The final IPE paper has been written.

A critical review of the current literature on the political economy of international organizations.

Celebration forthcoming. Right now, I need to get ready for Minnesota.

At precisely 4.47 AM on Easter Morning, I conquered my fourth IPE paper (of 5). Ah, a glorious morning. It doesn't even matter that I have to be awake for church in less than two hours.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

There it is.

I can see it.

Over at "Plan Columbia and Beyond," a blog I came across during my research for the paper, the indictment of Bush's FTA push is done in a much more intelligent and organized fashion than I could manage.

Our President thinks Free Trade with Columbia is a spectacular idea.Now, if I hadn't so recently written a paper on the ramifications of U.S. aid to Columbia earlier this week, this might not have gotten to me the way it does now, but I can't believe if the U.S. is honestly committed to helping Columbia deal with its drug problem that this is a ( Read more... )

After three days of research and ten hours straight of writing and fuming at computer screen, paper number 2 is down the hatch ( Read more... )

I can spend an entire night reading articles on the motivations and effectiveness of foreign aid (bilateral and multilateral), look at my clock and see that it says 8.15, then sleep the rest of the day instead of having class in two hours ( Read more... )

So, last night. Cranked out a 10-pager on reputational currency amongst ethnically homogenous heroin cartels in the production and transit phases of trafficking, and I feel SO PIMP! Revised it earlier today and am now reading the next set of articles for paper number 2, after having devoted several hours to a few direct examinations for trial. Not ( Read more... )

You know you've studied too much IPE when you're playing "Super Smash Bros." on N64 and you refer to enemy Yoshi as a security externality.