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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from someoriginalname: One of the most frightening events happening today is a piece of legislature that is currently being debated in U.S. Congress. The Stop Online Piracy Act or &#8220;SOPA&#8221; combined with the Protect IP Act (“PIPA”) have the ability to drastically change the face of the internet as we know it. To put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=936&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does democratization lead to war?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from sensnation: For this post i have chosen to comment on an article found in Foreign Affairs entitled, &#8220;Democratization and War&#8221; written by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder. I have chosen to write on this topic because of our discussion regarding the argument that democracies do not make war upon each other. After reading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=935&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Tribe is my Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very interesting and personal account of a Ugandan&#8217;s views about identity&#8211;tribal, ethnic, national. I encourage you to read it, but here are some snippets: If you live in Uganda you must come across these sentiments. My last name begins with Kag-Kagumire. My blog is not under that name for many reasons but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=932&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnic (cultural) diversity and public spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We talked a little bit in class today about the link between ethnic (cultural) diversity and public spending. The empirical record seems to find that the more ethnic diversity in a polity, the less public spending&#8211;health, education, etc.&#8211;there is. A recent article in the American Political Science Review (Habyarimana et al. 2007) addresses the theoretical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=930&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bosnia&#8211;education and multiculturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article on the education system in Bosnia, which looks at the effect of a particular view of multiculturalism in that war-scarred country. How does it compare to our system in Canada? What are the advantages/disadvantage of each system? There was no Santa Claus in the Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina of my childhood. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=925&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failed States: Somalia</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/24/923/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from iluvbluetube: Being my first blog post, I would like to talk about failed states and how corrupt the government has truly become in this world. Failed states are defined as states that have failed to provide the basic elements that are necessary in any sovereign government. Somalia is just one of the many places in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=923&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democratization and  Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/24/922/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from ddarling77: It&#8217;s 2012, and the world in which we live is going through major political changes.  Dictatorship after dictatorship fall as the people in  authoritarian regimes, such as Egypt and Libya, rise in a drive towards pursuing  the &#8221;good life,&#8221; a phrase associated with Aristotle in his analysis of different forms of government (Dyck, Studying Politics).  Aristotle&#8217;s classification of governments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=922&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Support for Capital Punishment</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/21/support-for-capital-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday in POLI 1100, a general discussion about the distinctions between democratic and non-democratic regimes focused on the use(s) of violence by governments as a means of control. This led to a discussion of the use of, and support for, the death penalty. As many of my students knew, the death penalty is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=911&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012&#8211;The year for Democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an example of a good post for the POLI 1100 blog assignment for this week. This took about 20-25 minutes to complete. As noted in Chapter 2 of the Dyck textbook, the number of democracies worldwide has risen dramatically over the last couple of decades, to the point that currently a majority of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=907&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1 or Chapter 2 Post&#8211;Global Military Expenditures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in POLI 1140 today, your blog assignment for this week is to write a post related to anything in Chapters 1 or 2 of the Mingst and Arreguin-Toft textbook. You have until midnight, Friday January 20 to publish your post. Here is an example of what I would consider to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=894&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite vacation spot</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/17/my-favourite-vacation-spot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve visited a lot of places in the world, but I&#8217;d have to say that this place is my absolute favourite. &#160; Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=892&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is the link between Globalization and Poverty?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I noted that the narrator of the Globalization is Good documentary claimed that there was a strong correlation between how globalized a country is and poverty. Specifically, those countries that are globalized are likely to have less poverty. How does this claim stand up to empirical scrutiny? Well, one answer comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=882&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization is good&#8230;or is it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is globalization good for those in developing countries? What is the link between globalization and poverty? What about globalization and democracy? Today in IS210 we watched a documentary in which the narrator argued that more globalization is good for the poor in developing countries. He argued that countries that have (and are) globalizing, such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=879&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Globalization Cause Ethnic Conflict?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s session in IS 309 addressed the link between globalization and ethnic conflict. Our main reading material came from Amy Chu&#8217;s book, World On Fire, the thesis of which is that the twin phenomena of economic globalization and the spread of liberal democracy cause ethnic conflict in countries that have &#8220;market-dominant minorities.&#8221; Cynthia Olzak&#8217;s recently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=874&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where do most of the World&#8217;s Poor Live?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recently released report. the Center for Global Development argues that there are more poor people in middle-income countries (MICs) than in low-income countries (LICs). The new &#8220;bottom billion&#8221; (the phrase made famous by economic Paul Collier&#8217;s book of the same name) is not only the result of India and China having moved from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=869&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Documentary on Partition of Palestine 1947&#8211;With Map</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2011/03/23/partition-of-palestine-1948/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1947, the UN General Assembly voted 33-13 (with 10 abstentions and 1 absent) in favour of a resolution (181) that would partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Today in IS309 we watched Benny Brunner&#8217;s documentary, Al Nakba (&#8220;the catastrophe&#8221;, in Arabic), which sets out to tell the story of the partition, the ensuing civil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=864&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Media and Political Unrest</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2011/03/22/digital-media-and-political-unrest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Oxford University Press blog (what a great idea!), Philip Howard assesses the link between digital (specifically, social) media and political unrest in the Middle East and north Africa. Although he cautions against running afoul of the common &#8220;correlation is not causation&#8221; fallacy, Howard does make an illuminating point about the impact of social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=861&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regime Change, Freedom, Democracy, and Islam</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2011/03/15/regime-change-freedom-democracy-and-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our IS210 class, we&#8217;ve been assessing nondemocratic regimes. I had my students read an article by M. Steven Fish, published in World Politics in 2002, titled &#8220;Islam and Authoritarianism.&#8221; In it, the author notes the striking empirical finding that a majority of Arab Muslim countries had nondemocratic regimes, even after controlling for potentially confounding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=857&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microcon Releases Publications in honour of International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2011/03/10/microcon-releases-publications-in-honour-of-international-womens-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you may know, since the early 1900s March 8th is used to observe International Women&#8217;s Day. In honour of this day, the Microcon group, which is a group of scholars who analyze violent conflict using micro-level approaches, has made publicly available a set of research papers related to sex, gender, and violence. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=853&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gender and violence during and after India/Pakistan Partition 1947</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I made reference to a fascinating and very informative BBC documentary that deals with the final days of British rule on the Indian subcontinent and the eventual partition of that territory in 1947 into a Muslim-dominated Pakistan (east and west) and a Hindu-dominated India.  In part four of the documentary an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=846&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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