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Africa Today - The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa (... - 0 views

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    A major issue raised in the publication is nationalism. The review of the literature on nationalism, quite unlike that of liberal democracy, is dense and comprehensive. Also, the characterization of what Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral wanted (African) na
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Can America Finance Freedom? Assessing U.S. Democracy Promotion via Economic Statecraft... - 0 views

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    Recent discourse on U.S. efforts to promote democracy has focused on military activities; especially the strategic and normative perils of democracy promotion at the point of bayonets. This paper explores the United States' use of economic statecraft to f
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Electoral Protests and Democratization Beyond the Color Revolutions -- Kalandadze and O... - 0 views

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    The sight of thousands of people demonstrating for clean elections and an end to corrupt postcommunist regimes led many observers to declare that the so-called color revolutions had finally brought democracy to Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. Bu
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As tough as cowards | Democracy in America | Economist.com - 0 views

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    EVEN in light of the recent focus on health-care reform, it's a bit astonishing how little attention has been paid to the wrangling in the Senate over three important Patriot Act powers set to expire at the end of the year. While some Democratic senators
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The Politicized Participant: Ideology and Political Action in 20 Democracies -- van der... - 0 views

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    Modern liberal democracies demand high and equal levels of political action. Unequal levels of political action between ideological groups may ultimately lead to biased policy. But to what extent do citizens' ideological preferences affect their likelihoo
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IMF FINANCE: Not Reforms, But Reformed - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have run into a predictable roadblock in setting out brave new directions: a roadblock called memory. What could have been an immensely sensible idea of turning the IMF into a new c
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Waltz, Realism and Democracy -- Williams 23 (3): 328 -- International Relations - 0 views

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    Waltz is generally seen as one the most important advocates of a systemic theory of international politics that stresses the importance of international anarchy and marginalizes domestic politics. Locating Waltz's thinking against debates within realism i
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Virtual Worlds and Their Discontents: Precarious Sovereignty, Governmentality... - 0 views

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    In the following article, author argues that virtual worlds are characterized by a particular mode of governmentality. Rather than seeing virtual worlds as analogous to societies in the real world, he suggests regarding them as ''social factories'' in whi
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ENVIRONMENT: Novel Tribunal Gives Voice to Climate Change Victims - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    The 'Asian People's Climate Tribunal' was held in a banquet hall of a hotel a short distance away from where government negotiators from the developing and developed world are meeting at the two-week-long United Nations climate change talks that commenced
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Governmentality, Capitalism, and Subjectivity - Global Society - 0 views

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    This article takes as its starting point the important contribution that governmentality studies make to our understanding of the social and political conditions that shape contemporary world politics. However, it suggests that the critical potential of a
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Neoliberal Political Economy and the Subjectivity of Crisis: Why Governmentality is Not... - 0 views

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    This paper revisits Foucault's understanding of the importance of subjectivity for politics, focusing in particular on his claims concerning the sorts of demands placed on the subject by contemporary capitalism. Moves to extend the application of Foucault
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Hobbes, War, Movement - Global Society - 0 views

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    While informed by Foucault's understanding of power in terms of war and circulation, this article challenges Foucault's static reading of Hobbes. Contextualising Hobbes's political thought within the scientific ideas that he was inspired by, this article
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Governmentality of What? Populations, States and International Organisations - Global S... - 0 views

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    As more work on governmentality appears in International Relations (IR), it is time to take stock and deal with a few questions. In social theory, the governmentality approach has mainly addressed "advanced liberal" societies and can be defined as having
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Introduction: Kenya - A democracy in retreat? - Journal of Contemporary African Studies - 0 views

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    The post-election crisis of January 2008 brought Kenya close to collapse and the status of a failed state. Following the abrupt proclamation of Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent president, as victor in a highly contentious presidential election, peace was disrup
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Decentring Global Power: The Merits of a Foucauldian Approach to International Relation... - 0 views

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    In recent times, the value of a critical approach to the study of International Relations (IR) that makes use of the concepts and methods of Michel Foucault has (again) been put on trial. I will argue in this article that both Foucauldians and their criti
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Taking Foucault beyond Foucault: Inter-state Governmentality in Early Modern Europe - G... - 0 views

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    The analysis of governmentality has had a profound impact on the study of liberal, domestic societies over the last two decades, and the conceptual framework has been applied successfully to current global affairs. In this article one possible way of expa
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Overcoming Constraints of State Sovereignty: global health governance in Asia - Third W... - 0 views

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    In an increasingly globalised world effective international communicable diseases control requires states to embrace basic norms informing global health governance. However, recent international public health crises have shown that states continue to use
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International Crisis Group - Understanding Transitional Justice in Fragile States - 0 views

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    Speech by Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, to the Overseas Development Institute, "Peace Versus Justice? Understanding Transitional Justice in Fragile States", 9 October 2009
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Journal of Democracy - How Regions Differ - 0 views

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    Does democracy lead to more inclusive and equitable social contracts? Our answer is a qualified "yes." Democratization in Latin America and Eastern Europe increased attention to social policy despite wrenching economic crises. Yet welfare legacies of the
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Journal of Democracy - Iran in Ferment - 0 views

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    Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election has given rise to an outpouring of public protest and intraelite conflict unprecedented in the thirty-year history of the Islamic Republic. All this has occurred despite the fact that the unelected Council of
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