Happy Quiche Lorraine Day! A couple of weeks ago I hosted a FRENCH SPRINGTIME BRUNCH First, here’s the Quiche Lorraine! The recipe is from the 1965 Chamberlain Calendar of French Menus which has appeared multiple times on the blog. The stuffed egg recipe was also in the Chamberlain Calendar. I will note that this versionContinue reading Quiche Lorraine Day and My French Springtime Brunch
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Over the past decade, two, intertwined research agendas on international financial subordination (IFS) and subordinate financialization (SF) have proposed to identify how an increasingly finance-dominated global capitalism incorporates the (Semi-)Peripheries.
The IFS research agenda recognizes that a “subordinate” national currency comes with a risk premium increasing the costs of financing public debt – in other words, the current, US dollar-based currency hierarchy acts as a structural fiscal constraint in the Global South, limiting the scope for badly needed public investments. Foreign capital – in the form of foreign currency-denominated sovereign and private debt-, foreign aid, and foreign direct investment – is then touted as a solution to this artificial and unfair developmental constraint.
Speaking to young people reveals a vast divide in how they view President Erdoğan, the opposition, Turkey and each other
To blame rampant nationalism or sneaking Islamism for the many failings of Turkish democracy is lazy journalism
Angelo Calianno spoke to supporters of the Turkish opposition during the two ballots in the closely fought Presidential election against Recep Erdoğan
The death toll from the February 6th quake is over 50,000. It doesn't have to be this way.
Hugh Pope reports from the provincial Turkish town of Kumluca ahead of an election which is predicted to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from power
Merve Pehlivan explores the different reasons increasing numbers of women are choosing not to stay covered
The Turkish opposition’s “memorandum of understanding on common policies” reveals which way they’re likely to steer the country should they win May’s election.
Türkiye's economy, reeling after the Feb. 6 earthquake, will need beneficial economic ties with Russia more than ever despite western pressure.