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Clocks and Clouds - 2013 VOL. 3 NO. 1

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Environmental Ethics
2013, Vol. 3 No. 1
Environmentalism and Postmaterialism in China
By Christopher Citro
Published by Clocks and Clouds
Postmaterialist values, those that emphasize higher-order human needs, have become widely accepted as the determining force behind environmentalism in the West. Little research has been dedicated to studying the importance of these values outside... Read Article »
Environmentalism Postmaterialism Chinese Culture China Environmental Politics
Human Trafficking
2013, Vol. 3 No. 1
Women in the Schoolhouse, Whitehouse, and Whorehouse: Empowering Sex Trafficked Women in Southeast Asia Through Education and Political Participation
By Matthew Lozada
Published by Clocks and Clouds
While the enslavement of humans has been occurring even before the dawn of written history, today's form of slavery occurs on an unprecedented scale in both scope and reach. This work attempts to understand the most vulnerable sectors of population... Read Article »
Human Trafficking Southeast Asia Sex Trafficking Human Rights International Law
American Politics
2013, Vol. 3 No. 1
The Populist Bind: Death Penalty Abolition as an Anti-Democratic Decision
By Aubrey Rose
Published by Clocks and Clouds
The continued application of the death penalty in the United States marks the country as an extreme outlier among its allies and like-minded nations in the 21st century. In order to explain America's retention of this criminal punishment, scholars... Read Article »
Death Penalty American Politics American Democracy Social Values Capital Punishment Populism
2013, Vol. 3 No. 1
Commercial Interests, Political Influence, and the Arms Trade
By Nicholas Taber
Published by Clocks and Clouds
Given the importance of the global defense trade to geopolitics, the global economy, and international relations at large, this paper examines the political economy of the U.S. defense industry. The goal of this study is to determine the extent... Read Article »
Military-Industrial Complex Defense Spending Arms Trade Political Economy Campaign Finance
Drug Trafficking
2013, Vol. 3 No. 1
Busted by the Feds? Government Corruption and Drug Trafficking
By Erica Thomas
Published by Clocks and Clouds
The international drug trade and the power of drug cartels have perplexed both analysts and policy makers for years. As drug production and trade grow, cartels have climbed to unthinkable heights of power and, in some cases, have crippled governments... Read Article »
Drug Trafficking Cartels Organized Crime Corruption Governance
Governance
2013, Vol. 3 No. 1
Trouble in Paradise: Fiji's Proclivity to Coups
By Tanya Vitusagavulu
Published by Clocks and Clouds
Widely known as a tropical tourist destination, the Fiji Islands have been gripped by political turmoil and have had four coups in a span of 20 years. Various factors such as tradition versus modernity, military-civilian relations, failure of constitutionality... Read Article »
Governance Coup D'etat Nationalism Fiji Island Nations Ethnic Conflict

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