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Black May, Ngos And Post-State Politics, William A. Callahan Jan 1994

Black May, Ngos And Post-State Politics, William A. Callahan

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Survival ... is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.


Metaphor In/And/Of The Four Modernizations: The Discourse Of Pencil Sharpeners In Chinese Politics, William A. Callahan Jan 1994

Metaphor In/And/Of The Four Modernizations: The Discourse Of Pencil Sharpeners In Chinese Politics, William A. Callahan

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"China" is a process of cultural revolutions that have dotted - sometimes with blood - its history. These cultural revolutions have been various attempts to establish a harmony in the Chinese world. Since the Opium Wars of the 1840s, the West has become a major ingredient in this harmony - the Four Modernizations Campaign.


Gender, Ideology, Nation: Judou In The Cultural Politics Of China, William A. Callahan Jan 1993

Gender, Ideology, Nation: Judou In The Cultural Politics Of China, William A. Callahan

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ONE DAY IN February 1991 a Chinese film previously noted mostly for its radical use of color - Ju Dou - became an international political event. Politics and culture (once again) became intimately intertwined as China was honored with its first Oscar nomination at the same time that China was castigated for trying to censor this film, and hence control representations of "China."


Cultural Rights Again: A Rejoinder To Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas Nov 1992

Cultural Rights Again: A Rejoinder To Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas

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No abstract provided.


Are There Any Cultural Rights?, Chandran Kukathas Feb 1992

Are There Any Cultural Rights?, Chandran Kukathas

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I shall advance the thesis that if there are any moral rights at all, it follows that there is at least one natural right, the equal right of all men to be free.


Review Of Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism In Politics And Other Essays, And Paul Franco, The Political Philosophy Of Michael Oakeshott, Chandran Kukathas Jan 1992

Review Of Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism In Politics And Other Essays, And Paul Franco, The Political Philosophy Of Michael Oakeshott, Chandran Kukathas

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Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was a political philosopher associated for most of his academic career with Caius and Gonville College as Official Fellow and Lecturer in History and later with the London School of Econom- ics as Professor of Political Science. His name is sometimes mentioned with those of two other famous thinkers associated with the LSE-Karl Popper and F. A. Hayek-and like them he has had a notable influence on contem- porary political thought. Yet whereas Hayek and Popper wrote a great deal on a variety of topics and were often at the center of academic controversy, Oakeshott wrote little, …


The Fraternal Conceit: Individualist Versus Collectivist Ideas Of Community, Chandran Kukathas Jan 1991

The Fraternal Conceit: Individualist Versus Collectivist Ideas Of Community, Chandran Kukathas

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In the modern world countless minorities press separate claims for recognition by their fellow countrymen, by their states and, in some cases, by the world. Many of these groups, such as the Australian Aborigines and New Zealand Maoris, describe themselves as indigenous peoples, while others identify themselves simply as ethnic or cultural minorities with legitimate grievances. The various demands made by such groups leave us in no doubt that there is a political problem. But there is also an important philosophical question to be addressed: a question about the terms of civil association. The modern world has seen two great …


Democracy, Parliament And Responsible Government, Chandran Kukathas, David W. Lovell, William Maley Jun 1990

Democracy, Parliament And Responsible Government, Chandran Kukathas, David W. Lovell, William Maley

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No abstract provided.


Come Spy The Friendly Skies, Ann Florini Mar 1990

Come Spy The Friendly Skies, Ann Florini

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Discusses support for Open Skies, a 1955 proposal made by President Dwight Eisenhower and recently resuscitated by President George Bush. The proposal would allow the super powers to make unrestricted flights over each other's territory on short notice


Remote Sensing And Diplomacy, Ann Florini Apr 1989

Remote Sensing And Diplomacy, Ann Florini

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The advent of a variety of commercial and national remote-sensing satellites has eliminated a long-standing superpower monopoly on a key source of information about global events. As these systems proliferate, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain secrecy about certain sensitive activities. Nations other than the superpowers will be able independently to verify compliance with arms control accords, and to monitor global “hot spots.” These new capabilities both reflect and contribute to an inevitable diffusion of power among nations. Although there will be adjustment costs, particularly for the superpowers, the enhanced global transparency is likely to promote global stability and …


Discourse And Perspective In Daoism: A Linguistic Interpretation Of Ziran, William A. Callahan Jan 1989

Discourse And Perspective In Daoism: A Linguistic Interpretation Of Ziran, William A. Callahan

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In Chinese philosophical literature, the term zirana is generally rendered as "spontaneity," "natural," or "self-so" by both Chinese and Western trans- lators. I think that these translations not only miss the point being made in the texts, but actually serve to obscure it


Welfare, Contract, And The Language Of Charity, Chandran Kukathas Jan 1989

Welfare, Contract, And The Language Of Charity, Chandran Kukathas

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No abstract provided.


The Opening Skies: Third-Party Imaging Satellites And U.S. Security, Ann Florini Sep 1988

The Opening Skies: Third-Party Imaging Satellites And U.S. Security, Ann Florini

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Earth observation satellites, long a mainstay of U.S. intelligence-gathering, are now presenting new challenges for U.S. national security. The United States and the Soviet Union have long since reconciled themselves to being spied on by each other from space. Now, however, the advent of imaging satellite systems owned and operated by a variety of third parties, including governments other than the superpowers (France, Canada, the European Space Agency, India, and China) and private companies, is raising new concerns for U.S. peacetime foreign relations and military activities, and for crisis management and war- time operations. These new satellites, primarily civilian remote-sensing …


Conservatism, Liberalism And Ideology, Chandran Kukathas Jun 1987

Conservatism, Liberalism And Ideology, Chandran Kukathas

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All societies are more or less complex systems of rules, of symbols andsigns directing and constraining individual behavior. The task of thesocial theorist is to analyze and uncover what order may underlie suchstructures. In this regard he faces at least two major problems. First, hehas to determine how far the rules or norms which govern human action define the distribution of power, responsibility and resources, andso determine the relative value placed upon such goods as education, art and scientific inquiry, and how far the existing structure of distribution of power and resources is itself responsible for the prevalence ofparticular rules. …


Does Capitalism Infringe Property Rights: A Reply To Peter Morriss, Chandran Kukathas Dec 1984

Does Capitalism Infringe Property Rights: A Reply To Peter Morriss, Chandran Kukathas

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In a research note on 'How Capitalism Infringes Property Rights' {PoliticalStudies, XXXI (1983), pp. 656-61), Peter Morriss attempts to demonstratethat a Nozickian version of rights theory is incompatible with that account ofcapitalism which emphasizes the importance (and value) of entrepreneurialrisk-taking and entrepreneurial failure. Because bankruptcy is an acceptedconsequence of entrepreneurial failure, capitalism, which condonesbankruptcy, in fact condones the violations of the rights of creditors. Thusthose who, like Nozick, defend property rights as sacred and inviolable, 'shouldbe in the vanguard of capitalism's opponents' (p. 657) Since the rights-basedargument for capitalism is that rights can never be legitimately violated, 'oncethe rights theorist …