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Bill Brydon

POLITICS-US: A League of Their Own - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON, Jun 10 (IPS) - A radical foreign policy idea put forth by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has drawn cheers of support from sources as varied as his campaign's neo-conservative backers to liberal internationalists
Bill Brydon

ELECCIONES-EEUU: McCain entre Kant y el realismo - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON, 10 jun (IPS) - El generalizado aplauso a la propuesta de crear una "liga de democracias", formulada por el candidato oficialista a la presidencia estadounidense John McCain, no impidió escuchar algunos abucheos.
Bill Brydon

AFTER THE ORDER TO CIVILIZATION - Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial ... - 0 views

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    Weightless International Relations and the Burden of Unreduced Responsibility This essay is an attempt to outline an agenda and give a contemporary case example. It proceeds from two key foundations. The first is that recent western, particularly US, f
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Sovereign Right and the Global Left Cultural Critique -- Number 69, Spring 2008 - 0 views

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    A conceptual distinction can be made between normal enemies- those who act as enemies are expected to act, positioning themselves within the mental landscape of the existing political imaginary-and the absolute enemy whose attack threatens the imag
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Committee for a World Parliament joins global campaign - 0 views

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    The Committee for a World Parliament (COPAM), based in Paris, has joined the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (CEUNPA).
Bill Brydon

NGOs and `modernization' and `democratization' of media: Situating media assistance -- ... - 0 views

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    Western-supported media assistance in transition and developing countries has a long history. Building independent media, preferably through the nongovernmental sector, is seen as an important aspect of achieving modernization and democratization. This ar
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Global Human Rights Awareness, Education and Democratization - Journal of Human Rights - 0 views

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    The 1990s was the era of human rights awareness, democratic transitions, and growing involvement of international organizations and the nongovernmental sector in human rights education (HRE). The UN Decade for HRE from 1995-2004 was not only born out of t
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POLITICS: World Bank, IMF Heads Skip Summit on Global Crisis - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 (IPS) - When a major international conference on financing for development took place in the Qatari capital of Doha last November, the heads of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) skipped the meeting.
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Associative Duties, Global Justice, and the Colonies :: Philosophy & Public Affairs - 0 views

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    The vast majority of countries in the world have stood in an "associative relation" of a colonial sort with some other country or countries, at sometime or another. The aim of this article is to probe the implications of that brute fact for contemporary d
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Rethinking Fundamental Principles of Global Governance: How to Represent States and Pop... - 0 views

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    International politics are undoubtedly in transition along recognizable lines. The resulting disruptive effects on the international institutions founded after World War II are no less evident. Such times demand a principled basis to guide the politics of
Bill Brydon

The Politics of Global Governance in UN Peacekeeping - International Peacekeeping - 0 views

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    This article examines the allocation of roles and responsibilities in the construction of UN peacekeeping. The case is made that decision making in UN peacekeeping is not only fragmented between various states and institutional actors, but also critically
Bill Brydon

Global Voices Online » Hong Kong: Election Consultation Deferred… It's Dog-Sp... - 0 views

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    In the Legislative Council question-and-answer session yesterday, chief executive Donald Tsang said the public consultation on the electoral arrangements in 2012 would be deferred until the fourth quarter to focus on tackling economic and livelihood conce
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Critiquing Liberal Cosmopolitanism? The Limits of the Biopolitical Approach :: Internat... - 0 views

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    Today there is a widespread recognition of the erosion of political community on the territorial basis of the nation-state. Instead, alternative framings of "being" political or of engaging in politics have argued for a more radical post-territorial space
Bill Brydon

International IDEA | Democracy and Development in a Globalized World: International IDE... - 0 views

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    Democracy and development are deeply intertwined in spite of the difficulty of identifying a direct, causal and quantifiable relationship between them. More importantly, they are increasingly understood today as including each other to a great extent and
Bill Brydon

Concert of Democracies: Same Old Globalism - New American - 0 views

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    Slaughter's academic publications on globalist innovations led to greener pastures and she was recently appointed to serve as director of the State Department's policy planning staff under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In an interview, Slaughter exp
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Why Greylag Geese and Money-laundering are Not Objective Problems: A Rejoinder - Global... - 0 views

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    For Roberge, my concept of "problematisation" denies the existence of a real money-laundering problem. Below I will argue that, yes, this is exactly what the concept implies, and that his argument of why money-laundering is an objective problem does not c
Bill Brydon

Obstacles to Building a Civic Nation: Georgia's Armenian Minority and Conflicting Threa... - 0 views

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    This article examines the function of conflicting threat perceptions as obstacles to the development of a civic national identity in Georgia. The analysis focuses on threats perceived on the internal and external political arenas, as defined by Georgian g
Bill Brydon

Global Voices Online » Fiji: A step towards elections? - 0 views

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    First, the good news. Fiji's political parties may have taken a first step toward restoring Parliamentary democracy when they met in a cordial atmosphere Friday, March 13 with members of the military backed Interim Government and agreed on the issues to b
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Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights... - 0 views

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    This article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts new engagements with democracy, mobility has been
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ROUNDTABLE: Can Democracies Go It Alone? :: Ethics & International Affairs - 0 views

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    Whether one calls it a "League of Democracies" (John McCain) or a "Concert of Democracies" (John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter), the idea that democratic states should establish their own exclusive venues for international cooperation provides an opp
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