A privileged foreigner With reluctance, I accepted the invitation from a senior colleague at my institute to travel to Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, in July to teach a module within the Master’s of Public Administration programme at a sattelite…Continue Reading
Category: Global change
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Public Policy Bits: Grassroots Movements (Transition Initiative)
Today (18 April) in my class on sustainable development, we watched this video on transition network, an initiative to create and distribute the network of sustainable communities across the world. I think the students liked it. I thought that it…Continue Reading
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New Paper on Security in the Mekong River Basin. NEW PUBLICATION!
After three years of writing and revising, our paper on various ways of security being framed in the Mekong River Commission has come to light in International Relations journal Globalizations. Here one may read it. This is yet another wonderful collaboration…Continue Reading
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BBC: Big Tobacco Paying Bribes
I was recently taking breakfast with two friends in a quiet district of Amsterdam. While enjoying our salmon on omelet, and conversing in Dutch, we updated each other on our lives. A friend of my friend had a new job,…Continue Reading
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Workshop on “Translation in World Politics” at Kate Hamburger Kolleg, Duisburg, Germany
Last week, on October 08-09, I took part in a workshop at the University of Duisburg’s Kate Hamburger Kolleg (Centre for Global Cooperation Research) named “Translation in World Politics”. It was very pleasing to see the ideas of policy translation…Continue Reading
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“The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb
After 3 years of owning the book, I finally made the effort and read the book from cover to cover. It was hard to start off, but then went in a free-flow. There are many reviews on the Internet, so…Continue Reading
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New Article! Ways of Knowing Water: Water Security and Integrated Water Management. NEW PUBLICATION!
After waiting for over a year, finally our article is online! This article is titled “‘Ways of knowing’ water: integrated water resources management and water security as complementary discourses“, Andrea Gerlak and I wrote it for International Negotiations and Environmental…Continue Reading
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Global Governance of Biofuels. NEW PUBLICATION!
Farhad Mukhtarov co-authored a new paper (short communication) with Professor Patricia Osseweijer from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and dr. Robin Pierce from Harvard Law School (US). It appeared in the last issue of 2014 of Bio-based and Applied…Continue Reading
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bell hooks on teaching and critical thinking
One of the major things that makes my life meaningful at this particular moment is teaching and the chance to pass some knowledge and ways of thinking to my students. It is not self-esteem which I am gaining here, although…Continue Reading
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Institutional Design in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. NEW PUBLICATION!
The Journal of Environmental Science & Policy will feature in early 2015 an article co-authored by Farhad Mukhtarov, Svenja Fox, Nozila Mukhamedova and Kai Wegerich. This article is an attempt to resolve the tensions between the need for institutional reform…Continue Reading
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Public Policy Bits: Ways of Knowing Public Policy
Farhad Mukhtarov and Andrea Gerlak have just published an article in Policy Sciences, a well-respected political science journal, on Ways of Knowing and Integrated Water Resources Management. In this article, the authorss came up with the argument that there are 3…Continue Reading
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Public Policy Bits: Techno-fixes?
Albert Einstein famously proclaimed that “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it”. But we keep trying to fool ourselves that we can. We see technology as our ultimate solution, from extending our lives through synthetic biology,…Continue Reading
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River Basin Organizations and Global Governance. NEW PUBLICATION!
River Basin Organizations are ubiquitous nowadays. They carry different functions, forms and are founds across the world. However, what is the history of their evolution and who are the actors behind their prominence in water governance? Who are interested in…Continue Reading
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International Workshop on Water Security, Jerusalem 17-18 December, 2012
The Jerusalem Water Group of the Hebrew University is organizing a Workshop entitled “The Securitization of the Water Discourse” and to be held on December 17-18 in Jerusalem. The key-note speakers at the workshop will be Aaron Wolf, François Molle,…Continue Reading
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Bio-Economy Transition and Land Grabs
Energy transition to bio-based materials for fuel and heat is experiencing hype. Such transition has many attractions: away from fossil fuels that generate the climate change and dependence on the Middle East and Mr. Putin, as well as new forms…Continue Reading