Susan George (political scientist)
Susan George ( born June 29, 1934 in Akron, Ohio, USA ) is a French -born U.S. political scientist and writer who deals with poverty, underdevelopment and Third World debt.
Biography
George lives for a long time in France and acquired French citizenship in 1994. After studying French literature and political science at Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts ) she went to Paris and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and political science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where she worked with a dissertation on " The strategists of hunger " received his doctorate.
She is a partner of the Transnational Institute (TNI ). Susan George is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ), the World Bank and what their maldevelopment model ( ' maldevelopment model ') system. She criticizes similar hard neoliberal policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development.
From 1990 to 1995, George served on the board of Greenpeace International and at the same time on the board of Greenpeace France.
Between 1999 and mid-2006, she was Vice - President of ATTAC France ( association pour une taxation of transactions financières pour l'aide aux citoyens ). In January 2007 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle -upon- Tyne. Early March 2007, she was awarded at the Chicago Congress of the International Studies Association's "Outstanding Public Scholar Award".
She has worked as an adviser to, specialized to the United Nations agencies and holds public lectures in many countries, especially for Attac groups, trade unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs ) in environmental and development aid sector.
Writings (selection )
- How the Other Half Dies ( Penguin), 1976 reprint 1986, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013569-3. ; dtsch How die the others. The true causes of world hunger. , Red Book Publishing, 1980, ISBN 3-88022-179-0 ( An analysis of the real reasons for world hunger. )
- A Fate Worse Than Debt ( Penguin) 1988 ISBN 0-14-022789- X; engl: They die of our money. The Third World debt. , Rowohlt, 1988, ISBN 3-499-12316-9 ( An analysis of the reasons for the debt of the Third World. )
- The Debt Boomerang (Pluto Press) 1992 ISBN 0-7453-0594-6 ( Sets the subject of Third World debt and its harmful effects continued )
- The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century 1999 ISBN 0-7453-1532-1; engl: The Lugano Report or Is capitalism still be saved, Rowohlt, 2001, ISBN 3-498-02489-2?
- WTO: democracy instead of Dracula. For a fair world trading system., Vsa, 2002, ISBN 3-87975-871-9
- Change it! Instructions for political disobedience., Droemer / Knaur, 2006 ISBN 3-426-27382-9
- Whose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World ( Polity Press ) 2010 ISBN 0-7456-5137-2