Marie Fester

Outgoing Director General of the WTO Roberto Azevêdo worked near miracles in 2013 and 2015. However, with US-global trade relations soured and 144 new trade barriers erected on account of COVID-19, the famed organization seems to be taking…
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There’s been a lot of focus on the ways that China’s hegemonic posturing will impact the future of economies around the world, with less focus on how it has utilized natural resources to assert dominance. Acknowledging the power that…
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"As Middle Eastern politics now play a large part of international news, it was fascinating to me to read a paper that explains a bit more about how this came about and how third party actors utilize their Middle Eastern allies. As nations…
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"In classes, we often hear about the brutalities committed by certain guerilla or counterinsurgency groups, and it has always made me wonder what draws people into participating in this kind of mass violence. I tried to find certain answers…
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"I’ve always been fascinated by Middle Eastern politics, but the Saudi Arabian and Iranian rivalry is of particular interest to me. I find the use of common identity as a military strategy, to mobilize citizens and militias to gain regional…
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"The study of care work is well documented in the fields of feminist legal theory and feminist economics, and in recent years there seems to be an increasing amount of literature that makes considerations based on other axes of inequality,…
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