In the Classroom: Raymond Baker, Global Financial Integrity

Topics: Operating businesses in Lagos, Nigeria; Biafra War; Coups in Nigeria; illicit financial flows; Global Financial Integrity

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Raymond Baker's Books

Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System (2023) Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (2005) Wiley

Links

Raymond Baker: https://gfintegrity.org/staff-member/raymond-baker/

Global Financial Integrity: https://gfintegrity.org/

Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/American_in_Lagos

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Craig Allen Fravel: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/462

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Invisible Trillions: https://amzn.to/3tFx5ZM Capitalism's Achilles Heel: https://amzn.to/3Q3mzD3

In the Classroom: Professor Steven Schwinn, UIC School of Law

Topics: SCOTUS; 2023 affirmative action cases; Equal Protection Clause; reinterpreting Brown v. Board (1954); achieving diversity without considering race; legacy admissions

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The Politics Classroom website

The Politics Classroom YouTube Channel

The Bookshelf: under construction

Web Links

Professor Steven Schwinn: https://law.uic.edu/profiles/schwinn-steven/

UIC School of Law: https://law.uic.edu/

Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TPC_2023-14_transcript

Third Age: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285

Liberty: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/262

The Politics Classroom website: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/

The Politics Classroom YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@ProfessorFloros?si=RGS1YraHeU8b7RtF

The Bookshelf: under construction

In the Classroom: Professor Sharan Grewal, Department of Government, College of William and Mary

Topics: Tunisian revolution; democratic backsliding; self-coup; hyper-presidential political system; constitutional referendum; boycotting elections; secular/Islamist divide

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The Politics Classroom website

The Bookshelf

Episode on YouTube

Episode Links

Professor Sharan Grewal: https://sharangrewal.com/

Department of Government, College of William and Mary: https://www.wm.edu/as/government/index.php

Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/TunisiaDemocracyCollapse

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The Bookshelf: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/post/2023-13-the-collapse-of-tunisia-s-democracy

Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1QmNAJ2Kf2A

In the Classroom: Evan McKenzie, UIC Political Science

Topics: US Supreme Court; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson; writ of certiorari; Rule 10; rule of four; Voting Rights Act, Sec. 2; Independent State Legislature "Theory"; Affirmative action

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In the Classroom: Evan McKenzie: https://www.evancmckenzie.com/ UIC Political Science: https://pols.uic.edu/

Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/RacismOverSCOTUS

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The Politics Classroom website: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/

In the Classroom: Semih Patan & Petia Kostadinova, UIC Political Science

Topics: Tunisia clarification and update; regimes, political systems, and voting rules 101; political party ideology; 2016 failed coup in Turkey; 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey

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Links Semih Patan: https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/patan-semih/

Petia Kostadinova: https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/kostadinova-petia

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In the Classroom: Semih Patan, PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago: https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/patan-semih/; https://pols.uic.edu/

Topics: Competitive authoritarianism; Turkish politics; Turkish 2023 presidential election; Justice and Development Party (AKP); AKP over time; secularism in Turkish politics; military as guardian of Turkish democracy (previously); detour into Tunisian politics

Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/CompetitiveAuthoritarianismTurkey

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The Politics Classroom ⁠website⁠: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/

For further information: ⁠The Bookshelf⁠: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/post/2023-10-competitive-authoritarianism-in-turkey

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In the Classroom: Professor Nicole Nguyen, UIC (Criminology, Law, and Justice; Educational Policy Studies)

Topics: Homeland Security curriculum in US schools; Countering Violent Extremism; role of teachers and therapists in policing extremism; gendered aspect of policing extremism; Zero Tolerance in schools; abolition; arguments that don't make sense; who becomes a terrorist

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For further information: The Bookshelf

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