Economics of U.S. Middle East Policy Study Guide
First page of the Economics of U.S. Middle East Policy study guide. The page one article is a report on economic freedom in Bahrain which cites: According to the annual Economic Freedom of the Arab...
Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
Economic Fallacies Form Shaky Foundations for U.S. Middle East Policy
Military generals are charged with managing national security which has included protecting access to “needed” natural resources. Military goals have been stretched to securing resources “needed” for economic security. And for the U.S., overseas...
Locked Out: The Roots of the Arab Spring
The dysfunctional legal systems of the Middle East and North Africa lock most young people out of the formal economy.Izzit.org offers a twenty-minute educational video on the topic: Locked Out: The Roots of Arab Spring, and...
Encourage Economic Freedom or Democracy for the Middle East?
NCFCA debaters spent the 2013-14 school year advocating federal election law reforms and arguing against opponents’ reforms. With next year’s Middle East topic we have an important, if not obvious, connections with the federal election...
Democracy, Political Ignorance, and Regulation of Political Speech
George Will in The Washington Post reviewed Ilya Somin’s book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter. Both the column and the book are relevant for the federal election law reform topic. Somin and Will note...
Transition: Do Federal Election Laws Distort Middle East Policy?
NCFCA debaters have spent the year advocating federal election law reforms and arguing against opponents’ reforms. With at least two of next year’s proposed topics we have an important, if not obvious, connection with...
Through Green–Coloured Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered
A Review of Wilfred Beckerman’s Through Green–Coloured Glasses Environmentalism Reconsidered by Marina Tanasé Environmental are still hot subject even after ample discussion over the last few decades. One of the reasons for paying attention to this topic...
The Real Story of Globalization
[A review by Marina Tanase of The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization by Tomas Larsson] Using real-world examples, Tomas Larson explains what globalization actually is, offering readers powerful stories and...
U.S. Policies for Prosperity from the World’s Oceans
Oceans are a lot like land, just wetter. Wet is good for life, and the world’s oceans covering 70% of the planet can be a source of vast new wealth or conflicts. A May,...
Hope and Chains: Many Affirmative Cases Will Collide or Fail
Many of the federal government’s current marine natural resource policies are failures. That is, they have failed to achieve the goals stated when current policies and legislation was first proposed or amended. This reality...