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Bill Brydon

Mouvements contestataires et suffrage universel Pas de démocratie sans confli... - 0 views

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    La charge de la preuve s'étant ainsi inversée, les tenants de la souveraineté populaire sont immédiatement en position de défense, et le champ politique sur lequel pourraient s'exprimer les luttes sociales est fortement attaqué. L'individu voit nier à la
Bill Brydon

CIP Americas Program | Synopsis of a Failed Process of Pacification and Democratization... - 0 views

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    The changes that followed the Peace Agreements in Central America, particularly since the 90s when the "democratization process" began, went further than merely implementing regular elections. They signified the adoption of a whole package of fiscal, macr
Bill Brydon

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: RESPONSE TO STEPHEN SCHLESINGER: For a Federation of ... - 0 views

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    In conclusion, there is every reason to think that a democratic federation that began by representing 40 percent of the world's population in fifty nations would, within a couple decades, come to represent two-thirds of humanity in a hundred nations, whil
Bill Brydon

Beyond methodological nationalism, but where to for the study of regional governance? -... - 0 views

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    In this special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, 'Risk, Regulation and New Modes of Regional Governance in the Asia-Pacific', it has been argued that new modes of regional governance in the Asia-Pacific region have become embedded
Bill Brydon

RAND | Monographs | China's International Behavior: Activism ... - 0 views

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    China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is active in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. It is no longer appropriate to talk of inte
Bill Brydon

Democracy and legitimacy in plurinational societies - Contemporary Political Theory (20... - 0 views

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    The paper's aim is to tackle some significant challenges faced by democratic theory in plurinational societies. Claims to recognition challenge the assumption of a 'people speaking in one voice' (namely, the assumption of the constituency as a homogeneous
Bill Brydon

Transnational Public-Private Partnerships in International Relations: Making Sense of C... - 0 views

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    Transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become a popular theme in International Relations (IR) research. Such partnerships constitute a hybrid type of governance, in which nonstate actors co-govern along with state actors for the provision o
Bill Brydon

Journal of Democracy - "Creeping Democratization" in China - 0 views

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    The "third wave" of global democratization has left untouched several East Asian autocracies that are experiencing rapid economic growth: China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. These three countries have made enormous progress in liberalizing markets and integrat
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Derrida and Democracy - 0 views

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    The topic selected for the conference was "Literature and Democracy," and a citation from Derrida's "Passions: An Oblique Offering" served as point of departure: "No democracy without literature; no literature without democracy" [28]. This issue is a logi
Bill Brydon

Competing Autonomy Claims and the Changing Grammar of Global Politics - Globalizations - 0 views

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    This article argues that contending ideas about autonomy lie behind current discourses of human rights, claims to nation-state and cultural autonomy, and democracy promotion. Globalizing processes are bringing these contested understandings of autonomy, a
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Passionate Secrets and Democratic Dissidence - 0 views

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    This essay begins in the mode of exposition of the problem of the secret as the link between literature and democracy but moves to respond to Derrida's text with a "heretical rewriting," pursuing the notions of heresy and of rhetorical dissidence and the
Bill Brydon

diacritics - "The Most Interesting Thing in the World" - 0 views

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    The topic of the relation between literature and democracy in Derrida's thinking is introduced, focusing especially on the problem of the secret, which has loomed large in Derrida's late discussions of both literature and democracy.
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Spectral Gatherings: Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word - 0 views

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    Taking as its point of departure Derrida's essay "Shibboleth: For Paul Celan," this article is concerned with the relation between the poetic discourse of several Celan lyrics and the problematic of circumcision-as religious operation, wound, inscription,
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Pulsations of Respect, or Winged Impossibility: Literature with Deconstruc... - 0 views

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    This tribute to Jacques Derrida takes in the sweep of his orchestration of literature with philosophy, as two "counterposed moments" of his interrogation of the working of language and thought. Focusing especially on his reading of Mallarmé, which distill
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature - 0 views

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    Though it reflects on the play of Paine's name and links it can establish, this essay is concerned with the role of fiction in the performativity of texts, both literary and nonliterary, and especially texts which, like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, affect
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Rogue Democracy - 0 views

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    Departing from Derrida's Rogues, this article outlines the political dimensions of Derrida's later work, especially his engagement with Carl Schmitt's concept of the political and the state of exception and his own elaboration of the notions of sovereignt
Bill Brydon

diacritics - For Better and for Worse (There Again . . .) - 0 views

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    This article maps, across a wide range of works, the coordinates of Derrida's thinking of democracy and its relevance to a series of crucial concepts, from difference to autoimmunity. Distinguishing Derrida's idea of a "democracy to come" from the Kantian
Bill Brydon

diacritics - Nondialectical Materialism - 0 views

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    This article explores the implications of Derrida's suggestion in several texts that, while a classic dialectical materialism partakes of logocentrism, other sorts of nondialectical materialism would be possible. The nondialectical materialisms that emerg
Bill Brydon

diacritics - A Genealogy of Violence, from Light to the Autoimmune - 0 views

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    This essay explores the treatment of violence in Derrida's ethico-political work, stressing the underlying continuity of Derrida's thinking of politics, from his first reading of Levinas to one of the last notions he developed, autoimmunity. Haddad analyz
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