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Dependency Theory and the Condition of the Poor in the Developing World

For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise your trade, attract investment, and prosperity will follow. Yet many ...
Abstract This paper examines the dynamics of mutually assured suspicion (MAS) that define the relations among Iran, Russia, ...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses a media conference at the conclusion of an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Lawmakers Start to Break Ranks Under Shutdown ...
Abstract In October 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified the long-negotiated China ndash;Russia Mutual Investment Protection Agreement (MIPA) mdash;a landmark legal framework designed to ...
They are each built on one of three paradigms that has dominated international relations theory since World War II: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Realists see politics as rooted in anarchy, ...
A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood ...
Oct. 14 (UPI) --For more than seven decades, diplomats, strategists and scholars have sought to resolve "the Korea question," which is the unnatural division of the peninsula that paragraph 60 of the ...
For aspiring international students, financial planning has become more critical than ever. Global inflation, rising living costs, and recent policy shifts have made affordability the single most ...
Maritime Security and the Blue Economy amid Winds and Waves The post-war reconfiguration of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy ...
In numerous developed countries, youth crime has declined significantly since the 1990s, according to criminologists Dietrich Oberwittler (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law ...
New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent ...