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		<title>What IR means to us</title>
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At the beginning of the year, we understood international relations from our perspective as individuals- how our actions affect international relations.  However, this semester has taught us that International relations include many different aspects.  We now understand how governing bodies and organizations affect global relations in addition to how we affect those relations personally.   
 International [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=13&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/what-ir-means-to-us/</link>
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		<title>The OAS and IFIs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[            International financial institutions, or IFIs, are financial
establishments founded and directed by more than one country.  These
institutions, whether created by multiple nations or simply two
countries, are typically owned by national governments and other
prominent international institutions.  Among the most well known are the
World Bank and the IMF.
        The Organization of American States has been known to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=12&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-oas-and-ifis/</link>
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		<title>Rules-based thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our opinion, the OAS almost exclusively uses the rules-based or deontological perspective in its moral decision making.  The OAS places a strong emphasis on the duties and obligations of its member states, and thus reiterates the “agent-centered” focus of deontological thinking.  All OAS member states have a duty to follow the principles set forth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=11&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/rules-based-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Ethics and Morality in the OAS</title>
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In his book, International Ethics, Mark Amstutz states that the quest for territorial security, economic wellbeing, and preservation of stable and humane global order is rooted in moral values.  Since it is difficult, however, for those moral norms to conduct foreign affairs easily, one can appreciate the Organization of American States for serving as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=10&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ethics-and-morality-in-the-oas/</link>
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		<title>The Significance of the State in the OAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The role of the state is central to the foundations of the Organization of American States. Aside from its title, the OAS is shaped by three specific aspects of the state. First, all members of the OAS are by definition, states. They all meet the four necessary conditions of a definite geographical boundary, a stable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=9&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/the-significance-of-the-state-in-the-oas/</link>
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		<title>The International System and the OAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
The international system that most pertains to the Organization of
American States is that according to Liberals. Under this notion, the
international system is viewed from three perspectives.  The first sees
the system as a process rather than a structure, the second as an
international society, and the third as anarchic.  To reiterate, the OAS
strives “to achieve an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=8&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/the-international-system-and-the-oas/</link>
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		<title>Liberals and the OAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In terms of international theory, we believe that the realist school pertains most to our focus on the Organization of American States (OAS).  Originally founded as the Pan American Union, the OAS was modified in April of 1948 and adopted the world’s first treatise of human rights, the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=7&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/liberals-and-the-oas/</link>
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		<title>Semester Focus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the semester long focus of our blog, we have chosen to focus on the Organization of American States (OAS).  We picked this topic because we are both interested in South and Central American culture and feel that much of the popular media overlooks or ignores important developments in these American countries.  Also, since Ale [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=6&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/semester-focus/</link>
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		<title>Affects on and of International Relations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How we affect International Relations:
            - traveling around the world on our best behavior 
- studying abroad (Ale and I are both considering Argentina and/or Spain and South Africa)
- the clothes we buy
- the news programs, TV shows, movies, and music we watch and listen to
- the food we eat, and more importantly that which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=5&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/affects-on-and-of-international-relations/</link>
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		<title>Life Changing Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel that I can divide my life based upon my reaction to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandals of 2002.  I was born and raised Roman Catholic and spent 15 years at Catholic schools.  However, prior to events and publicity of 2002, I never questioned why I was Catholic let alone if I agreed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alekelsey.wordpress.com&blog=2535473&post=4&subd=alekelsey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://alekelsey.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/life-changing-experience/</link>
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