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IICAS EUROPEAN STUDIES ROUNDTABLE: REMAKING THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
By Advait Praturi As the world economy continues into recession, the institution known as the public university becomes a part of the dynamic conflict between market forces and government involvement. The European Studies Roundtable that met on Thursday, November 19th sought to discuss the deepening trend of the privatization of the modern public university. As…
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NANCY GILSON ON GLOBAL GENDER INEQUALITY
By Kathleen Richter Professor Nancy Gilson gave a talk at UCSD regarding the status of women’s rights across the world. Gilson has been teaching at UCSD since 1993, is a full member of the Dimensions of Culture program, and also teaches upper-division Political Science, International Studies, and Critical Gender studies classes. One of the topics…
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NAFTA AND U.S. CORN SUBSIDIES: EXPLAINING THE DISPLACEMENT OF MEXICO'S CORN FARMERS
By Rick Relinger This paper intends to explicate the causal relationship between U.S. federal subsidies for domestically produced corn and the post-NAFTA rural to urban migration in Mexico. While corn production has been central to the Mexican economy for centuries, it cannot economically compete with highly subsidized corn produced in the United States. In 1994…