My head hurts.... I'm doing a bit of my autumn term essay for my International Political Economy course. The catchy title is "Compare and contrast 'Realist' and 'Liberal Institutionalist approaches to the feasiblity of international cooperation".

One of the journal articles i'm looking at for it is "Anarchy and the limits of cooperation: a realist critque of the newest liberal institutionalism" at first I thought it was a piece of on the Mingers of Cowley street scrabbling around to find a few millions to repay there dodgy donations but it appears not to be the case.

It turns out the essay question is a bit of a trick one as it makes no mention of neo liberal institutionalism which has been the a major part of the academic discourse in the subject for the past couple of decades. You live and learn eh. This is different of course to to the economic neo liberalism that the IMF likes to impose on country that it gives financial aid. Academia obscure? Never. At least not with the help of the Economic and Social Research Councils Heroes of Dissemination - academics who explain to the public what on earth they are going on about. Apparently plans for Heroes of Insemination have been shelved as unethical.

Anyway when the essay is handed in I shall post it on here and we can play Bullshit Bingo.  ¶ 11:54 am