Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from April 2005

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from April 2005

Religion and (inter-)national politics: on the heuristics of identities, structures, and agents.
April 1, 2005... Starting from the puzzling effects of religion on conflict, both its escalation and deescalation, this article investigates the role of religion in maintaining boundaries (sacred/profane, clean/unclean, good/evil, etc.) that become constitutive...

Remodeling the transnational political realm: partnerships, best-practice schemes, and the digitalization of governance.
April 1, 2005... Drawing on theories of governance and governmentality, this article investigates the growing array of transnational organizational forms that create, share, and provide knowledge and expertise about various aspects of information and...

The impact of microcredit on the poor in Bangladesh.
April 1, 2005... This article presents a comparative overview of the most relevant findings from studies of the impact of microcredit institutions like the Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh. It first evaluates the evidence on economic impacts, which suggests...

Confidence- and security-building measures for India and Pakistan.
April 1, 2005... This article presents a conceptual and historical overview of confidence- and security-building measures between India and Pakistan in order to provide a context in which to evaluate prospects for the mitigation of conflict between these two...

Justice and the return of imperialism.
April 1, 2005... The article describes how U.S. liberal conservative internationalists (Andrew Carnegie, Elihu Root, Teddy Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson) used an idea of justice to legitimize "accumulation by dispossession" and America's use of the World War I...