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first press

 

2001:  20

200ISSN 1472-2720

writing in the critical social sciences 

Martin Shaw 
new
Risk-transfer militarism and the legitimacy of war after Iraq 

updated analysis of the new Western way of war

Kees van der Pijl

newly republished to mark 20th anniversary

The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class  book - full text in both html and pdf formats

Van der Pijl's classic class analysis of the rise of transatlantic power, first published by Verso in 1984.

Ronaldo Munck 
new
Globalisation, labour and the Polanyi problem. Or, the issue of counter-hegemon

Global Social Movements, Or Sorel In Seattle

Fulvio Attinà Egemonia globale e sicurezza regionale: l’alterazione della NATO e la partnership di sicurezza europea (PDF)
Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik South Asia on a short fuse: nuclear politics and the future of global disarmament (PDF)
Duncan Bell The Cambridge School and world politics (PDF)
Ken Booth and Tim Dunne Worlds in collision
Stephen Castles  Development, social transformation and globalisation (PDF)
  Migration as a factor in social transformation in East Asia  (PDF)
Christopher Clapham War and state formation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (PDF)
Stanley Cohen   The elementary forms of denial (only in PDF)
Alejandro Colás   The promises of international civil society: global governance, cosmopolitan democracy and the end of sovereignty? (only in PDF)
Richard Falk   Appraising the war against Afghanistan
  Testing patriotism and citizenship in the global terror war
Sandra Gil Araújo Inmigracíon en España: radicalizando la precariedad laboral (only in PDF)
Stephen Gill The constitution of global capitalism (PDF)
Peter Gowan, Leo Panitch and Martin Shaw The state, globalisation and the new imperialism: a roundtable discussion
Jürgen Habermas Bestiality and humanity:a war on the border between law and morality
Sandra Halperin The Eternal Return: Imperialism and 'Globalisation' reconsidered EXPLORING IMPERIUM

Brandon Hamber and Richard Wilson

Symbolic closure through memory, reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies
Colin Hay   What place for ideas in the structure-agency debate? globalisation as a ‘process without a subject’

David Held  

Violence, law and justice in the global age
Stephanie Hemelyrk Donald History, entertainment, education and jiaoyü: a Western Australian perspective on Australian children's media and some Chinese alternatives  (PDF)
Andreas Hess   Intellektuelle Reaktionen auf den 11. September: Versuch einer vorläufigen kritischen Eeinordnung
Her Myths and metaphors of Arab women's sexuality
Paul Hirst   Politics: territorial or non-territorial?
Mary Kaldor Cosmopolitanism and organized violence (PDF)
Mark Kirby   Interview with Erik Olin Wright
Anna Leander   Conditional legitimacy, reinterpreted monopolies: globalisation and the evolving state monopoly on legitimate violence
Ronnie D. Lipschutz Regulation for the rest of us? Global social activism, corporate citizenship, and the disappearance of the political  
  The Clash of Governmentalities: The Fall of the UN Republic and America's Reach for Imperium EXPLORING IMPERIUM
Michael Mann   The colonial darkside of democracy (PDF)
Luke Martell   Capitalism, globalisation and democracy: does social democracy have a role? (also in PDF)

Gorm Rye Olsen  

Europe and Africa’s failed states: from development to containment
William Outhwaite Social structure
  Toward a European civil society?
  Social theory at the end of the century
  Reflexive xenophobia
Matthew Paterson Shut up and shop! Thinking politically about consumption
Kees van der Pijl The Aesthetics of Empire and the Defeat of the Left EXPLORING IMPERIUM
Mark Rix The games grown ups play: the disciplinary formation of strategic studies 1946-1960 (PDF)
Justin Rosenberg The follies of globalisation theory (PDF)
Gautam Sen Is globalisation cheating the world’s poor? (PDF)
  China and the international economy (PDF)
Martin Shaw   Return of the good war?
  A regressive crystallization of global state power: theorising a response to the 'war against terrorism'
  Global Society and International Relations: Sociological Concepts and Political Perspectives BOOK
  Globality: historical change in our times (PDF)
  Dialectics of War: An Essay in the Social Theory of Total War and Peace BOOK
  Exploring imperia: Western-global power amidst the wars of quasi-imperial states EXPLORING IMPERIUM
  From managed media to active representation: the Gulf War and the Kurdish refugee crisis ( Part III of Civil Society and Media in Global Crises) BOOK
  Risk-transfer militarism, small massacres and the legitimacy of war
Hideaki Shinoda The politics of legitimacy in international relations: the case of NATO intervention in Kosovo (PDF)

 

Peace-building by international law (only in PDF)
Leslie Sklair The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalization (PDF)
Mikael Spång   Recognition, misrecognition and capitalism

Jean-François Thibault  

As if the world were a virtual global polity: the political philosophy of global governance 
Benno Teschke Geopolitik und Marxismus
Nicholas J. Wheeler Saving strangers (PDF only)
Peter Wilson E. H. Carr: the revolutionist's realist (PDF)
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