Recently added articles from Alternatives: Global, Local, Political:
Tracing the Russian hermeneutic: reflections on Tarkovsky's cinematic poetics and global politics.
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article makes a contribution to hermeneutic explorations in global politics. Taking as its points of departure the growing body of work on film and the turn to aesthetic and intertextual IR, the article argues that a further conversation with cinema and poetics can be used to develop ...
Indeterminate Geographies of political violence in southern Thailand.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Geographies always contain more than they claim to represent, and there is always a politics involved in this excessive representation. This article examines how such indeterminate geographies structure popular, academic, political, and nationalist understandings of the current wave of ...
Global justice meets local civil society: the International Criminal Court's investigation in the Central African Republic.
Oct 01, 2008; ... As a new justice institution, the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs to gain legitimacy not just with states but also in civil society, both at the global level and in the societies in which it intervenes. This article, based on interviews, NGO documents, newspaper articles, and ...
A model for homeland defense? The policing of alterglobalist protests and the contingency of power relations.
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article analyzes the policing of the protest against the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement in Miami in November 2003. Specifically, it uses the case to develop a theoretical understanding of the contingencies, weaknesses, and unpredictable consequences of ostensibly repressive ...
Wilson victorious? Understanding democracy promotion in the midst of a "backlash".
Oct 01, 2008; ... Many authors have issued anxious warnings about a disturbing "backlash against democracy"--this in spite of the growing affirmation of democracy as an international standard against which other systems are measured. This article considers the role of democracy promotion, which is ...