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Download "Globalization hype has obscured a few basic truths--that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level, and that they are most affected by local institutions, leadership, corruption, and other such... more
"Globalization hype has obscured a few basic truths--that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level, and that they are most affected by local institutions, leadership, corruption, and other such factors.
The authors, a group of present and former University of Chicago political risk experts, return discussion of globalization and international relations to first principles. Risk Rules shows that globalization (and events like the Arab revolutions and the September 11 attacks) makes understanding the political economies of distant countries more important than ever. "
The authors, a group of present and former University of Chicago political risk experts, return discussion of globalization and international relations to first principles. Risk Rules shows that globalization (and events like the Arab revolutions and the September 11 attacks) makes understanding the political economies of distant countries more important than ever. "
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"To understand the process linking nationalism and genocide, this study follows how nation-ness was created then evolved, tracing the dynamic content of Kampuchean-ness. It seeks thereby to comprehend why a genocidal process occurred in... more
"To understand the process linking nationalism and genocide, this study follows how nation-ness was created then evolved, tracing the dynamic content of Kampuchean-ness. It seeks thereby to comprehend why a genocidal process occurred in Cambodia from 1970 to 1979 and how Kampuchean-ness of 1970-1979 interacted with this genocidal process.
The research is located within the conceptual framework of the English School of International Relations, which explicates the advent and imposition of the norm of nation-state upon the International Society and its members. It applies complexity theory, which explains the relationships between the parts and the whole. It considers nationalism and nation-ness as a property that emerges from the interactions between the parts, here the encounter between France and the Kampuchean polity, reaches the systemic level and from then imposes itself upon polities. The study analyses the process of this emergence/imposition and its evolution.
Using archival data, this analysis argues that this process can be conceived as a feedback spiral between authority and opposition/rebellion. This feedback spiral is an ideal-type of a polity’s evolution that allows integrating emerging changes, notably in terms of beliefs, such as nationalism, and constituting the necessary and corresponding political authority. The feedback spiral results from the interactions between the actors’ ideas, analytically broken down as {belief; goal}s, that inform and create the actors’ understanding, and then prompt their actions and reactions. Out of this process, beliefs evolve, through which it is possible to trace the various elements of Kampuchean nation-ness.
The study shows that a specific departure from the ideal-type, as happened in Cambodia between 1954 and 1970, led to a genocidal process, which is the genocidal version of the feedback spiral. The authority’s {belief; goal}s resulting from the abnormal feedback are a specific version of ‘normal’ nation-ness, contributing to genocidal actions.
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The research is located within the conceptual framework of the English School of International Relations, which explicates the advent and imposition of the norm of nation-state upon the International Society and its members. It applies complexity theory, which explains the relationships between the parts and the whole. It considers nationalism and nation-ness as a property that emerges from the interactions between the parts, here the encounter between France and the Kampuchean polity, reaches the systemic level and from then imposes itself upon polities. The study analyses the process of this emergence/imposition and its evolution.
Using archival data, this analysis argues that this process can be conceived as a feedback spiral between authority and opposition/rebellion. This feedback spiral is an ideal-type of a polity’s evolution that allows integrating emerging changes, notably in terms of beliefs, such as nationalism, and constituting the necessary and corresponding political authority. The feedback spiral results from the interactions between the actors’ ideas, analytically broken down as {belief; goal}s, that inform and create the actors’ understanding, and then prompt their actions and reactions. Out of this process, beliefs evolve, through which it is possible to trace the various elements of Kampuchean nation-ness.
The study shows that a specific departure from the ideal-type, as happened in Cambodia between 1954 and 1970, led to a genocidal process, which is the genocidal version of the feedback spiral. The authority’s {belief; goal}s resulting from the abnormal feedback are a specific version of ‘normal’ nation-ness, contributing to genocidal actions.
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