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- Alternatives: Global, Local, Political focuses on the changing relationships between local political practices and identities and emerging forms of global economy, culture and polity.
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Treatises of development: the context of developmentalism in Bangladesh.
This article analyzes the structure of the development discourse that has become prominent since the end of World War II. An understanding of this...
3/1/04 by Abul Hossain Ahmed Bhuiyan · More from publicationNational insecurities: humiliation, salvation, and Chinese nationalism.
The line separating good from evil passes not through states, nor between political parties--but right through every human heart. --Aleksandr...
3/1/04 by William A. Callahan · More from publicationShame to Vengeance: the grand cliche of the Japanese Superstate.
In a nation where watching the gross national product is a gross national pastime, trade representatives come close to being culture heroes....
3/1/04 by Marie Thorsten · More from publicationThe harem syndrome: moving beyond anthropology's discursive colonization of gender in the Middle East.
The urgent need to redirect the debate on gender in the Middle East has led one commentator to suggest that "facile assumptions about the monolithic...
3/1/04 by Serge D. Elie · More from publicationThe international politics of secularism: U.S. foreign policy and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Iranian people did not rebel against their own failed rulers but against ours. --Robert J. Allison In his study of religious...
3/1/04 by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd · More from publicationThe rule of law, inequality, and the International Criminal Court.
The rule of law is not a transcendent principle or objective fact but a regulative ideal. The core of this ideal is that different legal subjects are...
1/1/04 by Antonio Franceschet · More from publication