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INTRODUCTION 
Alexander Wendt is one of the core social constructivist scholars in the field of international relations. He developed a theory of the international system as a social construction. He refers to his theory as a constructivist approach to international politics although he said that it is a kind of idealism, a structural idealism.
Wendt’s most influential [...]

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I. Summary
Joseph E. Stiglitz’ book Globalization and its Discontents works at the premise that globalization is not an inherently evil concept. However, it is the management of globalization by international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO), that has produced discontents particularly from developing [...]

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This book gives an insider perspective of how and why former president Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada lost the presidency in a people’s uprising also known as EDSA People Power 2 in January of 2001.
The authors, Aphrodicio and Eleanor Laquian both served Erap in his short tint as president. Estrada appointed Aphrodicio Laquian as his chief [...]

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