Global Apartheid

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gernot Köhler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
State System ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
The World ◽  
Present World

The concept of apartheid has significance far beyond the situation in South Africa which coined the term. Indeed, the concept can be generalized to apply to the present world situation. It provides both a better understanding of the present human condition and more effective guidelines for action to change it. The processes of interdependence, interpenetration and intercommunication in the present era have made the entire humanity into one global society. The present nation-state system, which obscures the appearance of this society, fails miserably in responding to the concerns and needs of the global community. The concept of global apartheid provides a more realistic and comprehensive view of the world and suggests appropriate ways of so acting as to make a beginning toward realizing a just, participatory, peaceful and humane global society.

scholarly journals Scots law: a system in search of a family?

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-327
Author(s):  
Sue Farran
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Typical Mode

The concept of legal families is familiar to most comparativists and although miscegenation is an increasingly common feature in a global community, arguably an understanding of family origins may help to anticipate differences of approach, ideology, attitudes to law and diverging normative values. Classification into families, despite various criticisms and disagreements as to which families there are or how they should be distinguished, provides a useful tool for the comparativists and those seeking, reform, unification or harmonisation.The Scottish legal system, however, is one that tends to elude classification. Even where “mixed” or “hybrid” legal systems are recognised, that of Scotland may be omitted or distinguished from those of, for example, Greece, South Africa, Israel or the Seychelles.This begs the question, what is a legal system and how is it distinguished? This paper examines the Scottish legal system, taking as its starting point a focus on juristic style as the key distinguishing feature of a legal system and looking at the key elements that eminent comparativists Zweigert and Kötz suggest shape this. These are: the historical background and development; its typical mode of thought; its distinctive institutions; the types of legal sources it acknowledges; and its ideology. Looking particularly at the academic debates that have arisen in Scotland concerning the nature and identity of Scots law, the paper goes on toconsider whether the claim to a distinct legal system is anything more than a manifestation of the fact that “each political society in the world has its own law”,1 and that in fact the time has come to abandon the notion of families.

Survive, Revive, Thrive: Chapter 3: Getting Oriented

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Tom Blasingame
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Other ◽  
True Believer ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
Workforce Reductions

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President Getting Oriented - The Only Wrong Direction Is Backwards I begin this column by saying that after attending several recent SPE events filled with students and professionals, all virtual of course, that I have seen the very best of us as members of SPE. To a person, you all have been nothing short of inspiring. Our members know that there is a better tomorrow on the horizon and diligently prepare for the days when our industry begins to thrive again. On the other hand, the industry consolidations and workforce reductions continue, and frankly, I don’t know of anyone whose life and career has not been touched by this pandemic-induced crisis. It’s an axiom of life that if you cannot control it, then you must control how you deal with it. I believe operating under this axiom will serve us well collectively and individually as we push through the pandemic. I want to repeat a passage from my remarks at the President’s Session on Member Monday at ATCE in late October. “As an industry, we are as relevant as ever, even more so now. And further, our industry continues to provide economic growth, as well as access to cleaner water, better food, and affordable transportation. I am a believer, a true believer, I believe in what we do, in who we are, and how important our contributions are to society … I want to thank each of you for your time and effort in support of SPE. We are who we are because of what you have done, and we are who we will become because of your commitment to serve this industry and our global society. The world needs what we do - now, more than ever.” I want you to know that I believe in our mission and our future. As we “Get Oriented,” I want to assure you that as a discipline, we will become stronger, and as an organization, SPE will become more focused on content generation and delivery than at any time in its history. Most importantly, I want to assure you that SPE will continue to serve its members and its global community as the preeminent technical organization in upstream oil and gas. It is imperative that you “Get Oriented” with what you can do and will do in the future as SPE continues to evolve.

scholarly journals Redrawing the boundary of “speech community”: how and why the historicity and materiality of language and the space/place distinction matter to its reconceptualization

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Miyako Inoue
Keyword(s):  
State System ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Integration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Materiality Of Language ◽  
Future Direction

Abstract This essay contemplates how we adapt existing sociolinguistic theoretical concepts, methodologies, and analytical units to the world we live in today. Regardless of one’s location on the globe, our lives are profoundly affected by increasingly intense global interconnections and, at the same time, equally intense differentiation of space attending late global capitalism and the evolving nation-state system. While sociolinguistics has attended the heterogeneity within the speech community, in the world today as such, the idea of speech community as bounded is no longer tenable. In envisioning the future direction of IJSL and its leadership in the field, this essay suggests that speech community as an analytical concept would be significantly advanced through the theoretical integration of the space/place distinction and the historicity and materiality of language into its architectonics. By drawing on some of the recent works for guiding models, the essay argues that the reconceptualization of speech community would also demand radical openness to interdisciplinary approaches.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Tansen Sen ◽  
Brian Tsui
Keyword(s):  
State System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global History ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
China And India ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The 1960S

The essays in this volume describe the manifold ways in which China, India, and their respective societies were connected from the 1840s to the 1960s. This period witnessed the inexorable rise and terminal decline of Pax Britannica in Asia, the blooming of anti-colonial movements of various ideological hues, and the spread and entrenchment of the nation-state system across the world. This layered legacy looms large in the relations between Chinese and Indian societies in the twenty-first century. Euro-American imperialism figured as much more than the backdrop against which China and India interacted. Practitioners of global history (...

scholarly journals How Far Will International Economic Integration Go?

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dani Rodrik
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
World Economy ◽  
State System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

This article speculates about the future of the world economy 100 years from now. It argues that the spread of markets is restricted by the reach of jurisdictional boundaries, and that national sovereignty imposes serious constraints on international economic integration. The political trilemma of the world economy is that international economic integration, the nation-state, and mass politics cannot co-exist. We have to pick two out of three. The article predicts that it will be the nation-state system that disappears, with global federalism taking its place.

Why Jazz? South Africa 2019

Daedalus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Carol A. Muller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Jazz Improvisation ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Current State ◽  
Ways Of Being

I consider the current state of jazz in South Africa in response to the formation of the nation-state in the 1990s. I argue that while there is a recurring sense of the precarity of jazz in South Africa as measured by the short lives of jazz venues, there is nevertheless a vibrant jazz culture in which musicians are using their own studios to experiment with new ways of being South African through the freedom of association of people and styles forming a music that sounds both local and comfortable in its sense of place in the global community. This essay uses the words of several South African musicians and concludes by situating the artistic process of South African artist William Kentridge in parallel to jazz improvisation.

Africa as a Subordinate State System in International Relations

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. William Zartman
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
State System ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Interpretations of patterns and trends in postwar international relations have frequently noted the outmoded position of the nation-state, the shrinking nature of the world, the extension of a single international relations system to global limits, and the rising importance of superpowers and regional organizations. It was then often concluded that the coming unit of international politics was likely to be not the territorial state, as in the past, but new regional groupings of states, where the component members would collectively acquire greater power by individually giving up some of their sovereignty to a bloc or group.

Invasive Shot Hole Borers Euwallacea fornicatus, E. kuroshio, and E. perbrevis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Demian F. Gomez ◽  
Jiri Hulcr ◽  
Daniel Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Invasive Species ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Ambrosia Beetles ◽  
Invasive Insects ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

Invasive species, those that are nonnative and cause economic damage, are one of the main threats to ecosystems around the world. Ambrosia beetles are some of the most common invasive insects. Currently, severe economic impacts have been increasingly reported for all the invasive shot hole borers in South Africa, California, Israel, and throughout Asia. This 7-page fact sheet written by Demian F. Gomez, Jiri Hulcr, and Daniel Carrillo and published by the School of Forest Resources and Conservation describes shot hole borers and their biology and hosts and lists some strategies for prevention and control of these pests. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr422

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