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Killing the Third World: civilisational security as US grand strategy
No full textPublished in: Third World Quarterly, 2019, VOL. 40, NO. 2, 266–283.This article disputes explanations of American expansionism that are
based on the requirements of national security or more abstract theo-
ries such as the balance of power. In contradistinction to the imperatives
of defence and survival, the article shows how civilisational factors
weighed heavily on the emergence of US grand strategy at the turn of
the nineteenth century. In particular assumptions about the peoples
of the Third World being lesser played an important role in the concep-
tion and legitimation of imperial expansion. During this period, the US
Navy went through a dramatic build-up. The article shows the ways in
which the worldviews of many of the key players (such as Alfred Mahan
and Theodore Roosevelt) contributed to the militarisation of global
racism, a development that led to widespread killing in the Philippines
and elsewhere
Children of another land: Social disarticulation, access to natural resources and the reconfiguration of authority in the post resettlement
No full textPublished in: Society & Natural Resources, 33:2, 184-204.The breakdown of social order, social disarticulation, is a common
impact of population resettlement. This article shows that social dis-
articulation results from the dissolution and reconstruction of author-
ity through which people gain, maintain, and control access to
essential resources in response to changes in the material conditions
inherent in resettlement. Resource access—and the relations it
implies—is required for long-term autonomy and security. When
new patterns or hierarchies of resource control lead to some part of
the group being disadvantaged via subordination to others or exclu-
sion from resource enjoyment, resettled villages experience social
disarticulation. We explore this access realignment and differenti-
ation process in the case of the resettlement of two natural
resource-dependent communities out of the Limpopo National Park
in Mozambique
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Carroll, 01 March 1792
No full textPhiladelphia March 1, 1792
Dear Sir,
Much time has been spent in endeavoring to seduce Major Lenfant to continue in the business he was engaged in, in proper subordination to the Commissioners. He has however entirely refused, so that he has been notified that we consider his services as at an end. The plan is put into the hands of an engraver, and will be engraved within three or four weeks. About the same time Mr. Ellicot will return to finish laying out the ground, as to every thing else it will rest on your board to plan & to have executed. The President desires you will call a meeting at the earliest day you can after the 11th instant. By that time you will receive from hence such general ideas & recommendations as may occur. You will then have to advertise for plans of the buildings. It is taken for granted the design of the Commissioners in the action commenced against Roberdeau was merely to suspend his operations, and produce in him a proper conviction of his error. Under this idea they will probably feel no difficulty in consenting to let him off as easily as they can. You will receive formal letters on the general business, shortly; in the meantime I am with great & sincere esteem Dear Sir.
Your friend and servant,
Thomas Jefferso
Manet's Cafe Paintings: The Women, Multiplicity of Meaning
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Re/Presentation: The Inversion of Media Constructs in the Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
EdNext podcast: school suspensions and teacher race
No full textIn this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West interviews Lindsay about the study, “Teacher Race and School Discipline,” which appears in the Winter 2017 issue of Education Next
"Controversy in Museums: A Sensational Chorus of Evil"
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as thesis optio
2012-01 WAGE STAGNATION, RISING INEQUALITY, AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2008
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2012-01. 56 pages.The most widely embraced explanations of the financial crisis of 2008 have centered upon inadequate regulation stemming from laissez-faire ideology, combined with low interest rates. Although these widely-acknowledged causal factors are true, beneath them lie deeper determining forces that have received less notice: wage stagnation and a dramatic increase in inequality in the U.S. over the preceding 35 years. Wage stagnation and heightened inequality generated three dynamics that made the economy vulnerable to systemic dysfunction. The first is that they constrained consumption, reducing profitable investment potential in the real economy, and thereby encouraging an every wealthier elite to flood financial markets with credit, helping keep interest rates low, encouraging the creation of new credit instruments and greater indebtedness, and fueling speculation. The second dynamic is that consumption externalities were generated, forcing individuals to struggle harder to find ways to maintain the welfare of their families and maintain their relative social status. The consequence was that over the preceding three decades household saving rates plummeted, households took on ever-greater debt, and worked longer hours. The third dynamic is that, as the rich took larger shares of income and wealth, they gained more command over ideology and hence politics. Reducing the size of government, cutting taxes on the rich and reducing welfare for the poor, deregulating the economy, and failing to regulate newly evolving credit instruments flowed out of this ideology
2010-18 The Phillips Curve and US Monetary Policy: What the FOMC Transcripts Tell Us
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2010-18. 34 pages.The Phillips curve framework, which includes the output gap and natural rate hypothesis, plays a central role in the canonical macroeconomic model used in analyses of monetary policy. It is now well understood that real-time data must be used to evaluate historical monetary policy. We believe that it is equally important that macroeconomic models used to evaluate historical monetary policy reflect the framework that policymakers used to formulate that policy. To that end, we use the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) transcripts to examine the role that the Phillips curve framework played in Fed policymaking from 1979 through 2003. The FOMC’s transcripts allow us to trace the evolution in policymakers’ discussion of the Phillips curve framework over time. Our analysis suggests that the Phillips curve was much less central to the formulation and implementation of US monetary policy than it is in models commonly used to evaluate that policy
Relationship between the rewarding and aversive effects of morphine and amphetamine in individual subjects
No full textPublished in: Learning & Behavior, December 2011, Volume 39, Issue 4, pp 399–408.Drugs of abuse have been reported to produce
both rewarding and aversive effects, as evidenced by their
ability to induce both conditioned place preferences (CPPs)
and conditioned taste aversions (CTAs), respectively.
Although several attempts have been made to assess the
relationship between the rewarding and aversive effects
of drugs in independent groups, it is unknown to what
extent (if any) preferences and aversions are related in
individual animals. The present study assessed this
relationship by examining the ability of morphine (5
and 10 mg/kg) and amphetamine (3 and 5 mg/kg) to
induce both place preferences and taste aversions in the
same animal, using a concurrent CTA/CPP design. There
was no consistent relationship between the ability of
morphine or amphetamine at either dose to increase time
spent on the drug-paired side and the ability to suppress
consumption of the drug-paired taste. These results
support the position that drugs of abuse have multiple
stimulus effects, both rewarding and aversive, that condi-
tion place preferences and taste aversions independently