long-term economic migrant.

Honestly given how we've been assured all Muslims are secretly programmed to ackbar us at the slightest opportunity none of my prodding or poking or screaming "WE SHALL STRIKE THE INFIDELS MASHALLAH" at them as they walk home with their shopping has persuaded any of them to reveal their secret desire for martyrisation.

Geriatric Pirate posted:

It's like "bad/heterodox/crank economics" bingo:

Liberal_L33t posted:

This is very nearly a carbon copy of William F Buckley's notorious, and outrageously, provably wrong, argument that segregation would wither away on its own without Federal intervention.

Liberal_L33t posted:

Incidents in the news from a year or so ago suggest that if, say, you damaged a Koran in front of them, or admitted you weren't a muslim while still aboard a refugee boat in international waters, there is a small but non-zero chance a group of them would spontaneously murder you.

(sources: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33999801

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/europe/italy-migrants-christians-thrown-overboard/ )

Sympathy for the plight of the refugees and/or migrants shouldn't mean that we can't recognize that some of them really are dangerously deranged religious zealots. Denying it's a problem at all is obviously false and just plays into the narrative of the far-right political parties.

I think it's crucially important that the left in Europe stop trying to enforce a narrative that non-muslims have no legitimate reasons at all to be worried about the latest waves of migrants and immigrants.

MeLKoR posted:

«Bathers have to show x% of skin to use this beach»

Finally someone is tackling the serious problems Europe is facing.

Cat Mattress posted:

Here's an article about the recent events in Sisco. Have fun.
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/...on_1593583.html

Friendly Humour posted:

If you're on a leaky boat that's one fistfight away from sinking, insulting and aggravating the people around you leads to a non-zero chance of being thrown overboard regardless of the ethnicity of the boat inhabitants. Good try tho. You loving racist.

Friendly Humour posted:

Got something in English? While I loathe the entire subject as a topic, I'm kinda curious what made the thread produce 10 pages of extremely angry screaming.

Cat Mattress posted:

It's in French, not in Taushiro. Google Translate ought to be something approaching to nearly readable.

Anyway, the gist is that some tourists took selfies on the beach, the local Maghrebin population attacked them for the offense, one guy defending his son against the Arabs was shot with a harpoon gun, then the Corsican population went all mob justice in retaliation and the gendarmerie barely managed to prevent people from killing each other.

Afterwards, the mayor banned burkinis.

LeoMarr posted:

So the EU is going to fall. Where will europe be when it does? When countries like greece italy spain and the likes default and the northern countries have to slump the eu to survive collapse

Friendly Humour posted:

If you're on a leaky boat that's one fistfight away from sinking, insulting and aggravating the people around you leads to a non-zero chance of being thrown overboard regardless of the ethnicity of the boat inhabitants. Good try tho. You loving racist.

Majorian posted:

You do realize that in this analogy you're making, you're actually the one supporting segregation, right? We're talking about actual state-sanctioned, legalized discrimination. That's what these clothing bans represent. That's something that you vocally support.

Cat Mattress posted:

It's in French, not in Taushiro. Google Translate ought to be something approaching to nearly readable.

Anyway, the gist is that some tourists took selfies on the beach, the local Maghrebin population attacked them for the offense, one guy defending his son against the Arabs was shot with a harpoon gun, then the Corsican population went all mob justice in retaliation and the gendarmerie barely managed to prevent people from killing each other.

Afterwards, the mayor banned burkinis.

Puistokemisti posted:

Maybe we could hold a fire sale of EU stuff to cover the cost of dissolution.

Liberal_L33t posted:

This is why beaches in particular are such a fraught issue, and why I find the burqini ban understandable even though the courts will probably have to strike it down on principle; many of these immigrants come from cultures that are so sick that they are psychologically not capable of dealing with the level of personal freedom on display at a european beach, and the danger of them violently lashing out in response to displays of freedom is not negligible.

LeoMarr posted:

Its funny when a Liberal gets upset at the culture they created. I thought there were no savages or civilized people

Liberal_L33t posted:

I have some bad news for you; regardless of the national origin of the individuals in question, violent antics committed by extreme social conservatives is going to cause collateral damage to the kind of politics you favor as well, since there isn't ultimately all that much difference between you and any other diehard traditionalist.

Liberal_L33t posted:

The victims were the same ethnicity as the murderers. Or very nearly so, at least. They were killed because of their religion

LeoMarr posted:

Cat Mattress posted:

It's in French, not in Taushiro. Google Translate ought to be something approaching to nearly readable.

Anyway, the gist is that some tourists took selfies on the beach, the local Maghrebin population attacked them for the offense, one guy defending his son against the Arabs was shot with a harpoon gun, then the Corsican population went all mob justice in retaliation and the gendarmerie barely managed to prevent people from killing each other.

Afterwards, the mayor banned burkinis.

Cerebral Bore posted:

I kinda have to marvel at somebody being so loving incompetent that he uncritically posts a graph where the largest muslim country on earth seems to be the best while he's trying to claim that muslims are all barbarians. Like, how do you manage to function in society at large?

Tesseraction posted:

Generally I've been hard pressed to find a Muslim who supports Daesh whether refugee or long-term economic migrant.

Honestly given how we've been assured all Muslims are secretly programmed to ackbar us at the slightest opportunity none of my prodding or poking or screaming "WE SHALL STRIKE THE INFIDELS MASHALLAH" at them as they walk home with their shopping has persuaded any of them to reveal their secret desire for martyrisation.

LeoMarr posted:

Or those countries have 99.9999% of their rapes go unreported.

LeoMarr posted:

Or those countries have 99.9999% of their rapes go unreported.

Cerebral Bore posted:

It doesn't help your case when you admit that your own numbers are worthless for direct comparisons. It especially doesn't help when you then try to explain it with variations in reporting, because the logical followup question is whether the variations in reporting and sentencing and so on account for the seemingly high number in Sweden (which they do), which kind of kills your feeble attempt at an argument dead.

LemonDrizzle posted:

Looks like squeaky bum time for Renzi:

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/765945537619193857

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/765944984747044868

If he loses his referendum, his government probably falls and things start getting interesting in southern Europe again.

Liberal_L33t posted:

( p.s. YF-23, we have had threads before to discuss issues regarding Islam and the culture clash in Europe. The moderators closed them all. So now it's only natural those kind of discussions are going to bubble up in your thread, sorry. I would gladly post a thread for it myself, but the mods would just close it immediately.)

YF-23 posted:

What's the referendum for?

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Matteo Renzi has staked his entire political career on what sounds like an unglamorous topic — a Yes vote in a referendum on constitutional reform.But the 41-year-old centre-left prime minister believes that it is only by changing the rules of Italy’s political game, known for its gridlocked legislature and unstable governments, that he can build on the country’s economic revival and step up his reform agenda.
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The constitutional reform would shrink the Italian senate and strip its legislative powers. Supporters believe it could liberate Italy’s notoriously clunky political system, as bills would no longer ping-pong endlessly between the two chambers of parliament. Lawmakers have already passed the measure, but it must be put to a referendum because it did not win more than two-thirds of their votes.

LemonDrizzle posted:

Constitutional reform - he wants to reduce the power of the Italian senate to remove the kinds of legislative impasses that have made Italian politics such a shitshow over the last few decades: https://www.ft.com/content/908484f8-11dd-11e6-bb40-c30e3bfcf63b

Renzi has said he'll resign if he can't secure a Yes vote.

Nitrousoxide posted:

A lot of countries have a lower and upper house and aren't crippled. Why is Italy?

LemonDrizzle posted:

Renzi has said he'll resign if he can't secure a Yes vote.

Liberal_L33t posted:

Becauae what women and non-heterosexuals endure in traditionalist islamic communities definitely couldn't be described as segregation or discrimination, right?

Liberal_L33t posted:

many of these immigrants come from cultures that are so sick that they are psychologically not capable of dealing with the level of personal freedom on display at a european beach, and the danger of them violently lashing out in response to displays of freedom is not negligible.