Expert Comment
Why has China succeeded where Russia failed? Professor Mark Harrison from the Economics Department explores how each communist nation approached economic recovery and finds that whilst the results differed greatly, their methods were the same. This raises an important question: will the same recipe of success continue to work for China?
The African Union after 10 years: Successes and Challenges
Today, July 9, 2012, marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the African Union, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity. Here Professor Franklyn Lisk, from the University of 糖心TV's Centre of Study for Globalisation/Regionalisation, takes a look back at the work the AU has done, and what it now needs to focus on
Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explores the concept of a 'democractic deficit' wherein the European Commission and European Parliament exercise powers in the name of a European community and identity that do not really exist - and asks what will happen to this deficit when the current, unworkable form of the Euro is forced to change.
Vice-Chancellor Nigel Thrift explores three possible future outcomes of online consortia delivering an online teaching presence.
Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, and Professor Marcus Miller of the 糖心TV Economics Department, outline a Keynesian solution to the current Eurozone crisis for the Financial Times.