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What course were you submitting that for?
Certainly in my days marking papers on international business I would have marked you down for making pretty significant claims and statements without support. Your references seem to provide you relatively tame definitions that you then make hugely emotive calls from without empirical support.
There is a heap of sound balanced research into the governance power plays between significant organizations and their host and satellite government structures - you would have done well to use them rather than make extravagant statements without support.
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Social Work degree. It's pretty left wing ...
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Got a B- which is fine ...
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You should be aiming for b+ minimum, and not be 'fine' with anything less.

Not saying you didn't deserve that, or less, your essay writing is more fox news than academia.

But how are you going to be a good anti capitalist if you cant form a well reasoned argument? (actually you'll probably fit right in Razz).
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Laughing

Lecturer reiterated a few things people on here had already said. It's probably a little ego centric, but I don't really care if I don't write a really well balanced and well argued assignment. I'm just back to study to get the degree and I do like to get on my soap box now and again. Works for me.
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globalisation (tho it could be argued more about digitalisation) now threating education standards as 3rd world people offer essay writing type skills online for students to cheat with.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10687674

I myself was questioning the value of the standard 3 hour exam at times during the exam phase this last semester, as in one paper I felt so time-stressed and anxious that I doubted its capacity to truly determine my ability, however if this sort of international digital cheating grows then an exam surely becomes the only way to genuinely test someone. I hope those little old ladies checking your ID card as you go in the room are doing a good job otherwise ID fraud will be the next big issue - after all those Chinese people all look the same dont they?
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Exams mean performance under time pressure which is the way of business so I see it as a good way to test. I agree some people dont handle it as well as others but I question whether that is an inherent thing or something based on avoidance. If people are failing a test you need to look at their prep rather than just the test.

Speaking to lecturers about it when I was at uni, many said they could tell when people were cheating if they had contact with them in class. But many people, particularly asians, dont come to class (other than the last 2 or three before the exam. Generally the class size would double on the last 2 weeks.

People with the attitude Cs get degrees really devalue themselves and the degree. Unfortunately our uni system allows this and means degrees are often a waste of time (and tax payers money) So may people I know have taken 3-4 years off work, racked up a bill, then done something which is hardly related to their chosen occupation (in fact ended up having to go back to retrain for something else)
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Economic growth in Africa negatively affected by free trade

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jul/19/david-cameron-africa-free-trade