scholarly journals Empire’s accidents: Law, lies, and sovereignty in the “war on terror” in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-80
Author(s):  
Maira Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Automobile Accident ◽  
The North ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Tribal Areas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This essay tracks the relationship between the legal and the lethal in the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations in Pakistan as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. I juxtapose an account of an automobile accident in Lahore on 26 January 2011 involving the Blackwater employee, Raymond Davis, with a drone strike in the North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan’s (former) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the day after Davis was released by a court in Pakistan. I examine these “sovereign accidents” as articulations of the legal, political and democratic, and as sites upon which to (re)build understandings of sovereignty and its flourishes. Contrary to the popular tendency to see FATA as a marginal border region, that quintessential space of exception, I examine the FATA as jurisdiction. I thread together political discourse and practice in the U.S. and Pakistan, and by examining media coverage and litigation around the accidents, I show how a question of freedom of information in one setting is a question of life itself in another setting. At stake is the meaning and valence of law, the political, and the promise of postcolonial sovereignty.

scholarly journals Anthropology goes to war, again

Focaal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (50) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Gill
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
The People ◽  
Current Controversy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

Debates about the relationship of anthropology to the U.S. national security establishment are not new, and anthropologists are now forced to confront the issue again. Since the 11 September attacks, the U.S. military has stepped up efforts to recruit anthropologists to fight the so-called "war on terror," and a group of self-identified "security anthropologists" have organized for more recognition and legitimation within the American Anthropological Association. The article considers what is new about the current controversy, and it examines the issues at stake for anthropologists and the people who they study. It argues that anthropologists need to raise anew basic questions about their disciplinary and intellectual endeavors and that they must re-educate themselves on the realities of power.

scholarly journals Tax Treatment Of U. S. Companies Participating In The Maquiladora Industry: Recent Developments Involving The Intergovernmental Agreement On Transfer Pricing And Other Issues

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Isley ◽  
Art Cassill ◽  
Nancy L. Cassill
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Pricing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

The relationship between U.S. companies and Mexican maquiladoras has been evolving for more than thirty years. The original advantages of lower taxes, cheaper labor, quick delivery and special tariff treatments enabled U.S. companies to increase cost-effectiveness and remain competitive worldwide. The arrangement also brought employment opportunities and prosperity to the border region of Mexico. Over time, however, many of the original advantages for both the United States and Mexico have either eroded or disappeared completely. As political and economic changes have occurred, so have changes within the maquiladora industry. In addition, the maquiladoras now face increasing competition from other foreign countries for U.S. business once reserved for the maquiladoras. This paper will examine these issues and the implications of recent changes for both the maquiladora industry and for the U.S. companies who use their services.

Trump Administration Imposes Sanctions on Russia for Chemical Weapons Use, While More Generally Sending Mixed Signals Regarding NATO and Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-741
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
White House ◽  
The North ◽  
Chemical And Biological Weapons ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Weapons Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Trump Administration

During the summer of 2018, U.S. diplomacy related to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia took sharp twists and turns. President Trump's statements at a pair of diplomatic events abroad in July sowed confusion regarding the continued U.S. commitment to NATO and the nature of the relationship between the White House and the Kremlin. Yet despite some wariness regarding NATO and a desire to have “a very good relationship with Russia,” Trump joined a robust NATO summit declaration that emphasized Russian malfeasance and reaffirmed the importance of the North Atlantic Alliance. Several weeks later, the U.S. State Department announced the imposition of new sanctions on Russia pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.

Conclusion

Prison Power ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Corrigan
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
American Military ◽  
The World ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This brief conclusion suggests that in refusing to die, disappear, or be silent, all of these Black Power intellectuals continue to offer a voice of reproach for mass incarceration in the U.S. and beyond, linking the history of slavery to American military occupation abroad and to a larger policy of imprisonment throughout the world. In examining the Black Power vernacular within the context of the War on Terror, scholars might consider other political contexts after 9/11 that continue to shape the relationship between black resistance and the politics of incarceration.

Psychological Warfare During the Korean War

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin K. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Far East ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
The North ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The U.S

This study examines how the effects of Cold War rhetoric, especially Korean War-era psychological warfare, manifest dramatically in media coverage of crises or conflicts involving the former adversaries of the Cold War in the Far East. After identifying major clusters of the Korean War-era rhetorical polemics from various psywar leaflets, this study demonstrates how the effects of political self-indoctrination have surfaced in the U.S. and Chinese media coverage of the 1991–94 North Korean nuclear weapons development crisis, the North Korean famine crisis of the mid-1990s, the South Korean financial crisis of 1997–98 and the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999. The study contends that various “enemy images,” cultivated and reinforced through the process of self-indoctrination over an extended period, have provided a journalistic framing device which ultimately contributes to a non-dialogic media-based political discourse among the former adversaries of the Korean War.

Rola Avarského Kaganátu Pri Vzniku Slovenčiny

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-236
Author(s):  
Martin Braxatoris ◽  
Michal Ondrejčík
Keyword(s):  
Slavic Language ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Danube Region ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
North Edge ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Slovak Language

Abstract The paper proposes a basis of theory with the aim of clarifying the casual nature of the relationship between the West Slavic and non-West Slavic Proto-Slavic base of the Slovak language. The paper links the absolute chronology of the Proto-Slavic language changes to historical and archaeological information about Slavs and Avars. The theory connects the ancient West Slavic core of the Proto-Slavic base of the Slovak language with Sclaveni, and non-West Slavic core with Antes, which are connected to the later population in the middle Danube region. It presumes emergence and further expansion of the Slavic koiné, originally based on the non-West Slavic dialects, with subsequent influence on language of the western Slavic tribes settled in the north edge of the Avar Khaganate. The paper also contains a periodization of particular language changes related to the situation in the Khaganate of that time.

Examining the Kinships System of the Bodo

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Dr. Oinam Ranjit Singh ◽  
Dr. Nushar Bargayary
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The Bodo of the North Eastern region of India have their own kinship system to maintain social relationship since ancient periods. Kinship is the expression of social relationship. Kinship may be defined as connection or relationships between persons based on marriage or blood. In each and every society of the world, social relationship is considered to be the more important than the biological bond. The relationship is not socially recognized, it fall outside the realm of kinship. Since kinship is considered as universal, it plays a vital role in the socialization of individuals and the maintenance of social cohesion of the group. Thus, kinship is considered to be the study of the sum total of these relations. The kinship of the Bodo is bilateral. The kin related through the father is known as Bahagi in Bodo whereas the kin to the mother is called Kurma. The nature of social relationships, the kinship terms, kinship behaviours and prescriptive and proscriptive rules are the important themes of the present study.

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