...Robert P. Marzec This essay situates the critical work of William V. Spanos in relation to the liminal event of anthropocentric planetary climate change—specifically the manner in which this event is being subordinated to military ends by the US national security state in particular and the global...

... and the ruling native class. This struggle for the people's socioeconomic rights continues in the age of globalization, as Chinese workers' are increasingly deprived of their security and well-being. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Unless otherwise noted, all translations are mine. Human Rights...

... infiltrated and hollowed out, as if the utopic energies of the 1960s were foreclosed at birth by the security apparatus of police forces, land development, and the global totality of capital as situated on the Pacific Rim. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Book Reviewed: Thomas Pynchon, Inherent...

... It is disturbing to contemplate that if such a candidate were to be democratically elected, there would be no legal way for the rest of the world to intervene, although regime change might indeed be advisable for global security. But even in the best of circumstances, nation-­states are not held...

... of total victory over absolute evil, virtuous war became the ultimate means by which the United States intended to resecure its borders, assert its suze- rainty, and secure the holy trinity of international order: global capitalism (VI...

... on the Afghan and the Iraqi peoples. As a result of these acts of ‘‘defensive aggression Afghanistan and Iraq were relocated within the Global Order of the Home- land Security State. The spectators...

... Platform for Free Trade, Investment,” Korea Herald, November 11, 2004. . Seong-Ryoul Cho, “APEC’s Role in Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula,” Journal of East Asian Affairs 19 (2005): 135. . Christopher Leigh Connery, “Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary...

...Pheng Cheah This essay evaluates the rise of recognition as an important analytical category in critical theory for understanding the normative grounds of social and political struggles for global justice in the contemporary world. It begins with a discussion of different variants...

... and Gindin cite a National Security Council document from 1950 which states, “Even 25. Prabhat Patnaik, “Whatever Happened to Imperialism,” Monthly Review 42, no. 6 (November 1990): 1–6; cited in Panitch and Gindin, “Global Capitalism and American Empire,” 2. 26. Michael Ignatieff, Empire Lite...

...Tom Looser For some time now, Japan has been teetering on the point of fundamental, historical transformation. Neoliberalist contractions, natural catastrophes, and the nuclear disaster have contributed to an era of crisis that is local to Japan, while they are also an ongoing bellwether of global...

... to divest their credibility in Bush’s Global War on Terror and reinvest it in the ambition to make a transgenerational dream come true. Obama’s bailout of financial institutions and his proposed changes in the healthcare contract quite literally affected Americans’ most intimate sense of secure...

... the prefabricated identities of minor group imaginaries. This is the case so long as the groups accept their grounding in the global market’s rule of law, presumably based on principles of democratic tolerance, but actually based in the powers of the security forces of the nation and the international...

... elections display vividly the constitutive struggle of their societies. These are societies characterized by an ever-widening gulf between what must be properly understood as a managerial elite securely attached to a global network of rule—although it is not fully integrated into that network...

... to assume that he well knows that this ten- dency—that is, the tendency to secure the endurance of U.S. dominance of the global financial order by sustaining growth through perpetual war- footing, financed by other international entities—has long been a feature of the American system. Moreover, he cannot...

... on the political practices and cultural values of other societies. These are values that have animated radical thinking globally for at least a century. The discussion explores the implications for radical thinking of the necessity of coming to terms with these new cultural challenges. © 2015 by Duke University...

...Gaurav Desai Duke University Press 2006 Capitalism, Sovereignty, and the Dilemmas of Postcoloniality Gaurav Desai The Discourses of Globalization In a characteristically provocative essay, ‘‘Disjoining the Left...

..., but it also makes them deeply identify with such basic values as freedom, equality, justice, security, wel- fare, and dignity. Pursuit of such basic values is both the core and ultimate destination of cultural globalization. It is also incumbent on nation-states to pursue such values. For example, Li...

... the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty . Edited by Masson-Delmotte V. et al. Geneva : IPCC . Jones Reece . 2012 . Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel . London...

... as a historical turning point that brought about a change in the entire symbolic apparatus.This resulted in the inauguration of a sociopolitical compact that was crystallized in the phrase Homeland Security State. This compact required U.S. citizens to place the instinct for hatred and a compulsion toward...

... berated the original terrorism mafia for suggesting that understanding grievances or goals might contrib- ute to security policy. To some extent, then, counterterrorism policy of the new century depends on an explicit rejection of certain knowledges. Stampnitzky is right that the 1970s were...