The Sovereign Logic of Jack London’s Sea Stories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hank Scotch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
The Difference

Jack London’s maritime writing often interrogates the difference between the savage space of the “outside” sea and the relative domesticity of land’s civilized interior, as well as the ways in which this spatial distinction supports the sovereignty of space, society, and the self. But instead of maintaining these spatial differences, London’s work is all about exposing their increasing indistinction in the early twentieth century and the effects such a spatial destabilization had on sovereignty itself. This interrogation of the new world order and its effects on previous forms of sovereignty, the chapter argues, is what makes London’s contribution to American maritime writing (especially The Sea-Wolf and The Cruise of the Snark) so important. London’s sea stories not only acknowledge the world’s new “nomos” but the effects this order has on political and personal forms of autonomy and coherence.

The Wilsonian Challenge to International Law

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Great War ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Great War

AbstractAfter the Great War, Woodrow Wilson challenged the foundations of international law based on fully sovereign states. “Wilsonianism” as elaborated in the Fourteen Points, and in other speeches, rested on a logic that made a universalized liberal individual the locus of sovereignty in the new world order. The truly radical implications of Wilsonianism had no sterner critic than Robert Lansing, Wilson's secretary of state and one of the founders of the American Journal of International Law. Lansing held tenaciously to a positivist paradigm of international law as it had evolved by the early twentieth century. This article reconsiders the conflict between Wilson and Lansing not so much as a duel between individuals as a duel between conflicting conceptions of sovereignty and the purpose of international law in the new world order.

‘Enough of the Great Napoleons!’ Raja Mahendra Pratap's Pan-Asian projects (1929–1939)

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROLIEN STOLTE
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Federation ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper traces a set of interlinked Asianist networks through the activities of Mahendra Pratap, an Indian revolutionary exile who spent the majority of his life at various key anti-imperialist sites in Asia. Pratap envisioned a unified Asia free from colonial powers, but should be regarded as an anti-imperialist first and a nationalist second—he was convinced that India's independence would materialize naturally as a by-product of a federated Asia. Through forging strategic alliances in places as diverse as Moscow, Kabul, and Tokyo, he sought to achieve his goal of a united ‘Pan-Asia’. In his view, Pan-Asia would be the first step towards a world federation, in which all the continents would become provinces in a new world order. His thought was an intricate patchwork of internationalist ideas circulating in the opening decades of the twentieth century, and his travels and political activities are viewed in this context. Pratap's exploration of the relationship between the local, the regional, and the global, from an Asian perspective, was one of many ways in which Asian elites and non-elites challenged the legitimacy of the political order in the interwar years.

scholarly journals HISTÓRIA EM QUADRINHOS NA ANÁLISE GEOGRÁFICA DO SÉCULO XX: proposta de encaminhamento metodológico no ensino médio

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Otacílio Lopes de Souza da Paz ◽  
Ivandra Alves Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
New World ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Geographic Analysis ◽  
Siglo Xx

A Geografia enquanto componente curricular contribui para a formação de indivíduos capazes de analisar criticamente o espaço. Propostas alternativas no ensino de Geografia, em contrapartida à tradicional forma mnemônica e descritiva de ensino, destacam-se nas aulas, a citar: músicas, aulas de campo, recursos visuais, etc. Entre os recursos didáticos pautados na linguagem visual destacam-se as Histórias em Quadrinhos (HQ) como forma de expressão de realidades, podendo ser consideradas pontos de partida para a leitura do espaço geográfico. Objetiva-se explorar as HQ enquanto encaminhamento metodológico auxiliar nas aulas de Geografia em conteúdos ligados ao século XX, a citar: período pós-guerra, Guerra fria, Guerra do Vietnã e nova ordem mundial. As atividades ocorreram na disciplina “Prática de docência em ensino de Geografia no ensino médio”, componente curricular do curso de licenciatura em Geografia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). A aplicação foi na turma do 2º ano do Ensino Médio Integrado ao Curso Técnico de Petróleo e Gás, do Setor de Educação Profissional (SEPT) da UFPR, em Curitiba - Paraná. Concluiu-se que as HQ contribuem no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, pois facilitam o processo cognitivo e auxiliam análises geográficas autônomas. Palavras-chave: Ensino; Geopolítica; Pós-guerras; Nova ordem mundial; Guerra fria.   COMIC BOOKS IN GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: proposal of methodological in high school Abstract Geography as a curricular component contributes to the formation of individuals capable of analyzing space critically. Alternative proposals in the teaching of Geography, in contrast to the traditional mnemonic and descriptive form of teaching, stand out in the classes, to mention: songs, field lessons, visual resources, etc. Among the didactic resources based on the visual language is Comics (HQ) as a way of expressing realities, and can be considered starting points for the reading of the geographic space. The objective is to explore the comics as an auxiliary methodological guide in Geography classes in contents related to the twentieth century, to mention: the post-war period, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the new world order. The activities took place in the discipline "Teaching practice in geography teaching in high school", curricular component of the licentiate course in Geography of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). The application was in the group of the 2nd year of High School Integrated to the Technical Course of Oil and Gas, of the Sector of Professional Education (SEPT) of UFPR, in Curitiba - Paraná. It was concluded that the HQ contribute to the teaching and learning process, since they facilitate the cognitive process and help autonomous geographic analysis. Keywords: Teaching; Geopolitics; Postwar Wars; New world order; Cold War.   CÓMICS EN EL ANÁLISIS GEOGRÁFICO DEL SIGLO XX: propuesta de encaminación metodológica en la enseñanza medio Resumen La Geografía como componente curricular contribuye a la formación de individuos capaces de analizar críticamente el espacio. Las propuestas alternativas en la enseñanza de Geografía, en contrapartida a la tradicional forma mnemónica y descriptiva de enseñanza, se destacan en las clases, a citar: músicas, clases de campo, recursos visuales, etc. Entre los recursos didácticos pautados en el lenguaje visual se destacan los cómics (HQ) como forma de expresión de realidades, pudiendo ser consideradas puntos de partida para la lectura del espacio geográfico. Se pretende explorar las HQ como encaminamiento metodológico auxiliar en las clases de Geografía en contenidos vinculados al siglo XX, a citar: período post-guerra, Guerra fría, Guerra de Vietnam y nuevo orden mundial. Las actividades ocurrieron en la disciplina "Práctica de docencia en enseñanza de Geografía en la escuela secundaria", componente curricular del curso de licenciatura en Geografía de la Universidad Federal de Paraná (UFPR). La aplicación fue en la clase del 2º año de la Enseñanza Media Integrada al Curso Técnico de Petróleo y Gas, del Sector de Educación Profesional (SEPT) de la UFPR, en Curitiba - Paraná. Se concluyó que las HQ contribuyen en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje, pues facilitan el proceso cognitivo y auxilian análisis geográficos autónomos. Palabras clave: Enseñanza; Geopolítica; Pos-guerras; Nuevo orden mundial; Guerra Fría.

Shaping a New World Order: Political Capacities and Policy Challenges

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gamble
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human History ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Technological Civilization

ONE OF THE MOST NOTICED FEATURES OF OUR TIME IS that global problems are increasing at a faster rate than the evolution of the political capacities to manage them. This is not a new observation, or even a new condition. It has long been part of a pessimistic assessment of the prospects for modern industrial technological civilization that can be traced back to its origins, but has been particularly strong throughout the twentieth century. H. G. Wells's famous comment that ‘human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe’ is even more apposite to the contemporary mood than it was when first written. The spectre of communism no longer haunts Europe, but other spectres now haunt the global civilization which developed out of Europe. Some of the key trends of this global civilization threaten at best an era of mounting disorder and chaos in the world system, at worst the survival of the human species itself. The problems are increasing far faster than the ability to find solutions for them.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Carol Washton Long
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Physical World ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Wassily Kandinsky ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Blaue Reiter

Kandinsky’s commitment to abstraction in painting and theory has attracted the attention of artists and critics throughout the twentieth century. His major manifesto Über des Geistige in der Kunst [On the Spiritual in Art], which described abstraction as a stimulus to a new world order, went through three editions by March of 1912. This publication as well as the establishment with the painter Franz Marc of the exhibition group and yearbook Der Blaue Reiter in 1911, insured the fame of his large-sized and vividly colored oils, some bearing titles such as Composition and Improvisation to emphasize the relation of painting with music, then thought to be the least representational and thus the most ideal of all the arts. Like other artists and writers of his generation who had absorbed symbolist, theosophical, and anarchist beliefs, Kandinsky felt that he had to engage his audience in a struggle to understand his painting in order to lead them to a greater awareness of the cosmic orders. Naturalism was too descriptive of the physical world, but in 1912 he did not believe that his audience, and even others artists, were ready for abstraction.

Nationalism, nations and the crisis of world order

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cox
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
International Politics ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

One hundred years ago, the first Department of International Politics was established at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, with the express purpose of seeking in Arnold Toynbee’s prophetic words (uttered many years later) – of breaking decisively with the ‘habit of nationalism’. As David Davies in the founding statement put it, by moving beyond ‘insular and vested prejudices … the shattered family of nations’ could be brought back together again and a new world order established. Yet as the history of the twentieth century showed – and the new century looks to be no nearer to realizing that original dream – nationalism has throughout continued to retain its power of mobilizing peoples and setting nation against nation. How and why this happened and with what consequences is the subject of this article.

Towards a new world order: a twentieth century story

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
JO-ANNE PEMBERTON
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Manhattan Project ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Enlightenment Project ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Andrew Williams, Failed Imagination? New World Orders of the Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998)International relations (IR) has had an opportunistic relationship with history. IR scholars have used the past, as Conal Condren has written of political theorists, as ‘a quarry ... [as a] ... source of useable facts; of entries to, and illustrations of, theoretical issues’. The result was an IR canon, of the ‘Plato to Nato’ variety, which was substantially anachronistic. Its dismantling over the last twenty years has much to do with efforts in the area of conceptual history. Despite this, and the keenness of post-positivist IR theorists to display an historical consciousness, IR and history maintain an uneasy association. Where the past is approached in contemporary IR writings, there is a tendency to build out of historical materials, or more worryingly commentaries on them, conceptual superstructures which are then accorded a determining force. Notions like the Enlightenment Project are the result of such acts of reification and are no less anachronistic than were the pantomime Machiavellis which used to pop up in IR text books. (It is doubtful that such a Project ever existed. Robert Wokler observes that the expression is of ‘more recent pedigree than “the Manhattan Project“‘.) What is purported to be historical explanation may seem more like a ghostly ballet in which structures, processes and agencies execute precisely choreographed routines.

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