We know that the official attitude toward terrorism suffers from a suspension of any inquiry into causation. Government officials seldom ask what causes terror, or question their own participation in terrorist acts. Somehow, ...

In the context of regime transitions, the central challenge confronting new democracies concerns the dilemma of how to deal with injustices and atrocities committed by authoritarian or totalitarian predecessors or by agents ...

In this paper, Professor Wilk discusses the relationships between increasing global interdependence, the frequently alarmist calls to maintaining a distinction between global and local communities, and the implications of ...

This paper seeks to examine processes of state restructuring in exploring the ways in which Business Improvement Districts are being introduced into UK cities. In advancing the analysis the focus here is on the way in ...

There are many similarities between Laos and Cambodia. Because of these similarities it seems likely that both countries will share the most important traits of their development within the frame of globalization. The ...

Globalization is a big word with a fittingly big reach, and fittingly big literature to go with it: the Harvard University catalog records more than 1800 titles with the word ‘globalization’ from 1987 onwards - an average ...

This paper responds to recent calls for a Foucauldian population geography by critically analyzing the 2004 Gay and Lesbian Atlas (a U.S.-oriented product of demographers at Washington, D.C.’s Urban Institute, a public ...