Radical Islamic Terrorism in the Middle East and Its Direct Costs on Western Financial Markets

Close examination of the behaviour of participants in financial markets in the aftermath of terrorist attacks is a valuable line of enquiry. In this paper, we bring together insights from field of finance and politics. Specifically, we examine trading patterns on highly liquid insurance-type financial instruments around a specific terrorist event. This approach provides an insight into risk perception around political violence and allows us to answer a number of key questions on the impact of terrorist attacks on economies and societies. When examined and processed, intraday financial trade data yields valuable empirical evidence on immediate reactions to the threat posed by terrorist groups. The methodology applied in this paper also tells us much about the geographical resonance of terrorist events. We clearly show that fear of economic disruption can be activated in Western markets by events that are often geographically remote. Importantly, these datasets allow us to judge the vulnerability of financial markets to terrorist attack. This potentially allows public authorities to safeguard our interests more effectively. Financial markets are one important element of a "neglected home front" and the risks posed by disruption to those markets are such as to merit our urgent attention.

Subject knowledge content in primary initial teacher education courses in design and technology - a discussion paper

A rationale for the development of appropriate subject knowledge content of the design and technology component of new Initial Teacher Education courses is presented, indicating that substantive, syntactic and pedagogic content knowledge, knowledge about the management of learning and distinctive aspects of the subject are key elements which should be investigated. Given the tight time constraints on the delivery of courses, priority should be given to areas which illustrate the range of syntactic or process knowledge of the subject ensure a knowledge of the concepts underpinning the National Curriculum  are known to be frequently deficient in students' own knowledge are known to present particular challenges in teaching and learning. Preliminary findings from a pilot study into teacher's perceptions about aspects of subject knowledge highlight areas of design and technology that are perceived as conceptually difficult to understand and/or manage

The Forgotten Realist

Today the name Hoosier can be applied to anybody living in or coming from the state of Indiana. Many Americans first hear it as the name of Indiana University\u27s athletic teams; tourists become familiar with the Hoosier State nickname which appears on interstate highway signs, travel brochures and maps. Because of the popularity ofc Kurt Vonnegut’s books in recent years, many of us have first learned the term in his work. Others think of it as a name for the landscape of James Whitcomb Riley\u27s verse. And there are still alive some older folk among us who, like students of the local color and realist movements of American literature, know the term as the title of The Hoosier Schoolmaster. Written in 1871 and set in 1850, Edward Eggleston\u27s first novel was only the beginning of his fictional an historical accounts of the early settlers on the north side of the Ohio River. There are several versions of how these settlers came to be called Hoosiers, none of which suggest that it began as a synonym or adjective for Indiana. The Hoosiers described in the novels of Edward Eggleston lived in the southern wildernesses of three states--Ohio, Indiana and Illinois--and eventually sent a surplus population northward into Wisconsin and Minnesota. By the end of the nineteenth century, Hoosier ranked with Yankee as the sobriquet most famous as applied to the people of a particular division of the country

Intellect and Virtue: The Idea of a Catholic University

This inaugural address was given at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Great Upper Church, Washington, D.C. on January 25, 2011

Letter outlining new selection process for law review staff members

Letter from Boston College Law School Dean John Garvey to the Law School Community describing a new selection process for law review staff members, which was implemented in 2008. The purpose of the policy was to increase the diversity of the students selected to join the staff of a law review

Letter addressing objections to the choice of Michael Mukasey as the speaker at the commencement of Boston College Law School

Letter from Boston College Law School Dean John Garvey to the Law School Community addressing objections to the choice of United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey as the speaker at the school\u27s 2008 commencement ceremony. Some faculty, students, and alumni objected to honoring Mukasey because of his refusal during to state a conclusive opinion on the legality of waterboarding, or on whether or not waterboarding constitute torture, during Congressional confirmation hearings

What’s Next After Separationism?

Professor Carl Esbeck argues in his article\u27 that the traditional theory of separationism is giving way to a theory of equality (or more accurately, protection for religious choice). The argument is very astute, and I agree with much of it. I will give my own perspective on the same two points

Two Aspects of Liberty

Liberty in the constitutional sense is always a right against state interference (a “freedom from”). The First Amendment begins by saying that “Congress shall make no law”; it forbids Congress to license or fine or jail people for speaking, or publishing, or assembling. Liberty is also, always, a right to do something (a “freedom to”): to speak, to assemble, to practice religion, to get married, etc. So “freedom from” and “freedom to” are always parts of the same idea, just as “flying from” and “flying to” are aspects of the same airplane trip. Freedom is always the right to do some particular act without government restraint