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PART 1

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?

PART 2

PAPER 1

Understanding predatory globalization

Based on Juggernaut Politics by Jacques Gelinas

Zed Books 2003

PAPER 2

The World Trade Organization (1)

Based on Behind the Scenes at the WTO

by Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa.

Zed Books 2003

PAPER 3

The World Trade Organization (2)

Based on Behind the Scenes at the WTO

by Jawara and Kwa Zed Books 2003

PAPER 4

Foreign Direct Investment

Based on Protecting Foreign Investment

by Carlos M Correa and Nagesh Kumar

Zed Books 2003

PAPER 5

Transnational Corporations (1)

Based on Big Business; Poor Peoples by John Madeley

Zed Books 2nd edition 2008

PAPER 6

Transnational Corporations (2)

Based on Big Business; Poor Peoples by John Madeley

Zed Books 2nd edition 2008

PAPER 7

TNCs – controlling the world’s food supply

Based on Hungry Corporations

by Helena Paul, Ricarda Steinbrecher and others.

Zed Books 2003

PAPER 8

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.

PAPER 9

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

PAPER 10

The Price of Inequality

By Joseph Stiglitz

Allen Lane 2012

PAPER 11

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.

PAPER 12

Climate Change and Human Development (1)

By Hannah Reid

Zed Books 2014

PAPER 13

Climate Change and Human Development (2)

By Hannah Reid

Zed Books 2014

PAPER 14

Climate Change and Human Development (3)

By Hannah Reid

Zed Books 2014

PAPER 15

…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.

PAPER 16

Business, Politics and the State in Africa (1)

By Tim Kelsall

Zed Books 2013

PAPER 17

Business, Politics and the State in Africa (2)

By Tim Kelsall

Zed Books 2013

PAPER 18

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

PAPER 19

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

PAPER 20

Africa Uprising (1)

By Adam Branch and Zacharia Mampilly

Zed Books 2015

PAPER 21

Africa Uprising (2)

By Adam Branch and Zacharia Mampilly

Zed Books 2015

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