Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from October 2002

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from October 2002

Explaining war and peace: Kant and liberal IR theory.(Immanuel Kant, international relations)
October 1, 2002... Liberal IR theory accepts as axiomatic that the domestic "nature" of the state "is a key determinant" of its "behaviour" toward other states. (1) This assumption rests on the centrality within liberal political thought of the view that peace...

Tropical anarchy: Waltz, Wendt, and the way we imagine international politics.(Kenneth Waltz, Alexander Wendt)
October 1, 2002... This article considers the dangers of positing anarchy as the fundamental fact of international politics. Like Helen Milner, I suggest that "clarification of this central concept in international relations is important since such a key term...

Deliberative democracy or agonistic pluralism? The relevance of the Habermas-Mouffe debate for third world politics.(Jurgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe)
October 1, 2002... In recent decades, one cannot have failed to notice the spread of Western liberal democracy throughout the world, whether in Eastern Europe or many parts of the Third World. (1) Yet the ascent of liberal democracy has been accompanied by...

Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: international psychosocial programs in Kosovo.
October 1, 2002... In any report on conflict today, refugees are invariably presented as being "traumatized," "psychologically scarred," "indelibly marked," "emotionally damaged," "hopeless," "overwhelmed by grief," and so forth. Such is the preoccupation with...

Negotiating humanity: subcommanding the tender fury of justice.
October 1, 2002... What I want you to understand is that dialogue is one thing and negotiation is another. Subcomandante Marcos One may arguably distinguish four models by which communicating alternatives--or to use Lieve Gies's phrase, "communicative...