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China’s lost world of internationalism
No full textPostrevolutionary China aspired to proletarian internationalist principles. By a symbiotic logic, socialism and internationalism are interwoven ideologically, practically, and geopolitically. Any erosion of the former would cause and indicate the corrosion of the latter, and vice versa. This chapter traces the People’s Republic’s ethnic and foreign policy trajectories as the two interconnected wings of the “international” against a changing background of Chinese socialism in the process of formation and transformation. Initially a main player in the historical movement of international communism and later a willing participant in capitalist globalization, China remains unsettled and ambiguous in a world increasingly integrated as much as torn apart. This chapter begins by discussing the emergence of modern China as an exploited and oppressed “class nation,” signified by the rise of revolutionary Chinese nationalism following imperialist encroachment since the mid-nineteenth century. The next section looks into new China’s internal and external relations after 1949, in terms of its socialist commitment and policy frameworks within the economic and geopolitical constraints imposed on the country. The third section focuses on the negative impacts of the Sino-Soviet split on both the communist and nonaligned third worlds; China’s rapprochement with the United States is also evaluated in that context. The last section briefly and critically examines globalist and traditionalist responses to the present crises in the country, and argues for a socialist alternative. Only by resuming and developing socialism can the lost world of the international be reclaimed in China as the answer to its national and global challenges
Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as Seen from a Special Commission
No full textThis chapter examines the United Nations's engagement with Palestine through its Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories (“Special Committee”) in a broader Third World context of “global war against the forces of imperialism and neo-imperialism.” It first discusses the history of Palestinian commitment to UN special commissions as a means to the just resolution of the conflict with Israel before turning to the symbolic aspects of UN politics. It then provides a background on the UN Special Committee, whose stated mission was to investigate human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In particular, it considers the key challenges faced by the committee, such as the refusal of the government of Israel to cooperate with it. The chapter suggests that UN special commissions came and went in Palestine, but little progress was made in terms of an emancipatory politics.</p
Peacekeeping, Development, and Counterinsurgency: THE UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON AND “QUICK IMPACT PROJECTS”
Get PDFThis is a landmark book—a close and informed study of the UN in the region that taught the organization how to do its many jobs
From socialist calculation to political ecology
Get PDFTed Benton in his chapter in this book provides an excellent account of environmental themes inMarx’s own work and the subsequent discussion of these. This chapter will not directly engagewith Marx’s own writings in any detail. Rather, it will be concerned with the implications of Marx’swork for ongoing debates about the increasing monetisation, marketisation and financialisation ofnature. The relation of Marx’s work to these debates is mediated by another line of argumentwhose centenary anniversary we will soon be observing - the socialist calculation debates. Acentral legacy of Marx’s work, which remains an area of dispute, concerns the nature andpossibility of rational economic choices in a society beyond capitalism and commodity production.In an influential paper of 1920, Mises denied that rational economic choices were possible in asocialist society1. He was not the first to make that claim, but the paper was influential in openingthe more widely known debates about socialist planning that followed. What has often beenmissed in the subsequent accounts of the debates was important environmental dimensions ofthe debates that were central to the development of later ecological economics. In this chapter Ishow why those often neglected dimensions of the debates retain their importance for currentresistance to the increasing use of market modes of environmental governance. The first sectionof the chapter outlines the different dimensions of market modes of environmental governanceand their problems. The second section traces the source of some of the central criticisms of thesemodes of governance in the socialist calculation debates
From socialist calculation to political ecology
Get PDFTed Benton in his chapter in this book provides an excellent account of environmental themes inMarx’s own work and the subsequent discussion of these. This chapter will not directly engagewith Marx’s own writings in any detail. Rather, it will be concerned with the implications of Marx’swork for ongoing debates about the increasing monetisation, marketisation and financialisation ofnature. The relation of Marx’s work to these debates is mediated by another line of argumentwhose centenary anniversary we will soon be observing - the socialist calculation debates. Acentral legacy of Marx’s work, which remains an area of dispute, concerns the nature andpossibility of rational economic choices in a society beyond capitalism and commodity production.In an influential paper of 1920, Mises denied that rational economic choices were possible in asocialist society1. He was not the first to make that claim, but the paper was influential in openingthe more widely known debates about socialist planning that followed. What has often beenmissed in the subsequent accounts of the debates was important environmental dimensions ofthe debates that were central to the development of later ecological economics. In this chapter Ishow why those often neglected dimensions of the debates retain their importance for currentresistance to the increasing use of market modes of environmental governance. The first sectionof the chapter outlines the different dimensions of market modes of environmental governanceand their problems. The second section traces the source of some of the central criticisms of thesemodes of governance in the socialist calculation debates
From socialist calculation to political ecology
Get PDFTed Benton in his chapter in this book provides an excellent account of environmental themes inMarx’s own work and the subsequent discussion of these. This chapter will not directly engagewith Marx’s own writings in any detail. Rather, it will be concerned with the implications of Marx’swork for ongoing debates about the increasing monetisation, marketisation and financialisation ofnature. The relation of Marx’s work to these debates is mediated by another line of argumentwhose centenary anniversary we will soon be observing - the socialist calculation debates. Acentral legacy of Marx’s work, which remains an area of dispute, concerns the nature andpossibility of rational economic choices in a society beyond capitalism and commodity production.In an influential paper of 1920, Mises denied that rational economic choices were possible in asocialist society1. He was not the first to make that claim, but the paper was influential in openingthe more widely known debates about socialist planning that followed. What has often beenmissed in the subsequent accounts of the debates was important environmental dimensions ofthe debates that were central to the development of later ecological economics. In this chapter Ishow why those often neglected dimensions of the debates retain their importance for currentresistance to the increasing use of market modes of environmental governance. The first sectionof the chapter outlines the different dimensions of market modes of environmental governanceand their problems. The second section traces the source of some of the central criticisms of thesemodes of governance in the socialist calculation debates
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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