Just a Change of Scenary?
Below an article that I recently wrote for a publication of the European Association for International Education ( www.eaie.org).
As its end of term, like all students at Hertie I am certainly feeling the crunch of deadlines - but there is light at the end of the tunnel... by mid-May all papers, exams and assignments will be finished!
Looking forward to comments on the article - particularly from fellow students who have experienced the move abroad!
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Is Global Democracy Possible?
This morning/afternoonProfessor Mathias König-Archibugi from LSE led a discussion attempting to answer that very question.
A question of that size certainly doesn't provide an easy yes or no answer - and Professor König-Archibugi developed a reasonable and realistic case arguing for the possibility of a global democratic polity, but one which is likely not in the foreseeable future. Thats not to say the sceptics have won - on the contrary, he provided some convincing counter arguments to the [...]The Real World: Berlin
Have you ever watched MTV’s the Real World? ½ dozen individuals come together and live in a house far to nice for them, for months at a time, and essentially argue and bicker with each-other, until usually, eventually someone is forced to leave the house for one inappropriate or another. And even though they seem to hate each other most of the time and fight like nothing I’ve ever seen, they are always so sad to leave on another at the end. Do these people get paid?
Somewhat like the close confines [...]Politics seems to be much easier in Canada
I've been trying to figure out over the last few days how exactly the German states organize themselves politically - and all I can say for sure - is that its complicated.
Two states have recently held elections, Hesse and Hamburg, and in both cases a coalition must be formed in order to govern, or such is my understanding of things. Forming coalitions is a tricky, and evidently lengthy, process, a month after the Hesse election it is still unclear which parties will join to form a government.
The Green [...]Cracking under the pressure is evidently a burden on the economy…
The FAZ (Frankfurter Allegemein Zeitung) ran an interesting article yesterday about the rate of college/university dropouts and gave three reasons why students fail to complete their studies.
Evidently, the number one reason is that students are unable to cope with the pressures and expectations of university. Second, are financial reasons, many students often cannot afford to continue with their educational development and must enter the workforce. Third, and finally, many students realize [...]