International Relations Issues

Consumer Driven Economy

| Living in Australia isn’t too bad considering the recession | Have you had any thoughts on the current capitalist global economic recession? | Well, it has sure forced me to reconsider my position on the Asian Crisis in ‘97 | so you think the capitalist driving economy may not be correct? | Nah, I’m still a consumer to the core | but you’re reconsidering your position! | yes, I think I’ll move to the U.S.

Understanding International Relations

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Sometimes I wonder why I bother studying international relations if I can’t even understand my housemates…
If I was to relate learning from my housemates to IR, I guess I’d say it’d have to be the course on Human Security
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| …then tensions rise for no apparent reason | Sure, the economy is not the best right now, but this is a first world nation, and there is no particular threat to the security | perhaps there is some underlying rhetoric that you haven’t heard yet? |Well, maybe but there is an agreement between all the parties | So which International Relations course is this for anyway? | International Relations? I’m talking about my housemates |