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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 14 Jul 2023
    Matthew Titolo

    Privatization and Its Discontents

    Infrastructure and privatization are enduring topics in modern political discourse. Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American History places these contemporary hot topics in perspective, identifying today’s debates as deeper problems within liberal statecraft that are of long historical vintage. In the American context, infrastructure has been created through models of public-private governance, and […]

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  • 7 Jul 2023
    Debra A. Castillo, Mónica Szurmuk

    Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018

    Latin American Literature in Transition (1980-2018) looks at literary and cultural phenomena on the hinge of our millennium. It speaks from the receding hyperpolarization of the dictatorships in much of Latin America in the last third of the 20th century, and looks toward this seemingly intractable unrest afflicting us today. The starting date of the […]

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  • 6 Jul 2023
    Leonard V. Smith

    The Grey Zones of Empire

    A generic narrative of decolonization has informed how we think about the history of empire. According to this narrative, a colonized people gradually becomes conscious of its predicament. Through this consciousness, it empowers itself eventually to throw off the colonizer. The imperial domain thus “decolonizes.” The central argument of French Colonialism from the Ancien Régime […]

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  • 5 Jul 2023
    Kenneth Carter

    Carter, PhD, to Present at APA ’23

    Kenneth Carter, Ph.D., author of Psychopathology will be presenting as the Harry Kirke Wolfe Lecturer at the American Psychological Association (APA) annual conference in August 2023. Carter’s presentation, “The Power of Public Scholarship: Inspiring Innovative Teaching and Learning,” will take place on August 4, 2023, from 4:00 – 4:50 pm EST. Carter will also present […]

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  • 5 Jul 2023
    Stephen G. F. Hall

    The Authoritarian International: Learning, Adaptability, and Persistence

    In 2012 during the height of the Arab Spring Head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, flew to Algiers to meet with his Algerian counterpart, Rachid Lallali, to discuss ‘the developments of the situation in the Middle East’. This vague phrasing provided on the Security Council website masks the real purpose of the visit. […]

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  • 4 Jul 2023
    Iulian Chifu, Greg Simons

    Engineering Perception and Consent in 21st Century Conflict

    Why are the interactions and effects of information, communication and politics in the various types of conflict in the 21st century so important and yet difficult to understand? Do we, not only as the political elite, but to include a much broader cross section of contemporary society, need to rethink our approach to warfare and […]

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  • 3 Jul 2023
    Clare Frances Moran

    ‘Formal and Circumscribed in Time and Space’?The Authority of International Criminal Law

    In April 2018, while undertaking a brutal ‘war on drugs,’ former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines rejected the idea that he or his officials could be held to account by the International Criminal Court. He railed, in comments aimed at the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ‘Where is your authority now? If we […]

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  • 3 Jul 2023
    Alan Wm. Wolff

    Revitalizing the World Trading System

    The history of trade is fascinating. Its origins can be traced back to even before there was a human race (the forebears of our forebears relied on trade to supply them with obsidian for weapons and tools). Some scholars credit long-distance trade as a plausible reason for the invention of writing (to give instructions to […]

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