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(For a detailed description of the papers, click here) PAPER 1: The Jewish Background to Jesus' Ministry PAPER 2: The Challenge of Jesus to the Jews PAPER 3: Doing History - A Contemporary View and Jesus The Man - Is a Full Portrait Really Possible? Understanding predatory globalization Based on Juggernaut Politics by Jacques Gelinas Zed Books 2003 The World Trade Organization (1) Based on Behind the Scenes at the WTO by Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa. Zed Books 2003 The World Trade Organization (2) Based on Behind the Scenes at the WTO by Jawara and Kwa Zed Books 2003 Foreign Direct Investment Based on Protecting Foreign Investment by Carlos M Correa and Nagesh Kumar Zed Books 2003 Transnational Corporations (1) Based on Big Business; Poor Peoples by John Madeley Zed Books 2nd edition 2008 Transnational Corporations (2) Based on Big Business; Poor Peoples by John Madeley Zed Books 2nd edition 2008 TNCs – controlling the world’s food supply Based on Hungry Corporations by Helena Paul, Ricarda Steinbrecher and others. Zed Books 2003 Neoliberalism and Its Critics Based on Market Whys and Human Wherefores By David Jenkins Continuum 2004 MONEY, POLITICS and POWER The link between the politicians and the financiers in the UK and the US is clearly brought out here. The Financiers rule – OK? From The Gods that Failed by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson The Bodley Head 2008 and Whose Crisis,Whose Future? by Susan George Polity 2010 The Price of Inequality By Joseph Stiglitz Allen Lane 2012 Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment By William Keegan Searching Finance 2014 CLIMATE CHANGE and its IMPACT The relaxed attitude with which this problem is being treated in many quarters within the UK is wholly unwarranted. The crisis is cosmic in scale and immediate. Reid explains the science and notes its impact, worldwide, in general terms backed up by ‘real life’ reports. Northcott covers similar ground but adds a devastating critique of the political stonewalling which has surrounded climate negotiations in the past twenty years. Climate Change and Human Development (1) By Hannah Reid Zed Books 2014 Climate Change and Human Development (2) By Hannah Reid Zed Books 2014 Climate Change and Human Development (3) By Hannah Reid Zed Books 2014 …When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object Based on A Political Theology of Climate Change By Michael S Northcott SPCK 2013 THE DEVELOPING WORLD The developing world is stereotypically seen as a collection of countries incapable of bettering themselves either economically or politically. Certainly, they are victims of what was once described as the ‘discontents of globalization’, but they are not passive victims. The following papers provide accounts of the determined efforts, both political and economic, made by various countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to pull themselves out of morass of internal misgovernance and external economic exploitation. Business, Politics and the State in Africa (1) By Tim Kelsall Zed Books 2013 Business, Politics and the State in Africa (2) By Tim Kelsall Zed Books 2013 Latin America – Work in Progress (1) From World Politics 1945 – 2000 by Peter Calvocoressi Longmans (8th edition 2001) And Civil Society and the State in Left-led Latin America Edited by Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby Zed Books 2012 Latin America – Work in Progress (2) From World Politics 1945 – 2000 by Peter Calvocoressi Longmans (8th edition 2001) And Civil Society and the State in Left-led America Edited by Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby Zed Books 2012 Africa Uprising (1) By Adam Branch and Zacharia Mampilly Zed Books 2015 Africa Uprising (2) By Adam Branch and Zacharia Mampilly Zed Books 2015 (Coming soon) (Coming soon) |