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“FUELLING THE FIRE” THE ROLE AND RISKS POSED BY INTERNATIONAL SOVEREIGN BONDS IN THE SRI LANKA DEBT CRISIS
Joshua Lohka Argentina, Ghana, Ecuador, and Lebanon, each nation adds to a growing list of states who have come to default on their debt since 2019 (Nicholas and Illanperuma 2023, fig.3). Each of the aforementioned nations shares a key principal, high levels of debt accounted for by international sovereign bonds (ISBs) (Nicholas and Illanperuma 2023,…
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Afghanistan: A Static Response from a Dynamic World
Joshua Lohka The Taliban takeover and toppling of the Kabul government during the summer of 2021 marked the end of twenty years of foreign intervention within the Afghan state (PBS NewsHour, 2021) permanently shifting the monopoly on force within Afghanistan. Under the regime change to Taliban rule, Afghanistan has borne witness to a near universal…
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Question Period: Home of the Partisan, not the Diplomat.
Joshua Lohka If the purpose of question period is to develop an area where legislation and governance may be examined and explained; offering critical evaluation as well as clarity in understanding to both politicians and the Canadian public alike, then it has most certainly failed to meet its purpose. Question period in its current state…
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What Ideology Exposes
How viewing politics through the lens of ideology affects our understanding of politics Joshua Lohka Politics is an inescapable aspect of life. Through elections, social reforms and beliefs concerning humanity; politics is omnipresent. However the existence of politics within the lives of the individual does little to disrupt the veil which clouds an individual’s understanding…
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The Cost of Sovereignty Within the European Union
National sovereignty; traditionally a nation’s most prized possession, encompassing both the right to rule over a nation’s citizenry, and the ability to enforce said rule. It is sovereignty that allows nations to exist in the form which we understand them today. However, the development of supranational institutions such as the European Union, threatens the prized…
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