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		<title>Functions of Constitutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a response to a story that I blogged about yesterday, New Yorker Magazine Senior Editor, Hendrik Hertzberg, takes issue with the claim that the US Constitution has become increasingly irrelevant as a model for constitution-builders worldwide. Hertzberg writes: The problem is that the study focusses almost exclusively on rights—the individual and civil rights that are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Post on Political Ideology from a Student of Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to a great blog post from a POLI 1100 student of mine about political ideology and the role of the family as an agent of political socialization. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: When I got my mother to take the political compass test I was sure her result was going to show that she was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=995&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PM Harper&#8217;s Foreign Policy Shift Towards China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the National Post, Peter Godspeed argues that Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#8217;s pending visit to China represents somewhat of a foreign policy pivot for the Conservative government. Like the United States, Canada is in the midst of a foreign policy pivot in Asia&#8230; &#8230;Tuesday, Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister, arrives in the Chinese capital for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=992&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countries no longer look to US Constitution as Template</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the New York Times, we learn of the waning popularity of the US constitution as a guide for constitution-makers worldwide. A study in the New York University Law Review, which will be published in June, shows that whereas in 1987 a vast majority of the world&#8217;s countries had &#8220;written charters modeled directly or indirectly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=990&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Nye on Shifts on Smart Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the leading scholars of IR theory is Joseph Nye, who teaches at Harvard University. He, along with co-author Robert Keohane, wrote one of the seminal works in IR theory&#8211;Power and Interdependence. Here is a short, but interesting TED talk in which Nye explains, amongst other things, the distinction between power transition and power diffusion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=982&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing My Political Ideology to that of an Elderly Couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently blogged about research that does not support the conventional wisdom that individuals get more conservative as they age. What kind of research design would help us determine, with a high degree of certainty, whether individuals do, in fact, become more conservative (politically) as they age? The best would be a panel study, which interviews [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=976&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Political Ideology Change as we Age?</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/30/does-political-ideology-change-as-we-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has long been accepted conventional wisdom that as we age we become more conservative in our political views. Remember the quote that has been (allegedly) wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill: &#8220;If you&#8217;re not a liberal when you&#8217;re 25, you have no heart.  If you&#8217;re not a conservative by the time you&#8217;re 35, you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=971&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helpful series of videos explaining IR theory</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/30/helpful-series-of-videos-explaining-ir-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If, like many beginning students of IR theory, you are stumped by some of the nuances of the various IR theories, there is a helpful set of videos in which IR experts try to explain the theories in everyday language. (H/t to a student of mine&#8211;sensnation&#8211;for alerting me to the existence of these videos.) I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=968&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Withdrawal from Kyoto, and Why it Might Make Sense to Some.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from someoriginalname: Personally, I have been appalled from the get-go at Canada’s lack of action regarding Kyoto. In all honesty, I did not follow it as much as a socially conscious individual should, but I did keep an ear to the ground for any large potential developments regarding it. Unfortunately for myself (and Mother [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=967&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons Change States&#8217; Behaviour?</title>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/29/does-the-acquisition-of-nuclear-weapons-change-states-behaviour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political scientist James Fearon has an interesting blog post on the political science blog, The Monkey Cage. In it, he asks, and then gives an answer to, the question &#8220;How do states act after they get nuclear weapons?&#8221; The issue, Fearon notes, is gaining increasing attention in the United States, given the alleged quest by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=964&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are your Political Attitudes and Ideologies Biologically Determined?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week (January 31) in POLI 1100, we&#8217;ll be discussing political attitudes and political ideologies. The conclusion of Chapter 5 in Dyck summarizes political ideologies nicely: Conflicting ideologies offer us a means of understanding our society, situating ourselves in the political world, and participating in actions intended to advance our interests and those of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=958&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Intro to IR Class is full of Realists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday in POLI 1140, the students completed an class oil-market exercise in which pairs of students engaged in a strategic situation that required them to sell oil at specific prices. Many students were able to understand relatively quickly that the &#8220;Oil Game&#8221; was an example of the classic prisoner&#8217;s dilemma (PD). As Mingst and Arreguin-Toft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdasovic.com&amp;blog=2331273&amp;post=950&amp;subd=josipdasovic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://jdasovic.com/2012/01/24/935/</link>
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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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		<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>
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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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