Susan George (political scientist)

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Susan George at the 31st German Evangelical Church Congress in Cologne 2007

Susan George (born June 29, 1934 in Akron , Ohio , USA ) is a French , American-born political scientist and writer who deals with poverty, underdevelopment and debt in the Third World .

biography

George has lived in France for a long time and obtained 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 wrote a dissertation on "The strategists of hunger" received his doctorate.

She is a partner of the Transnational Institute (TNI). Susan George is a bitter critic of the current policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and what she calls their malevelopment model. It criticizes the neo-liberal policy of the Washington Consensus for the development of the Third World with similar harshness .

From 1990 to 1995 George sat on the board of Greenpeace International and at the same time on the board of Greenpeace France. In 1997 she took part in the 10th Documenta with a contribution .

Between 1999 and mid-2006 she was Vice President of Attac France (association pour une taxation des transactions financières pour l'aide aux citoyens). In January 2007 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the beginning of March 2007 she received the "Outstanding Public Scholar Award" from the International Studies Association at their congress in Chicago .

She has worked as a consultant to various agencies specializing in the United Nations and gives public lectures in many countries, especially for Attac groups, trade unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the environmental and development aid sector .

George is a member of the Democracy in Europe 2025 (DiEM25) movement founded in 2016.

Fonts (selection)

  • How the Other Half Dies. Penguin, 1976. Reprinted 1986, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013569-3 ; dtsch. How the others die. The real causes of world hunger. Rotbuch Verlag, 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 ; German: You are dying of our money. Third world debt. Rowohlt, 1988, ISBN 3-499-12316-9 (An Analysis of the Causes of Third World Indebtedness.)
  • The Debt Boomerang. Pluto Press, 1992, ISBN 0-7453-0594-6 (Continuing the topic of Third World Debt and its Harmful Effects)
  • The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century. 1999, ISBN 0-7453-1532-1 ; German: The Lugano Report or Can 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 on 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan George: Les Stratèges de la Faim , Editions Grounauer, 1982, Geneva.
  2. ^ Movement website

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personal data
SURNAME George, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French political scientist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Akron , Ohio