Political economy and the study of Britain and European integration: a global-national perspective

An extensive range of evidence and analysis has been employed to understand the complex relationship between Britain and the process of European integration. This article builds on a body of work within the study of European integration that examines British economic interests in European policy-making. However, I show that a comprehensive explanation of this relationship requires the application of a politico-economic analysis on national articulations of global and transnational processes. It is, I propose, Britain’s distinctive insertion into the global economy that enables us to understand and explain Britain’s problematic relationship to the processes of European integration. This is explored through an analytic narrative of Britain’s historical relationship to the process of European integration. From a broad comparative perspective, I emphasise the exceptional character of Britain’s globalised political economy

The Mobilization and Utilization of Scientific and Technological Human Resources in Developing Countries

Human resources (henceforth abbreviated as "manpower") in the development and the functioning of science and technology in developing countries is the most crucial ingredient, and forms, most often, the bottleneck in evolution. This is so because it takes an extended period of time (decades) to establish an indigenous scientific and technological manpower of sufficient quality and quantity, and because it is a much more difficult and uncertain undertaking to do so than to asquire sufficient financial resources. For this reason problems related to the generation and utilization of scientific and technological manpower are at the very centre of attantion when it comes to managing science and technology in developing countries