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diff --git a/Butler-questions-2021.pdf b/Butler-questions-2021.pdf Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 7be6ace..0000000 --- a/Butler-questions-2021.pdf +++ /dev/null diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eee07d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +default: build + +build: + ls -1 | grep target || mkdir target + pandoc -C paper.md --pdf-engine=xelatex -H https://mohit.uk/formatting.tex -V fontsize:12pt -o target/paper.pdf + pandoc -C paper.md --css=https://mohit.uk/document.css -s -o target/paper.html + + make plan + cp target/paper.pdf 'target/Agarwal,Mohit.pdf' + +plan: + pandoc plan.md --pdf-engine=xelatex -H https://mohit.uk/formatting.tex -V fontsize:12pt -o target/plan.pdf + +clean: + rm -rf target + +count: + echo "Maximum wordcount (including bibliography):" + echo "3500" + echo "Current wordcount (including bibliography):" + pandoc -C + paper.md -t plain | wc -w + +read: + zathura target/paper.pdf& @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: The significance of international organisations in times of crisis +author: Mohit Agarwal +date: July 2021 +bibliography: ["reference.bib"] +link-citations: true +csl: https://www.zotero.org/styles/apa-6th-edition +papersize: a4 +nocite: '@*' +--- + +<!-- *y --> Do international organisations matter in times of global crises, and if so how? + +In the modern world international organisations are intense +concentrations of power, influence, and authority with which + +# References and bibliography @@ -1,9 +1,64 @@ -## Question +Do international organisations matter in times of global crises, and +if so how? -Questions I like: +# Reading -* Do international organisations matter in times of global crises, and - if so how? -* Should people offending each other on social media be a matter of - criminal justice? -* Can news media be politically neutral? +## Bank of International Settlements + +### Guardian: BIS on interest rates + +* potentially a crisis +* a statement on important events +* someone who can say such a thing and has authority on the matter +* still cannot do anything to the banks +* link to cryptocurrency + + BIS was the one global body to point out in advance of the + financial crash of 2007 that booming asset prices could cause + problems even during periods of low inflation, and its latest + warning will be seen as a call for its central bank members to + start returning monetary policy to more normal settings. + + “Globally, interest rates have been extraordinarily low for an + exceptionally long time, in nominal and inflation-adjusted terms, + against any benchmark”, the report said. + + The US Federal Reserve is likely to be the first central bank in any + major advanced country to raise interest rates. Wall Street expects + the Fed to tighten policy later this year, with the Bank of England + forecast to follow in 2016. The European Central Bank and the Bank of + Japan are currently still using quantitative easing – the creation of + electronic money – to boost activity. + +## Interpol + +## United Nations + +### NYT: UN on Systemic Racism in Policing + +* potential crisis +* will it really achieve anything at all +* reference ted kazyniski : societal issues, cannot be changed + + “It’s a very important step forward,” said Hannah Garry, a law + professor at the University of Southern California. “I see this + international mechanism as a precursor to a future commission of + inquiry.” + +### UN on Russian involvement in Africa + +* UN supported this action +* UN then found it wasn't such a good thing +* UN still unable to do anything in relation to the matter + + The Kremlin offered to send unarmed military trainers to help + train the Central African Army in a mission blessed by the United + Nations, which carved out an exception to the arms embargo on the + Central African Republic in place since 2013. + + But it quickly became clear that the Russian trainers were in fact + armed mercenaries, and the operation has evolved into a thinly + veiled effort to build influence and strike business deals for the + Kremlin in Africa, including lucrative diamond deals, to the + benefit of businessmen including a close confidant of President + Vladimir V. Putin. diff --git a/reference.bib b/reference.bib new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5382b74 --- /dev/null +++ b/reference.bib @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +@article{interpol-palestine, + title = "Interpol votes to admit Palestine as full member", + author = "Peter Beaumont", + year = "2017", + journal = "The Guardian", + url = "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/27/interpol-votes-to-admit-palestine-as-full-member" +} + +@article{bis-interest, + title = "Interest rates and growth warning from Bank for International Settlements", + author = "Larry Elliott", + year = "2015", + journal = "The Guardian", + url = "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/28/interest-rates-growth-warning-bank-for-international-settlements" +} + +@article{un-racism, + title = "U.N. to Form Panel to Investigate Systemic Racism in Policing", + author = "Nick Cumming-Bruce", + year = "2021", + journal = "The New York Times", + url = "https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/world/united-nations-panel-human-rights-council-racism.html" +} + +@article{russia-africa, + title = "Russian Mercenaries Are Driving War Crimes in Africa, U.N. Says", + author = "Declan Walsh", + year = "2021", + journal = "The New York Times", + url = "https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/world/asia/russia-mercenaries-central-african-republic.html" +} + |