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Title: Hot in Hellcat Canyon
A broken truck, a broken career and a breakup heard around world lands superstar John Tennessee McCord in Hellcat Canyon. Legend has it hearts come in two colors there: gold or black. And that you can find whatever you're looking for, whether it's love... or trouble. JT McCord may have found both in waitress Britt Langley.
Britt sees right through JT's hard edge and soft drawl to a person a lot like her: someone in need of comfort and the kind of healing best given hot and quick, with clothes off and the lights out.
Her wit is sharp but her eyes and heart - not to mention the rest of her - are soft, and JT is falling hard. But Britt is hiding a few secrets as dark as the hills, and JTs past looks set to invade their present. It's up to the people of Hellcat Canyon to help make sure their future includes a happily ever after.
Author: Julie Anne Long
Other books by this author that we've reviewed: It Started with a Scandal, Hot in Hellcat Canyon, Wild At Whiskey Creek, Dirty Dancing at Devil's Leap
Published by Avon Source: Publisher
Published: 05/31/2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
Pages: 277
See the title at Goodreads
Purchase your copy: Amazon
Visit the Author's Website
Hot in Hellcat Canyon was a real treat. It was my first book by Julie Anne Long and I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, it was a real gift to have the chance to read her story. This book is all about characters: their growth, their aspiration and their love. Is the story line is unique and full of surprises? Not really. A story between an actor and a waitress is quite common within romance stories. It could have easily become a cheesy love story and fall into a read that would have become uninteresting. Fortunately, that did not happen at all. Sure we find some "clichés", but it is beautifully crafted and I just did not mind at all about them.
I am not feeling as if I read a story, instead, I am feeling as if I was witnessing the growth of two individuals that were looking for self love and their quest to find themselves. Julie Anne Long was able to do something very powerful just there: making it all about Britt and JT. The characters are the story line and that's what every single book should be. Britt and JT were both on a spiritual quest of inner wisdom. As long as they are not willing to grow, there is no love possible for self or to have another one in their life. Both have very different background, but there was a higher energy at play. To me it was looking as fate and I am still smiling just thinking about it.
What is awesome in this book is that Julie Anne Long is playing with words (or her love of words). That is amazing! Both characters are smart and I just loved how the subtleties of different words and dialogue play a huge part in this story. Having us reading between the line and feel the feeling at the same time than Britt and JT :that is what writing is all about!
I don't want to give any spoilers, but I have to tell you that JT's toast at Felix's wedding and the Girls night out of Britt and Casey, were delicious!!!! What is really awesome in there is also a great reminder for us all: love has a lot of way to show up and be present enough to notice all of those little actions that are translating into love. The chemistry between Britt is JT is blowing us away and for that was a tremendous pleasure to have them interact with each other.
I really hope that we will have the chance to read more about Kayla and Casey, Franco (that I really hated at first, but he found a soft spot in my heart), Trucker and even Rebecca (that I found some annoying!). I just did not want the story to end and I am already missing Hellcat Canyon.
I recommend it to everyone!! It is light and deep at the same time. It is just perfect!
About JULIE ANNE LONG
USA Today bestselling author JULIE ANNE LONG originally set out to be a rock star when she grew up (and she has the guitars and fringed clothing stuffed in the back of her closet to prove it), but writing was always her first love. Since hanging up her guitar for the computer keyboard, her books frequently top reader and critic polls and have been nominated for numerous awards, including the RITA, Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice, and The Quills, and reviewers have been known to use words like "dazzling," "brilliant," and "impossible to put down" when describing them. Julie lives in Northern California.
Visit Julie at http://www.julieannelong.com, or http://www.facebook.com/AuthorJulieAnneLong
Praise for HOT IN HELLCAT CANYON
"A star herself in the historical-romance world, Long makes a flawless transition into contemporary romance with a wonderfully sweet yet also intensely sexy love story that brilliantly showcases her deliciously sharp sense of humor and rare gift for creating realistically quirky, wonderfully engaging characters."
— Booklist, Starred
"Bestseller Long […] has a brilliant, quirky style that gives her first contemporary a delightful gleam. Her clever phrases make her small-town setting and characters seem fresh and new. […] This laugh-out-loud treat is warmly emotional and richly satisfying."
— Publishers Weekly, Starred
"Long's ability to create a love story that leaps off the page is as impressive as her characters are likable and dynamic. Let's hope she keeps cranking them out for a long time."
— Kirkus Reviews
"A mash-up of celebrity drama and small-town quirkiness, perfectly timed comedic dialogue and a balance of truly romantic tenderness are all hallmarks of Long's Pennyroyal Green books, and it turns out that those things work really well in a contemporary American West setting, too.
— RT Book Reviews, 4.5 Stars, Top Pick!
"Julie Anne Long's books are sexy and adorable!"
— New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis
"Julie Anne Long's writing glows with emotional intensity and strong, passionate characterization."
— New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz
"Funny, sexy, heartwarming, Long moves seamlessly into the contemporary market."
— New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lori Wilde
"Sizzlingly smart! Long's fresh new contemporary voice rocks!"
— New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Susan Andersen
Where to buy HOT IN HELLCAT CANYON
Avon: http://avonromance.com/book/9780062397621/hot-in-hellcat-canyon-2/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hellcat-Canyon-Julie-Anne-Long/dp/0062397613/
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iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hot-in-hellcat-canyon/id1037882296
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Julie_Anne_Long_Hot_in_Hellcat_Canyon?id=c82HCgAAQBAJ
And a man.
They all went silent.
He was lean and tall—his head brushed the top of the door frame—and something about his posture made Britt glance at his hips. She wouldn't have been surprised to see a holster slung there, as if they'd all been transported back to the Wild West and he was the fastest gun. He had that sort of presence.
He stood in the doorway a moment, adjusting to the cool dark.
"Any chance you folks serving lunch yet?"
His boots echoed on the floor as he slowly stepped forward into the light. Longish dark hair, nearly to his shoulders, pushed back behind his ears. Pale blue chambray shirt open at the throat and rolled to his elbows, worn loose over faded jeans. Something about the way his clothes fit his body told her he hadn't bought any of them at Walmart. His stubble-darkened jaw could have been drawn with a protractor, so precise and severe were its lines. It was a face straight out of a daguerreotype. He had a sort of elemental beauty that smacked her in the solar plexus the way her first glimpse of Hellcat Canyon had.
"Maybe." Giorgio had sized him up as not one of us, and better-looking than me, and defaulted to surly.
Britt shot Giorgio a quelling look.
A crashing sound and an oath in the kitchen heralded Glenn's arrival.
"We serve it all day," Britt corrected, as Sherrie slipped into the kitchen to see what her husband had knocked over.
The stranger came closer, tilting his head back to study the menu chalked on the board hanging horizontally behind Giorgio. try the glennburger! the sign always said. eight secret ingredients!
She and Giorgio watched him in uncertain silence, as if a bear had wandered in. Weeks could go by before someone they didn't know by at least their first name crossed the threshold of the Misty Cat.
"Can you give me just a hint about the secret ingredients in a Glennburger?"
Giorgio slowly mopped beneath his armpit with a handkerchief. Britt had never seen anyone mop an armpit threateningly before, but it was happening before her eyes.
"Sweat," he finally answered.
The stranger was regarding Giorgio with mild but unblinking curiosity that made the hair prickle on the back of Britt's neck. As if nothing anyone did could surprise him, but if they tried, boy, would he be ready.
"That's funny," he said. "I was going to guess 'love.'" It was a masterpiece of irony.
"It has onions," Britt volunteered hurriedly. "Spices. Nothing . . . bodily."
"Guess it's one of those things where you have to know the Masonic handshake to get the recipe."
It was meant to be a joke, but it fell into the vacuum of Giorgio's hostility.
She suspected the stranger anticipated that it would. And didn't care.
Britt shot Giorgio another look. She mostly understood his instinct to attempt to drive off interlopers, the way Jet the dog did. Most of the people who lived in Hellcat Canyon liked it the way it was, and strangers were reminders that if things were different elsewhere, they could change here, too.
But unkindness always got her back up.
Sherrie emerged from the kitchen—Glenn behind her—accurately assessed the situation and the stranger with wide, appreciative eyes, and then gave him a little pat, part pity, part motherliness.
"Why don't you have a seat right over here, hon, and we'll get the grill going. Britt will bring you something cold or something hot, whatever you need. If you try the Glennburger, you'll never forget it."
Enveloped in warm, easy Sherrie-ness, he did what he was told and settled himself beneath a window.
Britt was inclined to like people who flung things like "Masonic handshakes" into jokes. They were few and far between in a small town like Hellcat Canyon, though people here would surprise you. Everyone had their own reason for living here, often very personal or, even, like her own, as secret as the ingredients in a Glennburger. When she'd arrived she'd burrowed into the place like it was a blanket fort, deciding she'd found safety at last.
Though she was smart enough to know that safety was an illusion and that just calling it safety didn't make it so. He sat down, leaned back with a sigh, and stretched out those long legs as though he'd been walking on them for miles. His boots were dusty and a bit creased, but gorgeous in their simplicity. They looked as though he'd owned them forever and had probably cost more than the land the Misty Cat Cavern sat on.
He plucked up the menu wedged between the napkin holder and the little Tabasco bottle and fanned it open.
"What can I get for you?" she said briskly.
"Well, I think I've already had the something cold," he said in a confiding, lowered voice to Britt, with a tilt of his head in the direction of Giorgio. "And I guess that would make you the something . . ."
He trailed off again at whatever he saw in her face. "Well, I've been driving all night, and it feels like lunchtime, so I think I'll have a beer," he said. Sounding amused. "A Sierra Nevada. The Stout."
"Sierra Nevada Stout." She didn't write it down.
"And I'll try the hamburger. Excuse me, the Glennburger. With all of the ingredients, secret and otherwise. Medium rare."
"Do you want cheese?" she asked.
"The cheese isn't secret?"
"No. A bit enigmatic, maybe."
He smiled at that, slowly, with genuine pleasure, and held her gaze a little longer than necessary. His eyes were a startling crystalline blue. She was reminded of rivers dashed into foam over rocks, and just like that, she was as breathless as if she'd dived into the icy snowmelt runoff of the Hellcat.
She mentally smacked away a surge of want as if it were a fanged predator. That kind of want hadn't breached her defenses in a long, long time.
She steeled her gaze to impassivity.
His gaze turned quizzical and then faintly amused; then he dropped his eyes casually to the menu again. Which she was happy about, because then she could stare at him unguarded. His shirtsleeves were rolled nearly to his elbows. His forearms were tanned gold and corded and dusted in coppery hair. His fingers were long and elegant but the hands looked well used; an old pale scar traversed one. A musician, or a carpenter, maybe. A narrow streak of silver threaded up through his black hair where he'd pushed it behind his ear.
A circlet of tiny, neat black words was tattooed on his wrist: "It has been a beautiful fight."
He closed the menu. "I'll have cheddar on it, then. And I have another question."
"Ask away!" she chirped.
He leaned casually back then, arms folded across his chest, and looked up at her for a moment without speaking. Then his mouth quirked wryly, as if to say, Now, we both know chirpiness isn't your real personality.
She gave him her blankly bright waitress face.
"Why is this place called the Misty Cat Cavern?" He said this with great gravity.
His voice was a visceral pleasure: deep, almost lazy, a bow drawn at leisure across a cello string. She thought she detected something Southern in the way he took his time with the vowels. It was a little too easy to imagine how he might sound right after he opened his eyes in the morning, when his sheets were still warm and the sun still just a suggestion of light at the top of Whiplash Peak. "Well, from what I understand, the previous owner— Earl Holloway?—was falling-down drunk when he ordered the sign over the phone about thirty years ago. Apparently the guy on the other end swore Earl had said 'Misty Cat Cavern' and refused to make him a new one.
Earl couldn't afford another sign. He about threw a fit but he hung it. It's the only neon sign on the whole street."
"What did he mean to call it?"
"The Aristocrat Tavern."
The stranger laughed, sounding surprised and genuinely delighted.
What a great laugh. She wanted to dive into that, too. "I'll be back with your beer," she said, and spun like someone fleeing.


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PEF home page and weblog
The consensus forecast of just about everybody – the IMF, the OECD, the Bank of Canada, the Canadian banks – is that Canada will share in a global recovery from the stagnation which followed the financial crisis of a decade ago. All of the major economies – the US, the EU, China, Japan – are […]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under economic crisis, economic growth, global crisis, globalization.
December 20th, 2017
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I've just written a blog post about the fiscal situation of Canada's 'oil rich' provinces (i.e., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador). It consists of a summary of key points raised at a PEF-sponsored panel at this year's Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association. Points raised in the blog post include the following: -The […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under aboriginal peoples, Alberta, Balanced budgets, budgets, corporate income tax, corporate profits, debt, deficits, economic growth, economic thought, employment, energy, fiscal policy, heterodox economics, homeless, housing, income, income distribution, income support, income tax, Indigenous people, industrial policy, inequality, labour adjustment, labour market, Newfoundland and Labrador, oil and gas, PEF, poverty, progressive economic strategies, public services, Role of government, Saskatchewan, social policy, taxation, transportation, unemployment.
June 19th, 2017
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I have an opinion piece on Saskatchewan's recent budget in the Regina Leader-Post. Points raised in the opinion piece include the following: -Reductions in personal and corporate income taxes help the rich more than the poor (and this budget cut both personal and corporate income taxes). -Increases in sales tax hurt the poor more than […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under aboriginal peoples, Austerity, budgets, Child Care, corporate income tax, debt, deficits, economic growth, economic models, economic thought, employment, fiscal policy, health care, income, income distribution, income support, income tax, Indigenous people, inequality, NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES, population aging, post-secondary education, poverty, public infrastructure, public services, Saskatchewan, social policy, taxation, unemployment.
April 23rd, 2017
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This year's Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) was released on March 9. I was proud to be the primary author of its housing chapter (that chapter is available in English here and in French here). The first AFB exercise began in 1994, with the first AFB being published in 1995. That involved a joint effort between […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under aboriginal peoples, Alberta, Austerity, Bank of Canada, banks, BC, budgets, debt, deficits, democracy, economic crisis, economic growth, economic history, economic literacy, economic models, economic thought, employment, federal budget, feminist economics, fiscal policy, gender critique, housing, income distribution, income tax, Indigenous people, inequality, inflation, interest rates, labour market, macroeconomics, Manitoba, monetary policy, NDP, NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES, Nova Scotia, Ontario, party politics, poverty, progressive economic strategies, public infrastructure, public services, Quebec, Role of government, Saskatchewan, social policy, stimulus, taxation, unemployment, women.
March 20th, 2017
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Finance Minister Bill Morneau has taken quite a bit of heat for his tone deaf comments about the reality of precarious work, specifically saying?that we should just "get used to job churn". His policy prescription, an improved social safety net, is actually a valid part of the solution. But must we accept that the precarious […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under CPP, economic growth, Employment Insurance, employment standards, feminist economics, fiscal policy, older workers, young workers.
October 25th, 2016
Comments: 6
Most of the world economy (including Canada's) has performed sluggishly since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09.? And many economic and fiscal projections now accept this pattern of slow growth as more-or-less inevitable, as a "new normal." This argument is typically invoked to justify a ratcheting down of expectations regarding job prospects, incomes, and public […]
Posted by Jim Stanford under economic growth, employment.
July 21st, 2016
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In 1995, Canadian First Ministers signed an Agreement on Internal Trade. From the website, "Its purpose is to reduce and eliminate, to the extent possible, barriers to the free movement of persons, goods, services, and investment within Canada and to establish an open, efficient, and stable domestic market." Well, it turns out that agreement, although […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under Alberta, economic growth, free markets, free trade.
July 5th, 2016
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Update: The Alberta government?has announced their timeline for getting to $15 / hour, which includes eliminating the lower minimum wage for liquor servers. The Alberta Federation of Labour has an excellent minimum wage campaign, called "15 is fair". I provided some research support for a paper they produced on the positive economic impact of increasing […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under economic growth, inequality, minimum wage.
June 30th, 2016
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This is the time of year when articles list their favourite things about last year, and their "things to watch" for the next year. Naturally, my "things to watch" list will always include the labour market. Where have we seen the strongest job growth or worst job losses, and what are the trends that might […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under economic growth, employment, federal budget, GDP, Job vacanices.
December 23rd, 2015
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Today's throne speech was notable for its brevity, but there were certainly a lot of priorities packed into those 1600 words. A small selection: "The Government will, as an immediate priority, deliver a tax cut for the middle class."?This is quite easily my least favourite action promised by the new Liberal government. The plan increases […]
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aboriginal peoples, child benefits, economic growth, Employment Insurance, young workers.
December 4th, 2015
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As this marathon election campaign enters its final days, it is interesting to look back on the evolution of the economic debate during the past 11 weeks on the hustings.?? The Harper Conservatives once again tried to play the a€?economic card,a€? claiming their policies are essential to Canadaa€?s future growth and prosperity.?? But this time, […]
Posted by Jim Stanford under economic growth, election 2015.
October 14th, 2015
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Opinions on deficit budgeting have become a short-hand litmus test in Canadian politics. Deficits are left-wing and balanced budgets are right-wing austerity. ??Economists know that there is virtually no difference between a small surplus and a small deficit, but politicians and voters are??a different story. I have spent the past three and half years railing […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under corporate income tax, deficits, economic growth, economic literacy, Federal elections 2015, minimum wage, P3s, social policy.
August 31st, 2015
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Here is the link to buy a new book, Canada After Harper,?? edited by Ed Finn and with an introduction by Ralph Nader, just published by Lorimer. Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how […]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under big business, Canada, Conservative government, Dutch disease, economic growth, economic history, employment, energy, environment.
August 11th, 2015
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It's only been a couple of weeks since Disney, that most iconic of American companies, moved to displace all its home grown techies with low-cost foreign temporary workers. But the company had to beat a hasty retreat in the face of an outpouring of criticism. Amid the deluge of commentary this story triggered about where […]
Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under Conservative government, demographics, economic growth, employment, globalization, immigration, labour adjustment, labour market, migrant workers, population aging, skill shortages.
July 7th, 2015
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Canada's first-quarter GDP report was not just "atrocious," as predicted by Stephen Poloz.?? It was downright negative: total real GDP shrank at an annualized rate of 0.6% (fastest pace of decline since the 2008-09 recession).?? Nominal GDP fell faster (annualized rate of 3%), as deflation took hold across the broader production economy (led, of course, […]
Posted by Jim Stanford under economic growth, GDP, recession.
June 4th, 2015
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Is another recession on its way? Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Canadaa€?s economy shrank in the first quarter by a whopping 0.6%. Is this the beginning of a new recession? Recessions of course are defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Now we learn today that Canadaa€?s […]
Posted by Louis-Philippe Rochon under American economy, Austerity, Bank of Canada, Canada, economic growth, recession.
May 30th, 2015
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We are pleased to present this guest commentary from Kim Pollock, a former union researcher based in B.C. and Saskatchewan. Now retired, Kim is investigating various aspects of Canada's economic performance.?? A longer version of this paper will be presented by him at the upcoming Society for Socialist Studies??meetings in Ottawa, and can be obtained […]
Posted by Jim Stanford under Canada, economic growth, GDP.
May 19th, 2015
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Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian Economics Founding Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon Originally published by CBC. Find commentary here. The federal Liberal Party's recent election promise to create a new tax bracket for rich Canadians has been quickly decried by – well, rich Canadians. But is it an […]
Posted by Louis-Philippe Rochon under Canada, Conservative government, economic growth, income tax, inequality, Liberal Party policy.
May 12th, 2015
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Louis-Philippe ROCHON Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon With data on the performance of Canadaa€?s labour market released today, many economists and pundits on both sides of the 49th parallel are arguing that what seems to be emerging is two very clear and different paths for […]
Posted by Louis-Philippe Rochon under American economy, Austerity, economic growth, labour market.
March 13th, 2015
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Canada's economic and fiscal debates in recent months have been dominated by the possible impacts of the sudden fall in oil prices since last autumn on growth, employment, and fiscal balances.?? Finance Minister Joe Oliver delayed the budget, the Bank of Canada shocked markets with a rate cut, and Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is now […]
Posted by Jim Stanford under economic growth, energy, GDP.
March 6th, 2015
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Posted earlier as an opinion piece for CBC.?? See original post here (this post slightly modified from original) By Louis-Philippe Rochon Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon Much was at stake earlier this week when finance ministers from??G20??countries met in Istanbul to discuss Greece and the state of the world economy in light of recent […]
Posted by Louis-Philippe Rochon under Austerity, Conservative government, deficits, economic crisis, economic growth, federal budget, Federal elections 2015, financial crisis, fiscal policy, G-20, heterodox economics.
February 15th, 2015
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This is a guest blog post from Louis-Philippe Rochon. Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon. — What a tumultuous few weeks we witnessed in Greece. Though the victory of Syriza was ill-received in particular in Germany and the European Central Bank, it was nonetheless a resounding victory for democracy. This victory may now spill into other […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under Austerity, debt, democracy, economic crisis, economic growth, Europe, exchange rates, Greece, monetary policy, progressive economic strategies.
February 10th, 2015
Comments: 4
This guest blog post has been written by Louis-Philippe Rochon. You can follow him on Twitter @Lprochon – Harpera€?s recent incarnation as an anti-terrorist crusader has caught many Canadians by surprise. Harper is spending considerable political energy beating the drums of war against terrorists, and introducing a far-reaching, and much condemned, bill aimed at restricting […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under Bank of Canada, banks, China, Conservative government, economic crisis, economic growth, employment, exchange rates, financial markets, GDP, global crisis, interest rates, international trade, labour market, macroeconomics, manufacturing, monetary policy, recession, Role of government, unemployment, US.
February 6th, 2015
Comments: 2
In a recent CBC blog post, Louis-Philippe Rochon assesses the current state of the Canadian economy. The link to the blog post is here. Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon. Enjoy and share:
Posted by Nick Falvo under Bank of Canada, budgets, China, Conservative government, deficits, economic crisis, economic growth, employment, exchange rates, federal budget, fiscal policy, global crisis, household debt, IMF, interest rates, labour market, macroeconomics, manufacturing, monetary policy, recession, stimulus, unemployment.
February 5th, 2015
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Unless you've been hiding under a rock somewhere, you're probably well aware that the price of oil has fallen dramatically, to less than $50 / barrel. What this means for Canada's economic output & labour markets is not yet clear. But Stephen Poloz at the Bank of Canada has??said that he expects the effect to […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under Bank of Canada, banks, carbon pricing, climate change, economic growth, exchange rates, labour market, monetary policy.
January 14th, 2015
Comments: 10
Louis-Philippe Rochon has written a provocative blog post for the CBC titled "Top 10 Economic Predictions for 2015." The post is available here. Enjoy and share:
Posted by Nick Falvo under Bank of Canada, banks, budgets, Conservative government, consumers, deficits, economic growth, economic models, economic thought, employment, Europe, exchange rates, federal budget, fiscal policy, household debt, housing, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, oil and gas, prices, Role of government, social indicators, tar sands, US.
January 11th, 2015
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Every year has its ups and downs, of course. But there's something about New Year's that makes one naturally want to emphasize the positive.?? So here is my personal list of 5 positive economic developments from the year past — both globally and right here at home –??that warmed this particular economist's left-wing heart in […]
Posted by Jim Stanford under economic growth, exchange rates.
January 5th, 2015
Comments: 2
Much has been made about Stephen Poloz's decision to abandon 'forward guidance' in Bank of Canada rate setting announcements for the time being. Critics bemoan the loss of direction from the Bank. But Poloz's comments yesterday were chock full of guidance on how the Bank sees Canada's economic situation. Having been disappointed by the failure […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under Bank of Canada, economic growth, federal budget, fiscal policy, labour market, monetary policy, public infrastructure.
October 23rd, 2014
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The prospect of freer trade with European nations is generally popular among Canadians. And why shouldn't it be? Doesn't the Canadian left repeatedly point to the advantages of many European social and economic institutions? Who could argue with lower prices for European cheese, wine, or chocolate? After all, we've been waiting for years for the […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under aboriginal peoples, economic growth, Europe, free trade, public services, trade disputes.
September 25th, 2014
Comments: 2
Here is the link to a piece I wrote for the Globe on line this week re an interesting new eBook on secular stagnation. ??I am struck by the fact that several eminently mainstream economists, mainly in the US but also Blanchard at the IMF,?? see a need for public investment to drive growth, given […]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under economic growth, fiscal policy, public infrastructure.
September 7th, 2014

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Go Here: Torture Museum in Amsterdam
Even though my complete lack of self-control dictates that any museum trip I go on in Amsterdam be "sponsored" by legal marijuana (which would make The The Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments (MMTI) infinitely more terrifying) I'm still excited to visit.
Torture was a pretty standard punishment for most crimes in the Middle Ages: rape, murder, heresy, jaywalking... Maybe not that last one. Today in "modern times," torture implements like the Iron Maiden above are "bizarre and foreign concepts" to us... Uh, wait, that's not true at all -- the tools have just become a lot sleeker. With that in mind, this place is a pretty sobering reminder that humans have always had a knack for finding ways to make each other miserable.
MMTI has over 100 torture tools on display, plus a huge collection of photos, drawings, and wax carvings. Plus, it's just a two-minute walk from Central Station. PLUS, if you don't go and they find out, they'll twist your nipples off with a hot tongs.
From the official website: This exhibition shows reality as it existed less than two centuries ago. By setting gruesome examples, Public Authorities demonstrated their right to do as they pleased with the lives and bodies of their subjects. If the grotesque diversity of instruments of torture still invokes feelings of horror, it is no more than the designers' intended effect.
As if you needed another reason to visit Amsterdam.


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A place to find out more and share what you know about this awesome rare poultry breed! **NOTE: Those who wish to register as a new member on the forum are asked to email firstname.lastname@example.com and an Administrator will gladly help you join the forum!
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This is a cockerel and hen that I hatched from PG, I will be keeping him for my breeding pen for next year:
2 cockerels and 4 pullets that were lovingly hatched and raised by sarbee42 from my eggs, now re-homed to me
This fellow is soooo friendly, he has great feather colour, nice comb no sprigs but has white leggs
Millie Pair from M&K Lady Grey from my eggs, I think she was from Kramer & is Ladies:
Not sure what colour this pullet will be? here is a side and top shot of her, plus a lighter cockerel in that back:
Most will be going into the layer pen, put will be keeping the honey pullets in with the fellow from PG.
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YAY...I feel I can post here again...now that I have EO's again.
Looking great Paula!
You could always post here yardbirds!
Wow those sure are yellow beaks and legs, love em!
XOX Monika
Looking good...oh and I see the lavender D'Uccle in the back ground trying to get his 15 minutes of fame
Yes PC he got in that shot , in the pen beside them are the Porcelain and then the Lavender.
You have some nice marraduna pullets but I think my favorite is the one in the last picture. I think we had someone post a picture of one like that before but I can't remember who.
They look fantastic!


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Sexual Preference: Straight ~
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1134?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12485019 ] James P. White commented on HADOOP-1134: ---------------------------------------- Shouldn't this design information go into a wiki page or into version control under /docs? > Block level CRCs in HDFS > ------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-1134 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1134 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: dfs > Reporter: Raghu Angadi > Assigned To: Raghu Angadi > > Currently CRCs are handled at FileSystem level and are transparent to core HDFS. See recent improvement HADOOP-928 ( that can add checksums to a given filesystem ) regd more about it. Though this served us well there a few disadvantages : > 1) This doubles namespace in HDFS ( or other filesystem implementations ). In many cases, it nearly doubles the number of blocks. Taking namenode out of CRCs would nearly double namespace performance both in terms of CPU and memory. > 2) Since CRCs are transparent to HDFS, it can not actively detect corrupted blocks. With block level CRCs, Datanode can periodically verify the checksums and report corruptions to namnode such that name replicas can be created. > We propose to have CRCs maintained for all HDFS data in much the same way as in GFS. I will update the jira with detailed requirements and design. This will include same guarantees provided by current implementation and will include a upgrade of current data. > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Lawrence Auster directs us to the renowned 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, from 1910; specifically, to page 344 of Volume 19 and an article entitled "Negro."
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[T]he arrest or even deterioration in mental development is no doubt very largely due to the fact that after puberty sexual matters take the first place in the negro's life and thoughts.
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[H]is environment has not been such as would tend to produce in him the restless energy which has led to the progress of the white race; and the easy conditions of tropical life and the fertility of the soil have reduced the struggle for existence to a minimum.
This is addressed in Chapter 7 ("Out of Africa," pp. 39–41), under "Geography and Race." The section begins:
Climate differences also influenced mental abilities. In Africa, food and warmth were available all year round. To survive the cold winters, the populations migrating northwards had to become more inventive. They had to find new sources of food and methods for storing it. They needed to make clothing and shelters to protect against the elements. Without them the people would have died. Both parents had to provide more care to help their young survive in the harsher climates.
Rushton's r/K-type life-history strategies elegantly explain the observed racial differences in so many physical and behavioral traits.
Moving "Out of Africa" meant moving into a K-type life-history strategy. That meant higher IQ, larger brains, slower growth, and lower hormone levels. It also meant lower levels of sexuality, aggression, and impulsive behavior. More family stability, advanced planning, self-control, rule-following, and longevity were needed.
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[T]he mental constitution of the negro is very similar to that of a child, normally good-natured and cheerful, but subject to sudden fits of emotion and passion during which he is capable of performing acts of singular atrocity, impressionable, vain, but often exhibiting in the capacity of servant a dog-like fidelity which has stood the supreme test.
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[I]n the southern states in 1890 there were about four and a half times as many negro prisoners to population as white prisoners, and in 1904 about five and a half times as many; … in the northern states in 1890 there were about six times as many negro prisoners to population as white prisoners, and in 1904 about nine times as many.
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As a means of supplementing their income and feeding the animals, June recently wrote a book about their move to Spain, their lives and their rescued animals. "No time for a siesta (the ups and downs of life on a Spanish farm)" was published on Amazon in 2011 and is now available for kindle and as a paperback.
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Andrew Moravcsik
Andrew Moravcsik
Andrew Maitland Moravcsik
1957 (age 61–62)
|Alma mater
|Stanford University
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|Scientific career
|Political science
|Princeton University
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Andrew Maitland Moravcsik[1] (born 1957) is a Professor of Politics and director of the European Union Program at Princeton University. He is known for his research on European integration, international organizations, human rights, qualitative/historical methods, and American and European foreign policy, for developing the theory of liberal intergovernmentalism, and for his work on liberal theories of international relations.[2] He is also active in teaching and developing qualitative methods, including the development of "active citation": a standard designed to render qualitative social science research transparent.[3]
Moravcsik is also a former policy-maker who currently serves as Nonresident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution,[4] and book review editor (Europe) of Foreign Affairs magazine. He was previously contributing editor of Newsweek magazine and held other journalistic positions. He writes popular and scholarly work on classical music, especially opera.
Academic career[edit]
Academic positions[edit]
In 1992 Moravcsik began teaching at Harvard University's Department of Government. During his 12-year tenure in the department, Moravcsik became a Full Professor and founded Harvard's European Union program. He left the school in 2004 to assume a post at Princeton University, where he again founded an EU program.[5] He has also been affiliated with the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University, as well as various French, British, German and Chinese research institutes.
In 2011, Moravcsik was awarded the Stanley Kelley Teaching Prize by the Princeton University. He teaches the introductory undergraduate course in international relations, as well as masters and doctoral seminars. In addition to being the Founding Director of the European Union Program, he is the Founding Chair of the International Relations Colloquium and serves on the executive committee of various centers and programs at Princeton.
Moravcsik's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Columbia University, Harvard University, German Marshall Fund, International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), Centre d'Etudes et Relations Internationales (Paris), and many other organizations. During the academic year 2011–2012, he was visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Academic publications[edit]
Moravcsik has published one book, titled The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, three edited volumes,[6] and over 125 scholarly book chapters, journal articles, and reviews. The book, which the American Historical Review called "the most important work in the field" of modern European studies,[7] attempts to explain why the member states of the European Union agreed to cede sovereignty to a supranational entity.
According to Google Scholar, The Choice for Europe has been cited at least 3501 times as of November 2013. In addition, at least fourteen journal articles authored by Moravcsik have been cited more than 250 times as of the same date. These include:
- Moravcsik, Andrew (1993). "Preferences and power in the European Community: A liberal intergovernmentalist approach". Journal of Common Market Studies. 31 (4): 473–524. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.1993.tb00477.x. (cited 2236 times) [Named one of the "5 best articles of the decade" by JCMS]
- Moravcsik, Andrew (1997). "Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics". International Organization. 51 (4): 513–53. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.201.2724. doi:10.1162/002081897550447. ISSN 0020-8183. JSTOR 2703498. (cited 1700 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew (1991). "Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community". International Organization. 45 (1): 19–56. doi:10.1017/S0020818300001387. ISSN 0020-8183. JSTOR 2706695. (cited 1321 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew (2002). "In Defense of the Democratic Deficit: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union" (PDF). Journal of Common Market Studies. 40 (4): 603–24. doi:10.1111/1468-5965.00390. Retrieved 2009-06-28. (cited 930 times)
- Kenneth Abbott, Robert Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik and Anne-Marie Slaughter, "The Concept of Legalization," International Organization, Volume 54, Issue 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 401–419. (cited 898 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew (2003). "The origins of human rights regimes: Democratic delegation in postwar Europe". International Organization. 54 (2): 217–52. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.582.8837. doi:10.1162/002081800551163. JSTOR 2601297. (cited 587 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew and Jeff Legro. "Is Anybody Still a Realist?" International Security 24:2 (1999), pp. 5–55. (cited 483 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew. "Why the European Union Strengthens the State: Domestic Politics and International Cooperation" (Working Paper of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1999) (cited 519 times plus 118 times in German translation)
- Moravcsik, Andrew. "Introduction: Integrating International and Domestic Theories of International Bargaining," in Peter Evans, Harold Jacobson and Robert Putnam, eds. Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 3–42. (cited 459 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew. "A New Statecraft? Supranational Entrepreneurs and International Cooperation," International Organization 53:2 (Spring 1999), pp. 267–306. (cited 393 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew. "Liberal Intergovernmentalism and Integration: A Rejoinder," Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 33, Issue 4, pages 611–628. (cited 363 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew and Kalypso Nicolaidis. "Explaining the Treaty of Amsterdam: Interests, Influence, Institutions," Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 57–85. (cited 342 times)
- Keohane, Robert, Andrew Moravcsik and Anne-Marie Slaughter. "Legalized Dispute Resolution: Interstate and Transnational," [1] International Organization, Volume 54, Issue 3 (Summer 2000) pp. 457–488. (cited 336 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew and Milada Vachudova. "National Interests, State Power and European Enlargement," East European Politics and Society (2003). (cited 316 times)
- Moravcsik, Andrew. "Is there a 'Democratic Deficit' in World Politics? A Framework for Analysis," Government and Opposition, Volume 39, Issue 2 (Spring 2004), pp. 336–363. (cited 297 times)
Moravcsik's "liberal intergovernmentalist" theory of European integration is regarded as a plausible account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union. It stresses the issue-specific functional national interests of member states and goes on to analyze the interstate bargains they strike among themselves and the rational incentive to construct institutions to render enforcement and elaboration of those bargains credible.[8]
Regarding international relations theory more generally, Moravcsik is a "liberal", in that he seeks to explain state behavior with reference to variation in the underlying purposes ("preferences" or "fundamental national interests") that states derive from their embeddedness in domestic and transnational civil society.[8][9] Liberal theory, in contrast to realist, institutionalist, and "constructivist" theory, privileges and directly theorizes social interdependence and globalization as the dominant force in world politics, past and present. Liberal theory, Moravcsik maintains, is not empirically sufficient to explain all of international relations, but it is analytically more fundamental than other types of international relations theory.
Moravcsik advocates greater transparency and replicability of textual, qualitative and historical research in international relations, political science, and the social sciences more generally. To this end, he has proposed the use of "active citation" the use of precise footnotes hyperlinked to source material contained in an appendix or on a permanent qualitative data repository. He is currently working with other scholars to realize this proposal.[10] However, Moravcsik himself has been criticized for imprecise and misleading use of historical sources in The Choice for Europe.[11]
Policy career[edit]
Policy roles[edit]
Prior to the start of his academic career, Moravcsik served in policy positions for governments on three continents. He was international trade negotiator at the US Department of Commerce, special assistant to South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hahn-Been, and press assistant at the Commission of the European Communities, as well as an editor of a Washington-based foreign policy journal.[12] He has subsequently served as a member and in leadership positions on policy commissions organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment, the Commission of the European Communities, Princeton University and other organizations.
Policy publications[edit]
Since 2002, he has written over one hundred pieces of public commentary. These include dozens of articles and commentaries including cover stories in Newsweek, Foreign Affairs and Prospect.[13][14] He has also written for the Financial Times, New York Times, and many other publications.[15] He has lectured about the European Union at The Pentagon,[16] was a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation,[17] and has been quoted in multiple news sources, including Deutsche Welle,[18][19] International Herald Tribune,[16][20][21] and USA Today.[22] He is book review editor (Europe) for Foreign Affairs magazine. He continues to engage in regular policy analysis and advising, currently focusing on EU–US burden-sharing, the democratic deficit in Europe, transatlantic relations, the future of the European Union, and Asian regionalism. During the academic year 2007–2008 he was a fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.[23]
Musicological career[edit]
Moravcsik began publishing music criticism while an undergraduate at Stanford University. Over the past decade, he has published over 30 reviews and articles on opera in the Financial Times, New York Times, Opera, Opera News, Newsweek, Opera Today, and elsewhere.[24] He also conducts scholarly research on opera performance and history, which has appeared in Opera Quarterly, Wagner Quarterly, Opera and elsewhere. He has written on the staging of Wagner operas and is currently directing a scholarly research project at Princeton University seeking to measure and explain the possible recent decline in quality of spinto and dramatic opera singing, particularly in heavier Verdi and Wagner roles.
Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany. In 1982 he enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, from which he received a Master of Arts degree in international relations in 1984. In 1992 he obtained a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
Personal life[edit]
Moravcsik is married to the political scientist, international lawyer, university administrator, policy-maker and think-tank director Anne-Marie Slaughter, with whom he has two sons.[25] As a young child, Moravcsik lived in New York, California, Pakistan, Italy, Japan, Scotland and Massachusetts. From age 10 to 18, he lived in Eugene, Oregon. His father, Michael Moravcsik, was a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who was active as a theoretical particle physicist, an expert on science development and a pioneer in the field of citation studies; Michael Moravcsik was the son of Gyula Moravcsik, a professor of Byzantine history, the grandson of Sandor Fleissig, a noted banker and government official, the brother of Julius Moravcsik, a philosopher at Stanford University, and the brother of Edith Moravcsik, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin. Andrew Moravcsik's mother, Francesca de Gogorza, comes from a New England family of Basque, Dutch, German, Scottish and English ancestry. She worked as a landscape architect and urban planner, and now lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where she is active in retirement as a nationally ranked senior track and field athlete.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- ^ Moravcsik, A.M. (1992). National Preference Formation and Interstate Bargaining in the European Community, 1955-1986. Harvard University. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ Andrew Moravcsik's Homepage Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ See articles and documents at Andrew Moravcsik's Homepage Section on Data and Methods Retrieved on 2013-11-15
- ^ Brookings Institution Profile Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ Princeton University European Union Program Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ "Andrew Moravcsik's Home Page". princeton.edu. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ Hitchcock, William I.; Moravcsik, Andrew (December 1999). "Review: The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht by Andrew Moravcsik". The American Historical Review. 104 (5): 1742–43. doi:10.2307/2649481. JSTOR 2649481.
- ^ a b "Liberal Intergovernmentalism," in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez, eds. European Integration Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ "Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics" International Organization (Autumn 1997) Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ "Active Citation: A Precondition for Replicable Qualitative Research Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University" (PDF). 22 December 2009. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ "Project MUSE - De Gaulle, Moravcsik, and The Choice for Europe : Soft Sources, Weak Evidence". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ Andrew Moravcsik's Biography Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ Moravcsik, Andrew (2005-01-31). "Dream On America". Newsweek International. Archived from the original on January 24, 2005. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ Moravcsik, Andrew (2007-03-26). "The Golden Moment". Newsweek International. Archived from the original on May 1, 2007. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
- ^ "Selected Public Affairs Commentary". Andrew Moravcsik's Home Page. Princeton University. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ a b Cohen, Roger (2004-04-30). "UNDER ONE FLAG : At EU milestone, U.S. is focused elsewhere". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ "Dutch Vote on European Union Constitution". Talk of the Nation. National Public Radio. 2005-06-01. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ "A Little Bit of the U.S. in the Future EU?". Deutsche Welle. 2003-06-06. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ "Austria Hands EU Baton to Finland". Deutsche Welle. 2006-01-07. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ Altman, Daniel (2005-02-11). "Letter from Syria: EU and U.S. compete for economic clients" (PHP). International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ Bennhold, Katrin (2005-06-16). "EU to hold together, but with new focus" (PHP). International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 20 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ Jackson, David (2006-06-22). "EU leaders lend U.S. support on Iran, N. Korea". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ http://en.siis.org.cn/
- ^ Andrew Moravcsik's Home Page Retrieved on 2009-06-28
- ^ Andrew Moravcsik's Homepage Retrieved on 2009-06-28
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