Open research questions in Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
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Using her understudied post–World War I public statements, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) correspondence, and personal correspondence, this article analyzes her responses to a few major issues of the early twentieth century in which imperialism was viewed as a core issue.
The limits of labels: Jane Addams and her views on self‐determination and imperialism, 1899–1923 · 2024 · DOIThis short period of Georgian independence, as well as that of her two South Caucasian neighbours, Armenia and Azerbaijan, has been largely understudied, if not ignored and forgotten by Western scholars and politicians, despite the fact that the three current nations of the South Caucasus are not only the heirs of their recent past but also its hostages, keeping in mind that they still face many similar challenges to which they respond very much in the same way as they did a century ago.
We posit that the prison of colonial modernity, more than that of Political Science, is at the root of IR’s lack of a distinctive purpose, and that Rosenberg’s gesture toward uneven and combined development (UCD) as a sorely needed ‘big idea’ is insufficient for the jail break.
While there is an impressive body of scholarship on the UN and human rights diplomacy, the place of sentiment in the dynamic of these debates has not been studied in detail.
In an effort to rectify this gap in the literature, this article seeks to explore in what ways and to what extent anarchist and feminist renditions of revolution, within the context of the GJM, are conceptually compatible and thereby potentially politically reinforcing.
‘They're Talkin’ Bout a Revolution’: Feminism, Anarchism and the Politics of Social Change in the Global Justice Movement · 2014 · DOI" This article brings light to the underexplored role Taft played in this movement, which proved a marked contrast to the route the US ultimately took in its interventions across the globe in the twentieth century and beyond.
Retentionist in Chief: William Howard Taft and the Question of Philippine Independence, 1912-1916 · 2013 · DOIYet the problem has still not been tackled truly comprehensively, as, with the exception of the 1973 Dahl volume, the works on the subject are comparative only in the sense that they deal with more than one country; but their scope remains limited to a region or to a particular type of political system.
61 The notion of "institutionalization" here is at once stretched to the point of distortion and limited to a specific and specifically vague form.
The association of industrialists, SOFOFA, which is scarcely a critic of the government, says that whereas industrial production was up 5.
He assumes opportunities for desirable social change are scarce; therefore, those interested in change must be careful that the limited options which do appear are used wisely. They make a contribution to a field where the literature is relatively sparse and impressionistic.
review symposium : Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty, Daniel P. Moynihan (New York: The Free Press, 1969) · 1970 · DOI"88 The appellants next contended that Count II of the indictment was insufficient for a number of reasons: it merely repeated the words of the statute; it failed to allege facts showing the commission of a crime; it was vague and uncertain; and it did not allege a conspiracy. To answer the charge that the evidence was insufficient to show that appellants had knowledge of the nature of the conspiracy, the Court pointed out that the trial was not concerned with persons who were simply members of the Party and nothing more; rather, they were prom- inent and active workers in the organization and in its propaganda work.
G‐String conspiracy, political reprisal or armed revolt?; the Minneapolis Trotskyite trial · 1967 · DOIFuture research should consider the concept of convergence clubs, which allows for the identification of distinct trajectories among groups of countries.
However, this article offers complementary insights by exploring two otherwise under-researched factors that we argue further inform these polar-opposite reactions to perpetrators’ claims to victim status: (1).
Perpetrators as Victims? Inclusivity and Proximity in Post-Genocide Cambodia and Rwanda · 2024 · DOII make the case for a from-below approach to hierarchical orders, recognising and accounting for understudied experiences in world politics, but also developing a more accurate understanding of hierarchy.
Yet, few studies have examined the elected individuals who presided over Gacaca court trials, reflecting a broader paucity of research on local practitioners of transitional justice .
Rwanda’s Inyangamugayo: Perspectives from Practitioners in the Gacaca Transitional Justice Mechanism · 2020 · DOIThe significance of democratic claim making, public demands, and contestation, and the normative dimensions as well as constitutional implications of such engagement, are insufficiently explored.
This tacit order allows a great deal of coordination between and within criminal organizations and the focus of negotiations from the state's point of view is limited to the management of violence, not the dismantling of gangs' territorial control.
This article argues that global egalitarian accounts of global justice are insufficient and inappropriate to the task of thinking globally about justice.
The story adds a crucial yet understudied aspect of rights discourse in the 1970s, when humanitarian activists strove to reform the global market and create ethical forms of capitalism.
Milking the Third World? Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott · 2016 · DOISince the end of the 20th century loud calls for reinstating the rule of the people in liberal democracies have been heard, particularly in but not limited to alter-globalization circles devoted to creating another world.
This article examines an understudied aspect of Guatemala's Cold War counter-insurgency campaign: the concerted effort to destroy the seeds of oppositional thinking by criminalizing any and all forms of dissent, both during wartime and since.
’ Even after two decades, the legacy of years of Soviet dictatorship in the countries that made up the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc remains one of the most underresearched and scantly understood areas of transitional justice.
Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe, Monika Nalepa * Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past, ed. Lavinia Stan. · 2011 · DOIThe role of violence in sustaining the political projects of state ruling elites in Mozambique and, more broadly, sub-Saharan Africa, remains under researched.
Tentative reform efforts by the king's children were insufficient to satisfy the growing demands, and were partially vitiated by controversy over royal business interests and privileges.
This article ana lyzes the symbolic gestures of authoritarian elites during a presidential tour in an understudied country, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
"The President Is Coming to Visit!": Dramas and the Hijack of Democratization in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania · 2005 · DOI
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