Journal of International Affairs articles from January 1995

Journal of International Affairs archives from January 1995

Sovereignty: an introduction and brief history.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... Most citizens of most states recall, in eulogy or in censure, a founding moment when battles, heroes, speeches, debates and compromises brought about a new constitution, an enduring new orthodoxy of political authority and principles. They speak...

Capital mobility, state autonomy and political legitimacy.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... Language - not money or force - provides legitimacy. So long as military, political, religious or financial systems do not control language, the public's imagination can move about freely with its own ideas. Uncontrolled words are consistently...

Identity, integration and security: solving the sovereignty puzzle in E.U. studies. (European Union)(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... Western Europe is probably the area in the world where one meets the most advanced case of border fluidity and transgression of sovereignty. John Ruggie recently suggested that "the institutional, juridical and spatial complexes associated with...

Economic interdependence and challenges to the nation-state: the emergence of natural economic territories in the Asia-Pacific.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... The political economy of the Asia-Pacific region is undergoing momentous changes, including the advent of natural economic territories (NETS) that are springing to life throughout the region. Variously called "growth circles," "growth triangles"...

Transnational organized crime: an imminent threat to the nation-state?(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... Transnational organized crime has been a serious problem for most of the 20th century, but it has only recently been recognized as a threat to the world order. This criminality undermines the integrity of individual countries, but it is not yet a...

The U.N. and humanitarian assistance: Ambassador Jan Eliasson.(Transcending National Boundaries)(Interview)
January 1, 1995... Journal: In recent years, the international community has increasingly been called upon to intervene in situations of intrastate conflict, often without the consent of the parties involved. To what extent do you feel that this intervention...

Non-governmental organizations and their influence on international society.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have proliferated in the latter half of the 20th century. Many of these transnational actors are new to world politics, a province that historically has been dominated by states. In some issue...

The sovereign client.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... Sovereign states routinely hire outside (often foreign) advisers on matters of great significance and sensitivity, such as privatization programs, external debt management activities, foreign public relations campaigns and so forth. In the eyes...

Exporting feminism.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... From its inception, feminism has been a universalist faith. Originating in the West with Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, feminism was tethered to the French Revolution's proclamation of the universal rights of...

Fisheries, sovereignties and red herrings.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... In some circles, environmental issues are thought to be a completely new kettle of fish, requiring an entirely new way of thinking and organizing internationally. This is perhaps so, but they may ultimately prove an empty kettle of fish. U.S....

Citizenship, nationality and other identities.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... The idea that citizenship in a nation-state should be a person's primary identity is a recent one on an historic scale. In many cases it is only a hopeful fiction, although sometimes it is a useful one.(1) For most people this form of identity...

Illegal transnational labor: Mexicans in California and Haitians in the Dominican Republic. (The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay)(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... Poised on the fence, literally between North and South, a young Mexican hunches his shoulders and awaits his chance. He jumps and goes straight from a crouch to a run, heading for cover on the U.S. side. The Border Patrol agent beside me directs...

Appraising the U.N. at 50: the looming challenge.(Transcending National Boundaries)
January 1, 1995... IS THE U.N. FAIILING? In the spring of 1994, The Economist had on its cover a ghastly scene: a landscape of utter desolation, the sky and earth blood red, corpses littering the ground with a flagpole in their midst, its U.N. flag flying at...

War and Reason: Domestic and International Imperatives.
January 1, 1995... In their monograph, War and Reason: Domestic and International Imperatives, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman offer an impressive analysis of interntional conflict. Those familiar with Bueno de Mesquita's earlier work will notice...

Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers.
January 1, 1995... Even after a long period in which war between the world's most powerful states has not occurred, war is still a common feature of international relations. What is intriguing about T.V. Paul's Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers...

Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy.
January 1, 1995... The wave of emerging states in Central Asia and Eastern Europe following the end of the Cold War has resulted in a virtual epidemic of nationalism. The most prevalent image of nationalism in recent years has been that of a semi-automatic...

The Global Economy as Political Space.
January 1, 1995... In the late twentieth century, it has become commonplace to note that such phenomena as cyberspace, the fax machine, Cable News Network, MTV International and the general growth of the telecommunications and transportation industries have...

Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad.
January 1, 1995... How does one make moral judgments across cultural boundaries? Are such judgments truly moral, or are they merely reflections of unenlightened tendencies toward cultural imperialism? In recent decades, critical theorists have left Western moral...

Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access.
January 1, 1995... Ah, the Information Frontier. The excitement, the intrigue and the power of its possibilities hold us in its spell. Few can resist the opportunity to stake a claim on the information frontier - to feel oneself akin to the settlers of the Wild...

Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers.
January 1, 1995... Travel literature has always been an important genre in political, sociological and scientific discourse. Encouraging the analysis of other cultures as well as a deeper understanding of one's own, authors from Herodotus to Marco Polo to Darwin...