Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from August 2003

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from August 2003

Competition and confusion in the discourse on organized crime in Russia.
August 1, 2003... Throughout the 1990s, organized crime was a familiar topic in Russian, Western, and international political and economic forums. The reasons for this are partially known. Not only had the end of the bipolar context undermined a vision of the...

Russian entrepreneurship and violence in the late 1990s.
August 1, 2003... According to a widespread view, Russia is coming through the age of "wild markets," with entrepreneurs having no well-established, shared rules and conventions. This view is certainly too simplistic. Both advanced and emerging markets are never...

Caught up in the madness? State power and transnational organized crime in the work of Susan Strange.
August 1, 2003... Susan Strange left an impressive legacy of scholarship on international relations. (1) She consistently challenged the field for its tendency to privilege the state and discount the role of markets and transnational actors. For Strange, power...

Exceptionalism and transnationalism: UK judicial control of the detention of foreign "international terrorists".
August 1, 2003... In his recent commentary on sovereignty and the exception, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben claims that the "statement 'the rule lives off the exception alone' must be taken to the letter. Law is made of nothing but what it manages to...