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Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice
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Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Critical Conversations on State-Sanctioned Justice examines the interpersonal, institutional, and structural relations of injustice and violence, both domestically and globally, through a series of dynamic conversations that are rich with personal and passionate prose, gritty and grounded questioning, and, in several instances, spirited and lively debate. These conversations are attentive not only to the areas of cultural studies and social science in general, but also to the studies of criminology, criminal justice, and public policy in particular.
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The 1999 World Trade Organization protests will forever be associated with violence. But, outside of Seattle, where the event has been debated ad infinitum, the cause, victims, and perpetrators of that violence have been lost to a haze of media-generated moments that simplified an inspired, multifaceted, and generally nonviolent event. Through eyewitness chronicles of the events in Seattle and demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, muckrakers Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, as well as a handful of other contributing journalists, vividly relive the opening salvos of a new radical movement in America. While they are understandably effusive about the success of the actions, which clearly placed the issues of anti-globalization and economic justice onto the national and international political agendas, the book's emphasis--and its impact--is on what they see as a national trend towards the violent criminalization of protest and the increasing use of paramilitary forces in law enforcement.
In Seattle, which was transformed from a street festival to a police state in a matter of hours, St. Clair mingles at the cafés and warehouses that acted as staging areas for direct actions, and walks the streets where dancing, drumming, and peaceful sit-ins were punctuated by shocking acts of police brutality--unprovoked attacks with rubber bullets and concussion grenades, a waitress pepper-sprayed while leaving her shift, her boyfriend beaten and arrested, copies of the Bill of Rights confiscated, Christmas carolers tear-gassed. In D.C., the police break into homes of opposition leaders, spy on their activities, pressure print shops to close, and make illegal sweep arrests. But Cockburn and St. Clair are not satisfied with excoriating the police; they also turn their vitriolic pens against those within the protest movement who aren't as radical as they, from labor unions to "establishment greens." The authors would have done better to devote the space to a more articulated explanation of exactly why they were protesting against the WTO than to causing divisiveness between those on the same side. --Lesley Reed
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It's been called the most intense popular uprising since the protests against the Vietnam War. In October 1999, fifty thousand citizens occupied the streets in a successful effort to shut the World Trade Organization's ministerial meeting. Trade unionists, environmentalists, human rights advocates and farmers converged on Seattle to denounce the new global economy. Street corners were occupied by irate French farmers, Earth First!ers locked themselves to hotel doors to prevent WTO delegates from exiting, the convention center was circled by a human chain, and black-clad anarchists roamed the streets, smashing the windows of Gap, Niketown, and the Bank of America. The Seattle cops responded fiercely, saturating the air with tear gas, attacking demonstrators with riot clubs, rubber bullets, and pepper spray. The street battle raged for three days. Six hundred people were arrested, held without lawyers at a local military base. But when the smoke and gas cleared, the protesters had prevailed: the WTO talks had collapsed. Five Days that Shook the World takes you onto the streets of Seattle with on-the-spot reporting and photographs. But it also looks at the broader issues raised by the protest: the secretive and undemocratic practice of the WTO, the trampling on rights to assembly and free speech by deploying the military to put down protest, and the menace to individual liberties of globalization and offshore government.
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Needs some balance, but believable........2005-06-15
My first read-through left me thinking "How biased. There's no way to back these ideas up." But that's the way it's supposed to be. A movement is about feelings and humans being; let the sociologists and labor economists debate the facts and figures.
The political bickering - St. Clair et al's pointed attacks on Sierra Club, Carl Pope, and especially labor leaders, seem out of joint with the solidarity aspect of a movement - but this is how it is. And this book could have been more a platform to assault political enemies both near and far, but stayed mostly on task.
Overall, there was a chaotic feel to the narrative, which accurately reflects the state of subsequent public dissents, most noteworthy the pathetic demonstration in Chicago in 2002.
To really understand all aspects of the movement, one needs to include another perspective. I recommend:
"Globalization and its Discontents" Joe Stiglitz - to understand the macro scale of these protests.
"Breaking Rank" by Norm Stamper - a police account of the Seattle riots, written by a progressive police chief in perhaps the most progressive city in the U.S.
Remember folks, Seattle was probably the one city in the U.S. (besides San Francisco) that would be willing to tolerate such large scale dissent - and it did not. There's a reason for that.
Oooh That Smell.......2003-11-14
The rebellion against global trade policies that erupted on the streets of Seattle was a warning shot heard round the world: transnational corporations and their political servants will be confronted by the people they seek to exploit. Other demostrations followed: in Quebec, Washington, Milan, Davos, and Cancun. The corporadoes have no place left to hide, no place left to hold their secret covens without hearing the voices of the growing global opposition. But there are no illusions here. This new global movement is taking root more firmly in Europe and the developing world than in the US, where its growth is stunted and suppressed by a reflexive loyalty to the Democratic Party, despite its descent into the darkness of neoliberalism. St. Clair's gripping diary of that week describes with chilling prescience the divisions in the movement between the traditional liberals and the new radicals, fed up with being spoonfed morsels by Democratic Party politicians whose real allegiance is to the same network of corporate fat cats who dreamed up the WTO in the first place. These fissures played out first in the 2000 election, when the labor unions and mainstream greens that chanted slogans of defiance in Seattle all came back into the plantation and supported the campaign of Al Gore, a chief architect of NAFTA and the WTO. Now, scared to death by the spectre of another Bush term, the divisions will become even more stark, the rationalizations of surrender more hysterical. This book is must reading for progressives, both for the history it describes and the future it predicts.
Eye of the Storm.......2002-06-17
A wonderful blend of first-hand, eye-witness reporting and even-handed analysis. Jeremy St. Clair's 40 page "Seatle Diary" alone makes the book worthy of reading. Perhaps the best piece of journalism to emerge from the growing body of Seatle stories. Two clips involving WTO delegates (one pounching a black lady in the face, another waving his revolver at a protestor baracade) utterly blew me away. And in the spirit of the lively and diverse protesters, the book is also funny at times, as when a South Central LA youth named Thomas replies to St. Clair's question, "Why are you here?" He answers: "I like turtles and I hate that ... Bill Gates." To which Sinclair replies, "Good enough for me." You won't be able to put the book down. It has a very genuine, honest and human feel. Along the way, you will run into Brower, the famous French cheese-maker Jose Bove, some interesting college professors, Sierra Club's Carl Pope, many of the so-called "anarchists" which every major media venue categorized all protestors as, and many other important people who turned out for the "Battle in Seatle." The book will not only give you a comprehensive understanding of the issues surrounding the protests and the subsequent media storm, it will also make you feel like you were there. St. Clair's writing is that good.
Prescient book, given the Retaliatory Attack on America.......2001-09-18
America had never seen anything like the mass movement that took over Seattle to confront the World Trade Organization in the fall of 2001: environmentalists, religious & human rights groups, farmers, civil rights organizations, ordinary people. They came with a message of peaceful protest. They were met with shock troops, billy clubs, rubber bullets and tear gas. 5 Days that Shook the World takes you onto the streets of Seattle and the protests in Washington, Philly and Los Angeles that followed during that remarkable year. But this book isn't about illusions or myths, but about the hard truths. St. Clair and Cockburn were eerily prescient in their prediction that the vaunted coalition of labor and greens would be difficult to hold together as the demands of political reality set in and as the corporate press and the government moved to counter and undermine the movement(s). Big labor and the big greens soon abandoned the cause by endorsing the campaign of pseudo-Democrat, Al Gore, the chief broker of NAFTA and the WTO treaties. Other leaders turned away from the protests following the bloody reprisals of the police in
Quebec and Genoa. But that doesn't mean the anti-globalization movement is dead. Cockburn and St. Clair point out the fakers, but they also show you where the true heart of the movement for global social and environmental justice beats. This book is a a much needed guide to what just may be the most important struggle of our times...
Growing Consciousness, Growing Repression.......2001-09-18
Within the growing literature of the anti-globalization movement is the book Five Days that Shook the World, which intimately puts you on the street for the events of N30, through St. Clair's Seattle Diary, the DC protests with JoAnn Wypejewski, and the Democratic National Convention in LA. In addition to the firsthand accounts by the people involved in the protests, the book chronicles the growing consciousness of the anti-globalization movement and the concurrent repression of the movement by the police state. This book is an excellent account of both the success of a movement that has unified people throughout the U.S. and world, including steel workers and environmental activists, and also shows how the heads of labor and the environmental movement had their own agenda during the Seattle protests and sold out those on the streets for a seat at the table with the WTO. The photographs by Sekula add a visual element to the work that complements the writing of St. Clair and Cockburn and gives a personal face to the fight against the WTO, as well as shows the facelessness of the jackboot state. Five Days that Shook the World is a vital narrative in the growing history of the anti-globalization movement and the authors are uncompromising in their analysis of where the movement stands, who betrayed the movement, and how the State has begun to work to limit the voices calling for an alternative to the WTO, IMF, and the destruction wreaked by global capitalism.
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Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction?
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The existing traditions of inquiry into ethnic conflict can be classified into four categories: essentialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institutionalism. All four traditions have a distinguished lineage, but none can really account for the worldwide spread of ethnic violence. We need to move from the local to the macro or global. This book, using methodology from sociology, history, and politics, will present the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of lingusitics, religion, territory, and tribes in various regions.
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Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. The authors analyze the increasing criminalization of ethnic populations, the massively destabililizing effect of migration processes, and new forms of transnational criminal networks that represents disintegration of larger homogeneous territories. This book will be a valuable reference in anthropology, social theory, international politics and economics, ethnic and immigration studies, and economic history. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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overwritten academic gibberish with no point.......2004-08-31
I am working on a doctoral dissertation on the relationship between worldwide trends in violence and economic markets. I purchased this book because the title led me to believe that within its covers might be found some useful information on this topic. With a title like Globalization, the State, and Violence, one might think that the book might provide some insights into globalization, "the state," or violence. However, a reader needs to work very hard to draw anything from this book worth citing.
Granted, the book is a collection of essays by different authors, so no single statement can summarize all of them. However, I found the entire collection devoid of any important knowledge or fresh insights. Collections of this type are in one sense the voice of their editor, and thus the editor of this horridly boring collection of articles must shoulder the blame.
Here is an example of the kind of writing found in this book:
"Finally, violence connected with issues of identity, which claims to have a religious or ethnic signification, may be an expression of the failure or the inadequacies of political projects conceived of in the more classical categories of modernity, beginning with those that prioritize either the all-embracing social class and proletarian revolution or else that of the nation and the nation-state" (page 133).
Imagine reading hundreds of sentences like this and you can imagine what I felt like after subjecting myself to this wretched collection of writings. Utterly meaningless, leftist, fake-intellectual, so-called "scholarly" nonsense. The book left me feeling angry and used. I can't believe I spent actual money on such gibberish.
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Renowned for his compassionate and balanced thinking on international affairs, Stanley Hoffmann reflects here on the proper place of the United States in a world it has defined almost exclusively by 9/11, the war on terrorism, and the invasion of Iraq. A true global citizen, Hoffmann offers an analysis that is uniquely informed by his place as a public intellectual with one foot in Europe, the other in America. In this brilliant collection of essays, many previously unpublished, he considers the ethics of intervention, the morality of human rights, how to repair our relationship with Europe, and the pitfalls of American unilateralism.
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Interesting ideas, however difficult to read........2007-05-25
Stanley Hoffman is a professor at an Ivy League school and it shows throughout his writing. Although it shows his intelligence, he does need to put it in layman terms. Overall Hoffman does propose some unique ideas and explains them all in some great detail, however all very idealistic.
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Globalization, Civil Conflict and the National Security State (Contemporary Security Studies)
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The conventional wisdom since the suicide attacks of 9/11 is that the world has been transformed and, according to President Bush, "September 11 changed the strategic thinking" of the US. Challenging both of these assumptions, this volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centered national security favored by Washington, and shows how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in which defense and foreign policy interests essentially converge, remains largely intact. Indeed, the Bush administration's National Security strategy of 2002 has reinvigorated and even extended the idea of national security.
Paradoxically, the renewed emphasis on a distinctly state-centered approach to security, including the war on terror, has unfolded during an era of deepening globalization. This book is one of the first major attempts to identify what is novel and what is constant in today's strategic landscape.
Drawing on the international expertise of fourteen specialists, the book examines four inter-related themes. These embrace the impact of globalization on the concept of security; the strategic outlook of the world's only superpower, the US; the new conflicts that have come to characterize the post-Cold War era; and efforts to regulate the emerging patterns of conflict in the world.
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This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of this literature can be missed, and so constructive dialogues missed. The editors of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field, each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular focus on firms and networks. Section Two provides an account of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and the role of institutions and organizations in this context. Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences of innovation with respect to economic growth, international competitiveness, and employment. An introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.
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