{"id":488,"date":"2017-02-21T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=488"},"modified":"2017-02-21T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:55:11","slug":"global-issues-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2017\/02\/21\/global-issues-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Issues Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>When Elephants Fight: How Global Geopolitical Changes Affect African Institutions<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Dr. Quinn will discuss his book which describes how two region-wide shifts in prevailing political and economic institutions and practices of sub-Saharan Africa can be linked to two prior global geopolitical realignments: the end of WWII with the ensuing American and Soviet led bipolar system, and the end of the Cold War with American primacy. The argument assumes that ideas as well as material resources matter, and that how they matter is contingent on which particular nations are running, or trying to run, the international system as well as the type of competition or cooperation evident among and between the great powers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. John James Quinn, Professor of Political Science at Truman State University, will be speaking this week Thursday,\u00a0<b>February 23<\/b>, at\u00a0<b>7pm<\/b>\u00a0in\u00a0<b>MG 2001<\/b>. Here is a link to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1222607031141384\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Facebook event<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalissues.truman.edu\/\"><span class=\"s2\">our website<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for more information. We hope to see you there and that everyone gains a new perspective on issues that impact our global community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Global-Image-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Global-Image-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Global-Image-.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/Global-Image--300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Elephants Fight: How Global Geopolitical Changes Affect African Institutions &#8220;Dr. Quinn will discuss his book which describes how two region-wide shifts in prevailing political and economic institutions and practices of sub-Saharan Africa can be linked to two prior global geopolitical realignments: the end of WWII with the ensuing American and Soviet led bipolar system, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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