Search Results for Sanctions

...J. Matthew Hoye Abstract On August 15, 2021, American military forces withdrew from Kabul, and the sanctioning of Afghanistan began. Marred by the usual problems—ineffective, counterproductive, unwieldy—these sanctions revealed three additional puzzles. First, although grounded in targeted...

...Craig Curtis Abstract Noise pollution is an ongoing problem in American cities, and car stereos are a major reason why large numbers of people are unhappy. Citizens are demanding regulation of “boom cars” and the typical policy response is to use the criminal sanction. The behavior is annoying...

..., subjection, and governmentality elucidate the mutually constitutive relationships among informal and formal actors and institutions in sanctioning the profiling of individuals for “walking while trans” as a tool for mitigating the threat transgender people of color and trans-immigrants pose to dominant power...

... conditions. State-sanctioned ownership and control of news outlets, communication platforms, and information networks furnish a unique mechanism for influencing the structural terms of public discourse on all issues, including media policy. This implicates corporate media power in the ongoing US political...

... rejected Solanas, and radicals embraced her. Both sides of the feminist divide, however, turned away from violence as a political tactic. Even sympathetic radicals adopted separatist agendas that sanctioned violence only for the purpose of self-defense. I argue that the reaction to Solanas by her...

... of civilian “blowback” that originates with heightened US military adventurism in the postwar period. During this time most of the victims of state-sanctioned military violence have been yellow people (Korean War, Vietnam War) and the essay connects this with the overrepresentation of Asian Americans who have...

... vigilantes to harass faculty members and college administrators to sanction their faculty members. We argue that Campus Reform is part of a well-funded and well-organized panoptic network that engages in the sensationalized surveillance of faculty. This paper first develops our concept of sensationalized...

... such as Lenin, Trotsky, Lukacs, and Luxemburg. His co-authored book, Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism (1986), still a classic in the sub-field, claims that none other than Frederick Engels sanctioned Social Democracy’s quintessential stance, the peaceful or parliamentary road to socialism. A close...

... a social welfare agenda that would improve measurably the quality of urban life, and resolve the problem of race and racism in the United States. The author proposes that despite important changes in race relations, including the elimination of a multi-generational system of legally-sanctioned political...

... Reagan's policy, culminating in the vote for sanctions on South Africa, was thus influenced, among others, by impulse, image, and empathy generated by the electronic and print media. Had Western cameras not been in South Africa to record the situation and developments in that country, the pressure...

... studies of different modes in which money moves around the world-that of transnational kinship networks (Chapter 4) and charitable donations (Chapter 5) follow. The penultimate chapter examines sanctions or bans in keeping with the focus on spatiality and mobility of the previous empirical examples. Book...

... 6 is devoted to explaining the case selection and giving sufficient background on their choice to focus primarily on sanctions as a measure of "disciplinary policy." Sanctions, they argue, "are the neoliberal-paternalist tool of discipline parexcellence sanctions are valued as tools for imposing...

... Peterson's The Politics of Genocide reads as follows: A remarkable degree of continuity stretches across the many decades of bribes and threats, economic sanctions, subversion, terrorism, aggression, and occupation ordered-up by the policymaking elite of the United States. But no less impressive...

... who are all of a culture of shadowy, corporate arms-dealing practices, ostensibly illegal but sanctioned by the global justice dispositif. Though global capitalism has in a sense 'redrawn the map' of the world, those nations who have pushed for the expansion of capital and markets have also sanctioned...

... sanctions minimal intervention in the advancement of rights because it is institutionally constrained - it does not have the purview to intervene in the sociocultural and socioeconomic realms - and discursively constrained - it can only enforce the letter of the law and not change people's heart and minds...

...) where it reached (1718) billion dollars, then increased in (2007) to (1842) billion dollars. In (2009), the volume of Iranian exports to Iraq reached (4560) million dollars, representing about (1491» of the volume of trade for Iraq. After the tightening of sanctions on Iran's oil sector in 2012...

... with a standardized, rule-based decision-making process, which includes monitoring mechanisms and sanctions for violators.' The best example of a social media platform that embodies Forestal's democratic principles and affordances is Reddit. For example, in examining the most popular social media platforms...

... is the first and perhaps most visible way in which knowledge production is governed. The politics of portrayal tends conservative; perspectives or ideas that deviate from standard orthodoxies encounter resistance from gatekeeping institutions in the form of editorial boards, professional sanctioning bodies...

... monitoring arrangements are not adequate to ensure enforcement of the conventions. Since compliance with ILO conventions is not just a matter of economics, but also touches upon power relations, there exist strong incentives to renege on the commitment to uphold ILO standards. Trade sanctions, even...

... actions in the Middle East: longtime support for Israel against the Palestinians, the deadly bombings and sanctions against Iraq, military bases established in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and elsewhere in the region, support for harsh authoritarian regimes, massive weapons sales to all parties, and so forth...