Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from January 2001

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from January 2001

The Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name: The Return of Left Nationalism/Internationalism.
January 1, 2001... Gordon Laxer [*] Before France pulled out of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), thus killing the deal, it issued the Lalumiere Report. The report argued that the MAI "marks a step in international economic negotiations. For...

Security in the South China Sea.
January 1, 2001... Daojiong Zha [*] In modern East Asia, the pursuit of security is a particularly problematic enterprise. Until the European "explorers" reached the Asian shores, the ideas/principles of "nation-state" and "international relations"-as was...

Frontier Politics: Sex, Gender, and the Deconstruction of the Public Sphere [1].
January 1, 2001... Mary Ann Tetreault [*] Some of the most fascinating techniques for differentiating the status of women and men in human cultures are inscribed in the gendered allocation of interior and exterior space. Perhaps the most basic of these...

A Critique of Disciplinary Reason: The Limits of Political Theory.
January 1, 2001... Sanjay Seth [*] One of the gains of theoretical reflection in recent decades has been a growing recognition that we moderns have a tendency to project back into the past practices and ideas and categories that are in fact of recent...