Arena Journal articles from January 1 2003

Arena Journal archives from January 1 2003

Responsibility and truth.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... The dramatic declaration by the United States in 2003 that the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) could justify preemptive strikes against sovereign nations marked a break in the history of nation-states. In the view of the Bush...

They are all heroes.(Commentary)
January 1, 2003... Days after the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, the executives at Warner Brothers studios decided to postpone the release of Collateral Damage, the recently completed and ready-to-roll action blockbuster featuring the not-yet governor...

Interpreting a settler-related impulse in Today's Middle East: notes for the analysis of a Settler Archive.(Commentary)
January 1, 2003... A dramatic shift in US policy towards the Middle East has manifested itself in recent years. The Bush administration has been adamant in its commitment to war, even against the evidence provided by intelligence agencies and Wall Street's view...

Convergences.(Commentary)
January 1, 2003... Israel and Palestine In October the UN General Assembly decided by an overwhelming majority to call on Israel to pull down the wall it is now building across the West Bank and through Jerusalem. The only governments to join the United...

Reconstructing and reconciling a war-torn world.(Commentary)
January 1, 2003... Around the world today, numerous communities face an immediate future of intense violence and social upheaval. (1) Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, the Solomon Islands and the Congo are just some of the most obvious examples. In other...

Temporary protection, anxiety and refugee deterrence.(Commentary)
January 1, 2003... We can't go forward and we can't go back... I feel like I have swallowed a razor, it's sitting in my stomach, it can't go through and can't come back up. Father of three, ex-Iraq Living here we don't feel that we are free and we are...

Mr Watson's bad language.(Language, Action and Meaning)(Don Watson)
January 1, 2003... Don Watson's Death Sentence 1 pursues a theory of cultural decline premised on the idea that any reduction in the quality of public discourse reveals ethical deficiencies in the practice of government and political culture. In examining public...

On Don Watson's death sentence.(Language, Action and Meaning)
January 1, 2003... A few months ago a press reference to Don Watson's recent book Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, (1) had it 'selling like hot cakes'. At least among many of those with a special interest in public language, Watson has tapped into a...

Post-2001 and the Third Coming of Nationalism.(Nationalism and Global War)
January 1, 2003... Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The...

Perpetual War within the state of exception.(Nationalism and Global War)
January 1, 2003... The implications of the Iraq war extend well beyond its borders. The construction of a new geopolitical framework resulting in the occupation of Iraq has legitimized certain forms of behaviour and patterns of understanding, and created a set of...

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: an answer to Robert Kagan.(Nationalism and Global War)
January 1, 2003... Grotius in 1625: 'Man neither was, nor is, by nature, a wild unsociable creature'. (1) Hobbes in 1651: 'And the life of man [is] solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'. (2) In this article I revisit some of the...

The politics of moralizing the nation.(Nationalism and Global War)
January 1, 2003... Thinking is... creative as well as representative, and its creativity is aided by the fact that the process of thinking is not entirely controlled by the agents of thought. (1) William Connolly, Neuropolitics, 2002 The...

Africa, India and the Postcolonial: notes towards a Praxis of infliction.
January 1, 2003... Beyond the occasional glancing references and the deployment of intellectual authority, the absence of an authentic and well sustained African input into the paradigm of contemporary postcolonialism is one of the most...

Remembering the Rosenbergs: Jews, Communism and Spy Scandals in Cold War America.
January 1, 2003... In June 1953, a Jewish communist couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed for allegedly selling atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Since that time numerous commentators have debated their guilt or innocence. The current consensus...