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Ethnic diversity may not be an unalloyed good. A reputable research body in the Netherlands found several very real challenges that are the result of increasing ethnic diversity. Let's have a look at their paper.
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Sources & Credits:
All sources in Dutch unless otherwise specified.
The WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy):
https://www.wrr.nl/over-de-wrr/taak-werkwijze-en-evaluatie
Central Statistics Bureau definition (click the [i] button to see it)
https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/82809NED/table?dl=844D
Image of Japanese man:
Jon Rawlinson CC-BY-2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/london/354810138
Cartoon of Erdogan:
Michel Kichka
http://iroon.com/irtn/cartoon/3250/
Data for economic growth on the map:
Central Bureau for Statistics 2015 (data for 2014, published in 2015)
https://www.cbs.nl/-/media/imported/documents/2015/51/tabel%20economische%20groei%20naar%20coropgebied%20en%20provincie.xls
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Today's #WorldPressFreedomDay. Let's do something with that.
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I messed up copy-pasting the countries that imprison journalists. There's a bunch missing from the list in the video, and I didn't notice until after uploading. Here's the full list:
• China (54)
• Egypt (37)
• Turkey (35)
• Iran (28)
• Syria (24)
• Vietnam (23)
• Bahrain (15)
• Eritrea (15)
• Azerbaijan (13)
• Saudi Arabia (11)
• Bangladesh (10)
• Uzbekistan (9)
• Morocco/Western Sahara (8)
• Russia (7)
• Myanmar (7)
• Thailand (4)
• Laos (4)
• Cambodia (3)
• Somalia (3)
• United Arab Emirates (3)
• Cuba (2)
• Pakistan (2)
• Ukraine (2)
• Venezuela (2)
• Algeria (2)
• North Korea (2)
• Congo-Brazzaville (1)
• Kazakhstan (1)
• Kuwait (1)
• Libya (1)
• Tajikistan (1)
• Turkmenistan (1)
• Mauritania (1)
• Oman (1)
• Palestine (1)
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Sources:
Reporters Without Borders:
https://rsf.org/en
World Press Freedom Index:
Live: https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table
Archive: https://archive.is/uJKXw
Download the map as PDF: https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/carte_2018_en_5.pdf
Journalists and media assistants murdered or imprisoned, per country:
https://rsf.org/en/barometer?year=2018&type_id=233#list-barometre
archive: https://archive.is/uo09w
Background on the murder in Slovakia
https://www.politico.eu/article/jan-kuciak-gorilla-slovakia-journalist-dead-darkest-day/
archive: https://archive.is/yIFR3
https://rsf.org/en/slovakia
archive: https://archive.is/ySogE
Methodology of the World Press Freedom Index:
https://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodolo..
Bruce Gilley, a Political Science PhD and Associate Professor at Portland State University had the balls to write a defence of colonialism. Let's take a look at that.
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The Case for Colonialism:
Bruce Gilley (2017): The case for colonialism, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037
An interview with Bruce Gilley, which includes a lot of background information on the witchhunt that ensued. It’s in Dutch, because this Dutch journalist is the first and only journalist to seek Gilley out for an interview:
Sources from the paper specifically mentioned in this video:
--In alphabetical order
Abernethy, D. B. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Burton, A., and M. Jennings. “Introduction: The Emperor’s New Clothes? Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 40, no. 1 (2007): 1–25.
Chesterman, S. You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. doi:10.1093/0199263485.001.0001.
Darwin, J. “Exit and Colonial Administrations.” In Exit Strategies and State Building, edited by R. Caplan, 22–36. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Hammond, R. J. Portugal and Africa, 1815–1910: A Study in Uneconomic Imperialism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
Hechter, M. “Alien Rule and Its Discontents.” American Behavioral Scientist 53, no. 3 (2009): 289–310. doi:10.1177/0002764209338794.
Herbst, J. I. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in..
The recently published report "Weapons of the Islamic State" is the result of three years of investigations on the front lines, and seeks to establish the supply lines of weapons to the Islamic State. Let's take a look at the results!
Sources:
The report: Conflict Armament Research. (2017, December). Weapons of the Islamic State. London: Conflict Armament Research. Retrieved from http://www.conflictarm.com/download-file/?report_id=2568&file_id=2574 on 17 December 2017
Dutch government acknowledges that a ´59-strong US-led coalition’ supported ‘the moderate Syrian opposition’ including ‘some, but not all factions associated with the Free Syrian Army’:
https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/dossier/27925/kst-27925-527?resultIndex=76&sorttype=1&sortorder=4
U.S. established a CIA program that sent arms to FSA factions:
https://archive.is/O4nCJ
Arms Trade Treaty:
https://www.un.org/disarmament/att/
EU Common Position on Arms Export:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32008E0944&from=EN
More information on EU attitude to arms and weapons control:
https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/427/disarmament-non-proliferation-and-arms-export-control_en
Credits:
All maps and graphs by me
All photos by Conflict Armament Research, unless otherwise specified
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