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Die indische Diaspora in Tansania
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In 1982 John Gerard Ruggie coined, in reference to Polanyi’s notion of a “legitimate social purpose”, the concept of “embedded liberalism” describing the post second World War political compromise between free-market liberalism and domestic political interventionism. Ruggie identified in the institutional design of the era a “generative grammar” that centered on the idea that international [...]
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The streets were filled with a moving mass of White and Red. Waving Canadian flags to them attached screaming, singing intoxicated citizens ran, seemingly aimless, around the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown core. It was the 28th of February 2010 and the Winter Olympics had, after two weeks, come to a close. The Canadian Hockey Team [...]
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…is not even a question for Cubans! In that other universe, for the last fifty years, the stock of pre-revolutionary gas guzzlers was (almost) all Cuba had as private transport. If they could afford the petrol. Just keeping them going and refurbished is their automotive industry.
Iconophilia thanks Jan Luedert for these recent photographs of a 1953 [...]
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Robert Cox postulates that theory is always for someone and some purpose. As such theories are propositions or ideas about the world in which we exist. The same can be said of those applying a certain type of theory in economic policymaking. They are idea enablers. Hence, I argue, choosing a set of theoretical [...]
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‘Toleration is historically the product of the realization of the irreconcilability of equally dogmatic faiths, and the practical improbability of complete victory of one over the other.’ Isaiah Berlin
One result of late capitalist expansion is the socio-cultural resistance of indigenous peoples around the world against the ‘forces of cultural uniformity’ and the ‘appropriation of indigenous [...]
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In the Media
When music bothers the police
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Transnational Politics
Coming of Age? The significance and Limits of transnational activist networks today
At the turn of the 20th century I heeded the calling of a transnational activist network critical of globalisation. Attac appealed to me with its pacifist ethos that neo-liberal economic globalisation is not an inevitable destiny but that a different world is [...]
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Featured on e-IR
A recent article on the contending notion of sovereignty has been published by e-IR. e-International Relations is an independent, student-run website for people who are interested in international politics. The article is entitled Contending Dialectics: Revisiting Material and Ideational Dimensions of Sovereignty. It exemplifies how either a Hegelian or Marxian dialectic runs in the background of [...]
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