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		<title>Elections in Canada: Harper&#8217;s last bow?</title>
		<link>https://society.ie/2015/09/elections-in-canada-harpers-last-bow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2015 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruairi Maguire]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is certain that the slowdown in the Chinese economy will have far-reaching political repercussions. Across the world, countries reliant on the export of natural resources and commodities are about to enter a period of economic turbulence due to the decline in Chinese demand, with corresponding electoral fallout for those in power. The exemplar here is Brazil, whose economy slid into recession this year. A tanking economy, biting inflation (above 7 per cent)[1] and an expected period of fiscal austerity have combined with discontent at a corruption scandal to make Dilma Rousseff the most unpopular Brazilian president since polling began.[2]  This is a reasonably dramatic illustration of the travails about to be endured by most of South America, and by a broader group of countries reliant on commodity exports. I shall refer to this group as the “Brazil club”. As Canada prepares to go the polls[3], it remains an open question whether it is in the Brazil club or not. Certainly its economy is in recession, and the slide in oil prices has a great deal to do with this. [4] It is clear also that after 9 years of rule by the Conservative Party, during the last four of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A floating dilemma: the Mediterranean crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Ó Giobúin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International reported July 2014 that at least 2,600 individuals had died attempting to cross the Mediterranean since 2011. In the nine month period between October 2013 and June the following year, 43,430 would be migrants were rescued by the Italian Navy as part of Operation Mare Nostrum, a rescue initiative which cost the Italian government in the region of 9 million euro per month, and was wound down in November 2014 (Amnesty, 2014, pp. 22-23). While further engaging in search and rescue is likely to benefit both smugglers and illegal immigrants at the expense of the EU, curtailing it has already been shown not to decrease migration into EU territories so much as increase the risk involved in what has already become the world’s deadliest migration route. It remains important for programmes such as the Mare Nostrum programme initially pursued by the Italian government to be adopted on a pan-European basis in order to save lives and maintain the human rights the EU claims to uphold. However, in order to further ensure that the risk to individual life is limited while the integrity of the EU’s borders is maintained, it is essential not only to ensure efforts are conducted on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Geopolitical preferences and the Securitization debate</title>
		<link>https://society.ie/2015/02/geopolitical-preferences-and-the-securitization-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Ó Giobúin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent events in Paris have again brought the debate of securitization to the fore in European political dialogue. The acts, perpetrated by members of a minority ethnic community against a bastion of francité &#8211; the free press, has been decried not only in France, but across Europe as a continent and further afield. In its wake, not only have we seen acts of violence against ethnic minority communities, but also renewed calls for the rejection of multiculturalism and increased restriction on immigration. The securitization debate involves the framing of immigrants as an ‘existential, material and/or physical safety threat’, with something defined as a security problem when declared by elites to be so (Lahav et al., 2014, p. 213). The Hague Programme agreed upon by the European Council in 2004 was intended to strengthen pan-European control of illegal immigration by ‘establishing a continuum of security measures’, with such measures ‘also of importance for the prevention and control of crime, in particular terrorism’ (The Hague Programme, 2005, in Mitsilegas, 2012, p. 17). The maintenance of this ‘Fortress Europe’ mentality has arisen not only as a result of unwanted immigration being perceived as a burden on the resources of the state, but also in response to both the increased securitization [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Media on Gaza: information or speculation?</title>
		<link>https://society.ie/2014/07/media-on-gaza-information-or-speculation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Ó Giobúin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media is a powerful tool of information. A look at our screens or a glance through the newspapers can not only provide information on different current events, but can also convey the suffering and plight of individuals across the globe. In recent times, the imagery of Palestinian suffering helped bolster Palestinian solidarity protests worldwide, with calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine or the lifting of the siege of Gaza common demands. These seem like reasonable demands for the preservation of human dignity and the right to self-determination. But the emotions which imagery can convey can also negatively influence the objectivity of our conclusions. With this in mind, it is important in the interest of impartiality to actually view the current situation in the Gaza strip in light of facts. In 2005, Israel withdrew its army and dismantled all Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip, with any Israeli citizens who refused to move voluntarily being evicted by the Israeli army. Despite the current situation often being portrayed as one of continued occupation of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli forces, the Gaza strip is now under the control of the Palestinian Authority, with the recent incursion by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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