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ISSUE 3 (2010)

Editorial for Issue 3, by Anthony Cooper (pp. 3-6) HTML

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This paper examines the ‘global’ and ‘international’ role of Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism has manifested itself as an actor on the international stage and as a trans-national and global ‘community’.

 

The Limits of Cultural Globalisation?, by Daniele Conversi (pp. 36-59)

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The proliferation of studies on virtually every aspect of globalisation has not clarified the central terminological conundrum of the field. I argue that, if cultural globalisation is studied in tandem with Americanisation, it can be conceptually circumscribed and its finite nature better identified.
   

Governing the Extractive Sector: The Politics of Globalisation and Copper Policy in Chile, by Jewellord T. Nem Singh (pp. 60-88)

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Copper in Chile is an interesting case because it challenges the presumed failure of neoliberal reforms in Latin America. This paper argues that the Chilean state under La Concertación government has played an important ‘steering’ role by defusing the various political conflicts, contradictions and tensions in copper policy.

   
Essays
   
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This paper argues that the problematic of the international and the global has been a barrier to understanding the transformation of security discourse over the last decade.
   

Implications of the War On Terror for Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan, by Manzoor Ahmad (pp. 102-113)

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This paper is an attempt to analyze the factors which made the Pashtuns of this area prone to militancy. It will analyze the political, economic and social implications of the War on Terror for KPK in general and its Pashtun population in particular.
   

From International Relations to Alternative Globalisations, by Leslie Sklair (pp. 114-126)

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International Relations has struggled to escape the limitations of state centrism. Building on a transnational approach to globalisation, this paper seeks to show that the concept of transnational practices provides a better tool to analyze and explain the contemporary world than the concept of international relations.

 
Interview
 

Statecraft in the Global Financial Crisis: An Interview with Kanishka Jayasuriya, by Jeb Sprague (pp. 127-138)

 
Kanishka Jayasuriya argues that changing forms of governance and new regulative laws are enabling the transnationalization of institutions within national states. He also interprets these changes as giving rise to a new type of institutional struggle unique to globalization.

 
 
Reviews
   
 

Chronos and Kairos in Politics: Review of ‘The Time of Our Lives’ (David Hoy) and ‘Time and World Politics’ (Kimberly Hutchings), by Ben O’Loughlin (pp. 139-143) HTML

   
     
     
     
     

 


ISSUE 2 (2010): GLOBALISATION AND WAR

 

Walls, War and Globalisation, editorial by Pepijn van Houwelingen  (pp. 4-10)  
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Polemics
War in the Era of Declining U.S. Global Hegemony,  by Francis Shor (pp. 90-110)
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Roundtables
Transnational Militancy in the 21st Century, with Nathan Coombs, Faisal Devji, Kevin McDonald and Saul Newman (pp. 97-124)
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Windows on Empire: Perspectives from History, Culture and Political Economy, with Alex Colas, Christian Marazzi, Leo Panitch, Saskia Sassen and Sanjay Seth (pp. 125-153)
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Imperialism, Human Rights and War: Review of Jean Bricmont’s 'Humanitarian Imperialism; Using Human Rights to Sell War', by Sarah MacKenzie (pp.162-164)  
World Society and Conflict: Review of A. Hironaka’s 'Neverending Wars: the International Community, Weak States, and the Perpetuation of Civil War' &
ed. Stephan Stetter’s 'Territorial Conflicts in World Society'
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Justifying the New, editorial by Nathan Coombs (pp. 4-7)
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This world without another. Jean-Luc Nancy and la mondialisation, by Pieter Meurs, Nicole Note and Diederik Aerts (pp. 31-46)
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Hegel’s gesture towards radical cosmopolitanism, by Shannon Brincat (pp. 47-65)
Polemics
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Comment
The quest for the state in the Islamic Republic of Iran, by Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (pp. 132-139)
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