Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from July 2008

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from July 2008

Is consensus a genuine democratic value? The case of Spain's political pacts against terrorism.
July 1, 2008... This article considers the history of the Spanish political pacts against terrorism and the political contexts in which they have been implemented since the beginning of the 1980s. This sociohistorical approach is necessary in order to...

Forget equality? Security and liberty in the "war on terror".
July 1, 2008... The "war on terror" has triggered intense debates about the role of security and liberty, the trade-off between security and liberty, the meaning of security and the power of civil liberties. Nonetheless, while security has been closely...

Citizenship as capital: the distinction of migrant labor.
July 1, 2008... As subordinate workers, migrants and foreigners are an essential labor force for industrialized economies. The author extends Pierre Bourdieu's ideas of capital to suggest that citizenship constitutes a key mechanism of distinction between...

Diagnosis, intervention, and cure: the illness narrative in the discourse of the failed state.
July 1, 2008... Failed-states discourse rests on an illness narrative. As the failing state battles against invasion by the terrorism "virus," the United States serves as physician, diagnosing, treating, and sometimes "curing" the patient. The well state...

Western Europeans and Others: the making of Europe at the United Nations.
July 1, 2008... This article examines the emergence of the so-called Western European and Others Group as well as that of the caucus of European Communities at the General Assembly of the United Nations based on a study of documents from Nordic foreign...